I know there is a thread where we are supposed to put new designers/products that we like but I can't find it. I was shopping in London today looking for shoes and came across a store called Design Stockholm House.
I have been searching in vain for a vintage French wicker basket for my bike but they are hard to find and so was resigned to buying a new one.
But! Look at this one I found. It is made of a very hard plastic and it comes on and off its' holder easily for carrying into the market. I know it's uber-girlie but I love it.
Now I just need a small little dog to sit in it.
http://www.designhousestockholm.com/designers/marie_louise_gustafsson.html 
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Riki, that commercial is so over the top ! It is like a contemporary version of Asterix en de Helvetiers (a must read btw :o)- also exists in English and French).
O yes, perhaps the designer's younger blonde handsome brothers could offer a similar service for cleaning bike baskets. Is it not discriminatory to prefer mountainscenery over utility objects ?
It is rumored that Lance Armstrong...
will outfit his Trek with one of these baskets for the Tour de France in his Comeback 2.0.
Seriously, this basket fits into a minor retro trend in bicycling that started with collectors that went crazy over vintage lightweights built from the 1950s to about 1980.
I know about it, because I finally just gave up my addiction to these old bikes about 30 bikes too late. 🙂
Anyway, there is a rebellion against the "soulessness" of today's super high tech bikes, as happens every so often with any product that leaps forward in technology and up in price.
We saw it first with the retro vintage lightweight collectors and a cottage industry that developed building first replacement parts and art work, then moved on to accessories and to leather handle bar covers, canvas and leather bags, and lust for new leather bicycle seats.
Around the same time, the balloon tired beach cruiser made a come back.
We are also seeing a return of the old style city biked of England, Denmark, etc., like the one pictured in the ad. For these retro city bikes this doilet style handle bar basket is pretty functional.
But it sure looks incongruous to me.
DC--
If you want to talk rebellion-against-high-tech, the bicycle fad you should be citing is the hipster obsession with "fixies" (those spartan gear-less, brake-less track bikes that the hipsterati favor).
Sometimes, a basket is just a basket. Lack of hand-brakes--- now THERE'S genuine hatred of technology.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/five-inexplicab/
Yes, I survived my fixie phase...
It only lasted about six months, mercifully. It is akin to going back to sex without lubricant. It is exhilarating for a few times seeing that you can still do it the old way, but then the part of your brain that argues for self-preservation and comfort hopefully reasserts primacy.
BTW, they've ruined a lot of great old bikes by stripping off components and converting them to fixies. But the fact is most of those old bikes converted were not highly valued by the collectors and were just slowly rusting away anyway.
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