Salt & Pepper Mill set: Spheres Stainless Steel

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These shiny spheres are not other but salt and pepper mills, aiming at making the grinding process in your kitchen a piece of cake, so that you can enjoy freshly, hand-ground salt and pepper any time.

These gorgeous grinders are designed by the celebrated British designer Nick Munro, whose brand and work have become a synonym with sleek, elegant minimalism. Attributes that are clearly evident in this spherical duo, or else mills made from stainless steel, a ceramic twist mechanism and a mostly easy to handle grip. Continue reading →

Lovi: Love it

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Let me tell you about a small, family-owned design company based in Northern Finland by the name of Lovi Oy – don’t you just love the name?

Lovi produces adorable, do-it-yourself wooden figures that will add a whimsical touch to your home and office space. Designed and patented by Anne Paso, the entire collection is ecologically-responsible – 100% made from certified Finnish forests, which are re-planted after felling. Lovi actually donates part of their income to re-planting trees around the world, so by buying a small Lovi tree or Xmas tree, you effectively plant one tree. Continue reading →

Naifu Knives: Smooth

Winter is here and what better way to soothe the cold weather than to pamper yourself, and loved ones, with a hot cooked meal. As an avid cook myself, I’ve decided to invite a couple of friends over for a simple, unpretentious Sunday lunch, and to make everyone comfortable and warm – a hot and steamy vegetable soup was definitely in order.

Potatoes, carrots, various root and squash, onion and garlic, have all invaded my countertop waiting to be sliced… Now, I don’t know about you but I’ve been searching for quite some time now for that special chef knife that would make slicing and preparing food a whole lot easier. Fortunately, a couple of days ago I received the Naifu D67 – a supremely sharp Japanese Damascus steel chef knife, that was just waiting for its chance to shine. Continue reading →

Godfather & Godmother clocks

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Have you perhaps grown up in a place where a grandfather’s style standing clock, made quite possibly from dark wood was making kook – kook every time the hour was pointing at “o’clock”? Or perhaps your grandparents actually had one…

Looking back to the days when relatives I was visiting as a child had a similar clock, I recall the sense of awe I felt about their size, wondering why in any case telling the time had to acquire so much space, which in fact remained unused. Continue reading →

Presso: manual espresso maker

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Are you a coffee lover? Then for sure familiarizing yourself with the old fashioned future of coffee will fascinate you! Why old fashioned? Cause you can forget all about electricity, while brewing great espresso.

Yes, indeed you can.
Meet Presso, the revolutionary and environmentally friendly non electric espresso machine! A manual coffee maker that lets you brew quality espresso using nothing but water, ground beans and just a little brute strength. It’s energy efficient, completely recyclable and did I already mention absolutely charming? Continue reading →

Asa lamp by Santa & Cole

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Let me share with you today a marvelous, new industrial designed lamp, already counting about… half a century of a lifetime. What? A new design which is actually more than 50 years old? What an “innovation” you might come out arguing. Well, not before you familiarize yourself with Asa, a lamp that was first designed and produced in 1961 by Miguel Mila’s and the company he established to bring to life his own work, TRAMO, which carried the amusing name of “Trabajos Molestos” or else translated from Spanish, “Annoying jobs”. Continue reading →

Champagne flute set by Karl Lagerfeld

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What if Haute Couture stopped characterizing only clothes and also jumped on home accessories, like your glass line for example? In that case, wouldn’t you just love having a set of champagne flutes designed by the remarkable Karl Lagerfeld? The world wide famous designer has re imagined these classical, traditional pieces, which with Holiday season on the way, are ready to be the protagonists of many elegant drinking scenes, filled with sparkle literally and metaphorically. Continue reading →

Stelton’s Kontra salad bowl

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When it comes to design of daily objects, one characteristic that I primarily and highly appreciate is harmony. When harmony is achieved by also providing an item with an edge, then my need for good design is met and surpassed.

I personally love simple forms and adore different kind of textures as a means of introducing interest. Steltons’s Kontra large fruit ball designed by Maria Berntsen does just that: successfully and harmoniously combining seemingly contradicting materials like stainless steel and bamboo, in a form that smoothly floats. Steel for the base and bamboo for the upper part, this bowl gains its charm and beauty from the contrast between shining and mat surfaces, between cold and warm, between feminine and masculine. Continue reading →

Swing table by Duffy London

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When elegant aesthetics meet playful and innovative design everything is possible… even dining or holding board meetings while… swinging!
“What else will I see?” exclaimed I to myself after becoming familiar with Swing table designed by Christopher Duffy for Duffy London studio.

This is more than absolutely brilliant. While rocking chairs have been since long part of our lives as much as swinging chairs in the form of hammocks or floating couches for siesta summer times or long talks at the veranda, swinging chairs combined with a table, associated with dining or boardroom meetings is a completely new thing around the designing block. Continue reading →

“Sunday”: poetry meets function

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How about some functionality with a dose of poetry all in one? This is how I see Sundays! Functional because one is free to use such days as they wish, nevertheless poetic cause let’s be honest, what is more poetic than breakfast in bed or brunches, cuddling with your loved one, enjoying the view from your bedroom window while reading your favorite books together, side by side? What is more poetic than the simple moments life offers?

Let me not argue about this issue any more and get to this post’s point, which is no other than sharing with you this lovely shelf and wall light combined in one object. An object named after the day we were just talking about: Sunday! Continue reading →