Saturday 1 October 2016

Coco Chanel on fashion

I think Coco Chanel was right!


PS
The image is from the K.A. Roos Interiors
showroom in Helsingborg, Sweden. Quotation added by me.

Unique hand-made classic Swedish interiors by K.A. Roos

K.A. Roos at Kulla Gunnarstorp in Helsingborg has made unique classic Swedish furniture already for 50 years. This is how the family company, which counts Scandinavian Royal Families as its customers, describes their products:

"As one would expect there is a high degree of handwork involved in the making of a K.A. Roos original. All the products are manufactured in Scandinavia by craftsmen who continue to preserve the tradition of Scandinavian furniture making. Each piece of furniture is individually made, using oldfashioned techniques. Cabinets are put together through dovetail joint. You have only to pull out a drawer to appreciate the authentic irregularity of the dovetailing used in its construction. When K.A. Roos talk about “handmade” we mean it in the old-fashioned sense of word.

MADE IN SWEDEN
We are proud to still be hand-making in Scandinavia using a workforce that is a mix between experience and youthful enthusiasm. We love the fact that we are keeping these traditional handcrafting skills alive in an age of mass production and uniformity.But most of all we are proud of the quality of workmanship and beauty of finish that we can achieve with our workforce. Timbers that are used are typical Scaninavian such as : birch , beech and pine."

More info at
http://www.karoos.se/

Here is a selection of K.A. Roos furniture and some high quality international interiors which complement them:











Monday 26 September 2016

The Michaelmas market at Fredriksdal

The weather was perfect, so there were lots of people at the annual Michaelmas market at Fredriksdal in Helsingborg yesterday:













Sunday 25 September 2016

My neighbour´s Ragdoll cat

My neighbour´s Ragdoll cat Amorosa. The six year old Amorosa lost her other eye in an accident when she was very young, but she gets along fine with the one that is left: