Fleur Magazine is the Belgian professional florists journal and is packed with great advice for anyone running a florist shop as well as pages filled with inspiration, new designs and background information about plants and flowers.

Personally i was pretty impressed with the overall look of the magazine and the articles, that are fun and interesting to read, even for non-florist me.
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I love how the magazine provides the floral entrepreneurs with hooks and stories that can help sell more flowers and plants.

We are over the moon to be featured in this lovely publication with not only one, but two products. Check it out!
When clicked, the images should enlarge in a lightbox so you can read the actual (Dutch) text. 

Last year in January we were high on anticipation about starting the Driving Dutch Design masterclasses.
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Fast forward 12 months, and we're proud DDD graduates.
It has been a super intense yet super fun experience during which we met so many wonderful people.

And it aint over yet!
The Driving Dutch Design 'graduation exhibition' from Dutch Design Week 2018 is now travelling and will be on display in Eindhoven at Yksi expo from now until March 31st.

So go check that out if you're in the neighbourhood. No entrance fee, the best coffee and designer gifts to be shopped!​

Yksi Expo
1/10/2019 - 3/31/2019

Torenallee 22-04 (Strijp S)
5617 BD Eindhoven

​Open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 - 17:30

More about Object:
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​The OBJECT fair is a platform for the latest limited editions and one-offs from well-known and upcoming designers working in different design disciplines and with various materials.

OBJECT is thé place where the cutting edge between design, crafts, fashion, architecture and art becomes evident and it is a must-see for collectors, professionals and other design-minded people.

Location:
HAKA BUILDING 
​Vierhavensstraat 38-42 Rotterdam
(Find us at verdieping 2 / third floor)

Opening hours 
Friday 8, Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 February
From 11h – 19h

Entrance fee
12,50 euro / Children under 12 for free
- Tickets for sale at the HAKA building only, no online ticketing.

NB - FREE Shuttle service between Van Nelle, HAKA, Rotterdam centre.
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to inoperative elevators the HAKA building is difficult to access for people with reduced mobility.

More information and the full list of participants can be found on the OBJECT website.

pssst... we might have a few free tickets available.
Get in touch to hear more!

See you in Rotterdam!

It's December! With the Holidays around the corner, now is the right time to spread a little bloom with our latest Newsletter.

In it more about our custom wrapping paper (+ free download), Holiday bloom, special discount codes and much more.

No worries, click below to read the Dutch or English version online and sign up for our mailing list to conveniently receive future updates, specials and discounts to your mailbox directly. 

Remember <this blogpost> about Rachel Ruysch a little while ago?
We asked you which painting you liked most, so that we could turn it into wrapping paper.

Well... the votes are in, and the winner is: Painting number 3!
Over all, most people liked the bright colors and explosive composition in this painting most.

Out of the Rachel Ruysch painting, we created this lovely wrapping paper that fits perfectly around the Flower Constellations. 

Blogger Sarah Militello-Wilson (based in Los Angeles) wrote this lovely piece about our Flower Constellations back in June on her blog Milk & Flowers.
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Impressed by how she took the time to write a piece of original content about our design, i thought we shouldn't let the feature just disappear in the archives without an extra mention.

​What i love is that Sarah mentions flower frogs in her post about the Flower Constellations, which is in fact a flowertool used in Ikebana, and something we looked at while developing our design.
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I also really like how she went into ways you can source your flowers. For example: "If you’ll be using wildflowers, you can leave more out in nature for others to enjoy."

<Read the full blogpost here on Milk & Flowers>

​Thank you for sharing Sarah!

If it wasn't for our sweet friend and creative colleague Meike pointing this out to us, we would have completely missed this lovely post by Designcrushblog from back in September.

Here's what blogger Kelly from Pitsburgh wrote about the Flower Constellations (which she catalogued under 'Create / Grand Design'):
"I love having fresh flowers in my home and will pare down a bouquet as it wilts until only a few blooms remain. Flower Constellations make floral arranging using only a few stems super easy thanks to a flat brass disk with openings that can expand and contract to fit a variety of vases."

<Read the full piece here on designcrushblog>

Thank you for sharing Kelly, and thank you for pointing us towards the post Meike!

Jonathan Lo launched his blog 'Happy Mundane'. back in 2006, and -in his own words- it's all about "Celebrating the ordinary and the extraordinary, good design of any kind, and taking a moment to appreciate some things that get overlooked in the everyday."

Jonathan about the Flower Constellations:
"Speaking of plants, do you ever find when you have a bouquet of flowers, some flowers die out faster than others? The creative team at House of Thol have come up with a solution. They’ve made a “flower constellation” metal disk that sits over your vase to provide a way to display single stems. The best part is the arrangement of the holes is based of astrological sign! A great gift idea!"

<Check out the full gift guide here>

The Netherlands is historically known for quite a few things.
Of course there's wooden shoes, cheese and wind mills, but what about Flowers and Golden Century painters?

​(We'll go ahead and gloss over the stuff the Dutch are infamous for, meanwhile hoping that soon we'll get over our adoration for pirates and invaders.)

We came across the beautiful Flower still life paintings by Dutch Artist Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), which we absolutely loved. (The dramatics!) 

Here's the plan: we'll use one of these paintings as our Christmas gift wrapping paper for the Flower Constellations.

We've been so insanely busy in the months of September and October that even in late November we're still working through the pile of work that was 'put aside for a moment'. 

For example, we never got to tell you about our Volkskrant magazine publication in October.
We are so happy to be featured in the magazine, and in the Design special no less!

At the time, we were actually at the VT Wonen & Design beurs. We had a blast there, but it pretty much consumed all our time and definitely all our energy.

Anyway, here it is, maybe you spotted it back in October already?
It might be more than a month ago, we're too proud of the publication not to mention it!

Last weeks' Libelle (#49) featured the Flower Constellations!
Did you spot them?

We were just in time to get a copy ourselves and are very happy to be part of the 'Groene Vingers' (Green fingers) segment. 

​Thank you for featuring our design Libelle!