B A B Y | blue skies

Most of the time beauty surrounds us. Sometimes it´s almost surreal. Some days my walk with the dogs covered in mist and feels grey and sticky and on days like this it´s crisp, white, blue and breathtaking.

W A N D E R S | does a colombo

Marcel Wanders presented the portable lounger in leather and suede for Luis Vuitton at the Design Miami event.

I just fell in love with the lines and the cleverness of it all. It will look better the more it´s worn is a real plus. 

The Wanders lounger is a homage to Joe Colombo´s (google him if not acquainted with his amazing style) 1969 original of this design idea, that has been a true favorite for a very long time. 

/Jimmy 

Lounger from 1969 by Joe Colombo

G R O W I N G | green(s)

GREEN is a way of life. 
Green is a living color. 

Greens are always essential in a home. 
Every room indoors and outdoors need growing green(s) 

Greenroom is a room for greens. 

I miss my outdoor greens this time of year so I add some more greens indoors.

Our favorite plants are being treated increasingly like entities as our pets almost.

The green room. Room for plants. Plants for all rooms.

Kokedama and picture from Flora Linea

Kokedamas, these Japanese bundles of moss will reproduce here in the west at an incredible speed. Green plant spheres I can not get enough of.

Sea weed greens. Green like the sea.

N O R T H | modern my way

The sky lights at Bella is the high lite of the architecture...The building itself is something beyond the normal fairgrounds that you meet everywhere in the world.

This time going to the fair I´m here just to experience, to see what there is and look at what´s in the air for the coming seasons.

 Often I have a task of some kind when I come to a fair more than just looking. A job for a magazine or building a set for a company or lecturing or selling or bying for me or someone else. This time though,  I´m here just for me and that´s lovely.

chmara.rosinke 

A Tommaso Marinetti 1930´s inspired aproach to dining by chmara.rosinke called cocina futurista 2.0,above.  Below their competition finalist, The Timber day bed for Prix Hermès 2014  below in a large exhibit showing their work at North Modern in Copenhagen. 

chmararosinke

MUUTO

North Modern is the furniture fair in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

At Bella Center, which is not far from the Copenhagen airport Kastrup, 

and 35 min drive from my home the -so called- MODERN furniture is showcased.

It has become a fair I come back to (scroll back in the blog and you´ll see) It´s not the largest furniture fair in Scandinavia (and who cares) but it´s the fair that has made the most distinct decisions regarding  style.

NORTH MODERN. In those two words you have the description. To 95% it is a showcase of scandi/modern furniture and life style in a very relaxed atmosphere. 
This year there were DJ´s playing loungy-type-of-relaxed (not at all uptempo) tones that seemed to put all the visitors in a different mood that I have ever seen on a fair. 
Far from the stressed sell-NOW type of feeling you are used to. A more creative kind of artistic sense in the air. 

I had a beautifully presented and sensationally tasting (expensive) sushi/sashimi along with a light chardonnay for lunch ( see my insta #jimmyschonninghem) and walked around looking at creations of furniture feeling like a prince. Not at all a desperate blogger at a fair. LOVELY! 

Really enjoyed it.  

THANK YOU NORTH MODERN for the atmosphere your have created.

Studio Truly Truly presenting their organic, lightning bug feel kindo of LED pendants. We are waiting for their design for Ikea coming later 2016.

www.woud.dk

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New glass plant hangers from Broste Copenhagen

Room for outside the box design at North Modern. The ladder from Jonas Van Put does not come in a brown flat package for sure and I LOVE THAT.  
 Must admit that it was kind of scary to sit down at the chair after climbing all the way up. 

I like the  cradle rocker below as well, do you?

Thank you for this time North Modern. I´ll be back

G R E E N H O U S E | before

HERE WE GO!
Being unloaded right next to our house is the greenish glass for the new greenhouse. The greenhouse glass entrance that will be the first you see of the Stable when you arrive. 

Right behind Miss P is where it will go on the cement platform.
  The grey little wall to the left of the door ,  that we just added is where the greenhouse will connect. As you enter the door to our garden you walk over the bridge over our creek made this summer and then you enter via the Greenhouse into the Stable. 
At least next week we will start constructing it. 
Feels great!

/Jimmy 

Our Stable is getting a Greenhouse entrance

THE | finer home

Rehearsal space at home

Soul, with a capitol S...

Saraha´s mic made into a wallpaper. Prince is hiding behind the chains.

STYLE!

The love of proverbs shows all over

Bedside Buddha

Something worth seeing everyday

Hidden gold records and triumphs close to the ceiling was Sarah´s idea.

A BIG closet was high up on the wish list. Glass doors from floor to ceiling from Lumi was the solution. 

Seated where its comfortable. Sarah knew which bed she wanted. She also wanted her glittery heels on the shelf made out of a turn of the century door by Lövsjö Loghouse where I wanted candles. Turned out great in my opinion.

The performer Sarah Dawn Finer wanted to give her  home some extra attention after all her touring and needed among other things a larger closet space to take better care of all her on and off stage outfits. I worked with her on the remodeling of her apartment. 
Sarah knows what she wants so it´s not at all that I just make a plan when she´s away and just do it.

 I´m thankful for the opportunity to find the style for the upgrade together with Miss Finer. 
All the pictures were taken by Lina Eidenberg Adamo for a feature in Swedish interior magazine Sköna Hem last year. 


/Jimmy 

Brooklyn Bridge photo by Per Magnus Persson made into wallpaper by Photowall. Black and white rose pillows from Atelje Alt. Wall lights ByRydens

N E W | beginnings

Seat by nystrompersia.se Photos pmpersson.com

2016 has arrived

Christmas and celebrating New Years eve with friends and family at home in our house in Skåne.
My closest family, my mom&dad with my brother and his wife and three children came the 26 of Dec and stayed over. Love having the house full of friends and family.  Right now we have 9 guests, containing of 3 families in our Villa Hoby Mosse that arrived before New Years Eve and tonight we will be celebrating a birthday so lots of cooking and and ejoying food together as well as going for long walks with our dogs ( to be able to eat...) and games of ludo/fia.  The Stable is where most of the cooking is done and also where we hang out the most.  

This past year has contained so much and I will not bore you with the details but I´m truly thankful for all, both positive and negative. Might  sound crazy but...it´s always the solving of problems/challenges that we face that along with the easy coming positive that molds us into who we become. 
 
A new year is here and new beginnings possible in the best way. 

I was going through my designs after hearing Li Edelkoort lecture about 2017 interior trends and felt this deep brown wooden south african mask along with withes and black had the right cultural mix deco feeling and wanted to give you a sense of the new interior year as I see it. 

For those of you that want more interior and lifestyle flow, visit my Instagram at 

#jimmyschonninghem 

Im not a perfectly consistent blogger(...lazy...) but will be here telling the longer stories that are important off course. Sometimes several times per week, sometimes not. 

HAPPY that YOU stopped by. 
 Wishing you a good start of 2016

Come back soon

/Jimmy