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A trip is an escape, a move to another place, a break from routine. The 6 hotels we would like to present to you also offer a journey through time, a return to the middle of the 20th century, through their decoration and their furniture. Take a look and maybe you’ll find your next travel … Continue reading “Our 6 favorite Mid-Century Modern Hotels”

We love vintage furniture, not only because it is full of history, but also because of the quality of its manufacture. We can fall in love with the colour choice of 1950s Formica kitchen furniture, the clean lines of a Scandinavian teak sideboard or coffee table, or the ingenuity of its design. We love the … Continue reading “Vintage Furniture Makeover”

Wallpaper : long story short Wallpaper has been around in some form or another for a very long time. As early as 200BC, the Chinese were gluing rice paper to their walls, but it wasn’t until the 10th century that Arabs started using linen fibres to create stronger and thinner papers that allowed for greater … Continue reading “Poetic Walls”

These three words swing, rock and relax, are music to the ears, pure rhythm!. This back and forth motion, is what it feels when sitting or lying on a swing, a rocking chair, or a hammock. They can be reduced to the chair and bed concepts, but we cannot deny that they are more than … Continue reading “Swing’n rock… relax”

Whether in the field of interior design, cinema, music or fashion, the terms vintage and retro are words that come up very often, especially in recent years. They are terms that tend to be used interchangeably, since they both serve to designate something old. However, these two terms don’t really mean the same thing, so … Continue reading “Vintage v/s Retro”

From 1945 – 1975 furniture design underwent a big shift from tradition to a desire for freedom and practicality.  This period referred as Les Trente Glorieuses (The Glorious Thirty) between the end of World War II and the oil crisis is marked as a time of economic growth and well-fare. With support of the Marshallplan, … Continue reading “The Glorious Thirty: a new era in furniture design”

The Masters of Social Democracy  Scandinavia, a territory surrounded by ice, has always imposed on mankind an age-old struggle to adapt to the very harsh climatic conditions that prevail there. These conditions have made the development of agriculture and population growth particularly difficult. On behalf of the common need to protect themselves in an extreme … Continue reading “Scandinavian Design Roots”