Archive for the Kitchen

Opinel one who flirts ...

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Sorry, the pun was easy, but trying ...

Kit Opinel x Fricote 1

It no longer has the Opinel knife worship if any, that just as indispensable in the kitchen and outdoors ... I admit that without him I would feel myself very lonely face my cutting board. Recognition and the help of age, the range has long since expanded many styles, sizes, colors and uses many and varied, always with the same rigor and the same quality of manufacture (French).

This year, Opinel has had the brilliant idea to partner with the city magazine and Epicurean flirts , and imagine him with a sandwich kit, no doubt, will be a must for picnics and other summer Gueuletons the coming weeks.

Fricote x Opinel

Beautifully nestled in the pocket of his cloth - naturally plaid - the kit opens with a promising trio, which, for slicing bread, which spreads for butter, which may be cut, with its legendary folding blade, the victuals which to beautify our sandwich and enjoy our taste buds. Bonus (lovers enjoy exclusive pieces), each knife is struck by the signature of his parents happy and inspired.

Been a promising looks, or I'm not a blogger.

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Pastel in the trash

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The color block did he live? The answer is certainly qualified, but it is certain that the pastels have the honors of the season, and the design does not cut it!

Even the bins are getting into, and I could not resist the temptation to make my small selection ...

With the honor, therefore, taupe, gray, but the yellow vanilla or almond beige. Enough to please fans of soft colors, as in Brabantia , where all the great and honorable standard of the brand are available to match.

Even gluttony hushed in Wesco , another giant of the domestic sphere, which I find the forms of inspiration vintage particularly successful.

But it's Hailo who dares the most in the range pastel, a model with " cappuccino "was bold enough, but we can only praise the originality, or even the charming side ...

In short, there was to find the utensils and other tableware to match.

Showdown

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City Plates notNeutral

It takes me lately desires to renew my dishes everyday ... a certain weariness, no doubt, to use for over ten years remains the same, not really elegant and pretty mismatched, my student life.

I readily admit I craquerais for cartographic plates from notNeutral that reproduce the plans of 20 cities on five continents.

The City Plates have been imagined in 2006, following a mapping project on urban space led by the design firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios as part of the Convention of the American Insitute of Architects in Los Angeles.

NotNeutral (brand founded by Rios Clementi Hale Studios) was then inspired diagrams from this project, and literally transcribed on ceramic products, covering five sets each putting emphasis on a particular urban issues.

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City Plates Collection 2: Culture and Capital (ism)

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City Plates Collection 4: Empire Building

The plates are indeed not mere reproductions of road maps, but highlight, through the interplay of colors, lines and spaces, reflecting on the legacies and interconnections that are specific to each urban unit, with a graphic rendering of course as original as successful.

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St. Petersburg

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Tokyo

I particularly like the stylized visions of St. Petersburg , from Tokyo and New York , but the rest of the collection is in keeping ...

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NY

As for Paris, know that it is part of the final series of Plates City, dedicated to visionary cities. Doodle-doo!

This is not an egg

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poubelle tri ovetto I was the first to think that said sorting, bulky trash said ... It was good to show some imagination ... While it is obviously impossible to ignore the different compartment that are the essence of said sorting bins, but - it was enough to think about it! - There is no reason to optimize space and ingenuity in design! A ingenuity that undoubtedly awaits its peak with the model Ovetto , created by Italian designer Gianluca Soldi .

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3D lamp with vitamin Foscarini

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luminaire fields 3 couleur orange par foscarini

You may have noticed that we switched to daylight savings time? (Which reminds me that I do not talk enough clocks here, a new to-do so to add to my long list!).

While this hocus-pocus schedule us for now, save a little light in the evening, it inevitably brings my imagination to set the month of November under the sign of darkness, and to look toward decoration which could offset the additional darkness.

No wonder, therefore, that I am seduced by the design of lamps vitamin Fields .

This set of three wall while angles and lengths published by Foscarini can combine with each other like a 3D puzzle, and disseminate a light form of artwork, the image of this photo which reminds me of a cubist sun.

ensemble 3 luminaires fields par foscarini

Certainly, Fields also approximates the work of art by its cost ... Nevertheless, I would see this star shine in my living room deconstructed!

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Pantone chairs mode with Seletti

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chaises Pantone de chez Seletti

A question torments me: Mr. Lawrence Herbert, who will talk maybe more if I tell you he is the father of Pantone , he would do qu'entr'aperçu enthusiasm that his invention would generate when he devised in 1963, his first chart?

For Pantone no longer content to be a reference tool in the printing, publishing and graphic design. This small catalog of colors easily identified by their associated alphanumeric coding, gradually investing the world of decoration.

Accessories are already many to make a version for "Pantone" ( liquid soap dispensers , shell protective devices for the Apple brand recently bereaved, bags, pouches , and many others) ...

With Seletti , we can even sit on the chart - in one sense of the word, of course.
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The Pantone folding chairs are available naturally in many colors sparkling beautifully, the corresponding alphanumeric reference that appears on the front seat, for an elegant and effective visual effect.

Want a little color block between your walls fall in these hours?

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chaise Pantone turquoise par Seletti

The kitchen rugs: true, "more" false good idea or design?

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I admit, this time I am confused and not sure what to think of kitchen rugs. A priori, one would have assumed they are cheaply (though) able to radically improve this piece, for example hiding the imperfections of a tired linoleum tiles or warming a bit too cold ...

Certainly, however, and without being an a neat freak, I question the validity of a decorative accessory toilet at first interesting ... Having lived a few months in a kitchen in black tile, I saw with astonishment mingled with terror a kitchen floor is nothing less than a bottomless pit with dirt.

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I would never certainly not question the obvious comfort of padded model - a trend right now! - In the Umbra , but I fear it is, like other of its congeners, an additional opportunity to spend more time dusting, sweeping and cleaning to enjoy a tasteful interior!

Rackstool: a stool storage fun

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Let me now a little twist to my detailed review of chairs in a tizzy, although it will once again sit up and question design (We do not change a winning team ...)

Rackstool is the kind of hybrid objects that people appreciate both cabinet and stool playful.

The structure is indeed a case to bottle, topped with a cushion, of course removable, to give free rein to his imagination and creativity: the stools fit together at will to climb up to zinc or combine to become a futuristic chair. Feel free to combine colors and you engage in a construction set size.

Although more of an amateur design more natural, I can not fail to praise the functional and fashionable at the creation of Bobdesign , ideal for small spaces, student rooms, indoor or urban (and I n 'have not said that the three were bound together)!

The chair Knitting: Finally a foundation that m (') go?

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Always looking for new chairs that would replace mine, I rather like the pattern knit from home Scab and its original design and friendly. The seat and backrest, molded like a hand knit book, form a nice mesh sham, paying homage, if necessary, to the current craze for needles and wool!

Stackable and available in several colors - personally, I have a preference for the red - these chairs are not only good bear their name, but will adapt to moults interior and exterior of not fewer!

Twig: a wooden chair that leaves no marble

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Taken recently by a furious desire to renew furniture, and given the advanced state of decrepitude of my chairs, I would start out by offering more fitting to my brave foundation.

I have a certain appetite for wood chairs, although it is not always easy to find a model that is beyond the rustic style, not always the best effect.

No risk with Twig chair and structure of beech - a pledge of strength! It is in the elegance and sobriety, without departing from the original by giving a bedchamber in two colors. I like the clean side of the set, which fits both around a kitchen table as at a desk.

chaise Twig bicolore en hêtre

Balances in full swing, it may be time to invest!