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Copenhagen, our new paper cut map!

After long months in the making, I am very happy to share with you our latest map of Copenhagen!

This map was a real pleasure to draw and cut. There is so much to feature in this stunning City!
Few years ago we had an amazing time discovering Copenhagen with the children over a long week-end.

There are so many things to do in Copenhagen, like climbing the ancient cast-iron staircase of the glass building of the Botanical Garden to observe the palm trees from above, riding atop the Ferris Wheel in Tivoli Gardens, cycling along the waterfront of the 5 lakes and stop for Pølser the Danish hot dog! Visiting the Amalienborg Palace to see the change of the Royal Guards. There you can see from afar the elegant flat roof of the Opera House. Or even climbing up the Rundetaaren to get the most magnificent view of the old City with its colourful facades and red roofs.

The map is available now as a paper cut (laser cut from the original paper cut) in Black and Blue.

You need a lot of blades to cut a map like this one! I use the 10A blades from Swann-Morton to do all my paper cuts.

Below you can view a 30 seconds video of me cutting the map but in reality it took me more than 20h of cutting to finish it...

I am 8 years old

I can't tell you how much I love taking these yearly birthday photos of Lucien and compare them to the previous years to see how much this big boy cute little face has changed over the years!
Happy birthday, Joyeux anniversaire mon Lulu adoré!!

Look Here when he turned 7, and here when he turned 5!

Dutch Design Week 2017

The Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven ended last Sunday. I wanted to share with you some of my highlights.
Ophelia and I left early morning by train from Amsterdam to meet with my younger sister Charlotte in Eindhoven. Charlotte studied Product Design at the Design Academy, she knew the town very well and most ex-students exhibiting so we were very pleased to have her as our guide!

We started with a coffee and chocolat chaud at Usine to plan our day as there were so many events and things to see in one day. We knew we couldn't see everything. Imagine an entire city devoted to design, it's pretty overwhelming - in a good way! Btw I would recommend to have some sort of transportation to go from one event to the next as some venues are located on the outskirt of town. The DDW offers some taxi (free) rides but there's often a long queue.

Hot chocolate with chantilly anyone?!


Cute green little kids corner at Usine.

Our first stop was Hardcore exhibition by Core Studio. It took us a while to find the entrance, after realising that the event was on the lower ground floor of a car park.

Ophelia was intrigued by this foamed bookshelf by Onno Adriaanse.

Envisions:
This year Envisions collaborated with the Spanish wood manufacturer Finsa. The idea was not to show the final product but instead to show the process that is rarely shown to the public. Envisions believes that experimentation is key to good design and leads to new ideas and innovation.
That is the driving force of Envisions, a Dutch collective directed by Sanne Schuurman and Simone Post, presenting everything except the final product.

Envisions books are available to purchase here.

Recolored, A new way of recycling by Jessica den Hartog.

Self reflection in a Lex Pott and David Derksen oxidised mirror.

Lex Pott, detail of Fragments of Nature Log.

Stripe paper yarn by Dienke Dekker.

Huge balloons covered with Sunbrella fabric, by Charles Pétillon.