Christo
Recently my mother and I attended a talk by Christo in an open lecture at Hong Kong University. It was inspiring to hear how, as well as his successes, this […]
Category Archives: Art
Rendering Wood with Copic Markers
One of our earlier posts describes what happened when my daughter Natasha and I took our markers along to sketch the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe. Unexpectedly, it seems to be a […]
Loving Batik
“I am a cloth maker,” Ms. Josephine Komara of Bin House quietly declares. This modest introduction belies the textile art that her company creates. Looking extremely elegant in a traditional black kebaya […]
Use your favourite art to inspire your design
Inspiration for colour schemes? Again? You’re right, we do already have quite a few posts on this topic already (see e.g. the Mopani worm or wildlife picture posts). Anyway, here […]
Safari Lodge Style in a Nutshell
Going over my many pictures of Safari Lodge interiors that I took during our last Christmas vacation inspired me to share them with you and, of course, adding my own […]
Lobby Artwork Goes to the Bathroom
… quite literally! When we recently designed our master bathroom, we faced, as my daughter Natasha would say, a “little problem”: we had to put a partition wall between the free […]
International Online Shopping: Careful what you wish for!
I love online shopping. For me, nothing can beat the convenience of sitting comfortably at my desk, looking at a large selection of interesting wares, being able to compare prices […]
Rendering with Copic Markers!
Tahoe, CA. The sun had barely scraped the horizon, scattering myriads of shimmering crystals on the surface of the lake when my mother and I stepped foot on a dusty […]
What to do with all that artwork?
Hong Kong. No doubt: there runs a pretty prolific artistic streak in my family. Artwork (finished or not) can be found in every nook and cranny of our place. Once […]
Sketchbooks
Hi, my name is Natasha and I am Sabine’s daughter (joy!) Well, today she decided that she’d rather I finally pulled some weight and wrote an actual blog post (instead […]
