Monthly Archives: September 2009

A little bit of orange.

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Posted by Anna at D16 on September 28, 2009 – 4:09 pm
Filed under inspiration

I’m not a huge fan of orange, but I do like it when it’s a bit on the red side—particularly when paired with grays.

I have orange numbers on my house. These were designed by Erik Speikermann for DWR in 2006. Unfortunately, they have since been discontinued.

From LivingEtc. I know, this is pretty much heaven. See what that purple velvet chair has going on with the burnt-orange leather sofa? They’re going to run off into the sunset and get married, I know it.

Uh, where do I start? The crooked floorboards, the glossy gray paneled walls, the ceiling, the chairs, the sideboard—WOW. But you know it’s the orange lamps (yes, plural—see what’s going on in that back bedroom?) that make it. From ShootFactory.

Okay, the polar bear rug is a bit much, but shamone. LOOK AT THE ORANGE CHAIRS. Again, they totally make the room. Panton chairs really are at their best when they’re allowed to just chill out on the sidelines. And that orange striped rug in the next room over?! Oh, yes please. Both photos are from Sköna hem.

This photo was styled by Sofie Andersson (found via Nestled In). The orange pillow is so fabulous that I can forgive whatever that weird rickrack situation is going in over on the right.

Eames Red-Orange is one of my favorite shades, but I don’t own a shell chair in this color (yet). I love how it looks with the white walls and the wood bench—and how it picks up the orange detail in the pottery. Lovely. Photo by Roland Bello.

I know, that’s right on the verge of being red, but let’s call it orange because it’s too perfect to leave out of this post. From LivingEtc. (Jenna Lyons, why are you so perfect? Also, WHY ARE MY BEDROOM WALLS NOT BLACK?)

p.s. If you happen to have a spare copy of the September issue of LivingEtc lying around, I would LOVE to buy it from you. For some reason, my regular magazine shop never got that issue in, and I missed it. That’s the first issue of LivingEtc I’ve missed in YEARS, and it’s one that I’d really really really like to have. attygreen13, you are awesome!!

p.p.s. If we met at the Remodelista party on Friday, speak up and say HELLO!

Hella Jongerius for IKEA PS.

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Posted by Anna at D16 on September 21, 2009 – 10:14 pm
Filed under art & design, house

Hella Jongerius has created a line of beautiful wall-hangings for the 2009 IKEA PS collection. Here’s Pelle, the rabbit, hanging in my upstairs hallway. Also available are Gullspira (the goat) and Mikkel (the fox).

From Hella’s website:

Hella Jongerius created wallhangings for the IKEA-Unicef programme, which helps women in India to start up small sewing businesses and enables their children to go to school. Sources of inspiration are the animals that feature in Swedish fairy tales. In the production process small scale craft production in India is combined with large scale industrial production by IKEA, while the images refer to the local roots of this global company.

The result consists of textiles of which not only IKEA and Jongerius will benefit, but also the craftswomen who left their traces in the making.

The textiles are made with a variety of materials and techniques, which gives the end result a rich look. The used materials are a mix of woolen felt, a woven woolen dobby and printed cotton. A bright colored polyester band with button holes at the top of the work gives a sturdy accent and serves to attach it to the wall. The parts are stitched together and embroidered by hand. The combination of colors, print and embroidered accents give each of the three designs an individual character.

Each wallhanging is made from beginning to end by one woman. On the back of the work is a label with the names of IKEA, Hella Jongerius and the embroidered name of the woman who made it.

Why a goat, a fox and a rabbit?
“They refer in an abstract way to animals featured in Swedish fairy tales. Animals have already been featured in much of my earlier work; they trigger first and foremost the imagination. An animal has the power to be familiar; expressing moods comparable to the moods of human beings, and at the same time an animal remains puzzling.”


An early sketch for the 2009 IKEA PS collection

The wallhangings join Hella’s previous work for the IKEA PS line, four Jonsberg vases introduced in 2005. They are still available for sale—and I own all four!

Guest bedroom.

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Posted by Anna at D16 on September 19, 2009 – 10:20 pm
Filed under house

That’s the STICKA blanket from IKEA’s 2009 PS collection (which I blogged about back in January), designed by Kazuyo Nomura. The entire collection is FINALLY available in US stores! The blanket is beautiful. My mother bought it in the natural color with multicolored stitching—very cute.

This bed is an old full-sized BERGEN (pre-MALM) bed from IKEA. We stopped using it when we moved into this house and had room for a queen-size bed, but I’m glad we held onto it. The original finish was oak veneer, but I painted it white (two coats of good primer, followed by two coats of BM Simply White to match the trim). It looks so fresh and clean!

The wall color is Benjamin Moore Lacey Pearl (matte)—it’s like the world’s palest neutral gray, and I’m totally in love with it. Trim is BM Simply White (satin), with BM Toucan Black (satin) inside the fireplace.

Exceptionally beautiful poster by Elisabeth Dunker for Studio Violet. Love.