We always have Paris

I'm so lucky, I will go to Paris twice soon. We go 4 days with christmas to relax, enjoy nice food, walk through the city and see inspiring concepts and shops! I go again with a friend to go to maison et objet to get more inspiration. Both times I will stay at Mama Shelter, looking forward to it so much...

What's your favorite place in Paris I should visit? 

pictures mamashelter.com

Southern comfort

During my search for a nice hotel in Antwerp for a weekend trip I found Hotel Julien. What a great place to stay with all these design classics in a classic environment. Love the patio with the black steel window frames like I used in my design (see my post) for our apartment in our design contest of Kavel 12 (you can still vote for us here)

(source Hotel Julien & Vitra)

A little inspiration for the weekend: The great escape

I need a little bit of sunshine today because it is so grey outside... So here a lot of sunny yellow from La Banane, a retro-chiq hotel in St Barth. It was created in the 50's by Jean-Marie Rivière.  It was recently revamped and you can see the kept the vibe from the past and combined it with contemporary pieces.

  

 

www.labanane.com

Today I ♥ a room in Saint-Tropez

French designer Christophe Pillet created the interiors of the Hotel Sezz in Saint-Tropez in France.
The combination in this design of dark wood, a lot of white, a touch of bright color and the round walls form an exciting design and a real inspiration!

Photos © Manuel Zublena

Today I ♥ Hotel Forsthaus

The thing what I liked immediately about this design of hotel Forsthaus is the use of trees inside, what I did myself recently in an meeting room. The brief for this hotel called "for a fixed, quit low, budget and the most interesting design possible without being stylish" tells architect Martin Naumann in FRAME magazine. It looks quit simple but the details make it special and funny to me. For example the ton sur ton dears on the walls, the recess in the ceiling for build in lightning and were a sleigh is coming out or the vertical part of the lowered ceiling that is painted grey what gives the pace more depth.

Photography by Zooey Braun

New York, New York.... Ace hotel

Some time ago I saw this nice boutique hotel, the Ace Hotel,  Food Inspiration Magazine, of my colleagues and I thought, that's the hotel I want to stay when I will finally go to New York. The founders of the hotel used work of local artists and designers for the interior. I like the industrial feeling of the building and the use of vintage. Funny detail is there is a record player in every room. They have an oyster bar as well downstairs, nice :-)

 

(source ace hotel)

planning a trip to paris: Mama shelter

we are planning a trip to Paris and we are going to book a room in hotel Mama shelter. It's designed by Philippe Starck and is a very affordable for a design hotel. I love the writings on the ceiling, great idea to use in a project in the future..

(pictures mamashelter.com)

Room 606: the vintage room

Room 606 of the The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Copenhagen, features the original Arne Jacobsen décor from the 1960s. At first I thought it was an ode to Jacobsen, but then I found out he designed it himself. He used a beautiful color combination of grey, blue-green colors and wengé wood.  I think it's great they kept the room in the state Jacobsen designed it over 50 years ago. It's a timeless design, just like his furniture.

 

(Pictures website royal sas)

 This picture was taken shortly 

after the hotel opened

(pictures www.phaidon.co.uk)

Patricia Urquiola: Mandarin Oriental

This Mandarin Oriental in Barcelona, designed by Patricia Urquiola, looks so fresh. Definitely in these dark these it gives me a feeling of spring. I like the open wall structure she used, the amount of daylight and the bright colours. Patricia Urquiola is one of my favorite designer and a great inspiration because she uses unexpected combinations of furniture and forms. Ofcourse she used her own bathroom collection of Axor, Hansgrohe.

  (pictures www.mandarinoriental.com)