WOOD WOOD WOOD

No, I'm not talking about WOOD WOOD clothing this time, but about this oh-so-cool Starbucks cafe in Fukuoka, Kyushu island, Japan, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, where its wood wood wood and... WOOD! Great.

images from Kengo Kuma and Associates

Leeeet the sun shine, leeeet the sun shine...

here's some shiny inspiration for the summer!!

Illesteva - Leonoard 2 Brown sunglasses

Super Lucia - Blonde Havana Mat sunglasses

E&E Bastad Cloudberry sunglasses 

Oliver People MP-2 Filigree-metal and acetate sunglasses

Thank you for the sardines!

Lisbon, October 2011 © Eva V.

Tree camping

Another way to spend your holidays: staying in a Swedish Treehotel!

The Cabin

The Blue Cone

images from Treehotel

And the robbery continues...



S/S 2012 High Class Robbery collection
by/images from Howitzweissbach

Waiting in line for pizza at Da Michele

When in Naples last year, we decided to do as the locals do and stood in line for pizza at Da Michele for more than an hour. It sure was worth it: after half an hour we were walking outside again, but not after consuming some of Naples' very best pizzas - choices: Marinara (tomato sauce) or Margarita (tomato sauce + mozzarella). Why not keep it simple?

Naples, June 2011 © Eva V.

There's still some space left on that wall!

Inspiring house captured by the Selby (one of my favorite interior design inspirators!)



© The Selby

Let's get puffy

Spring 2012 COS

So, Mister Right...

... would you please come over here and pour me a drink?

Mister Right and his cups,
by/image from my favorite ceramic designer Lenneke Wispelwey

Wow

can anyone tell me where this is and who designed it?? Love it!

via architectura (author unknown)

Back in the days...

... when people used called me Eva V. and I kind of knew how to strike a pose ;-)

Let me warn you: this is a robbery!!

(a high class robbery, to be more precise)

Love the lookbook of Howitzweissbach's Spring/Summer 2012 collection.... High Class Robbery!

On the road // under construction

Lisbon, October 2011 © Eva V.

Meet Vlada

Today's visit: Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen's exhibition Let's Sit Down Before We Go at Foam Amsterdam

(selection of pictures taken in Russia 1991-2009; "before leaving for a long journey, Russian people sit down for a moment and think about where they will be going and why. The atmosphere in the pictures of Bertien van Manen is like this")

Vlada in the kitchen, Kazan 1992 © Bertien van Manen

Impressive

Do you think you could walk on them? (I'm a bit scared!)

Jeffrey Campbell - Rockin in Black, via Nuji

Paper art? Yes, paper art.

Paper constructed Diving-Board by German sculptor and photographer, Thomas Demand.

via the/aesthete

Fantastic photo!

Can anyone tell me who shot it?

via REFORM

For my friend :-)

via in-fi-nity

Singing helps!

they say

The darker side of design

beautiful

author unknown, via REFORM

Love the colour!

Recife Riviera Rollerball Pen (can bought at Creatures of Comfort) - via Nuji

One of my favorite pictures of The Sartorialist

Scott Schuman proves again: it's all in the detail.




© The Sartorialist

No so happy bento box

"How many times do I have to say this? I DON'T TAKE SUSHI!!!"

from Bento & Co, the bento shop

Lost in concrete

Studi-o Cahaya by Mamostudio, via blacklungs / arch daily

I'll take care of you now, if you take care of me in summer

ok?

my new summer coat by WOOD WOOD

Feeling blue

via Architectura_

More of Paul Winstanley

Ante-Room, 2008, oil on linen

Tiananmen Square, 2006, oil on linen

And then it was time for... a drink

Waiting in my purse for the sun to come out

these E&E Bastad Cloudberry sunglasses

Waiting shouldn't be a problem

in this Interior with a Yellow Chair (2010, oil on linen, by Paul Winstanley)

Typeface I wish I had designed myself so I could use it on my blog ;-)

developed by Het Echte Werk for CODE Magazine

Another pretty cover of the gentlewoman

the gentlewomen #5 Spring/Summer 2012:
Christy Turlington by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Oh no! What happened to cute fella?!

"woof woof" (oh ** sigh ** I guess that means he's still working)

You didn't think I'd forget about Carl, did you?

Golden Ratio & Friends, Icosahedron 2 by Carl Kleiner