Formex finds

Old bottles can be very useful :)

The idea is to recycle

My favorite the cucumber jar as a candle. The bottom of the jar is cut and the sharp edges made soft and in with the scented candle. Voila !

The candle on foot which will be a gourgeous wine glass when the candle has given all of its natural scent.

The bottom on the winebottle looks this handsome with a candle inside. Wash it out after the candle has burned down and you have a beutiful bowl for you tea candles or as a drinking glass perhaps. 

Love when we can use it all. Purpose. Purpose. Purpose. Thank you :)

At Swedish fair Formex in Älvsjö, Stockholm 

I found the Munio CAN DE LA. 

They are company founded in Riga, Latvija. In my opinion they do everything we all want to do. They produce high end, smart and handsome things from old stuff we all throw away.

Love it !! 

-old wine bottles becomes candle holders and candle holders on foot that doubles as a wine glass, when you have enjoyed your natural scented candle. 

The old cucumber glass jars become the big candles with three wicks that I adore. Want one now!! Check out the wicked wicks they use. It´s a wooden version of a wick. 

This is certainly a Jimmy loves type of candle :) What do you think of it ? 

Will get back to you on the Formex I like and more..

Sliding doors - The farmers way

Have always wanted the old type of sliding doors that you find on every barn in Sweden. 

A simple but sturdy iron rail that hangs on the wall, on which the wheels that sit on the hanging door slides. 

So stylish indoors as well as outdoors. 

A sink you like

To always make it as fun as possible to do the dishes(which is not my favorite thing to do) I keep all the things around the sink as beautiful as possible. 

For me : 

No place for the ugly things = fun time around the sink. A sink you like.

If you try it I sink you will like it :=)

 

Plain&perfect

First of all I just love the simplicity of the kitchen.To die for :=) 

Well -- that´s slightly over-reacting. 

But ---

The Bertoia type of chairs has always been to my liking(check out knoll.com) 

and the table is of the kind that will last a lifetime. Love it!

Really like the plates on the table - they look like the plates we sell at jimmyschonning.com 

The simple kind of stool is the perfect extra seat and works just as wonderful as a bedside table. 

Found the kitchen at my favorite Dutch Mag that you for some strange reason can not subscribe to outside of Holland... it´s called VT wonen

Plates and bowls from www.jimmyschonning.com 

as offcourse the suede runner stiched with number 4 also comes from.  

Soomkai hjälper

För snart två år sedan bjöds jag av min vän och fotograf Per Magnus Persson och hans fru Ann till Thailand där de bor del av året. Tanken  var att se på ett  samarbete och resa runt en del.

Att komma till Thailand var för mig en enorm upplevelse. Vi såg så mycket avancerad möbelproduktion, men överallt sprang jag på de enkla hönsburar som kom att ge mig idén till lampan Soomkai som vi tillsammans med underbara Watt&Veke kunnat ta fram.

Allt började med att jag skapade en ny form av den bambubur jag sett där jag använde mig av den hantverkskunnighet som de som tillverkar burarna besitter.

Ann tog fram en produktion i Thailan efter det att Watt&Veke gillat min formgivning och idé om välgörenhet och Per Magnus fotade bilder och gjorde en brochyr.

Vi har snart sålt lampan i ett år och nu är det dags för den bit jag längtat efter.

Vi skall i slutet av November åka till barnhemmet för HIV smittade barn i Lopburi, Thailand och där få skänka av vinsten från vår Soomkai.

Tack så oerhört alla ni som genom att köpa en Soomkai lampa till ert hem har bidragit med hjälp till barhemmet i Lopburi.

Vill att ni alla skall veta att vi håller som bäst på med ett nytt projekt som heter Soomkai Lek, som är en ny lampa i samarbete med Watt&veke.

Formgivning hjälper,

/ Jimmy

 

In English that would be :

 

Almost two years ago I was invited by my friend and photographer Per Magnus Persson and his wife Ann to Thailand where they live part of the year. The idea was to look at collaboration possibilities and travel around a bit.

Coming to Thailand was to me a tremendous experience. We saw so much advanced furniture production, but everywhere I ran in to the simple chicken cages that came to give me the idea that became the lamp Soomkai that together with wonderful Watt&Veke we were able to produce.

It all started when I created a new design of the bamboo cage I'd seen where I used the craft skills of those that manufacture cages possess.

Ann found a way to produce the hand made lamps in Thailand and Watt&Veke liked my design and idea of ​​charity and Per Magnus photographed images and made a brochure.

We have now sold the lamp for almost a year and now it's time for the bit I longed for.

We shall in the end of November go to the orphanage for HIV infected children in Lopburi, Thailand and there donate the profits from our Soomkai.

Thank you so very much all of you buying a Soomkai lamp to your home and by that providing help to the HIV infected orphfans in Lopburi. 

I would like you all to know we are working with a new project called Soomkai Lek, a new lamp in conjunction with Watt&Veke.

Design helps,

/ Jimmy

I´m moving on

For many years life for me has been a struggle. I have been mostly unhappy. 

This is not something I would let anyone know. I thought I had a loving relationship and I worked hard to try to keep it. 
I always thought I had to work harder. 

I have on the surface had everything I thought I wanted with life in general.

I worked with the type of creative things I have dreamed of. 

I had everything I thought would make me happy. 

The thing is though....I was truly unhappy most of the time.  

What I thought would make me happy was : 

A relationship  

Friends and family that love me

A good creative job

A beautiful house with a garden overlooking a lake

A creative studio in the cool part of town

I had all of this but I was never happy. 

I  kept a brave face and showed everyone the happy smile that I wanted them to see. 

A few times I would let my close friends know how unhappy I was. When I saw their concerned faces I always regretted it. So I stuck to my clip on smile.

After years of sleepless nights, 

I  decided to leave my loveless relationship and stand up for love. If you can not stand up for your love and say : this is the man I love in Sweden 2012 you will never be able to do it. 

I know now that I can not share my life with someone that can not introduce me to their parents, family and friends and be proud of me. 

I want to tell the world of the man I love and share my life with my family and loved ones that respect me for who I am.

2012 in Sweden, even though there are still politicians and other scary trash citizens that seem uneducated and without humanity, we have a society that understands that love and relationships happen between people, 
not just some people. 

We have in Sweden a society that for the most part understands that : 

All pigs are created equal and not the revised version : 

that some pigs are more equal that others.

Sadly there are religious believes that has not yet understood that LOVE is always LOVE. 

If someone treats you bad or unkind or just make fun of you because you do not live after the hetero normative definition, 

PLEASE STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS.
Don´t let yourself be put down. 

This is PRIDE to me. 
Pride is not just a festival ones a year, 

it´s a way of living your life. 

Believing in this I a let my former work know that I felt descriminated against, which got more attention than I could ever had expected. 

When I had thought about the former job at the tv show I worked with for years where I not felt appreciated for my creativity at a job that is a all about creativity and negatively compared to the famous and not so accomplished on your workforce and you always come in last although you work your ass off you are better off somewhere else. 

I sure was.

So I sold the house, sold the studio and all of the huge furniture I felt I had no need for and put the rest up in storage and went looking for real love. 

I went looking for work that I love doing and a workplace that 

appreciate me and my knowledge and creative force.

I let everything go that I felt was not a good vibe for me. 

I let everything go that made me feel bad. 

I kept only what I felt was of love. 

Now....you probably think that I went mad and ..... maybe I did. 

But....when I least expected it 
------I found love. 

I met the MAN I fell in love with that I want to live with, share my whole life with and the man that loves me back. 

The man that is proud of me and want to tell the world of our love. 

Truly - it does not get better than this. 

If all of the bad experiences, depressions and suicidal thoughts I had in my life had to happen so that I could experience this love, -it was all worth it. 

“You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.”
― C. JoyBell C.

The picture above show my beloved belongings where they are stored. 

Since I now have love, I only work with things I truly believe in and love maybe it´s time to start looking for the perfect place for me and my love. 

No word describes better my feelings for my Francisco than the ones sung in Kärleksvisan in swedish by Sarah Dawn Finer. She has written the song together with the talanted Peter Hallström. I heared this for the first time sitting on the floor under the grand piano at my friends sung by Miss Sarah and I will never forget it. Sarah has a voice that talks to your soul. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.

Tack för alla motgångar. 
I´m moving on!

Francisco this is for you:

För Francisco : Sarah Dawn Finer Kärleksvisan