Cuba and the Organic Food Growing Revolution

Where Monty Don introduces us to the very resourceful urban food growing system developed in Havana, Cuba --Necessity IS the mother of Invention!

What makes me happy today!

Hokkaido Gardens Show.

Sound Garden by Invisible Designs Lab.  (Don't forget to crank up the volume!)

Hokkaido Gardens Show: Jardin du son, réalisé par Invisible Designs Lab 

What makes me happy today...

1) Rhododendron 'Catawbiense Album' exploding on my very urban but also very green balcony!
2) Starting a new notebook.

Let's Go Plant Hunting!

Casa Luis Barragán

….With the Plant Hunter; my new favourite online magazine exploring relationships between people and plants through designing, writing and thinking.

Fork to Fork!

Just discovered this show by Monty and Sarah Don. Watched every single episode available online in one day.

Love it!

Les recettes dans chaque épisode sont ultra simples, généreuses et savoureuses. Je recommande les tartines de bettes, et la purée de panais- un délice!

Leafy heart/ Hearty leaf

Last October. While heading to a Cafe on the Danforth. Found this Katsura tree leaf on my way on the sidewalk. The colour caught my attention, and the pattern of the heart in it just made this special encounter very special.

Snapshot in LA- Marion Cotillard : what a good i.D!

Actrice et égérie française de Dior, Marion Cotillard fait équipe avec le chanteur Joseph Mount et Villaine du groupe Metronomy et délivre le morceau Snapshot in LA dans un clip réalisé par Eliott Bliss. A mi-chemin entre chanson française et quelque chose de plus expérimental et moderne, le titre est à découvrir ci-dessous.
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Cotillard walks us through an architectural California villa, nonchalantly and charmingly. She strolls in her Dior heels and then tosses them aside to…surprise the onlooker with her super-powered steps.  

Cotillard is outfitted in Dior. 

Watch this compelling video below.

Textures and Ants_StudioMK27

Textures and Ants_studiomk27 from studio mk27 on Vimeo.

Container Garden- Residential Project, Toronto, ON.

DIOR/BETAK- FW14

Bureau Betak a encore frappé!

 

CHRISTIAN DIOR COUTURE FW14
MONDAY JULY 7TH 2014
MUSEE RODIN, PARIS

BY BUREAU BETAK

MARCO JACOB + CHRISTINE ROCHET-JACOB = ATELIER JACOB/ NEW WEBSITE

Marco Jacob- Gladstone Hotel.

Dior S/S 2014: Raf Simons knows how to say it with flowers!

“Against nature: the real and the imagined unite in a new synthesis of colour, codes and conceptions of clothing. There is an idea of experimentation in altering the nature of Dior’s fashion through a celebration of the artificial and the real this season. Here, for Raf Simons, Artistic Director of Christian Dior, the past collides with the future, ultimately forming a new tribe of flower women in a new architecture of clothing for Spring-Summer.” 

I just recently discovered the photos of this S/S 2014 Dior extravaganza orchestrated by Raf Simons. Of course, you might already have seen their beauty in many a fashion magazine or blog last winter, still I wanted to share them with you. You might remember Dior’s amazing Autumn/Winter 2012 Runway with florists 'extraordinaires' like the Parisian Eric Chauvin and the Belgian Mark Colle (one of my favourites!). It seems Mr Simons really has a thing with flowers and likes saying it with flowers chez Dior. And I must say, I am obsessed with his floral projects. Enlisting the help of celebrated fashion event designer Bureau Betak once again, a temporary structure was constructed in the centre of Jardin du Musée Rodin. This temporary hanging garden is such a spectacular and dreamy interpretation of an exotic tropical Eden. 

Watch the timelapse of the structure coming together in the video below. 

Now you might also like to watch the edited version of the fashion show itself. 

Pause Café, version belge.

I would love a coffee break with this team.
Their posts are always so inspirational.
Thank you, Coffeeklatch

Here is one with Carol Montpart.
Vibrant.

Carol Montpart, Art Director at The Plant

The Gardens of Jacques Wirtz

Memo!

10 tips for the Black Thumb @ Kinfolk

I've brought you some flowers...

Saipua.com

To ring in the New Year 2014!

From Marco and I to you..

Here is one of our favourite websites to browse for inspiration:

http://www.freundevonfreunden.com

FvF

Saipua

Sweetwoodruff

My Luscious Backyard

Some goodies involving real flowers, but also glass, paper, metal and plaster:

http://www.saipua.com 
http://sweetwoodruff.ca
http://www.mylusciousbackyard.ca

http://www.carmenalmon.com/

http://www.papertopetal.com/

http://www.tactilestudio.co.uk/

https://www.antiquesjournal.com/pages04/monthly_pages/may08/flowers.html

The Plant #05 – Banana

The Plant, the best magazine on plants and the beauty of botany so far. 

I am so happy to have made its acquaintance!

Thank you, Marco.

Postcard from Antwerp: Pots and Plants

Bons baisers d'Anvers!

Great Pots and Plants store ( by De Groen Droom Florists) that we enjoyed visiting last June in Antwerp.

Mode Academie students' show.