Inspired Favourites

This past weekend we found some interesting and beautiful products at the 100% Design South Africa show held in Johannesburg. As always, we were delighted to see so many great innovative products and here are some of Haidee Kramer’s (Founder and owner of Dreamweaver Studios) favourites.

Favourite Fabrics:

Exquisite artisanal printed and hand dyed fabrics and products from Isobel Sippel Studio, Cape Town. The most wonderful eye for detail and great sense of colour.

Favourite furniture piece:

Love, love, love the ingenious way in which they have combined 2 opposite elements in this table. An amazing concrete table with wood insert from Concrete Concreative, Cape Town.

Favourite colour palette:

This exciting colour palette adds energy, dynamism and sophistication to this great space – 100% Office Design by Alice Hutton Interior Design, Johannesburg.

Favourite ceramics:

Creating wonderful sculptural ceramic vessels and artworks with a unique African yet global urban aesthetic.  Louise Gelderblom, Cape Town is the amazing creator.

All in all, 100% Design South Africa showcased an amazing array of inspiring creatives who are making the South African design industry proud.

 

 

Leonardo – Bring Renaissance into your home.

Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of a “Renaissance man.” With a curious mind and keen intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work.

Among his most well know pieces is The Mona Lisa, or Gioconda. It was painted by the Leonardo Da Vinci, the famous Italian artist, between 1504 and 1519, and is a commission for a woman named Lisa Gherardini.

Jannelli & Volpi have now grated us all the opportunity of having a true masterpiece in our homes in the form of wallpaper panels.

Taking works found in his notebooks, they have been able to create an entire collection dedicated to his art and science.

 

M.C Escher – We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the world’s most famous graphic artists. He is most famous for his so-called impossible constructions, such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky & Water I or Reptiles.

Apart from being a graphic artist, M.C. Escher illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and murals.

He played with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. His art continues to amaze and wonder millions of people all over the world.

In his work we recognize his keen observation of the world around us and the expressions of his own fantasies. M.C. Escher shows us that reality is wondrous, comprehensible and fascinating.

These iconic design are now available in mind blowing wallcoverings, grating us the opportunity to have a piece of M.C. Eschers creative mastery in our homes.

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” M.C. Escher

“He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.” M.C. Escher

“The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure” M.C. Escher

“So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen” M.C. Escher

 

Source: https://www.mcescher.com/about/

Marimekko – Powerful & Iconic.

Marimekko is a Finnish design house celebrated worldwide for its original prints and colours. Founded by Armi Ratia in 1951, Marimekko is said to be one of the world’s first real lifestyle brands combining fashion and home decoration into one
unique point of view.

Powerful iconic designs like Unikko, Kippis, Boo boo, together with newest designs by Carina Seth Andersson and Maija Louekari. Applying a unique taste and high-quality wallcoverings which bring joy to our everyday lives through bold prints and colours.

Marimekko is about living, not pretending; about understanding and accepting the beauty of life just as we encounter it every day.

Priding themselves in fostering a carefree environment where their talented designers and craftsmen are guided, inspired and encouraged to truly express themselves and design products that have an authentic, living soul.

A team of talented designers, each with a distinct, personal style, are spreading happiness through their designs. Young designers grow to become the Marimekko masters of tomorrow.

Designers like Maija Louekari, a Helsinki-based freelance illustrator and designer, started her career in 2003 when she won a design competition co-organised by Marimekko and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Her winning design, the Räsymatto pattern, is now available in Marimekko’s wallcoverings collection.

“Marimekko is not about trendy fashion, with a few minor exceptions. We make lasting and timeless products. Timelessness may, however, occasionally come into fashion by chance, like now.” Armi Ratia, 1978.

Source:

https://www.jv-wallcoverings.com

https://www.marimekko.com/com_en/the-brand/design/design-philosophy

https://www.marimekko.com/com_en/the-brand

Interior wall Therapy…

We are still reminiscing over the inspiring trends showcased at Heimtex this year. Trends that turn our conventional way of thinking on its head.

Colour has the power to affect not only our moods and emotions, but also the ability to provoke our subconscious.

Energize or calm, relax or stimulate, even anger or subdue.

Contrary to what we have come to believe, it has been proven that blue can energize and red can have a calming effect.

Implementing this new found realization into interiors, allows one to create energy-impactful spaces.

This Interior therapy gives designers the power to bring an energy balance to our over-stimulated lifestyles.

Keeping it simple with hues in multiple tones of the red and blue spectrums, allows one to relax or recharge.

 

Source: https://www.heimtextil-theme-park.com/design-trends/#relax-recharge

Uncovering an Urban Oasis…

As far as trends go, uncovering the rising trend of an Urban Oasis is fascinating.

We have an inherent connection to nature, yet we submerge ourselves in urban and digital lifestyles, removing ourselves further and further from natural habitats.

Our personal and natural well-being is becoming increasing important in our lives. Designers are responding to this by creating concepts of an “Urban Oasis”.

At the heart of this oasis is the calm refuge from hard, cold, industrial urban landscapes and a move to Green, restful colours used to replenish, nourish and energize our minds and bodies.

Lush, tone-on-tone green hues are used to provide a healing, therapeutic and refreshing quality to spaces and products, while textural elements that replicate or mimic nature provide a rich, indulgent feel. Dark forest greens and sages are mixed with dusty roses to add warmth.

Source:

https://www.heimtextil-theme-park.com/design-trends/#urban-oasis

 

Perfect Imperfection – A trend of today…

During Haidee Kramer’s recent visit to the Heimtextil trade show in Frankfurt, some exciting trends were presented. Two trends really seemed to intertwine gracefully, namely, Atelier & Perfect Imperfection.

The word atelier (French: [atəlje]) means a private workshop or studio of a professional artist where a principal master and a number of assistants, students, and apprentices can work together producing pieces of art or design. This return of artisanal and crafted design, ushers in a perfectly imperfect design direction.

Revisiting the craft of indigo dyeing, designers are celebrating the imperfections and graduated hues that this deep inky blue dye has to offer. They are embracing age-old crafts and processes, and translating them into product for our times.

The traditional Japanese philosophy of Wabi–sabi, is a world view centred on the acceptance of imperfection. The aesthetic is described as one of beauty that is ‘imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete’. This concept allows materials and products to ‘bear the marks of their making, embracing visible brushstrokes, stitching and joinery, a poetic documentation of their creation.’

As an outward backlash to years of generic, overly mass-produced goods, we find this trend satisfyingly bringing meaning back into our interiors.

Sources:

https://heimtextil.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/programme-events/trends.html

 

MissoniHome presents…

”The collaboration with Jannelli&Volpi, masters in the art of wallpaper, is the latest unique component of the MissoniHome Collection”. Rosita Missoni, Direttore Creativo MissoniHome

MissoniHome Wallcoverings01 is a collection that brings together 2 giants in the interior world. Iconic and beautiful.

A multitude of colourful designs, we have come to love from Missoni, translated elegantly into wallpapers to create flamboyant interior walls.

“A meeting between two similar worlds: ours made of paper, theirs of yarn that found
instantaneous harmony and reciprocal traditions”. Mauro Jannelli, Presidente Jannelli&Volpi

There is no containing our excitement about the fact that this new wallcovering collaboration is now available exclusively in South Africa from Dreamweaver Studios.

Favourites from 100% Design 2017

This year’s 100% Design showcased innovative design and engenius creativity, here are some of our favorites:

Favourite piece of furniture

Stunning and unique drinks cabinet by Anna and Chris Weylandt in collaboration with Caesarstone

Favourite lighting

Mema Designs new lighting range features an amazing refined use of interesting materials, forms and colours

Favourite rug

Wonderful use of colour and design on the Bug rug by Clinton Friedman

Favourite product

Beautifully conceived and crafted planters from Indigenus

Favourite print design

Exotic and exuberant jungle wallpaper print by Redesign from KZN

Favourite stand

Afrotel by Source IBA was a wonderfully sophisticated and elegant hospitality concept

Fashionable decor

As we have seen time and time again, Decor takes loads of inspiration from the world of fashion.

The inspiration for this wallpaper from Eijffinger is no different. The Burberry plaid is one of the most sought-after and iconic patterns in the world and has inspired this sophisticated and fashionable stripe wallpaper from Eijffinger’s latest Stripes + collection.

There is no imitating the authentic style of the Burberry plaid, but Eijffinger has definitely provided home owners and decorators with a fashionable decor option.