Winter is coming closer and even though I’m not entirely in the Christmas mood yet, I’m looking forward to those cozy times and am making some small changes in our interior. We spend so much more time at home now that it got colder and darker and I’m embracing the cozy times spend at home reading, watching Netflix and baking (looking forward to making Christmas cookies soon, but I have kept it to pancakes for now).

I like the Nordic way of decorating for Christmas and preparing for winter. It’s a more subtile decor, neutral colors with a hint to Christmas, but focused on coziness. It’s a trend that’s very popular here in Germany now as well and I couldn’t be more happy about that.

I teamed up with Iittala to show you how I make small changes to my lifestyle and interior in the days leading up to Christmas. I like to bake and eat comfort food in the colder days and the presentation of food becomes so much more fun with the new Teema collection in dotted grey. The dots bring festivity to Kaj Franck’s classic tableware and originate from the substances in the colour glaze that won’t melt. They are randomly placed on the surface making every item dotted in an unique way. We use the white Teema dinnerware on a daily basis and these dotted ones are really nice to change things up when you have guests over.

The Alvar Aalto vase which was originally presented in 1939 is now available in a series of new variations, including bowls, a 220 mm tall vase and a rose gold bowl which is inspired by Alvar Aalto’s architecture, where copper handles and rails were essential details. The rose gold really stands out in the table setting and I love the mix with the grey ceramics and glass on the table.

In a cozy winter setting textiles are a must as well of course and I like the structured fabrics of the Iittala X Issey Miyake pillow cases in light and dark grey combined with other fabrics. The innovative pleating techniques of the pillows are intriguing and add a little bit of structure, which is especially nice when combined with soft textiles like linen and sheep skin. I love this cozy winter feeling that has been added to our interior and look forward to adding more subtile Christmas hints soon.

Even though we have been having really mild autumn weather here in Munich for the last few days, I’m totally in the autumn mood now and am making slight changes to our interior for the winter months to come.

I teamed up with Connox (you can see my previous collaboration with them in our living room here if you hadn’t seen it) to make our bedroom cozy and ready for winter. Especially in the colder months I find it very important that a bedroom looks and feels warm and has soft textures. The Vita Eos Lamp with all its feathers really is the center piece here at the moment and the feathers – which are attached by hand – give a nice indirect light to the room.

The Skagerak George stool and mirror add a natural touch with their oak structure and I’m in love with this stool as a bedside table. The fabric and the oak of the stool combine so nicely and I like the simplicity of the design. To make the bedroom winter proof, different textiles are a must as well so I combined the HAY bed spread together with an assortment of pillows.

The final touch to every room for me are plants of course. They give the interior some color and life and they are great to filter the air while you are sleeping. The small Ferm living plant box fits perfectly in our window and can hold a combination of plants and other things.

To get the look, here you can find a detailed listing of all the Connox products I used in our bedroom:  Skagerak Georg Mirror – Lyngby Porcelain plant pot – Vita Eos Lamp – Ferm Living plant box – Design House Stockholm Knot pillow –  Fritz Hansen Vertigo pillow – Skagerak Edge Vase – Skagerak Georg Stool – HAY Crinkle bed cover 

Connox is giving all Coco Lapine readers a 10% discount with code cocolapineXconnox until Sunday if you are interested.

The lavender plant on our balcony dried out in the end of August, so I cut the flowers off and hung them upside down in our bathroom. Now I made a little bag for the flower buds and my laundry smells amazing.

The weather has been changing so quickly here in Munich and I’m starting to be in an Fall mood. With this season change, there is a lot less light in our home and you can already notice that it gets dark so much sooner than it used to. There is something very cozy about the start of Fall as well and I like to embrace it by making small changes to our home.

When there is a lack of natural light, you have to take advantage of that opportunity and add some beautiful lamps to the interior. Therefor I was very happy to team up with Nest to make our living room ready for Fall (and Winter, but that’s still a little while). I think lamps can change the entire feeling of a room and create a cozy atmosphere adjusted towards the activities you perform. I often work late in the evenings and rather then sitting in my office, I prefer to place myself on the little desk in the living room with a cup of tea. The Bellevue AJ8 table lamp fits perfectly there and can be directed to what I’m doing. It’s a great task lamp that can beam light into any direction I want while I’m drawing, or give an overall glow to my workplace. Lamps have to be functional and easy to use, but it’s also very important that the object itself looks great in a room even when it’s off. The mixture of satin polished brass and the matt black powder coated steel looks amazing while the lamp isn’t in use during the day.

Other than task lighting in a living room, it’s important that you can create a cozy atmosphere as well. I’ve placed the Muuto Control table lamp in our window sill and this piece gives a soft glow to our couch area. The black lamp fits perfectly on the marble there and I like the iconic bulb and big dial with which you can dim the light. To make a cozy setting complete candle light is of course very important too and I almost can’t live without it when the weather is changing so abruptly like it has. The Skandinavisk Ro candle (RO translates in tranquility) smells amazing and is always on our coffee table. When the weather will get even colder, I will make sure to add more candles to create an even cosier look.

All these kinds of different lights combined with the ambient lighting of the ceiling pendant are composed in the perfect lighting setting that works for us at night, during a https://www.nest.co.uk/product/skandinavisk-ro-tranquility-scented-candlerainy day or when the sun just got down. I love that we can adjust the setting to what we are doing and to how much natural light there is available.

My favorite things to do on a Sunday morning is to wake up very slowly and listen to some music while still cozy in bed. There is something about this weekend ritual that makes me relax and it seems like I  just need this to realise that it’s actually the weekend. Needless to say I was very happy to try out the Vifa Stockholm speaker, which fits perfectly on our bedroom sideboard.

Vifa has been around since 1933 and for a long time they are the preferred supplier of loudspeaker units for many well-known high-end brands. Since 2012 they introduced a range of wireless and portable loudspeakers based on the heritage and technical expertise of the Vifa sound-engineers. The company stands for Passion, Craftmanship and Authenticity, which clearly shows in their collection.

The Vifa Stockholm speaker has a very elegant and timless design and can fill a room with great sound from any music source. The textile cover (made out of Kvadrat fabric) gives the speaker a very soft look which contrasts very nicely against the aluminium frame and the volume indicators are stitched onto the fabric, such a nice detail. Even the cables and stylish remote control have their own little fabric bag, which shows how much thought went into the design of the whole experience around this product. From the sound quality to the looks, to even the box and packaging, everything is thought through.

The Stockholm speaker comes with a wall hanging and I think soon we will mount it on our bedroom wall so the design has an even more streamlined look. I chose the Pebble grey version, which fits perfectly with the grey color scheme that I have going on in our bedroom. The speaker is available in six different colors to chose from.

Last week I showed you danish designer Kristina Dam‘s personal home here on the blog. I’m very happy that I could try out some of here beautiful designs in our home as well and love the soft look of her creations in our bedroom.

I’m using the Cube table in Tigerskin marble as a bedside table and paired it up with the Wooden Sphere and the Mirror Tray. The mirror is an interesting combination of oak wood and different tints of mirror glass. It can be used as I tray or can be hung on the wall, which is what I plan to do as soon as I find the right spot for it.

I love the simplicity of the products, which lets the quality materials shine and give a soft look to an interior. The cube table has a very simple outline, which combined with the polished look of the marble is a real eye catcher in our bedroom. I’m not sure yet if I will keeping using it as a bedside table, of if it will be a coffee table soon, but I’m sure it can fit in any setting in our home.

You can have a look at the entire collection here and I’m looking forward to the new releases for the Autumn and winter collection as well.

I love reading a good book or magazine before I go to bed and for a while now I was looking for a suitable reading lamp that I can direct towards me and that looks great in our bedroom. The DCW Éditions Lampe Gras N411, available at Flinders checks all of these boxes and I couldn’t be happier with how it looks like in our bedroom. The lamp adds a graphic touch to the grey, beige and natural color setting I decorated this room with and I like the black lines against the white walls. 

The N411 lamp, designed by Bernard-Albin Gras can be adjusted in many different angles, so that it is always looking over your shoulder while you are reading, knitting or doing any other creative project. The double elbow joint makes this a very practical lamp, but also adds a graphic line to the interior. By arranging the lamp to a different side, a totally different shape can be created, which makes it very versatile. Rearranging the lamp joints changes the look of the piece as well. I chose the all black version, but the lamp is available in five different finishes.
Almost the entire DCW range is available at Flinders (The classic mantis wall lamp is another one of my favorites), along with many other furniture and design pieces, both modern and classic. They have a showroom in Zaandam, the Netherlands, and online shops in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Their mission is to make extraordinary interior products available for everyone and their beautifully curated product selection is definitly worth a look. The Flinders living inspiration section is inspiring as well and a great way to see the furniture in an stylish living setting.

Stelton released the new Emma Pitcher designed by Sebastian Holmbäck and Ulrik Nordentoft. I was happy to try out this new addition to the Emma series and like the combination of the cold steel with the warm look of the beechwood handle. I combined the picther here with the simply glasses and the Concave vase.

Adding more and more plants to our living room window sill to make up for the rainy weather we have been having here in Munich.