NICOLA NASH

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HOUSE PROUD

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PAOLA NAVONE'S PARIS APARTMENT

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TIM BOLJE

 A young creative couple talking about their flat.

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WORK IS NOT A JOB

“The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”

 Timothy Ferriss

“Dreams make the impossible possible;
 dedication makes the possible probable; 
and work makes the probable happen.” 


 Jim Trefethen

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IN MY HOUSE

TONI'S ROOM

Filipa's (boy)friend Toni seems to be a creative guy.

I love the idea of the night stand in his room.

Is it Filipa's influence for the hot pink color?

YESTERDAY IN LOVE, TODAY SINGLE

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Congrats, girls!
You won the first place in Croatia  with your play in English!

Your inspiration was this, right?

and this

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KRISTINA - HELLO MALA!!!

Just the other day I was reading an interview with a graphic designer Srđana Modrinić BooBoo

(why on earth  has she chosen such an artistic nickname?)

and I remembered there was a question:

A guest is coming in half an hour, what would you prepare?

So, she gave this recipe:

Cheesecake in a cup

Cut strawberries and sprinkle them with some vanilla sugar, to get soft .
Mix mascarpone with some cream and dusting sugar.
On the bottom of the cup put crumbled Digestive biscuits,
strawberries over it, then a layer of cheese mixture, and strawberries on the top again.
Put it in the fridge, at least for half an hour.

I love simple and fast recipes, so I made what she recommended,
and I couldn't stop eating.
While I was eating my dessert,
I was checking my mail, and was pleasantly surprised to find a message
from an Australian graphic designer Kristina,
whose family is from Croatia.
Her blogs are
HOUSE OF MALA
and
HELLO MALA
and I was delighted with
both of them, as well as with Kristina's work.

As Kristina is a graphic designer,
it crossed my mind that
she would probably like to hear about some graphic designers in Croatia.
And looking at my strawberry cheesecake,
I knew exactly what I was going to share with her,
and with anyone interested.
Hope you like it.

SRĐANA MODRINIĆ aka Booboo Tannenbaum.

See Srđana's blog.

Read (if you know Croatian) an interview with her HERE.

STYLE

This is what I call

"to have style".

A redhead with a bright red lipstick

and tiny feet.

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MELINDA ASHTON

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STUDIO FRANIĆ & ŠEKORANJA

studio FRANIĆ & ŠEKORANJA

You could find posts about Velvet, a cafe in Zagreb, on many blogs:

here, here, here and here, after Sania Pell made fantastic pictures and put them on her blog.

I visited this cafe a few years ago (check here), 

while there was just "WHITE" VELVET, and a shop gallery next to it.

After some time "BLACK" VELVET, 

a cafe with more theatrical dark atmosphere, 

opened in place of the shop.

Filipa was also thrilled with the cafe, and wanted to show it to her friend,

but it is a non smoking place, so her friend wasn't very keen on having coffee there.

But at the end, she enjoyed the atmosphere so much that she forgot all about cigarettes.

Saša Šekoranja and Dean Franić have designed a lot of hotels and cafes

as well as the houses. 

Down here is a room for a young girl (don't know her age).

Filipa's comment: 

Oh, I can imagine a little girl playing with Barbie dolls in this inviting bedroom, 

or a teenager crying on this lovely kingsize bed, 

because her dad doesn't let her put Lady Gagas posters on the dark wall.

A bedroom in the same flat.

Filipa's comment:

Oh, I can imagine myself splashing  water around this lovely bedroom, 

soaking the antique carpet with water and shampoo and then

exercising on this fitness machine while looking myself in the mirror.

This is Saša's own living room. 

As he lives alone, his flat can serve him as a polygon for his creative ideas.

Filipa's comment:

Oh, I can imagine this is my living room. Each time I walk in I ask myself:

Have I , by mistake, walked in Natural History Museum?

Did I put white linen covers over my sofas 

last time I visited this place, 2 years ago?

Is it a ghost or a guest sitting on the chair in the next room?

This is Saša's bathroom.

My mother in law has exactly the same looking table in her shed.

If I had seen this picture before, 

my bathroom would have looked quite different now!

Filipa's comment:

Just my type of the bathroom.

Screaming faces on the column yelling at me and warning me:

Take off your make up before you go to bed!!!!

Mirror, mirror on the wall, 

I can not see my face from the flowers, after all.

Well, Saša is great and

such an original artist!

I will paste a lot more pictures of his work in the following weeks, 

because he's made some really great designs.

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