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Maison & Objet: A Mini Selection of Decorative Objects

Hi Kayne, I’m in Paris baby! And Native Union is the winner for the design the most useless – the iPhone handset!!! (picture below). Lovely.  Show off. A concept totally unrealistic for active women (I mean, for urban girls without a private driver to carry bags!). Sooooo Hong Kong! Then back home, those tricky hands on wall (picture 3) could be the perfect match to tidy up the handset. Freaky, isn’t it? Sorry I forgot the name of the brand. Picture ablove : refine silk scarve designed by Mandrake et Yoyo of Petite Friture. But too square to be transformed in pareo! What a pity! Picture 4 : the pebble light of Pierre Favresse (Petite Friture), could be mixed up with those fair trade plates of the Dutch label, Kinta (picture 5). Items are designed in Amsterdam and realized in Africa and Philippines. Picture 6 : I like the Spanish neon light message  “La Evolution” (what brand?). And last not least, I’ll enjoy an English Breakfast Tea with a Dali or Poirot moustache please! Great moustache mugs of  Peter Ibruegger.

www.maison-objet.com

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The White Hotel: Designers Xmas Shopping

Sunday 13 : 2.30 pm, after the brunch, I arrive at the White Hotel, for the Brussels Designr. RDV. Another Chrismas market. I decide to visit level by level, every room with a designer. Same principe as some Paris and cie professional events, fares or private sales. Except for a teddy bear’s brand and India-a-porter.com and Filles à Papa, I didn’t know any other brand. Lot’s of back and forth in the corridors. At 5 pm the event stops, shopkeepers are tired. Still many people everywhere and I haven’t finished yet the two last levels. Too bad. Here my shopping : visit their websites and you like something, contact them by e-mail. Some are not sold in shops in Brussels, Antwerp or Paris.

Superb porcelain flush-fitting ceiling light of the Dutch young designer Inge Simonis, every lamp is unique : www.ingesimonis.nl

Those great birds light of the Paris label D4 remind me the back of a famous Yves Saint Laurent’s Jacket : www.design4.fr

Hot soup without burning hands at last! Les M, Céline Merhand and Anaïs Morel, two designers from Rennes (France) have developed a cocooning concept for using usual daily objects : cup cover, baby’s bottle cover. Brilliant. www.lesmdesign.com

I really do like the various and high-constrated materials (picture above : fantastic concrete mugs and picture below, a knitting fruits basket) of the Amsterdam designer, Doreen Westphal. [email protected]

Because there is not just the gifted Manish Arora, let’s be on the road again for a hippie chic style, with posh fabrics, lovely embroderies and refine cuts of new Indian designers, selected by Cookie : www.india-a-porter.com (underconstruction). Info : +32 (0)474 263 820.

“Maybe you can drive my car… Yes I’m gonna be a star!”: Yes I want this jacket, designed by Filles à Papa, two sisters from Liège (Belgium), really inspired by Terry Richardson and Jurgen Teller. www.fillesapapa.com

Stonished lamps of David Graas, a young designer from Amsterdam: www.davidgraas.com

After India, Japan with Violaine Bétayéné, the fashion designer of Elsewear who has lived six years in Tokyo and loves using Japanese fabrics (cut in ancient kimonos) for her accessoiries collcetion : bangles, clutches and bags, like this really nice bag. www.fromwear.com 

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Hu Tong Ballad(e), Beijing

Folk ballad in the human intimate Beijing : the Hu Tong. Those narrow streets, where you can still find those traditional houses with a closed square courtyard, Siheyuan. The first Hu Tong appeared after the Beijing’s destruction by Genghis Khan. Forbidding almost sad Grey stone maze. But so alive…Strolling where the mood takes me, lanterns a walk smells, following my Beijiner friend, the same folk song in mind. The night. Some frames of « Beijing Bicycle », alternating with lab tops of the local youth in bars. A scooter… Just a walk from the Shichahai lakes. Engraving. 

Ballade folk dans le Beijing humain, intimiste : les Hu Tong. Ces étroites ruelles où l’on peut encore trouvé ces maisons traditionnelles à cour carrée fermée, Siheyuan. Les premiers Hu Tong apparaissent après la destruction de Beijing par Genghis Khan. Dédale de pierre grise, austère presque triste. Mais tellement vivant… Suivre au gré  des envies, des lanternes un chemin des odeurs, suivre mon amie beijiner, les mêmes accords folk en tête. La nuit. Des images de « Beijing Bicycle », alternées altérées par les PC portables de la jeunesse locale qui anime une myriade de petits bars. Un scooter… Juste une balade depuis les lacs Shichahai. Estampes.

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