Karin's Style Blog

I picked these on my way to work the other day - aren’t they beautiful? They’re just growing there at the side of the road, making my day lovelier.

There has been a most unplanned gap since my last post due to a runny nose and general pre holiday madness. I’m taking the train to Europe tomorrow and there is still so much to be done! Relax, I try to say to myself, put on a knitted bikini and go swim somewhere… This swimsuit is by Erica Laurell. It’s possibly the loveliest I’ve seen this summer.

Fog Linen Work is one of those beautiful shops one would like to visit some day.

Verandah is a nice name for a shop, it celebrates it’s first birthday in July.

Patricia at Crafty Synergy interviews Alicia Bock and I think this photograph of hers is just wonderful. Like being under water. It’s available from Alicia’s etsy shop.

New and old from mint and vintage in Stockholm and Helsingborg and online.

Selina Rose makes some wonderful things, I especially like the Rose lumbar cushion.

Tipi from wigwam sam. They look so well made and quite lovely to sleep in.

I’ll see you late August, take care!

However much I would like to carry shoes like Kimiko from Hetty Rose, I usually buy the kind of shoes you can see below. See them bigger here and see the wonderful bag here. I found Hetty’s shoes through labour of heart whom I found via Bloesem.

Lise Lefebvre recently graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven IM Masters program. Her graduation project is exploring ways to counter our overproduction of sound. Every morning I think about this when the alarm clock goes off followed a little while later by the awful racket my hair dryer makes in my ears.

I’m looking around for tables - ones with chunky wooden surfaces as well as ones that you can hardly see as they seem to be part of the air, like the Thin table by Tobias Berneth for Karl Andersson

I might be going to Berlin in August and am keeping my eye on BerlinDesign blog for things to see while I’m there. The picture above is not from Berlin but from Rosendals Trädgård here in Stockholm.

I’m sitting outside my workshop on a pile of clay that was just delivered. This week, me and Liisa went on an inspirational tour through SoFo, perhaps you can say its Stockholm’s Nolita or Hoxton. Here’s some places we went into or just passed:

Grandpa, a shop with a great mix of vintage furniture, fashion, books and jewellery. Cafe String on Nytorgsgatan, all their furniture is for sale so the place is in constant good change.

Next door to Grandpa is vintage fashion shop Påkläderiet and Coctail Deluxe.

Cafe Skåningen on Skånegatan. Stadsmissionen second hand. I got a pair of very cool sunglasses for SEK 20.

Kunigunda sell for instance Ivana Helsinki and Jenny Hellström.

AH’s ice cream bar on Skånegatan 92. Many believe they have the best ice cream in Stockholm… I also thought they had great table cloths outside. While we enjoyed our ice cream we passed Lolla Palooza, Sara Clausin and Tjallamalla.

King Lily looked interesting but it was closed for the day. We went into crafts galleries 125 kvadrat and Galleri Hantverket.

This is just a little snippet of SoFo, but they’ve got a great website with lots of info about the area. See the whole tour as well as more Stockholm sightseeing on my flickr.

I have to tell you as well that last weeks inspirational afternoon we went to the Architectural museum. Go there!! The summer exhibition with Japanese architectural duo SANAA is just stunning! I was overwhelmed! Of course I forgot my camera at home - I will have to go back I’ll show you later. Here’s designboom’s interview with SANAA with lots of great pictures of their architectural work as well as product design.

More Japan: don’t miss the beautiful stone like vases at Play Mountain Villa.

Last but not least - Abigail’s Sweet Horse Chestnut Mismatched Earrings are on sale!

My odyssey between swedish summer houses took me to Väddö, a longstretched island north east of Stockholm. The wild strawberries were everywhere.

This particular summer house had the most charming bar (its a fine line..), close ups here and here.

Typography by Oded Ezer, the photo of 3D hebrew letters above is from his photoblog on flickr, via beton & Garten.

I’ve been working on some new work - patterns and shapes - that I’m longing to show you. Here’s a small preview of a vase that I’ve had in my collection before. I made the original version during my first year at Central St Martins (10 years ago!!) and its been through a few changes since.