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Category Archive: design

flowers from mary lennox

By Marlene | Published: 14. March 2015
Should I even try to write anything or should I just let the pictures speak for themselves? I mean, anyone can see that Ruby Barber has the nicest workplace in the world, or at least in all of Berlin. So what’s the point in describing that she creates bouquets that are so stunning I’d only repeat myself in saying: „They’re beautiful. Sooooo beautiful. [...]

my berlin

By Marlene | Published: 4. March 2015
I’m never going to get it done. That’s what it felt like when I sat down once again last summer to write a list of my favourite spots in Berlin. And couldn’t finish it. Shouldn’t I wait until that new shop opens that everyone is already talking about? Until I’ve been to that one café I’ve been meaning to visit forever? Until I can recommend [...]

wild heart free soul for christmas

By Marlene | Published: 10. December 2014
Do you have all your presents for Christmas, yet? Mhm? MHM? I don't. I never do until the very last minute. And I certainly won’t this year, shopping with a six-month-old who thinks shopping is pretty boring (he has so much to learn from me). So the Wild Heart Free Soul Christmas Market is a godsend. They’re open every remaining weekend until the 24th [...]

wish list! laura huppert from ting

By Marlene | Published: 26. November 2014
It’s impossible to visit Laura’s shop and leave without buying something. I’ve tried and failed. Many times. But there’s nowhere I’d rather give up on my resolution not to shop than Ting. The name means „to pause“ in Chinese and in Danish it simply stands for „things“. Everything Laura finds in, of course, Scandinavia and Asia is just beautiful. [...]

the bread exchange

By Marlene | Published: 10. October 2014
When I met up with Malin to take a first look at her book, she showed me a little video she had filmed with her phone on a trip to Kabul. In it, a couple of older Afghan women are sitting together in a female-only bakery, preparing bread in a tandoor oven from the dough that Malin had made for them. They’re concentrated on their task, you can hear them [...]