Tomorrow is december

I can't believe it but it's true, tomorrow is already december.
By the way, I didn't took this picture and I don't even know where it has been taken, but the snow has arrived even in London today.


(from WeHeartIt)

Cool girls

Some cool girls found digging in The Sartorialist's archives.

Inspiration & Eyeliner

If you are searching for inspiration, take a look at this website.


(from WeHeartIt)

Wooden Logo

Here it is my brand new old-style wooden logo.
(just bought from Covent Garden Market)

A BLOG curated by Haider Ackermann

It's quite hard to understand how the dress's front is so I guess I just like this picture.


(from A BLOG curated by)

Nice.

Nice haircut. Nice outfit. Nice shoes.


(from Simply Olive)

Can you believe these are real cakes?

I just discovered, almost by chance, this cake shop The Little Cake Parlour. These are some of their gorgeous masterpieces and they can deliver them wherever in UK. Some cakes can be really expensive, but I think they worth it for special occasions.



(from The Little Cake Parlour)

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

I'm certainly not the right person to praise Harry Potter's movies, since I'm a real fanatical of the books but I can't help to advice you to go and watch it. If, in the majority of cases, movies based on novels are disappointing, this doesn't happen for Harry Potter's ones, and I think that's particularly true for this one which is definitely amazing.
And for the most involved (as I am!) check this link out, I'm sure you will like it.


(from Review STL)

Just some nice rooms.

(from Corey Little)


(from Convoy)

Pink Mojito

I really don't know how a blood orange mojito could taste but I do like the green and pink colour match and the summer atmosphere of these picture. Click here for the recipe.


(from Design*Sponge)

London by night

A quite pretty pre-Christmas London by night.

Sightings

BlueStiletto + BlueBike.


(from Sightings)

Book shelves

Since I have lived for more than four years between my home town and the place where I used to study or work, for a long time I have had my stuff in two different places. Now that my year in London it's close to the end, I'm trying to carry everything home. For this reason, when I went to Italy few days ago, I took there all the books I had here. It was a shock: I knew I owned many of them but I didn't realize to have so many! So, in my future home, I think I could have a library room as the one of "The Beauty and the Beast" or a modern version of it, like the one I found today on HomeSweetHome. (I'd really like to have winding stairs that leads me to the most secret and forbidden books!)


(from Listal)

(from HomeSweetHome)

New York's Secret City Hall Subway Stop

I've just learnt about the existence of this subway stop in New York, but now I absolutely want to visit it when I'll be there (when??). It's a tube station which remainded closed for decades but now there is a way to visit it. Read how here. It looks beautiful and so...Harry Potter!



(from Jalopnik and SwissMiss)

Despicable me

Today's post is neither about culture nor design but if you want to have an hour or so of simple fun I advice you to watch the last animation movie by Universal Pictures: Despicable me. This is just one of its hilarious trailers.


(from YouTube)

Learning Something Every Day

So it wasn't just an impression that traffic in London is really bad!


(from Learning Something Every Day)

Edinburgh: Eteaket

Here it is another Edinburgh place I liked: Eteaket, tea boutique and cafe. The images say everything I could write on this café: every detail has been carefully chosen, from the walls to the chairs, from the cups to the desserts. My friend, who tasted the tea, received also a tiny hourglass to know the perfect duration of the infusion. I had just the lemon tart you can see below, and it was delicious.

Edinburgh: Always Sunday

As usual, even in Edinburgh, I couldn't help finding a nice place to eat (actually many of them!). I had lunch in a lovely place called Always Sunday. Homely atmosphere and very good food. You can compose your plate with a number of salads + meat or cheese or have one of their plat du jour. I had a rocket and cherry tomato salad and greek salad + a mushrooms and mozzarella pastry, and trust me, I cleaned the plate until the last leaf! They also had a number of cakes and desserts I didn't taste, but they looked good. Here it is a picture of the room (which I had to steal from their website) and one of what I ate.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Eventually the last MA's hand-in arrived!
To celebrate properly I spent a couple of days in Edinburgh. Although the weather wasn't favourable (always very very windy and rainy every ten minutes) I really enjoied the city, it made me feel like I was in a fairy tale or, even better, in one of the Harry Potter's books.




(from...Edinburgh with love!)

The peephole frame

Among all the things I liked about Monica & Rachel house (Friends) this is the best one. A gold frame that frames (sorry for the word game) the peephole. Isn't it nice? And probably, I could try to make it with simple papier mache.


(from Sushikay Designs)

Angel 2

This is another nice shop I photographed in Angel: Jack Wills. A big red bricks open-space with pictures on the walls and full of cloths, toiletry, sunglasses and pretty fitting rooms with striped walls.
Downstairs? A billiard table and a stage obviously!

Angel

Since it's my last month in London I'm trying to visit as much as I can. Today has been Angel's turn, a nice area north of the City. As usual I found some cute shops and restaurants.

The first one is this: Byron, where, according to the website, you can find 'proper hamburgers'. Honestly I have never ate there but I really liked the graphic features of this big red writing which looks like a huge screen print. Byron should be a chain of restaurants, I'm wondering if every building is painted like this one.


The second one is The Breakfast Club. At a first sight it doesn't seem an outstanding place but from the website it looks like its breakfast is quite famous and it received good reviews from names like Time Out London, The Guardian etc. Anyway I photographed The Breakfast Club for the small window beneath the show case that allows people walking by to take a look in the kitchen, nice and funny.


Lastly I show you this pretty shop called Decorexi. It's difficult to describe what it sells, better to take a look at the website or slip down there. What's interesting to me is the outdoor exposition which makes me think of an old chic garret.

Clapham & Esca

Close to Brixton (famous in London to be a not-so-nice place) there is a really pleasant area: Clapham. Certainly it's not a tourist quarter, but it looks quite respectable and if you are searching for a good and cheap area where to live this is definitely a place I would look at. Moreover it's full of cool bars and pubs. Yesterday I had a little walk there and I had the pleasure to enjoy the small park, some nice shops and an apricot cake in a really nice place called Esca. Here you can eat every kind of delicatessen from cakes to paella, as well as buy packed food. The room is really welcoming: wooden floors, showcases full of food and big tables to share always supplied of sugar, jam and huge butter cubes.



Even the bag of the girl sat next to me was nice (the one that you can see in the picture above). I managed to see the brand: fat face.

Valentino...again

Pretty heels by Valentino.
Definitely I like this designer's shoes.
Look at the other Valentino's post.


(from The Cherry Blossom Girl)

St Martins Lane Hotel

Yesterday I have been in a really cool bar in London. It's in the St Martins Lane Hotel, right behind Trafalgar Square. Design furniture, coloured soft lighting, posh atmosphere and what else? Oh yes, huge faces with the most hilarious expressions hung on the walls. (unfortunately I didn't have my camera, therefore here you can see just chins!)


(from Hotels-London)

(from London.unlike)

Elle interiör

Blue. Turquoise. Stripes. Cushions. Light. Beautiful.
By Nordsjö/Elle interiör.
Photographed by Magnus Anesund.


(from Loveology)

Chanel's flowers

Lovely decorations for Chanel's show.
Not really up to date (spring/summer 2009) but still nice.


(from Oh Joy!)

Bringing colour to life

Yesterday I have been enraptured by the new Canon adv.
I'm sure it's gonna happen to you too. Simply wonderful.

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

(from Designboom)

Serial Cut

There's no way to describe how amazing the works of this studio are, every time I open their homepage I find something incredibly neat and beautifully realized. This is a Madrid based studio called Serial Cut which focuses in art direction and 3D imagemaking, check them out, it's really worth it.

So many links

There are so many talented people online that I had too many links on my lists. Today I decided to keep just the best-best-best ones but I don't want to forget all the others, so I'm posting this as a reminder.

Websites:
Book Works
10 Corso Como
Brendan Wenzel
Computer Arts
Drake Brodahl
Emigre
Sushiday
Wallnut.
Linn Olofsdotter

Blogs:
Garance Doré
Ace Jet 170
Bees Knees
Contemporist
n.
The Cool Hunter
The Rag and Bone Boutique
A Conversation on Cool
the impossible cool
Apartment Therapy
Design Milk
Print & Pattern
Share Some Candy
Simply Seductive
Simple + Pretty
The Dieline
Essimar

New York’s tastiest places

I just found something really exiting! A list of the tastiest places in New York, namely, the list of the best places where to eat, drink a coffee or enjoy a cupcake in NYC. Cool! This is the link, unfortunately it's in Italian but some of the restaurants have the link you can check, and if you need help just let me know and I'll translate it. Here I posted a picture of one of them: Chelsea Market. Looks amazing and...a little bit Diagon Alley!


(from Montreal - New York)