Just a quick spotlight: Abigail Ahern’s new website/webshop is live. This place surely is a very happy hunting ground of quirky individualism, with lovely dog lamps, beautiful vases, majestic lighting and much more.  A personal favourite is the faux flowers – they look just amazing in reality. Also, new site has a page with Abigail’s latest loves, updated each month.

When in London Henen and her husband dragged us (willingly!) along to those delicious antiques shops and question kept nagging me: how come Stockholm don’t have places like these? With hand-picked designer goods, odd curiosities and hearty old furniture? Then by coincidence, I discovered vintage/antiques store Dusty Deco. Had to pay it a visit this wknd just to make sure there’re for real.

And YES,… it’s real. There is a garage in north-east Stockholm city that houses treasures! Hand-picked furniture and odds and ends from 30s, 40s, 50s…this place is a real treat for Retro and Industrial Vintage lovers. Excellent website shows all the goods, new stuff added (and removed/sold) every week.

Hello from London! Now both trendey-eds are gathered and yesterday we went for some antiques shopping. Here’s a brief report from trendey’s favourite: Crystal Palace Antiques.

This South London haven has four floors of antiques for sale. Everything from Victorian and country chic to ultracool retro classics. I wanted all their original Eames chairs!! And their vintage designer lamps! And they have a mid-century room too! And lots of curiosities and trendy details such as the vintage phone, antlers, etc etc..

In all, an eclectic mix to die for. Now happy ending of 2010 to you all!

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| Photographer: Graham Atkins Hughes |

…at Atelier Abigail Ahern – where else..! Abigail Ahern is one of our, maybe our, favourite interior designer here at Trendey, and her Atelier always has the most exciting decor pieces. Just look at the pics above, it’s a sneak peak from their new lighting and art collection…Poodles, bulldogs and pelicans are wearing the coolest granny-esque lamp shades! And to the right, the softest yet boldest paintings. How quirky, how amazingly whimsy crazy…

And look that wall colour! Ok, enough said. I just came back to Stockholm tonight from a loovely weekend in London visiting my dearest sis Henen :) Trendey-sisters gathering. We made loads of plans, but as far as this particular topic is concerned, we of course included the Islington store in our shopping spree. This time I bought some more of the beautiful flowers and some small bits and pieces (minding the bagage rules for my flight). Now how is this place (below) for inspiration? Incomparable. So much beautifulness and trendiness.