A super stylish get-away in Northern Sweden

I hope you had a great weekend?! I'm often receiving mails from readers asking for suggestions of wonderful places to stay in Sweden. And today I found a new tip - Sågverket - an oh so cool youth hostel / conference centre in Northern Sweden. Described recently in Residence magazine as Norrland's super stylish hang out, Sågverkat is a got-to place for romantic weekends, creative conference or simply somewhere to relax and get-away from it all in a stylish environment. Personally I'd go there just to enjoy the decor and scenery alone how about you?! But we all need to be quick, it's up for sale. Anyone sitting at their desk this Monday morning feeling like a new challenge?!

Fantastic Frank

To get a complete picture of the beautiful property and it's surroundings you can see more pictures over at Fantastic Frank.

Tempted?!

Today is my eldest daughter's first day at school. I thought she was so big until I dropped her off at the school gate this morning and she suddenly looked so small. I hope she'll be OK.....

And I hope you have a great start to your week too!

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A wonderful Copenhagen home

Happy April Fool's day! Have you fooled anyone yet?! In the UK you've got until midday but in Sweden you've the whole day - and then, once fooled you call your poor, unsuspecting subject a silly herring. What about in your country?! I'm oh so excited about today's home tour photographed by Tia Borgsmidt for the wonderful Danish magazine BoligLiv. It's the home of Marie and Andreas and their two children Uma and Morris just over the bridge in Vesterbro, Copenhagen. The space is teeming with personal items including art and furniture they've either inherited or sourced from antique and second hand markets. It's such a wonderful, unique home!

 

Photographer: Tia Borgsmidt (with kind permission) for BoligLiv, found via Coco Lapine

Anything in particular you love about this space?

I spy design items including the AJ floor lamp, Ant chairs, and the Flowerpot VP3 desk lamp. Pick up mid-century treasures at Lauritz.

Love to see that Marie works at Central Hotel og Cafe, the world's smallest hotel. I recently booked it as a birthday trip for my husband and I and our breakfast will be served in this cafe. I can't wait!

I'm also excited to introduce a new sponsor today. Montreal based Irene Suchocki is the incredible fine art photographer behind the oh so fab online shop Eye Poetry. Her work combines her love of travel with her dream-like aesthetic which include city collections such as  Paris, City of Love (I'm looking at you, Erin), New York, New York, and Italy, La Dolce Vita. My personal fine art photography favourites include night glitter, ordinary silence, and plain sailing, how about you?

Have a lovely day!

PS don't miss out on the t-shirt soft bedlinen give-away here!

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Cool restaurant design; Muy Mío

A friend of mine is currently designing a restaurant / bar in London so I'm always looking for inspiration to send him. OK, I admit it, I also love looking at pictures of restaurants / bars and dream of visiting them all one day. Especially when they look like the magnificent Muy Mío in Barcelona. Designed by Intsight, there's so much kitchen / dining inspiration to take away from this space. I love the furniture, lighting, colours, materials and textures. And all the wine of course!

Designers: Intsight, photography; Mireia Rodriguez with kind permission. Via Stil Inspiration

Have you been to Muy Mío? 

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Rustic / industrial Danish restaurant Höst

It's my husband's birthday next week so I've been doing some planning. Since he loves eating out, at least part of his present should be visiting a new restaurant. And with Copenhagen just over the Öresund bridge how could the the rustic / industrial Scandinavian restaurant Höst not be top of the list?! If you love interior blogs you'll have seen images of this before. But honestly? Höst was completed last year after a collaboration with the fab Norm Architects team (remember this monochrome home last week?!) and Danish designers Menu for Cofoco. And word on the street is that the food is equally sublime.

Norm Architects / Menu / Höst Styling: Emma Fexeus.

Table for two please. And it's more for him........honest :)

PS I hope he doesn't read today's post!

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Kook; new on my wish list!

One of my London friends is designing a bar which I'm sure will be fabulous once it's finished! This has got me really itnerested in bar and restaurant interiors. There are so many things to think about, from practicalities and ambience to location, economy, comfort and asthetics. Kook in Lazio, italy was designed byMohamed Keilani and Luca Gasparini from Noses Architects in 2012 and looks really wonderful. I can already see myself sitting on one of the leather chesterfields sipping on a cocktail waiting to be seated!



Via Love is Speed

 What do you think (have you been here?!) Any aspect you particularly like? I'm all over the tiled floor and concrete surfaces.

Do you have a restaurant in your city you would recommend? Here in Malmö I'd firmly recommend Bastard (book a month in advance) and in Copenhagen I've been longing to go to Noma.

All this talk of restaurants is making me hungry.....:)

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Guest post: La Maison D'Anna G

Hi, this is Anna from La Maison d'Anna G., a French-English blog and webshop dedicated to Scandinavian design and interior decorating. As I normally only show Scandinavian interiors on my own blog, I thought I'd take this opportunity to go outside Scandinavia for a change!

I've visited Brussels many times, as my parents used to live in Belgium some years back, but I haven't yet had the opportunity to enjoy the place where I'm taking you today. ICI is a "canteen" restaurant that was opened only months ago by Marine Gobled and Saskia Félix. I've been following Marine's blog Studio Nord for quite some time and have always admired her beautiful photos. I really like what I see from ICI too: laid back atmoshpere, cool interiors and fresh food... definitely on my list of places to go for a breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea the next time I'm in Brussels. I hope it inspires you as well!

I wish you all a wonderful day and thanks Niki for having me!

Photo credit Studio Nord, except nr 2 Brussels kitchen

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