TODAYS SPECIAL: Strawberry eggs

Scrambled eggs with shrimps, herbs and tomatoes, carrots, leek and bamboo shoots. Strawberries on the side. All organic.

TODAYS SPECIAL: Crayfish pasta

Whole grain pasta with salmon and crayfish, lemonjuice, oliveoil and spinach

TODAYS SPECIAL: Homemade Chicken Nuggets

Chicken nuggets with sesame and flax seeds, hummus and avocado on a bed of rocket salad.

MEMO TO SELF: Kolbein Falkeid

PRIVAT HUSKEREGEL

Du skal ikke klistre fine øyeblikk
opp på veggen i tankene
og forgylle dem med lengselen din.
Du skal kjøre spettet
hardt innunder arrete hverdager
og vippe dem opp. En etter en.

Det er derfor
livet har deg på mannskapslista.

Dikt av Kolbein Falkeid (1933- ), fra samlingen Vagabondering (1979)

foto: Morten Krogvold

FUN: New picture on LucyandBart!

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From their website:

"LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement."

And they rock!

DESIGN: Tord Boontje - Inspirator

Today I revisited Tord Boontjes website, and found that I had to share his wonderful lamps. He
always makes very elegant designs, and is very material-conscious. He can make anything from small, low cost pottery, to eleborate one of a kind wardrobes in the 1.5 mill euros pricerange.

The idea behind this lamp is to use the simple lightbulb and cord as a base for compelety different expressions. This is playful, but mature, elegant, simple, beautiful and inspiring.

Tord Boontje is todays Inspirator.

All pictures are from Studio Tord Boontje

ICON: Anaïs Nin

In my Icons series I now want to draw your attention to the wonderful, freespirited, strong, sexual but sometimes sad Anaïs Nin, or Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell as her full name is.

According to her diaries,Volume One, 1931 - 1934, Nin abandoned formal schooling at the age of 16 and began working as a model. Later she shared a bohemian lifestyle with Henry Miller during her time in Paris. This relationship inspired Philip Kaufman to make the very erotic movie Henry & June.

On 3 March 1923, in Havana, Cuba, she married her first husband Hugh Parker Guiler (1898-1985), a banker and artist, later known as "Ian Hugo" when he became a filmmaker of experimental films in the late 1940s. The couple moved to Paris the following year.

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) as Astarte, the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946), and in Bells of Atlantis (1952).
In 1947, at the age of 44, she met and began living with Rupert Pole (1919-2006), sixteen years her junior. On 17 March 1955, she married him at Quartzsite, Arizona, returning with Pole to live in California. Guiler, remained in New York City and was unaware of Nin's second marriage until after her death in 1977.

ICON: Daphne Guiness

My all time idol, the Haute Couture collecting, amazing looking Miss Daphne Guiness.
This is from the September 08 issue of Italian Vogue. Photos by Steven Klein.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Norwegian Summer

I was at my Mums house on the west coast of Norway for a whole month this summer, and I found amazing light and colour. Great pictures to look at a rainy day in Oslo...
All photos by me.

MASHALLAH DESIGN: Sculptural sweaters

Berlin-based Mashallah Design & Linda Kostowski have created items of clothing by scanning human bodies and using the data to create sewing patterns. The human form is turned into 3D patterns of polygons, which are then turned into 2D files and used to laser cut fabric. The project was on show at Create Berlin during the London Design Festival earlier this month.
(From http://www.dezeen.com)

OUTFIT: The Moscow Poncho by Henrik Vibskov

The most inspiring garment of the month is actually also my newest buy! Henrik Vibskov has made a beautiful poncho out of his Moscow design and the result is stunning. The poncho is back, and I know what I am going to wear the rest of this season...





























































Photo by Jonas P. Øren