Le Rouge and Stylt

Last week I visited Le Rouge, a new restaurant in the Old Town in Stockholm. It’s a really romantic and cosy place in a large cellar designed as a traditional French Moulin Rouge restaurant with a lot of warm colours and heavy fabric. Behind the interior design is the interesting company Stylt. They have designed a lot of hotels and restaurants and they choose to see themselves as scriptwriters and directors in the creation of a new place. They work with the method storytelling and at Le Rouge it really feels like you are in a different time and place.

Made in Thailand 2

About a month ago I posted about colourful knits by Sonia by Sonia Rykiel. The stripes and colours of the sweater stayed on my mind and made me want to knit for the first time in a long time. Voilà, here is the result: a kid mohair cap and shawl.

Made in Thailand 1

I bought a box with orchids at Bangkok's airport. I thought it would contain about four or five flowers but when I opened it there were fourteen beautiful orchids in different colours.

The Metropolitan Bangkok

We ended our trip in hectic, energetic Bangkok with two nights at the heavenly hotel The Metropolitan.

Koh Samui airport

This unusual open-air airport is one of the nicest and most comfortable airports I've travelled from - and by far the greenest. It opened in 1989 and was the first airport built by Bangkok Airways. It has received The Environment Impact Assessment Award and Asia Architectural Design Award.

Happy New Year!

In Thailand you light lanterns on the beach and send them off over the sea with your wishes. Last night the sky was filled with beautiful flying candles.

Dining on the Rocks

Yesterday we spoilt ourselves with dinner at Dining on the Rocks, the restaurant of Six Senses Hideaway Samui. This beautiful resort and spa is located on a headland on the northern tip of Samui Island and consists of 60 or so split level villas with private infinity edge swimming pools. Dining at the Rocks presents a new Asian style kitchen with influences from around the world. The architecture consists of nine terraced decks of weathered teak and bamboo combining open air and covered seating areas. The view is totally stunning - 270 degrees of the surrounding islands and Gulf of Siam. Images from Six Senses Hideaway Samui - mine unfortunatley came out too dark.

Christmas at Koh Samui

I'm spending Christmas at Koh Samui east of Thailand's mainland. Luckily Santa knew how to find his way even to this tropical paradise... Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Sale in Andyland

Until January 8 we have a 15% discount in our webshop. And we have a lot of new beautiful illustrations and photos. Above the "The town as I remebered it" by Mikael Olsson.

I won't be home for Christmas this year - and even though I'm going to spend two very longed-after weeks in the sun, I can't help feeling a bit sad not to decorate my home for the holidays. Here are some images from last Christmas.

Jennifer Rahfeldt

Jennifer Rahfeldt has worked as a multi-disciplinary artist since 1996. Her work has been dedicated towards exploring, combining and finding how separate artistic expressions such as sound, movement and visual art can work together on an equal level. In her imaginative, playful sculptures she melts metal into moulds and combines it with glass, iron-threads, plaster and mosaic, to achieve both delicate details and a strong construction. The sculptures are presented standing, hanging or as an installation.

Since 2001 Jennifer Rahfeldt has been operating Rahfeldt Studio in Höganäs, Sweden and from spring 2007 she is also working in a studio in Woodstock, New York.

More christmas shopping

And I bought a pair of ornament earrings for my sister (hope she doesn't read this blog) at Designtorget. On the web I found them at the nice shop Familjesmycken.

Christmas shopping

I went to buy Christmas presents today (along with everyone else in Stockholm…). To get in a Christmas mood I had to buy some things for myself as well. This is the ring I bought at Tjallamalla, a big red plexiglass ring shaped as a bow, a perfect accessory for the holidays.

Christmas flowers at Drottningholm

Drottningholm Palace just outside Stockholm holds its annual Christmas fair and shows a Christmas flower exhibition this week-end. Flowers fill the interiors and are arranged in beautiful groups in the halls and stairwells. Christmas-trees decorated in new and traditional ways and a flowering Christmas dinner-table are some of the highlights. Images from Blomsterfest.

Going to the chapel

Carrie Bradshaw's tumultuous love life has fascinated since Sex and the City debuted in 1998 - and now she is getting married. Or are these images from wedding scenes at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral just a trick to hide the real plot of the coming film? Sarah Jessica Parker was wearing an extravagant strapless Vivienne Westwood gown and her traditional full length veil was trimmed with a giant turquoise feather in typically quirky Carrie Bradshaw style.

Cornelia jewellery

Take a look at Cornelia’s website if you haven’t discovered her beautiful jewellery yet. Her jewellery are both discrete and expressive at the same time and she is mixing gold and silver, red copper and yellow brass along with different pendants like shark teeth, hearts, revolvers and roses. In Stockholm you find them at Grandpa, NK and Le Shop.