A nice gift

Today i received my silver candleholders from Christofle. Didn't had a lot of time to post since Monday, but i have it very busy this week. Will do better my best during the week ;-)

So here are the pictures. I will use them for dinner parties or on my living table under hurricane lamps.

Vincent Darré

Thank God for The Selby i was thinking during my view through the pictures. I have a very classic apartment with lots of antiques, but i can say, that I am very eclectic. Love everything that is from good quality. I have a respect for Art Deco, Sixties and so on, as long as it is nicely done. That's the most important!!!!

Something that is nicely done is the apartment of Vincent Darreéin Paris. What do i have to say, I know not everybody will love it. But I found it very well presented, and a wonderful collection of objects.

Enjoy it as i do :-)

Maison Darré

Recycling

Here are some of the aspects why I really love antiques. The point is that, oke you buy something that has history, or a past. You're also in one way recycling something, because you re-using it. And you always give it back his value, because you restyle it or because you just give it a very nice place in your live or house.

Like you know I am always on the hunt for those kind of objects or furniture.

Like Valentino said " It's not my fault I like beauty". Well for me it's more " I like trash, I will turn it in something nice".

I love DIY challenges, so here is one of my projects I am finishing. It's an old little table with compartments. A really piece of woman furniture, but soooo practical. The pictures speak for them selfs. I hope you like the transformation.

The old version, very damaged. ( it had something, but it was really in a very bad state )

The new version.

Honest Scrap Award

Yep, I got one again, thats a good sign I suppose. No, serious getting an award is nice, but I can honestly say all the little mails I receive are as valuable to my heart as any other award. How some people write such nice things and idea's. I am always excited to open my mailbox to see what i got during the night or during the day.

Greet is always a nice colleague blogger, and i thank her personally for this nomination.

So I will tell you 10 things you don't know about me.

1. I have a degree in Interior Designer but work in a bank.

2. My colleagues are the best, it's always fun at the office. Me doing gymnastics here at the office.

3. Brussels is my home. It's nice to be alone in the city in the early morning.

4. I had gray hair during a while this year.

5. Friends are the people who share our lives.

6. Black is my first color, it's so chic. I put it every were.

7. Public transport is perfect, hate car driving.

8. Shopping is like a drug, finding treasures even better.

9. Eating out with people is the best activity there is.

10. Chocolate, i buy at least every month a box of fine chocolates.

I hope you all discovered a bit more about me.

Thank you ;-)

News

Luckely i don't have to do this like real news, three times a day, otherwise my apartment on the thirth floor would find it self on the ground floor because it would collapse of the weight. Greet of "Belgian Pearls" told me i should open a shop. I have to say that i would love to do that one day. But that day hasn't come yet. So in the mean time the only customer is me. But i don't complain, love to hunt for little treasures.
Here are the pictures of the items of the week.

A nice real life size head of a woman, 1944

A study representation, arms, leg's and textile

An old picture of a lifestyle magazine, doesn't everybody look great in this fantastic interior?

Hope you like them :-)

When countryside becomes city

Brussels was always a very little town in the 19th century, you could through it in 40 minutes, now a days it seems it never end. It's different everywhere off course. But the pictures i share with you today are pic's of the oldest building's in Ukkel (one of the parts of Brussel). A long time a go it would have been the lonely houses in the neighborhood. But now a days it's in the middle of a residential neighborhood. The contrast couldn't be greater. But we're used to that over here :-)

Hope you enjoy them.

Park of the small Sablon

"The Sablon" isn't far from my place and it's a wonderful place to do some shopping or to just eat something. It's really a place when you can also "eat with your eyes". Everywhere there are antique shops. But at the end of it there is a fantastic little park. The ironwork is extremely detailed. It's the work of Henri Beyaert, my favorite architect of the 19th century Brussels. Here are some pictures, hope you all like it.