Lotta Agaton and Pia Ulin for Residence magazine

I'm about to leave for Italy for a two day work trip but I couldn't resist to share this before leaving: the quality of the images is not good but the content is stunning. This is Lotta Agaton's last styling work that will be published in Residence July edition: if you are so lucky you can get a copy, do it because it looks beautiful. I wish I could have one!

Photography: Pia Ulin


Tip via Annie Lindgren's Pinterest
Images via Lotta Agaton

An apartment in white and wood in Denmark

The first pictures I saw of this apartment was those of the all white kitchen in Pinterest and it was love at first sight. Today, I finally managed to find the right source and present the whole apartment here.The kitchen is my favourite space: essential and functional, it looks like a great family place. I especially like the lighting system: the double row of Tolomeo lights by Artemide is a great idea to copy.




Via Boligmagasinet

Llamas Valley

This is the BIG NEWS WEEK. As you have probably noticed, I haven't been posting very often recently and the reason is ... I have been busy trying to get our home ready for an interview and photo shooting with the amazing people at online magazine Llamas Valley! It was very exciting to get everything ready and style the details but also a bit of a "tour de force" (for the cleaning, mainly). The article will be published in the English issue of the magazine, probably by the end of July. I cannot wait to see it! For now, I leave you with some pictures I took in our bedroom. You can see more pictures in my Instagram account here. A big thanks goes to Indre and Tim: great team!


PS: Sorry for the quality of the pictures but, as you probably know if you follow my IG account, my camera got broken last week... Sigh.

Sign Magazine

I have been hiding a couple of secrets from you lately but today I am finally able to share my happiness with you. A few months ago my IG friends mo_a and holmberg__ contacted me asking if they could use some of my Instagram pictures for the next issue of SIGN magazine. I almost fell off the chair reading their mail for the heavenly shock I suffered. It took me like one second and a half to say yes, obviously. I didn't ask any questions about what pictures they would have chosen etc because I trusted them completely: it was love at first sight with both of them, first in Pinterest and then in Instagram. Their aesthetics is clean, essential, sometimes very industrial and other times profoundly domestic. Always with such a delicate poetry -  and it not an easy task to get out poetry from an industrial bridge, trust me. I'm honoured and proud to be featured in SIGN. To you, my friends, THANX SO MUCH. AGAIN!

Here it is a sneak peek of some of my favourite images from SIGN and you can view the whole publication underneath.  To know more about my Instagram account, look for vidabarceloni there or follow the link here.




Tiny Wild Things

I'm really sorry I missed last week Liebester Award submission but we are having some very crazy weeks: I was in Italy working 7/7 and then we my little brother came to spend his birthday here with us. Plus, something great will happen in the next few days but you will have to wait for more details!!
Anyway, here we are with another nomination for the Liebester award. As you all know by now, the Liebster award is given to upcoming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. Rules for receiving this award are:
- Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
- Then answer the questions the person giving the award has set for you (check this link to find them).
- Choose 11 people and link them in your post (you can do it as a list in this way).
- Notify the people you have tagged.
- No tag backs. : )
My choice for this week is Tiny Wild Things that I discovered through the Pinterest account of Kelly, its author. I love Kelly style as shown by the number of re-pins I do almost daily! Kelly's style is essential, based on basic colours and with a great love for Scandinavian design though she writes from Los Angeles. Tiny Wild Things is about Kelly's beautiful home that she shares also en IG and her life, made of beautiful tiny details. 


Netta-Natalia returns

Two weeks ago big news arrived via Instagram for the Scandinavian interiors blog fanatics: Netta-Natalia, the blogger behind the great Likainen Parketti blog - will be soon back with a new adventure. The blog closed down last October leaving me - and surely many others - with a sense of sadness and a big loss of daily inspiration. I was so happy to discover the talented Netta-Natalia will open the door of her possibly new home again. For some sneak peeks of her style, check her IG account here. To her, all my best wishes and warm thanks to be back to the blogsphere!


All images are from her IG account.

Kristalia

Yesterday I checked Emmas Designblogg, my favourite one as you already know, and I found these beautiful images from Italian design company Kristalia. The way they decorate the flat used for their last catalogue is what I love more: airy space, essential furniture (in number and design), and lots of plants. The colours are basics: black and grey wood or concrete, a hint of black and green, lots of different greens. My favourite picture is the third one: the long, thin table almost disappears living the scene to the chairs whose background is a breathtaking temperate jungle.





 
Via Emmas Designblogg

Barcelona Design Week 2013

The Barcelona Design Week 2013 officialyy starts today! From the 11th to the 21st of June, designers, companies and organzations from any sector related to creativity will meet here to exchange of knowledge, business opportunities and networking. theme of this year will be Design Vision 2050 so get ready to think out of the box and put on paper your craziest ideas: at the end, this is a great brainstorming workshop! Special guest will be The Netherlands and here just a few of the presentation/exhibition you will enjoy during the event.




Location in Barcelona

This space, originally a textile workshop then transformed into a carpet store, is now part of the locations offered by Studio115, a photo rental studio in Barcelona. The decision of preserving the industrial roots of the place and the necessity to unify the space combined together: the cast iron columns and the wooden beams of the ceiling were all painted white in order to create a unique atmosphere. No partitions was created, apart from the wall that divided the kitchen from the living room. Daydreaming, this would be the kind of place I would be looking to buy to transform in our home.


The Eames inspired mobile and Design Sponge

Today I want to share with you something that made me very happy: Design*SPonge, one of the leading design blogs worldwide, has featured my inspired mobile in their DIY project section! You can find more pictures here.


Interiors in grey

Another stunning apartment for sale in Stockholm, this time from Fantastic Frank team. Grey shades and a very personal style combine here to give this place a great atmosphere. The kitchen is characterized by a black grout/white tiled wall: this is a functional space, enriched by small details like the simple industrial light and cables hanging direct from the ceiling. But the most striking feature is the big window that allows the light to enter and visually connect it to the master bedroom. Here, a moodboard is used as "virtual headboard" adding a nice twist to the cozy room (love the Ficus lirata in the pot). As for the living room, I feel it is a bit overloaded: though very graphic, the choice of painting the walls in grey darkens the space too much. But, still,he number of inspiring ideas is countless.







Via Lotta Agaton

Black White and Gold interiors

This apartment is on sale at Stadshem: are places like these available only in Stockholm? I start to think so! The place is stunningly decorated at a point you wonder who is the stylist behind it. The high stucco ceilings are beautiful. I love the way they used the colour palette, a black+white base with golden accents, declined in different way throughout the flat. My favourite spot is the bedroom with the beautiful black wall and the big window, in front of which is the small studio space. And what about to the industrial light: doesn't it look similar to the one from Ikea, the PS2012 one? I'd like to try the DIY!



Mi casa tu casa su casa

Fourth appointment with the Liebester award, the award given to upcoming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. Rules for receiving this award are as follow:

- Thanks the blogger who gave the award;
- Post 11 things about themselves or answer the questions the person giving the award has set for them (check this link to find out).
- Choose 11 people to give the award and link them in your post (you can do it as a list in this way).
- Notify the people you have tagged.
- No tag backs. : )

This week, my choice is Mi casa tu casa su casa, another blog from Barcelona about architecture, design, minimal interiors whose posts I fell in love with always. I share with Meg, the blogger behind it, a very similar aesthetics and love for simple, minimal places. Mi casa tu casa su casa is always a source of great inspiration!