Month: October 2013

Inspiring concrete bathrooms

Concrete bathrooms with white walls are by far my most favourite designs when it comes to remodelling a bathroom. Concrete floor tiles and wall tiles as featured in the home Morten Bo Jensen (chief designer for Vipp). The bathroom unit and accessories are from Vipp. Personally, I think what makes this bathroom so beautiful is the natural light flowing from the sky window and the contrast of material: polished concrete, sleek metal units and rough/organic wooden stool. A spacious Italian shower with large, glass panels I’m not really a bath person neither do I have the incline to spend hours in a bath but I LOVE a spacious, walk-in Italian shower with a large shower head. So far, my favourite is the Mira Beat 25cm Deluge shower head and hopefully, once we move the airing cupboard, we will have the space to create a big mama shower with two of these large shower heads. I also love the bench in this one which is a great thing to have for kiddies. Textures to add warmth to this …

COMING SOON! The BODIE and FOU Christmas catalogue

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I’m so excited to finally share the front and back covers of our beautiful Christmas catalogue!It has been quite an adventure to get this front shot done and get all the stock arriving in time for our shoot. At some point, I had to come up with a plan B…then a plan C…then everything turned up at the same time and we went back to plan A (I credit Bikram yoga & wine for keeping me fairly sane during these past few weeks) but I’m happy. I’m in love with this Z1 pendant light by Nelson Sepuvelda, who is also the Creative Director behind this beautiful collection of ceramics (displayed on the table) and I loved it so much that I wanted to make it the key piece of our Christmas Home collection.It’s a lamp that exudes style, lightness and was just perfect for the effortless chic, stylish Christmas I had in mind. The two white chairs are the Knot chair (another beautiful piece which we recently supplied to The Hospital Club), the black & …

Depanneur in The Simple Things magazine | Contributor

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I had such a great time in Brooklyn, I would go back anytime. Dépanneur, the café François and I photographed in Brooklyn for our series Café Culture with The Simple Things magazine, is one of my favourites… The weather was amazing, Brooklyn flea market is from a walking distance and I really loved the industrial vibe of the place. Plus, the team was very helpful and the sales assistant was very beautiful and adorable.// Photography: François Köng | Styling: Karine Candice Köng | Want to talk about a project, email [email protected] http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

Café Pinson in The Simple Things magazine | Contributor

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Did you get the latest copy of The Simple Things magazine?It’s looking fabulous as usual!I’ve bought a Kindle for my mum over the weekend as a pre-Christmas gift so she could read French books while staying with us and I need to work out if I could also get her a Simple Things mag subscription to download on her Kindle. Do you know if it’s possible?Café Pinson, the fab vegetarian café François and I photographed last time we were in Paris is in it and if you are off to the French capital, I recommend you go there for breakfast. The team is very lovely and you will only eat healthy, gluten-free things good for your body and your soul. I got so wrapped up in the making of our Christmas catalogue (you can request a copy HERE) that I never got a chance to share with you the café we shot in Brooklyn so I will post it this week.Have a great week! xoxo———————————————————————————————————————————————————————-Est ce que vous avez acheté le dernier numéro de The Simple Things magazine ? Il est superbe …

Black beauty & positive thinking

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I started the day on Instagram posting this positive thinking quote and it worked wonder. My day has been filled with good news and truly amazing shots for our Christmas catalogue.I can’t get over how beautiful this photo François took today is and don’t get me started on this black cluster light.I have the 8-string white cluster light in my bedroom and in our home in France but the black one is quite amazing…especially against a dark wall.If you’re not a fan of his page yet, by all means follow him on Facebook here, you will make his day. Have a great evening xoxoLEAVE A COMMENT THANKS! http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….

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in the BODIE and FOU headquarters! We’ve just received a few of these beautiful paper stars to finish styling the BODIE and FOU Christmas catalogue (the 9 points, Black star, Width 87 cm is in stock). Our White Christmas collection is now online and I’m super happy with the photos we’ve done for our Winter collection. I’m sure you gonna love them! Well I hope so… If you are not on our mailing list yet, make sure you request a copy of our beautiful, inspiring catalogue Today is our last shooting day so I better dash… Have a great day! LEAVE A COMMENT THANKS! http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

Winter look 2: Cropped trousers

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Have you found your perfect leather jacket since this post? I’m petite (read 1.55m/5ft1) which is incidentally the same height as Ugly Betty America Ferrera and Lady Gaga so not everything fits me but one thing that makes me look ‘taller’ in a broad sense is cropped trousers and stilettos. A look that Emmanuelle Alt, my French style icon (beside my sis’) rocks regularly mais la Emmanuelle is a fabulous 1.83m… Team up with a white, fitted shirt and a Clare Vivier mini sac it’s simple and chic. {WINTER LOOK 2} LEAVE A COMMENT THANKS! http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

They are back…

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Our beautiful natural baskets are back in stock and I can finally breathe…We had a huge amount of pre-orders for this basket (which is amazing!) but our supplier postponed the initial delivery date several times (less amazing suddenly) and I was starting getting a bit stressed out.But everyone has been absolutely amazing considering the delay so thank you very much.It’s never an ideal situation when stock delivery gets pushed back but its worse when it’s for a product in high-demand so I’m glad/relieved/happy that they are back.We’ve also received this fabulous notebook (limited edition). I picked up mine at Design Junction a few weeks ago to jot down ideas for my new collection and thought they were so cool that I decided to add them to our collection.We start styling & shooting our new AW/2013 collection next week (super excited!) and will put a few sneak-peeks on Instagram so come and say hello…BisesLEAVE A COMMENT THANKS! http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs