Blame it on the music...

I find Scandinavian music is floating all over, like the rest Scandi-Cool trend...
Being a former dancer I must admit music has a big influence on my daily life...

I will share some of my Scandi-tunes-favorites here and hopefully introduce you to some new tunes as well !!
Hope you enjoy this listing and if not...blame it on the music!!

Who is Quadron 

Debut album 'Quadron', as the duo appeared in 2009, was received with great enthusiasm in Denmark as well as in the U.S. where the singles' Slippin 'and' Pressure 'found its way into TV shows like' Grey's Anatomy 'and the Oscar-nominated film' The Kids Are Alright '.

Big names such as Adele, Quest Love and himself Prince has also joined the ranks of admirers.

Quadron - Hey Love 

Who is MØ

24-year-old MØ -, real name Karen Marie Ørsted - is originally from Odense and roamed for several years underground as part of the anarchist girl electro-punk band Mother. When they began experimenting with beats, she took the excess productions and played on with them on their own. It all took extra speed when she was booked to play at Spot Festival 2012, where she met producer Ronnie Vindahl (Boom Clap Bachelors and others) who helped to shape the expression. During the autumn created MØ a lot of attention with the song "Pilgrim" in the British newspaper The Guardian and the U.S. music site Pitchfork.

MØ - Pilgrim 

Who is Fallulah

Check - http://www.fallulah.dk/

Fallulah optræder LIVE on the national Danish radio - Dried Out Cities

Strike a Scandi-Cool pose...

Have you notice how designers have taken Scandi-Cool waves on the runway for this Spring Summer 2013? !!

I can't help to love, one by one, designers give in to this perfect clean clever signature long lasting look...

Here are collections bringing some of my favorite looks although it's hard to choose from the bunch!

Spot the Scandi-Cool trend: 

1. Simple shapes

2. Block colors, Black and White primary 

3. Volume in sizes

4. Solid/natural fabrics

Hermés Spring 2013

For more info http://www.hermes.com

Christophe Lemaire Spring 2013 collection for Hermes; very modern/minimal design  reminds me of why I LOVE the look! The short finger-less and thumb-less gloves came in a mix of colors, in plain and rigid leather. He styled the gloves with almost every look, for a modern masculine/feminine collection, and the gloves added brings a hard edge. 

As far as I'm concerned this is a winner.

JIL SANDER Spring 2013
For more info http://www.jilsander.com/

Jil Sander herself is back and shows her signature look in a very strong Spring collection, welcome back!

Overall the looks were sophisticated, smart and minimalist. The palette stuck to a tame mix of navy, oxblood, black, and white, which allowed for Sander’s tailoring skills to really shine through. 

GIVENCHY Spring 2013

For more info http://www.givenchy.com/

Inspiration : ”I looked to the Sixties and the archives of the house for the shapes – the super hard and the super soft. And then one of my obsessions, Carlo Mino, for furniture details and then put all of these elements together,”

 

Chloé Spring 2013

For more info http://www.chloe.com

LOVE LOVE LOVE this collection!!!!!

Simple as that, oversize details, clean lines and feminine look...

Balenciaga Spring 2013

For more info www.balenciaga.com

It's not with every collection that sex appeal and extreme craftsmanship go hand in hand, but then again Nicolas Ghesquiere isn't every designer. His Spring 2013 collection for

Balenciaga was filled with clothes that looked light, almost airy, and easy to wear — despite the massive amounts of thought, research, construction, and finishing that went into every piece....

 

Enjoy shopping!!!!

The Scandi-Cool wave hits Chanel SS13 runway...

Looking at these giant windmills at the Chanel runway Spring Summer 2013 fashion show we know where this season turns...up North to Scandinavia..perfection from Chanel..have a look!

Sweet Swedish...Norrgavel

It's so easy to understand why this works...

it just make sense, doesn't it?

For more info check website http://norrgavel.se/

Norrgavel started in 1991 by Nirvan Richter, arcitect from KTH and trained in carpentry at the Carl Malmsten School.

 

His interest in furniture and furniture makers were woken early and newly graduated architect in the 80's he soon realized that he wanted to learn more about the furniture, woodworking craft and art of creating good home environments. He perceived the then Swedish architectural world as tightly controlled by modernism and perceived interior architecture as something of a free zone.

 

Norrgavel furniture would not necessarily attract attention with spectacular design, but rather act as long-term retainers. Rather a subtle design that was first observed when using the furniture, but then noticed the more. A chair that really gave support to the body, a handle with their design helped fingers and hand to pull out the drawer. The starting point for Norrgavel furniture were not dominate the surroundings without being a helpful and functional background to it.

Another important aspect of Norrgavel focus was caring for the environment. They decided early on to only work with natural materials and there were two reasons for that.

 The first was purely organic. The goal was that the business would be included in the circuit using only renewable raw materials. The second was about experience and feeling. For Norrgavel were natural materials is also an aesthetic choice that stimulates the senses, it is possible to maintain and generally ages beautifully.

The Armchair...

"The Armchair I carried within me for more years and from Blueprint 1992, it took more than three years of production 1995. The vision held many paradoxes, an armchair that looks ascetically simple, a powerful belief that blend unobtrusively into the room - the size of a wing chair but transparent so that one can discern the walls and floors ...

Design by Nirvan Richter
In production since 1995.

The Pinn-table...

"Easy & convenient! And well made. The shape exudes "bench", but the disc's abrupt termination signals that it is a table. As any three-legged furniture, it steadily even on uneven floors and while it may tip over, so never stand on a three-legged stool. Using tables of different heights together give life and movement to the room. Combine with Stud Stool round to get an extra seat. And allow you to play with colors, tone on tone-colors of the frames gives a nuance that is modern, unlike vintage who want to be old. "

Design by Nirvan Richter

In production since 2012.

 The Chair BAS

"Chair BAS is a great chair. Well dimensioned and steady, but small, lightweight and very comfortable to sit on for long. The construction is firmly simple and the material of prime quality. "

Design by Nirvan Richter

In production since 2000.

The stool...

"A stool is a stool, or ...? The functionalist adage less is more suitable here - why twist to it, then the simplicity still survives everything. Stud Stool round is sustainable both in form and function. The worst that can happen is that it needs to be glued on after a generation or so. The four legs are drilled in the seat and stabilizes the bottom of the H-shaped strut. All machined parts have downloaded its proportions and dimensions of Norrgavel wooden chair, to fit with this. To avoid aches caused in the butt, is the seat bucket and a half centimeters. In projecting tempera colors, this little piece of furniture provide a pleasurable candy effect to the room. "

Design by Nirvan Richter

In production since 2012.