Spot by Quentin de Coster is a playful birdhouse that diverts the traditional wooden nest box by adapting it to the plastics industry. Composed of a thermoformed polystyrene hull and an aluminium base, this object to fix in your garden provides the birds with the opportunity to land on the disk or instead, to take shelter in the house itself.
Tobias Kestel, White Elephant DesignLab
... I am sitting in our garden, constructing (...well, trying to construct)
"something" ! I do not have skills and everything I try to put together
just didn't with stand gravity ... But I am motivated. And I am absorbed for hours in what I am doing!
Frederic Collette, designer, Collect Furniture
I am originally from Belgium and all my childhood, I lived in Luxemburg. Here my mother remarried with a Dane when I was 4. Every summer after this, we spend about 1 month in Denmark. I remember it being so wonderfully exotic to me. I was fascinated by all those modern interiors, it felt so futuristic to me! I also loved the freedom: not being told what to do all the time and running around naked with the other kids playing and picking fruits and vegetables. All the adults were so easy going compared to back home. Turning 16 years old, I moved to Denmark with my mother, sisters and stepfather – never to leave again!
JEANNE SUSPLUGAS, artist
... on the beach at Sète, in the South of France. I love to go there with my family and my grand parents!
Mr. Men is a series of 48 children's books by Roger Hargreaves commencing in 1971... Today it's his 40th birthday!
Ilya, designer, kidsonroof
If girls like pink, boys love war. we cant refuse this fact. Paying visit to museum of military history, open air expositions, places of battles, even old Greek ruins was not enough. Anywhere. it could be my very favorite place. Simferopol (see picture town centre, me &T34 glorious soviet tank), an after Sevastopol, this Black Sea harbour have it all.I was at Crimea once. At that summer time gave my mother lessons to young geologists camps of Moscow university. Her teaching course was almost done, when my father and me arrived. It was late. We had an exiting journey: three hours by trolleybus to Sebastopol. I knew only short distance trips, but this. I was hyper exited and exhausted, I remember I was trying to tell my mom about all that everything I've seen. But I was only five years old.I read that pictures help to capture the memories. That's right. So pity, in 1972 we didn't make so many photographs like we do now. But specifically this picture is now supported by memory.
ORIANA PICENNI, Vogue Bambini journalist
How is your bed? My bed is cream and chocolate coloured with a big flowers bedspread. My bed is the same of my sister’s one. On the cream part I have sticked some cardscourg which help me dreaming! Which kind of meal you do not like? I do not like courgettes! I cannot swallow them! And your favourite? I love cotoletta especially because my mum is used to cook it with a lot of fried potatoes. Your favorite book to read? I do not like books to much. I have a red record player. My favourite records are those of Little Match Girl, and of Little Red Riding Hood. I love listening them wile mum is preparing my lunch. Have you got an imaginary friend? I have tried once to image one but I have forgotten to talk to him... he was too boring! I love chatting with my dolls.
LILIANE, designer
My favourite holiday-place is an atmosphere. A healty, loving familie life.
Soul-connections... Freedom... Strength... Vision... Air filled with a undercurrent sparkling of promises.
If so, then I hop! JUST HAPPY
SOPHIE LACOSTE, Atelier Reinette
How is your bed? It's a big goose down comforters, and also crocheted blanket made by my grandmother. Which kind of meal you do not like? My taste for meat has disappeared with time. In fact I dislike it! And your favourite? I love vegetables from the garden, and also I'm crazy about chocolate! Your favorite book to read? I like the "Martine" series of book! Have you got an imaginary friend? I have a imaginary double child, her name is Mary, my middle name, and when I do something wrong I is saying : "it's not me it's Marie".
LieseLotte by Jäll & Tofta (Sina Gwosdzik and Jakob Dannenfeldt.) is a very versatile creature indeed: she likes to play indoors and out in the fresh air and doesnt even mind you sitting on her. She is two-faced in a good sense - you can tip her any way you want but she will always have one nose pointing in the right direction. She is made out of recyclable foam with a wipeable surface and can be found exclusively in our webshop. LieseLotte will be produced exclusively for you! GREAT!
MANDY, illustrator, Belle and boo
How is your bed? It is pink and velvet and I imagin a princess sleeps in a bed like mine.
Which kind of meal you do not like? I do not like stew, yuk! And your favourite? My favourite meal is chicken and chips and hot chocolate fudge cake with vanilla ice cream
Your favorite book to read? My favourite book is Milly-Molly-Mandy, I like to colour in the pictures also. Have you got an imaginary friend? Yes he is a funny rabbit called Boo!
Illustrations by Mandy Sutcliffe of Belle and boo. Enjoy!
MARIKA GIACINTI, designer
How is your bed? one-person bed, with many plush inside: my familly, and my game under the bed, with a lot of blanket.
Which kind of meal you do not like? I dind’t like green bean! And your favourite? My favorite was home made mum’s burgers. Your favorite book to read? Martine (Tini) Have you got an imaginary friend? Not really, I had two sisters, a twins and an older and many friends in my neighbourhood, so I had no time to have an imaginary friend.
"Pillows are her dreams and from now on they are yours". Marika Giacinti ... S U P E R !
The Juice Box Camera : a 35mm camera for lo-fi snaps and gorgeous vignetting! SMILE !
STACIE SWIFT, illustrator
How is your bed? My bed is tall, the top of a set of bunkbeds. My little sister sleeps on the lower bunk. I like climbing the ladder up into my bed and watching the birds and rainbows on my wall.Which kind of meal you do not like? I don’t like fish, not even fish fingers. And your favourite? I like to eat jam tarts, my mum makes them with me in our little kitchen. Your favorite book to read? I like Mr Men and Little Miss books, I have a big collection. I think I would be Little Miss Chatterbox. Have you got an imaginary friend? I don’t have an imaginary friend but my dad makes up lots of friends for me, he tells me lots of stories about animal friends he meets each day!
A wonderful work for a children's book by Stacie Swift on seasonal eating with Mousie as the central character. Let's learn!
"Fireleap is Nan Goldin latest slideshow, displaying images of children from 1978 until today, most of which have never been shown. Children, primarily for their state of freedom and natural innocence, fascinate Goldin. They make their own rules, living in a free zone utterly their own, like beings from another planet. Photographing the children of friends, as well as her Godchildren, Goldin offers a view of their raw emotions ranging from wildness to melancholy. Fireleap captures a consciousness while it is still unbound by societal boundaries".
Sprovieri Gallery, London, till August 6, 2011
winter with Donna Wilson!
