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Just wanted to share the wonderful sketchbook of artist Sabine Timm. She has made these wonderful little sketchbook films, I keep watching them over and over.

You can see them here, here, here and here. :)
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Raija Uosikkinen 09/19/2009
 
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Another one of my favorite designers, this time finnish designer Raija Uosikkinen. I`ve not been able to find much information about her, but she worked for Arabia Finland in the 50s and 60s producing the most wonderful patterns and illustrations.

I`ve not been able to find the name on the casserole pattern, but the jam jars are called Pomona, and the dish at the bottom are from a series called Emilia.

I really love her crisp drawing style and bold colors.
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As my last posts have been porcelain themed, I`d thought I`d just continue and show you one more of my favorite norwegian pattern designers.

The two dishes above are of a pattern called "a la carte" by Figgjo, designed by Hermann Bongard.

Hermann also worked with Hadeland Glassverk and produced some beautiful glass pieces.

I really love this pattern, and always keep a lookout for it at my thrift market. Unfortunately it is hard to come by and often overpriced. But who knows, I might be lucky right?
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Just wanted to show you two newly thrifted books that inspire me.
The first one is a book from the 50s or 60s called "Porselensmaling som hobby" (Painting porcelain as a hobby). It has the most beautiful stilised illustrations in blue grey and black, and has lots of mid century scandinavian pottery as inspiration pictures. And there is also some information about some of my favorite swedish designers/patternmakers like Stig Lindberg, Carl Harry Staalhane and Marianne Westmann.
Yay, what a find!

Some of my favorite spreads here:
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And the other book is called "Småretter" (tiny/buffet dishes), and is also from the 50s. This book is filled with all kinds of quirky dishes like aspic logs and toadstool eggs, all with mayonaise and cream of course like all food from that time. :)

It is also filled with these beautiful handcolored pictures that just make me want to dive into the picture and start to eat everything, yum!

These are my favorite spreads:
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Favorite book 05/24/2009
 
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Since I am in the show and tell corner this week I thought I`d show you one of my alltime favorite photo books. The book has the most wonderful title: "For every minute you are angry you loose sixty seconds of happiness" and is made by photographer Julian Germain.

I initially picked up this book at my local bookstore some years ago because of the cover I think. It reminded me of the fabric of a sunbed my mom had in the 70s. And when I opened the book I saw these wonderful pictures taken of this sweet old man living alone with his flowers in a bright yellow house somewhere in England. I just had to have it.

The colors and the mood in the pictures are so beautiful, and really makes me appriciate the simple things in life. Like flowers, flowernames, toast and pebbles. :)

I`d also like to share some of the text in the book with you:

"I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April 1992."

"On the walls of his equally brightly decorated room there were numerous photographs of a lady I innediately understood was his wife. I said I thought they were lovely pictures and he told me that Betty had died, a few years ago now."

"Charlie was a simple, gentle, man. He loved flowers and the names of flowers. He loved colour and surrounded himself with colour. He loved his wife. He seemed totally unambitious; all he wanted was for his children to be happy.

Occasionally he would ask if I`d like to listen to some music and then he might play, for example, just tree songs from a Nat King Cole LP; but we would really listen to them. Music was never something to have on in the background.

He loved words and had the most well thumbed dictionary I have ever seen.
He did the Daily Mirror crossword every day. He was not a thinker, but he wondered. I bought him an atlas and he studied it in such detail, amazed by the world.

Without ever trying or intending to, he showed me that the most important things in life cost nothing at all. He was my antidote to modern living."
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