Unique design hotels

If you are planning a trip to Edinburgh, Kuwait or Brussels soon, please stay tuned. Today I want to take you out on a virtual tour to Hotel Missoni. Each and every Missoni hotel is unique. An individual expression of Rosita Missoni's creative vision.Hotel Missoni is created to be genuine and uncomplicated, offering those luxury touches that really mattter.

Thanks to Tiina from Livia Concept for this great idea. Her website is a great source of inspiration.

And by the way: Missoni is on a mission to open more of these beautiful hotels in the next few years: 2010: Cape Town, 2012 Brazil and Oman. I would loooooooooooooove to see them all. What do you think of this concept?

source: Hotel Misoni and Livia Concept

A new week

Hi there! It's Monday again. Time flies when having fun during the weekend? How was your weekend? I had a great weekend with my family in Belgium. The country side is just lovely this time of the year and we had some time to relax and had a good diner together.



And now I'm back on track this morning. Today I would like to introduce another lovely homewear brand to you: Chilewich. Chilewich is a lovely brand by Sandy Chilewhich. She creates lovely pieces of woven vynil such as rugs, little placemats and bathmats. She also sells wall coverage. This wall coverage is also being used in upscale hotels such as the Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton. I am happy to share some of her beautiful items with you. I just love her natural, sustainable style. What do you think? You can leave your ideas below.

Happy weekend!!

My darlings, what's your plan for the weekend? My finance and I will be travelling to Belgium this weekend. We will meet the family in the lovely country side region which is callled: 'De Westhoek'. But before I leave I would like to give you some more inspiration. Photographer Paul Massey has bought a Victorian terraced house in Crouch End, North London. He started renovating and this is the result. I love the cool and calm athmosphere and have you seen the kitchen with the big table and a lot of light coming in? Just adorable. What do you think of this style? You can leave your comments below.







source: Living Etc

Eat with Pete in Amsterdam

Are you ready for the weekend?
Would you like to spent your weekend in Amsterdam?

If the answer to these questions is yes, read on:



Peter Lute, head chef of the Lute Restaurant and owner of the associated Lute Suites invites you to join him for dinner. The celebrate Design Hotels™ Original and entrepreneur has created a truly extraordinary menu for you consisting of 10 courses.

And since he figures you might not want to (or be able to) move very far afterwards, he’d like you to stay for the night – in one of his impeccably design suites of course.

The suites have been uniquely designed and furnished by his friend and business partner Marcel Wanders the Dutch star-designer.

You will have your dinner at the Chef’s table in the kitchen, and to remind you of your stay in the Netherlands, a small gift will presented to you when you say goodbye.

Don’t leave Peter waiting. He is dying to show you the magic he can weave in his kitchen.

Look for the 'unique experience' rate when you book.

The Eat with Pete Special in brief
- Price: EUR 285 for 2 persons sharing one suite, per night (tax included)
- 10 course dinner at the chef’s table in Lute restaurant
- A farewell gist to remind you of your stay in the Netherlands
- Arrivals from Mondays to Saturdays
- Availability: all year round

I know this is an offer for the happy few, however there are lots of other good hotels in Amsterdam. If you would like to receive some tips from my side, please feel free comment. I will be happy to share some good spots in Amsterdam with you.

For now I would lik to wish you a lovely weekend!!

Romantic inspiration

Hi lovely readers around the world. How are you today? Are you almost ready for the weekend? Oof,I am ready for a long weekend. I am so busy this week with my new job that I could hardly find any time to give you some new inspiration.

Today I would like to take you on a trip to Italy. Italy is one of my favourite countries in Europe. Look at this beautiful, panoramic spot from which there is a magnificent lake view. This is Villa del Grumello in Como, close to the famous Lake Como.













Villa del Grumello has a multi-purpose vocation, it can accommodate any type of event and meet the most diverse requirements, by combining the allure of a bygone era with state-of-the-art technology.

The different levels of the Villa are adapted for a variety of functions: the ground floor is a perfect venue for all kinds of events, while the first floor can host meetings or conventions, providing any necessary technical audio and video equipment.

With its park, the Villa is an unparalleled setting for photo and advertising shoots, art shows and prestigious events.

It is possible to choose the rooms best suited to meet customers requirements.

Top quality furniture, chosen from among international contemporary design cult items, as well as the assistance of a highly professional team, complete the offer.

Related links:

Villa del Grumello
Fondo Ambiente
Villa Carlotta

source: At Casa

Happy birthday to Ikea's Billy

Do you have, or have you ever had, a Billybookcase from IKEA?
The most famous IKEA bookcase Billy is celebrating its'30th birthday!

Now the iconic bookcase is celebrating its 30th birthday and Siobhan Toman at the BBC celebrates 30 years of with some fascinating facts:

... a behemoth of the bookcase world. Designed by only the fourth employee for Ikea, 41 million have been sold since 1979. The factory where the bookcases are made knocks out 15 Billys a minute; 3.1 million a year.Congratulations Billy!

and the pleasure comes with customising it for yourself.

And now, to celebrate Billy's 30th birthday, Ikea is bringing out a range of limited-edition graffiti-style bookcases, covered in Shakespeare quotes.(see below)



And for more inspiration, check out this link to see loads of Billy's in use.

Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

What a good news!Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's capital of fun and sports has won the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games, the city has the opportunity to channel this passion into a specific project.Click here to see the promo video of Rio.

Brazilians' devotion to sports is closely tied to national pride, which was put on show when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced its decision to bring the Games to Rio on Friday.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva burst into tears right in the middle of a press conference.

"This was one of the happiest days of my life, and I felt proud to be a Brazilian," said Lula.

However, sports occupy a special place in Brazilian life, and particularly in Rio.

City residents are masters and mistresses of the cult of physical beauty and its legendary beaches are for showing off physical prowess as well as sun bathing.

Thousands partied on the famous Copacabana beach into the small hours of Saturday, dancing to the infectious beat of samba music as they celebrated Rio de Janeiro's choice as the 2016 Olympics host.

"Rio loves you!" roared a crowd of 50,000 upon learning the IOC had chosen Rio over rival heavy-weights Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid.

The Kreative Blogger Award

A few days ago I was given The Kreativ Blogger award by Natacha from Mocca & Me. Thanks girl, it brought a huge smile to my face.



The Kreativ Blogger Award comes with some rules:
1 Thank the person(s) who has given you the award (Thank you Natascha)
2 Copy the logo and place it on your blog
3 Link to the person who has nominated you for the award
4 Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting
5 Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers
6 Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate
7 Leave a comment on each of the blogs to let them know they've been nominated


Seven Facts about me:
1) I'm addicted to smoothies these days. I started to make my own, fresh fruit smoothies a while ago and it seems I'm becomming better in this every day;-)

2) I'm a big fan of sports. I started running a few years ago and I even made it to run the New York City Marathon in 2005. That was a big achievement.

3) I love to spend most of my time with friends and family.

4) I live in the big city of Rotterdam but I just love the country side. The reason for this might be that I was raised there as well.

5) I love to travel the world as much as I can. I always want to discover new places and new cultures around the globe. On my wishlist are Australia and New Zealand.

6) I started to bake my own bread. Just found a lovely recipe from Jamie Oliver. Please send me an e-mail if you want to receive the details.

7) I can't get enough of good Swedish design. I love white interiors and I'm glad I found a great way to share it with the world via Urban Style Vibes. My dream is to become a worldwide web-based authority when it comes to travel, style and design.



The next seven 'Kreativ Blogger' holders I would like to pass the award onto are:








All wonderful bloggers with such fun and creative flair and a great writing style.

Nina in vorm

Happy Friday, it's almost time for the weekend. Today I will give you some new inspiration. Via some Dutch blogs I found Nina in Vorm. Nina is a Dutch designers and she is sellin handmade screen printed ceramics, screenprints and collages, as well as vintage 'redecorated' ceramics: beautiful vintage items.

The technique she use for her handmade ceramics is a combination of slipcasting (using molds) and hand shaping. Each item is made, decorated and finished by hand and therefore unique. What a lovely charming items. You can buy them online here.

Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer foundation

Hi lovely ladies (and gents of course!). Today I want to draw your attention to the Pink Ribbon foundation. As you might have notices I usually do not post about other topics than Travel, Design and Style but today, I would like to make an exception to this rule. Did you know that today it is the kick off of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month of the foundation. Every year in October, the foundation is hosting a variety of different events here in the Netherlands. Today there was a so called 'lintjesregen' (rain of pins) in the famous Carre Theater in Amsterdam. Five ladies received a pink ribbon pin for their work to fight against breast cancer in different ways. The event was a big succes. See below those powerful women who did an do a great job for he kick off of the Breast Cancer Awareness month.

If you would like to contribute to this good cause, you can buy some lovely products here. While buying these products a part will be donated to the good cause. I just bought the lovely bag hanger above and I will also buy some other products to support the good cause this month.

For all the international readers click here to find Pink Ribbon in your country.