Architecture gone tilt

Carry Me (to Snoopy's Home!)

One of my favourite things in the design Expo HABITARE in Helsinki this year was this lamp:

This lamp, Carry Me, designed by Antti Konga is brilliant. It's easy to carry around from the handle, it's light, stylish and funny. But the bad side is that it's only on prototype level and you can't buy them from anywhere. Maybe I write him e-mail and ask if he has an extra one lying somewhere in the corner :) Or then I could try to get it being sold on the web shop (kauppakoti.fi) I have been working on. Let's see, but I want it!

Kinda reminds me of Muuto's Wood lamp I've been wanting too:

 

All in all the best thing I saw in HABITARE was in the ecodesign-area. It's also a lamp, designed by Yuki Abe and Anna Salonen: Snoopy's Home.

This I want even more than Carry Me, because this is more multifuntional. You can better control the amount of light so it's good for couples when other one wants to read and the other needs to sleep. Also you can use it as bookmark. Plus it's more than beautiful in it's simple white design. Nice design company: mottowasabi.com.

Top Vitras

Today I finally found the perfect dining table from internet auction, but tomorrow I'll see if I'll get it. I still started to dream about the perfect chairs for it already and as I was going with the flow, I acidentally found the most awesome sofa at the same time. I was just surfing on Vitra's web pages to find inspiration on chairs, because these Eames chairs have been my dream for a long time:

But my boyfriend used his veto, so I started dreaming about these Tom Vac's (white looks better with these). I didn't even ask his opinion on these so that it wouldn't ruin my day :D

I had already decided about Tolix-chairs earlier, but now that I found the perfect table, I noticed that they really don't match together. At all. That's a pity, because I really wanted the Tolix chairs. Maybe some day, some other room will have them.

But the sofa, Suita, is everything I dreamed of (excluding the price, what my boyfriend is again vetoing now): It's light, modern, tailorable, beautiful and kind of looks like a piece of furniture that would last forever.

Doesn't it?

Project Norm 03

 Normann Copenhagen's Small Norm 03 lamps were on sale in Finnish Design Shop (www.finnishdesignshop.com) and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to replace the lamps that I had before them. The other one was just a broken shit quality rice paper shade that I had found somewhere half free when I needed just some kind of lamp with a budget close to 1 €. The other one was a perfect mismatch for it: an IKEA "cone" lamp. Ugh. I hope someone would buy it soon from my Internet auction site.

I actually tried and tried for very long to find 2nd hand lamps to this place but I couldn't find anything I would have liked. Once there were 2 Normann Copenhagen 69 lamps on sale and I tried to get them, but then the price rose even higher than what I paid from my new Norm 03 lamps! So it was'n worth it anymore.

Anyways, now after 2 visits to post office and several hours of assembling I have them both in the living room and there is finally something here that actually matches!! :)

I even lost the other package to metro yesterday: I was waiting for the metro and talking with my dad on the phone. Then I got into the metro and talked until I realized I missed my stop so I ran out and thought I had forgotten it into the metro. Then I walked to train station where I was supposed to meet my boyfriend, then we searched the package from the metros that were coming back to the direction where I came from 5 minutes ago :D After 2 trains and 5 metro cars, I found the package from a kiosk on my metro station! Turned out I had never ever taken it inside the metro at all! But that was a very happy reunion I had with the package. Emotional.

Massproductions AB

There are my favourite pics of a company called Massproductions. Harry High, Crown Easy Chair, Tio Coffee Table and Tio Chair.

New Bedroom Style

Finally I'm an adult, because now I have a grown-ups' bed :) I've always slept in a 120 cm bed since I was about 14 years. So after 10 years I finally have a 160 cm bed! It makes a huge difference since there are always 2 people sleeping in the bed. And it's summer and so too freaking hot that sleeping in my old bed became almost impossible...

And then when the bed was here I thought "What the hell, I'll change the picture on the wall too and buy a new bed cover!" The blue stuff on the wall now are actually old factory blue prints that would have gone to garbage otherwise. I thought they were such a beautiful shade of blue with the worn out edges that they had to be hung on the wall.

The new silver stuff on top of the "bed end" are mainly from IKEA (except the retro fan). The bed is called Malm and the end thing has actually 2 bedside tables inside it that you can roll in and out. It looks better when they're out of sight, but they're extremely handy. Not collecting dust in there! The mattress is a "zone mattress" that's been divided into different zones, where for example there's more support for your bum and shoulders. I'm not sure yet if it's a good or a bad one, but luckilly they have a 90 days return policy in IKEA. We'll have to sleep some more to make our minds!

Pulu

 

There's a really cute little shop in Helsinki where my friend works. The name is Pulu, which means pigeon in English, but the word is 1005 times cuter in Finnish :) There's also another shop in the same store, Triibu, which (to my knowledge) means absolutely nothing. You can buy all sorts of funny and chic jewelry, decorating pieces, clothes, stuffed Moomins etc. For example I bought my Portugese friend a Mini-Bunny when I went to see him in Malta with other Erasmus friends. There was a tag where the bunny said that he likes to eat a lot so that he can grow big, and that he especially likes pickled minionions and snowflakes! How cute!

http://www.puludesign.com I heard it's also gonna be a e-shop soon.

April shopping

I wanna show my favourite things I bought this month. Not much (which is good), but enough. Our home is far from ready (we still have a bed in the living room... Which is actually great for studying: comfortable but not the bed you're supposed to fall a sleep on. And I'm not even a student anymore but I still study Spanish almost every night!)


First: Tulips! (First time ever that I bought cut flowers to myself! Absolutely not the last. I don't expect receiving flowers every two weeks from my guy...:))

Second: Iittala mini Aalto candle holder (the pretty one in the lower corner)

Third: Retro art from my favourite second hand store (to our kitchen and hall door)

Fourth: A Nomination bracelet and a heart piece for it for 14 € from my second favourite 2nd hand store Fida, where my friend works. I always want to wear something on my wrist, but I haven't had anything there for a long time (I tend to lose everything I own if I carry them with me). Conclusion: happy at an affordable price :)

Flock

I'm trying to wake up my artistic side to compensate the working mind. So I came up with birds. And to compensate the lack of originality (apparently everything is about birds now), I tried my wings and just cut the birds really freestyle, scissors in right hand and a piece of white fabric in another. This way I got a flock of birds, every one an individual, just like we nature's creatures are.

Bean Soup

Weird weird Sunday. I should have a huge hangover, because last night I was so drunk I forgot to take my ID to the city after our housewarming party and I was just afraid I wouldn't get inside because I was so drunk. (Well, I did, maybe because I finally started to look like an old woman.) Anyway, this weirdness is probably caused by one pill I swallowed... I discovered a whole new world of no hangover. The secret is to take a B-vitamin pill before going to sleep :) Works almost every time, but I still think it's weird, because normally my Sundays after hard partying are pure hell. So, I dedicate this weird picture of my bean soup for this weird Sunday. 

Today was also the first day of year I really felt the vitamin D in me. I was sunbathing under a blanket, ankles outside the balcony. Eyes closed, cool breeze, hot sun, almost hearing the freckles multiplying. I don't know what would be better. 

Helsinki in Pink

Helsinki in Green

Last autumn I thought I'd make a collage of green and red buildings in Helsinki, but I totally forgot it. Now that my computer broke (mutherfucker!) and I started testing my copies if they work, I found those pictures. So I said to then 'long time no see' and pushed them into one:

Extra Sheet

Went to an Oriental Food Market today. Went nuts. Found an awesome meal for my Polish friend, who comes to Helsinki soon. Plus I discovered that all sushi stuff (nori, soy sauce, wasabi, vinegar, rice) is about 50% cheaper than in a super market!

Look at the cute detail in the side of the package: a zip pic to demonstrate the "sealability" (if that's even a word).

Party house

Long long time since my last posting. Ooops. But finally I have something fun to post about: my new home! Me and my boyfriend moved to a duplex where no one has ever lived before us, it's all shiny and new and everything I could dream of, because we have a sauna, balcony and a dish washer! Plus it's pretty close to a metro station thus it's a great party residence before clubbing. I'm quite a big fan of parties! Huge actually.

Here's the place:

A lot of the stuff is traveling with me from apartment to another, but this time there's also boyfriend's stuff (and something new, for example the coat rack <3 ). For example we have 2 same kind of beds, so the other one is in the living room as a couch. Tested perfect at movie nights with friends! And although it's a bed, one of our first overnight sleepers decided to sleep on the floor opposite the front door :D Anyway, the bed is there only temporarily. It takes helluva lot space in the room so it goes. I'm planning to buy a Fatboy. But that has to wait until the next salary. Or the next or the next. What's the rush?