My days abroad II

Here are a few more pictures I took with my Iphone during my stay in Amsterdam, I visited a nice store (You and Home living)  that sells vintage and antique furniture. I really liked the collection of blue and white jars.

They have decorated the shop like someone´s house, and everything is for sale!

This is the vieuw from the store, lovely huh?

The adress of this lovely store is:

You & Home Living Second Best Gerestylde Meubels, Noordereinde 249, 1243 JV 's-Graveland (Noord-Holland)

My mom and Matteo looking at the chandeliers

Just an ordinary flower shop in Amsterdam ( wish we had them over here like this...)

Coming home to a happy daddy that wanted to have a walk with his son...priceless

I am happy family and friends in Holland have met Matteo finally!

Chinoiserie blue and white ginger jar

When I found this gingerjar I thought of the lovely pictures I saw of Anna Spiro, she

owns a few of these beauties.

It's big and heavy, still thinking how to bring it over in my handluggage, It's always fun to come home

with your fleamarket tresures.

Suze from dwellers without decorators wrote a nice post about these gingerjars.

chinese style

I am a bit excited that for work I have to fly to Hong Kong in January 2011, after a few days of work I have time free to explore the city and hopefully visit some antique and decoration shops at Hollywoodroad and make photos for inspiration (if they let me, i have heard chinese are not fond of pictures to be taken in their shops...)
It´s amazing to see how much chinese and other asian influence we see in furniture and decoration style today.

Apartment therapy

Evie and bluebell

Like these chinese gardenstools.

Design Covet

Ginger jars and Ginger lamps, I like the blog of Desig Covet as I learned what the ginger jar

tradition came from.

We have seen these foodogs over and over, but they belong next to the garden stools and ginger jars.

Chiang mai fabric from Living Livelier

Calligraphy brush from Nicole´s blog Sketch 42

Imperial chinese warhorse

Ofcourse there is a lot more....

Is there something you think that should be mentioned in this post, please let me know