Today, I have a special feature for you. Trendey has had a word with the design duo behind fabulous escape from sofa. If you haven’t seen their furniture collection yet, I hereby make sure you do! Escapefromsofa are exhibiting later this month in both TENT LONDON and Istanbul Design Week with nothing less than ûber-trendey design that hits both at our love for mid-century and the surge for nature inside. Or as Henen put it: 50’s modernism meets the Flintstones. Design duo Mahmut Kefeli (industrial designer) and Kerem Ercin believe in simplicity and worship the details, and they enjoy working with new and emerging materials and technologies. Now, let’s hear some more! I found three favourites in the collection, one of them is the 2-functions-in-1 sidetable Coma (above), cravings!, and another one is this gorgeous shelf/bookcase named Longneck:

Please tell us about it!

Longneck is our first baby actually. We designed longneck while we were designing nisantasi berker house (name of the project). We created it as a tv unit and later on we decided to make it as a moduler unit. And after all we are quite satisfied.

You should be! Your furniture collection is lovely. What was your main inspirations and thoughts for the collection?

We always try to work with the sense of style, simplicity and functionality and mostly believe that scandinavian furnitures are really good designs and we as escapefromsofa try to look from their aspect. And also we believe that the devil is in the details!

For the collection also we tried to achieve the perfection of simplicity, the perfection of craftmanship and also the perfection of functionality.

Your brand name is interesting. It implies a movement away from the sofa?

That’s actually what we try to impress with the name of escapefromsofa. As you know mediterenian people live quite close to their sofas. But we as escapefromsofa try to stay away from sofas. We love our job and we love to design. You know the saying that “ let your job be your lover, so that you dont have to go work everyday!“ This is the main idea that we try to implement to our office and co workers.

That’s you reviving all couch potatoes! :)  Indeed a great saying. This is my third favourite, the rocking chair Short Tail:
Please tell us about it!

As you know every designer has at least one iconic rocking chair. So that we designed one :)

Well done! Love its vibe. Lastly, what are your plans -  when and how will your products be available?

Our goal is to enlarge our collection and meet with manufacturers. So that we can distrubute our products worldwide. Also if we manage to produce 1.000.000 pieces of one product than i can say that we achieved our goal :).

Our product are available at Nordist in Istanbul. Hopefully we ll come up worldwide soon :)

And yey, Trendey sincerely hopes so too!

Hello dear all and happy August! The 20th this month is Trendey’s 2nd birthday! I have a plan for this day… and it involves me going to Henen’s house in London, bringing my camera :) I really really like August. The only drawback is that summer is coming to an end. A fact that makes me enjoy the last weeks of delightfully balmy evenings even more. These are some home decor stuff & scenes I love right now.

| white bedroom via house beautiful, a stool from reclaimed timber via rockettstgeorge, an electric arrow via mwest0425 at Etsy and a rococo-style velvet sofa via norrgården |

| cozy/boho photography by ditte isager via room and serve |

| white scene [DIY-tip for the mirror!] via inredningsbloggen & black vases via norrgården |

Have a nice week! See you when I see you.

Just needed to post these two pics – from an Icelandic home – I came across at Rue Magazine. Again it’s white, but not boring Scandinavian white (you know Iceland don’t belong to Scandinavia, but is part of the Nordic countries, tough one in geography classes ;)) Anyho, from what I have seen of Icelandic style, it’s stylewise (and of course geo-wise) closer to both Danish and Norwegian style than contemporary Swedish. Maybe somewhere in between, and in any case: very very nice. In this house they seem to have actually used snow-white (or chalk-white) without it getting all chilly and dazzling. It’s just cool and fresh, with a creative vibe.

…inspires me today.

| pics via country living uk, marieclairemaison & vtwonen |

Update: If you like the nature inspired orangey prints above – I’ve got a tips for you! Have a look in this Etsy-shop; I especially like this print with a bird and the E is for Entomology – lovely insects in watercolour!

I just have to mention these lovely beige DSW, spotted at Danish auction house Lauritz, as they are deadly trendy. I tried to buy some about week ago, but gave up when price rose too high. Too popular. Can’t keep a secret like this though!

These chairs were specially manufactured by Herman Miller for American soldiers stationed in Germany. Each chair has a unique number and since they were designed for outdoor use the seats each have five holes for rain water.

At the moment there are no active lots on these, but in recent auctions the hammer price has landed on approx. 4500 SEK | €500 | £440 | $720 | a chair, including buyer’s premium (on average; they have been sold in pairs, and sets of 4 and 6 chairs – smaller and more worn groups less pricey per piece). Coolness!

Update April 15th: You can right now find these chairs, in a slightly stone/greyish tone, at Blocket (i.e. Swedish equivalent of Craigslist). A March auction winner changed her mind.

Update April 19th: There are now two active lots at Lauritz; 6 stone greyish/rough ending at 27th, 6 nicer/beiger closing at May 2nd.

Update April 26th: Now there’s another bunch of them for sale at Blocket! The second regretful auction winner in two weeks (!) What happened. Did they think the chairs were nicer IRL, I mean they are actually quite scraped, worn and …grey? Hm. Let’s see how the April 27th auction goes-  those chairs have same kind of ‘unpolished’ condition like the regretted ones at Blocket….

My dream summer house looks a bit like this on the inside…

°pics via vtwonen

…think I need a vacation soon. I can swoon over interiors like these for hours! Glancing longingly at those crispy fresh flowers. Now come on summer, I’m ready! :)