Flower styling idea: Copper vase with tulips & spirea

Hello! How are you? Ready for some flowers?  I know, I know, copper is not really the newest interior design trend. I know everyone speaks about marble now, but even still, I still like copper. What about you?  I love the warmth of this colour and I love its reflective surface. I have been asked lately where to find a nice copper vase. The answer is: LIV by TM Interior. The size of this vase is perfect for displaying tulips. I have often a problem with tulips, even if the colour palette is incredible, I find them quite difficult to combine, and a little boring on their own.  I think adding some foliage, such as spirea, can give them a much wilder and interesting look. Do you like it? However, I should better get ready for some tulips as I am going to go to Keukenhof later this month.

If you want to buy a copper vase (they come in three different sizes) from LIV, as for the mini-vases get in touch with Diana on their Facebook Page. 

I wish you a great day! Elodie

madame love loves: le train fantôme

Hello everyone! Do you know le train fantôme? It is the brand of designer and maker Fanja Ralison Born in France from Malagasy parents. Fanja currently lives in Hertfordshire, England. I love her little creatures, mainly dolls and rabbits. I am especially fan of the Lumi Doll with her beautiful hair cut. I have been a doudou and fabric dolls fan, for a long time before my daughter was born. Those are just so precious, they are part of a limited edition and made to order and each doll is different. Lumi dolls are entirely handmade from cotton, wool, linen and polyester filling. Her faces and drawn with fabric pen. They are not suitable for babies to play with of course but would look wonderful as decoration, or for a bigger child. I would love to buy one to my daughter when she gets older. You can find le train fantôme on Facebook, on Instagram and buy the dolls and the pretty dressses for the dolls online here.

© all pictures by le train fantôme with permission

Lovely Fabric: Petit Pan

Good morning everyone! At the end of last year, I told you about one of my favorite French fabric designer called France Duval Stalla. Today I am back with some fabric love and another French brand called Petit Pan. Petit Pan is a very colourful brand, but the kind of colours I like! Deep blues and bright pinks! Petit Pan was created in Paris in 2002 and sells decoration items, fabric (with more than 140 different patterns) and clothes made out of those fabrics. Here is a selection of some of my favourite patterns. That is a perfect fabric for decorating a nursery or make a colourful statement with a cushion in your livingroom. I used a blue Petit Pan fabric for the pennant banner in Ella's bedroom.

Petit Pan has a very distinctive and joyful style inspired by Asian patterns and colours. I really makes me want to travel. Petit Pan is also well known for their paper lanterns. I have had a red dragon fly in my flat for ages, and it is still one of my favourite decoration items.

You can buy Petit Pan fabric in their shops in Paris, Toulouse and now Antwerp in Belgium, but also in their online shop. I wish you a fantastic day! Elodie

© all pictures by petit pan with permission

madame love loves: by lassen

Good morning everyone,

Today I would like to talk about design with you. The Danish brand by Lassen owns the rights to the designs of two of Denmark's greatest architects - Mogens Lassen (1901-1987) and Flemming Lassen (1902-1984). by Lassen is a family business, and is run by Søren and Nadia Lassen, the grandson and great granddaughter of the architects.

The design philosophy of by lassen is:

beautiful and elegant design melds with quality and practicality to create timeless products based on Danish craftsmanship and design. The KUBUS candlestick is most iconic and famous item from the brand. Mogens Lassen actually worked on the KUBUS candlestick for a long time before arriving at the shape we know today in 1962. Each individual Kubus candlestick is made with exactitude and the relationship between the sides calculated with great precision. The piece was first reserved solely for family and close architect colleagues.

The KUBUS has now been joined by other beautiful new designs. When Søren and Nadia Lassen set up the company by Lassen, they found inspiration for furniture, lamps and home accessories in the archives, designed Mogens and Flemming Lassen but which were never put into production.

Sources: from left to right and from top to bottom

1. Candleholder LINE 2. Stool ML42 3. KUBUS - in copper 4. FRAME - Storage solution 5. KUBUS Bowl in cool grey 6. Mirror VIEW 7. Twin table

PS: A Warm thank you to by Lassen for sending me this beautiful black KUBUS. I am very much in love. That's the kind of timeless design piece, that you can never get tired of.

madame love loves: fine little day

Good morning everyone, Do you know Fine Little Day? I guess a lot of you have already heard about the brand or have noticed the gran pattern: this black firs pattern on a white background in one or another stylish interior. Gran is a pattern in clean modern Scandinavian style, designed with Swedish summer nights in mind. I find it really amazing how such a simple design can be so pretty and recognisable. You probably also came across the apple papple or the pirum parum poster. Well, those are just so lovely. Elisabeth Dunker from Gothenburg in Sweden is the talented lady behind the brand and the blog Fine Little Day.  That is how Elisabeth defines her brand: "The main focus is playful creating based on intuition, pleasure and joy."

On the Fine Little Day online shop, you can find the items from the brand and also some decoration items from other lovely brands and designers. I encourage you to follow Fine Little Day and Elisabeth Dunker on Instagram. If you love the brand and Elisabeth's natural style, you can also rent her house in Sweden via airbnb. How lovely is that? Have a fine little day! Elodie

© all pictures by fine little day with permission

Pink flowers in a yellow watering can: A colourful bouquet

Hello Everyone! Do you want to see my last bouquet? I warn you, it is very pink and the vessel is very bright too, it is my yellow watering can. The weather has been really dull in the last few days in Northern Germany and I felt the urge to create a colourful and happy bouquet. So here the ingredients and the result. I hope it will brighten your day a little bit. Speak to you soon! Elodie

madame love loves: The Black Apple

Good morning everyone! Emily Winfield Martin is the book author and illustrator behind the black apple and my mew decoration crush. I discovered her, first through her beautiful cover for the Australian magazine Frankie. I am very much in love with her portraits. She makes me really want to visit Portland and get to know its amazing artists. I especially love the women portraits with flowers and ordered the Shirley Poppy print for my living room. The paper quality is beautiful! The delivery was a bit challenging and I had to pick it up at the customs and wait an hour for it, as it was shipped from the US, but it was definitely worth it. All the prints from the collage above are availabe on Emily's shop on Etsy. My friend Igor from the Happy Interior blog took part in the last edition of the #2flowergirls and posted a pictures of his anemones in his living room and I spotted the Mysterious Girls print on his wall. How funny is that? Unlike me, Igor brought the print when in was in Portland as a souvenir. 

I wish you a great day! Elodie

© Artworks by Emily Winfield Martin/Pictures by madame love except the last one by Igor Josif

madame love loves: colonel

Hello everyone!

The design studio COLONEL, specialised in furniture and decoration items was launched in Paris in 2012 by designers Isabelle Gilles & Yann Poncelet. The signature of the brand is:

• light wood
• patterns
• fresh colors

All the products designed by COLONEL  are made in France, in collaboration with various craftmen. I love the solid beech wood and the choice of colours and the geometric forms. The products are available at the showroom/shop situated in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and on the e-shop: www.moncolonel.fr. In the e-shop, you can also find some beautiful products from Hay or Muuto.

I wish you a great start in this new week!

Elodie

CONTACT: COLONEL on Facebook COLONEL on Instragram COLONEL on Twitter

madame love loves: kauniste

Hello everyone!

Yesterday was a very special day for Inga and me with a new edition of the #2flowergirls after quite a long break. Today I would like to talk about Kauniste with you. I bought a blue cushion last week at LYS Vintage and I am so in love. The Finnish brand Kauniste is known for it’s work with young Scandinavian designers such as Matti Pikkujämsä, Leena Kisonen. That is how they define their work:

"Our aim is to combine the best of both worlds: fresh design and traditional screen printing skills. We work to bring you items that can be used and cherished in the daily life for decades to come. We want to make patterns and products that last and keep bringing joy to your home past seasonal trends."

They produce trays, towels or decoration items such as cushions. You can find their products in design shops, online on their online shop or in their shop in the centre of Helsinki.

I hope you will like Kauniste as much as I do! Such a good mood and fresh brand.

Have a great day! Elodie

mini bouquets from February

Hello everyone, Here are the four miniature bouquets I made in February. I wish you a great day and I am very much looking forward to seeing your anemones tomorrow. You can click here to have an overview of my bouquets. I wish you a great day! xoxo Elodie