Veuve Clicquot Yellowboam! An amazing and unexpected gift ~ in a handcrafted lacquered box holding a gold + stingray leather coated 3L bottle of champagne!
Picked up these Jenny Jurnelius pot holders ~ love that they fit my not so huge hands perfectly and you can just flip it inside out to work for the other hand!
Moderna Museet in Stockholm has the most inspiring graphite pencils with great quotes on them! The most NOTCOT.org appropriate is Warhol's "I never read,I just look at the pictures."
Vacu Vin Glass Markers - Party People!!! These are adorable mini silicon suction cup creatures to mark glasses during your next party! Even cuter in person than i imagined!
The Grand Hotel Stockholm ~ can you believe it was dark out when i took this? Fun look at some design details of this historic hotel ~ and more fascinating looks at chandeliers from below!
Absolut Icebar Stockholm ~ First look at the latest design - "Factory" - officially opening today! (They change the design and menu twice a year) ~ even peeks from behind the bar!
Absolut's 30th Anniversary of the Art Collection celebration took place in an ominous mysterious black box that popped up next to the Lydmar Hotel ~ the lighting was stunning! Also see it being taken apart...
Grodan restaurant in Sweden has this little red frog on everything... from menus to napkins... to the bottom of their glasses! Really fun idea for a simple way to subtly brand your drinking experience easily...
Absolut Art Collection ~ a few pieces took over a suite at the Lydmar Hotel in Stockholm, and while the pieces are fun, the way they are installed and interacting with the room are fascinating! (quick vid too!)
A-Stools and an awesome custom, flexible, modular panel background ~ brilliant design at the Absolut panels celebrating the 30 years of creative collaborations! See the designs close up...
Meet Crtl C! Just discovered some of the Brio Network collection toys in person! They are even more adorable and now there is series 1 and 1.5 ~ take a look at the whole line! Email, Search, etc as wood toys!
Brio's My Very First collection has some adorable toys for those shopping for new borns... i'm smitten with the awesome walrus! and flying bunny (which can also come with a cell phone!)
Twitter "Follow Me" Tattoo Socks! An interesting way to literally get people following you both physically and digitally perhaps? (Also awesome octopus ones!)
My bathroom at the Lydmar Hotel in Stockholm ~ the lighting is just fantastic, and the slate and design details... and the room key looks like a car key, and they are all on different keychains!
Chandeliers!!! Chandelier Mandalas? When shot from directly below? Lying on the ground in big empty rooms in Versailles after dark before a dinner fit for the Sun King himself while sipping '76 Dom Perignon?
On the beautiful matte black packaging of Dom Perignon press materials (versatile cards for all their info instead of booklets) ~ and a peek into the luscious Hotel de Crillon, Paris (one of the oldest luxury hotels in the world?)
NOTCOT Exclusive first look at the Hard Graft 3Fold ~ this luscious leather bag can transform to hold your portfolio, laptop, or carry-on/overnighter goods!
There is definitely something sleek and sexy about this matte black new soap dish and toothbrush holder from Vipp ~ although i can imagine the drying soap/toothpaste drips already...
Executive Elite Marshmallow Blaster - wow. just wow. This version of the mallow blaster is a neiman marcus exclusive for all of those execs who need to have some more fun- hilarious faux carbon fiber + briefcase
Yelp Elite Metal Lunchbox + Thermos! In Yelp 2525 "In the future, everything will be reviewed" and "fighting the tyranny of poor customer service in 12 galaxies & counting..." the details are hilarious...
Ninite ~ it could change the pain of installing windows! Helping you batch install lots of the web apps you have to track down the latest versions of an install each time...