Brussels Design Market

To my big surprise we went to Brussels Design Market!

We bought our preview tickets in March but the event got cancelled twice.

This time a much smaller selection of vintage design and less visitors.

vintage doggy.....

A beautiful graphic design by Walter Cremers... 

I really liked the pattern on a ceramic plate... made by Egersund Norway

Never Enough

We already had quite a few nest boxes...

You can my earlier posts here:  

bird pot, dormouse, dormouse boxes, 

great-tit, great-tit, leaving the nest, nestboxes,

common swift, bee boxes and nest box recycled material

but there's enough space left for a couple more...

We've added several common starling bird pots... the opening is 45 mm

the one with the smaller opening (35 mm) is a sparrow pot

new "terra potta" on the side, weathered wooden swift boxes on the front facade...

Bird Pot

In the early days ceramic bird pots were used to harvest young birds to eat them.

We are only trying to provide some extra nesting opportunities.

There are terracotta bird pots with different sized openings.

Our first ceramic pot is for great tit, blue tit, sparrow

or whatever bird decides to come and live with us...

Keep Calm

...and carry on... it's almost Friday (smile)

Vintage Volcanic

We both like this vintage seventies plate. It's such a nice portrait of the era.

A moon landing inspired, lunar surfaced, ceramic with volcanic glaze. 

Candlelight and Flowers

 This small flower vase is another thrift find... and now it's on our mantlepiece.

Art Nouveau

In the company of a good friend I visited the Art Nouveau exhibition in The Hague.

I just love to be surrounded with beauty and it was certainly worth the visit!!!
Below some of my favourite objects...

Jurriaan Kok - sugar bowl and Mocca pot (1902) painted egg shell porcelain

Theo Nieuwenhuis - clover and clover with roots (ca. 1900) paint on paper

Chris Lebeau - pike perch study (ca. 1900) pencil and ink on paper

Chris Lanooy - vase with underwater scene (1906-1907)
painted earthenware with luster glaze

Theo Colenbrander - four-piece garniture Day and Night (1885)

Cornelia van der Hart - vase (ca. 1903-1907)
glazed earthenware with sgraffito decoration

and another work from
Chris Lebeau - study after a cross-cut of a red cabbage (ca. 1896-1899)

this study resulted in a gorgeous patterned corduroy textile and bench...

you can find my earlier visits tot he museum here and here

Kitty

I just couldn't resist this, almost Japanese looking, plate and bowl..

Weekend!

Wishing you a colourful weekend!

Creepy

Some people think it's creepy but I love this ceramic piece by Carolein Smit...

Magnificent Monday

We started with a foggy morning followed by a lovely sunny afternoon...

Pieter Stockmans

my favourite: tilting

beautiful

We both really enjoyed talking to the artist Piet Stockmans (left on the photo)

Carnivore

(It's almost too dark to taken photos inside the house)

Our Nepenthes really appreciates the extra humidity in the kitchen

 produced by the quooker tap and some kenderman cooking.

Simple Beauty