March 22, 2013 in flowers, interior styling
With Spring approaching and beautiful sprigs of blossom on sale, I couldn’t resist taking some snaps of them at home. The photography course I am taking has inspired me to take even more pictures and with the arrival of a little Saarinen side table I just bought from Skandium, it all fell into place. I love its classic shape and after years of lusting after it, and several shoots where I had used it, I finally ordered one. The little Rosenthal Pollo vase is another design classic that a friend bought me for Christmas several years ago, one I will always love. I cut some leaves from patterned paper and added them to the blossom stems and placed them in one of my fabric-wrapped vases.
Finnish designer Eero Saarinen designed this range of tables in 1956 and they are still made by Knoll (available from Skandium in London). The Pollo vase is by Rosenthal and was designed by another Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala in 1970 (available from Vessel Gallery in London). They sit next to a vintage fibreglass Eames DAR chair that we bought years ago at a New York flea market. They are also available new through stores like SCP.
I can’t wait for Spring, can you?
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hi, love the pictures, and especially that table. Must be a good photography course. Found your blog via decor8, I think I am going to enjoy this one.
Simple and beautiful and pretty and stylish all at the same time! lovely.
Jo x
Cannot even begin to describe the spookiness of this synchronicity … just found this post on Twitter … although also lately was introduced to lovely site on a recent decor8 course … bought a book on Scandinavian Design in charity shop yesterday, have only looked at a few pages so far but one of the things I read about and fell in love with was this Pollo vase, which was completely new to me … and I was looking at these vintage-style fibreglass chairs just a week or so ago in SCP … whew. So many new things, all together here. The photography is stunning and the styling beautiful – all wonderfully uplifting, thankyou.
Helen
Lovely post Sania