BDM September 2023

Although the city isn't my place to live, I love to visit sometimes.

Brussels Design Market is a good occasion for me.

It looks like the collectable design era is moving to 60's, 70's and 80's,

colours are getting more vivid every other addition....

Is so different from our first visit in 2014?

Earlier editions: 2014, 2014, 2018, sept. 2018, 2019, 2020

PAN Amsterdam

Finally... another edition of PAN Amsterdam

Winnie Teschmacher

Naaktfiguur  / 1917 

etching by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (info in Dutch here)

 "Pink op het strand" 1874 by Jacob Maris

 Johannes Hendrik Eversen

old map by J.L. Kikkert of Texel 

some other favourites...

oil painting of a birds nest

Tournai vase by René Lalique

"Badjas" by Marjolijn Mandersloot

What a beautiful day with my friend Antoon!

Previous PAN editions : 2019 , 2017 , 2015

Other art fairs : Art Breda, Eurantica

Exhibitions : Art Nouveau, Mucha

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

Weekend!

Perhaps you already know the song: Bleed by To See No Evils

I discovered it last week and I just love it

Have a nice autumn weekend!!!

Back to Reality

After fully being recovered, I've been enjoying my last days of my summer holiday.

It was just me, myself and I (and two lots of attention needing cats)
because the kenderman started working again two weeks earlier.

No worries! I love to be able to do whatever I want.
I've been visiting my dad, friends, IKEA and some thrifts shops.
I've been organising our home, cleaning, washing,
reading, walking and eating...

and styling...

All good things come to an end! (big smile)

Piet Hein Eek

One of my old time favourite designers is Piet Hein Eek.

His business, located in a former industrial Philips building, is worthwhile a visit.

I can recommend a nice lunch and a stroll through the showroom.

Flower arrangement by Linda Nieuwstad, steel vase by Piet Hein Eek

You can find more beautiful photos here

Brussels Design Market

Today we visited Brussels Design Market again.
They claim to be the largest vintage market in Europe...

We only bought the Richard Lind planters underneath here.

Playtime!

We bought ourselves an early Christmas present. Or actually TWO (smile).

First we bought one, Sandstone Grey, Reykjavik bluetooth speaker from Vifa. 

It was a gamble... I didn't hear it I just liked the name and the looks...

but it proved to be an excellent instinctive choice!

The sound quality of this speaker is pretty impressive.

We bought a second (Lavastone Black) speaker to be able to enjoy the stereo sound.
Now we enjoy listening to music so much more!!!

Linking the two speakers took some effort but we got there in the end.

Brussels Design Market

vintage design market in Brussel

Today we went to Europe's biggest vintage design market in Brussel.
And we bought just two things (big smile).

A wooden toy, a crane from the fifties and a ceramic plate from the seventies.
You'll get to see some photos later...