London treasury

My friend Linda and I came home late yesterday night. We had a wonderful business and pleasure stay in London!
I opened my suitcase...so happy with my small treasures!

Of course we went to Orla Kiely in Covent Garden and yes, I did buy some notebooks. Can't have enough of them, because they keep my dreams, plans and ideas, of which I have a lot! So, this was a very necessary purchase, hi, hi!
The white gift tags (1,59 pounds for 10) come from ordinary stationery supplier: Ryman. I bought enough for all of my gifts in the next 5 years, I think. Love that place: even missed my flight two years ago filling my suitcase there!

The vintage german cloth pegs, the cotton thread and the white blackboard pencils (for tiny messages!) are all from Labour and Wait on Redchurch Street.
And these stunning retro looking glass tiles come from Anthropologie on Kings Road. The store was literally breathtaking. We just walked around with our mouths open, we could hardly speak...The building, the collection, the assortment...wow!

Shine in London

This was a couple of weeks ago... working on my new project. Based on a color palette and a moodboard (with lots of inspiring pictures of the Slow Wood Mun collection) I started working on the shape, style and prints of a new series of lanterns.
The lanterns on the table are all handmade prototypes and I have chosen 3 of them to be produced for my wholesale company. The lanterns have been produced (just got them in one hour ago!), the header card with instructions and the compostable bags still have to be designed and produced.

I'll show you the final product of course once it is ready.

Next Saturday I am going to take the lanterns with me, to launch them at the stand of my distributors Saskia and Sofie on Pulse LONDON on stand B1!
I'll be there myself on Sunday and Monday from (11.00 - 14.00) and I would love to meet you there!

Oh, I almost forgot the...

SPECIFICS!

Name: SHINE
Size: larger than the first series, any glass or tea light holder will fit!
Style: pure and nordic
Use: in a summer garden party or a scandinavian winter house
Extra: they are reversible!

To be continued.

Magic

Hana Kitazaki combines geometric patterns, light fabrics and a poetic style, a combination I absolutely adore! Here you see some pictures of the Magic Flute series, inspired by Mozart's opera.

tweet tweet - follow me...

I amazed myself yesterday: I finally took a leap and joined Twitter. As far as I can see it is fun (i love networking!) and it can be a great tool to spread news fast and easy to a whole lot of people!
Tagging, mentioning, retweeting...? Can everybody read anything I tweet (have to watch my language then...)? How can I start an account (with the same email adress) on which I tweet in English only...?
(you have guessed right: the green newbe T in the tree above = me!)

I'll find it out in the coming months I hope. In the meantime I will tweet VIP-news both in Dutch and in English on @juriannematter
And don't worry, Twitter will not replace my blog! I'll keep on writing real texts and posting nice photo's...

pattern or pure?

While working on new paper lanterns I came across these lovely, simple 'patternless' products.
During the designing process the last few weeks I was struggling big time: couldn't make a choice between using pattern designs or plain patches. I found out that I am afraid NOT to use any pattern designs. I am under the impression that people buy my work because of those designs and I have to make a living...
Outcome: There is a traditional colourful (yet surprisingly pure) Jurianne product coming up! I'll show it to you after it is produced.

In the meantime I keep dreaming of pure products like the ones above! Everything comes from Analogue life, apart from the I-phone alarm clock, I found it on Areaware.

STOCKIST SPOTLIGHT: sid en liv

The shops, the people who sell my work worldwide...who are they? What are their dreams, their inspirations, what made them start their own businesses? A feature in words and images with a little surprise-coupon at the end...

This month the stockist spotlight is on Sid en Liv , located in the beautiful city of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.


Owners Bob Tönissen en Mirjam van Rijt in their ‘living room’

What is Sid en Liv?
Sid en Liv is a lunch and lifestyle store. A kind of living room where you can have breakfast, lunch or high tea and have a good time. All the food is traditionally prepared and comes from our own open kitchen.

During your lunch or coffee you can sit back, look around and get inspired to buy a present or get some lovely decoration ideas for your home. Everything you see, even the chair you are sitting on, the cutlery you eat from - and the lights, the vases, the tea-caddy, the glasses, the chairs, the paintings and accessories - is for sale at Sid en Liv!!

On sunny days you can sit in the lovely courtyard. You will find benches and chairs from Fermob, the sustainable furniture coming from park Luxembourg in Paris…
The café is child friendly and our little customers will love the yummie menu as well!
What made you decide to start your own shop?
This ‘living room’ concept - a combination of good food, lifestyle and home decoration - was our dream for years! Two years ago we sold our house in Utrecht and we found a building in Nijmegen where we saw the living room of our dreams.
Summer 2010 we opened Sid en Liv.

What are your Sid en Liv ‘classics’?
Some of the classics are already the wall stickers of Ferm Living , the ‘Blommen’ of Jurianne Matter and the handmade aprons of our friend Marie. The one-of-a-kind baroque flower paintings are unique falsuries from old masters, painted in China, with love!



What articles did you buy for the shop recently and why did you buy it?
The paper balloon from Petra Boase, makes a nice letterbox present and cheers up every childrens room.
“Cookie in a Jar” by Merei de Ruiter. It is a glass jar filled with all the ingredients needed (including a how-to) for baking and decorating your own cookies. A great looking and pure DIY-present, which suits our Sid en Liv concept!

The egg warmers designed by - again - Marie, she does have such an eye for detail and makes beautiful combinations of materials. And also the cards from Who’s Loes?! All the people pictured on her cards are her relatives!


I choose products that make people walk out happy…

Do you have a particular way of styling in your shop? Your own ‘hand’?
I (Mirjam) decorated and styled the food section and the shop myself. After years of interior styling experience I can use it on my own store, love it! Inspiration I get from Scandinavia and places like Haarlem, Antwerp and Copenhagen. Ideally I would change the wallpaper in the shop every week ;) ! But it will always be fresh, light and creative. A space that makes you smile...


Is there anything else you would like to share with us?
We are happy to announce that we opened a Sid en Liv WEBstore on the 1st of April!

And I would love to share some other links with you:
Bolig Liv - A Danish magazine someone showed me once when she visited Sid en Liv. I am a big fan since that moment! Such a nice magazine!
De wereld van Jansje - You must visit the store when you are in Haarlem. A great lifestyle and design store also combined with catering during daytime.
Bloesem Blogs - I visit this blog often, it inspires me big time.

Coupon
To celebrate the fact that we opened our Sid en Liv webstore we offer you a discount in our webstore!


Thank you so much Bob and Mirjam! It was a pleasure having a peek in your lovely store. Can’t wait to visit Sid en Liv in Nijmegen. In the mean time I’ll keep checking out your webstore…

Sid en Liv Van Welderenstraat 95 - 6511 ME Nijmegen - The Netherlands - NEW! Sid en Liv webstore - Twitter: @sidenliv

brandnew: slow wood

Congratiulations to Christien. Your Slow Wood furniture collection is breathtaking! The shape, the material and the concept are so pure. With this collection you show us that you are not only a a great stylist, but a wonderful designer and a real eco-friend too. I am sure your Frysian handmade ecofriendly Slow Wood collection will conquer the world!