A lot of patterns & materials – and yet they work well together. It’s nice with personally chosen precious possessions sharing a common area with respect for each other.

Purgi, the island of Chios in Greece, is known for the painted village. Because of the colourful geometric patterns on the facades of the houses & buildings.
It’s always nice with sweet patterned mugs for the morning coffee or the evening tea. A simple thing that pleases & beautifies.
The decorated highly colourful furniture of Central / east Europe’s folk tradition – has an entirely different aesthetic than the north – entirely recognisable due to the intricate & elaborately patterns & symbols.
A large exhibition, “Wanja Djanaieff and her twenty-two favorite colors” is now shown at Marabouparken art gallery, displaying her work through the ages & confirms her as one of Sweden’s most influential textile designers.
Wanja was born February 1941 & almost completely unknown to most people, but not her patterns. During the 1960s & 70s, she drew hundreds of textile patterns for clothes, furniture & fabrics, which were used & spread all over Sweden.
Her work became known to a wide audience when she designed clothes for the Swedish Olympic team in Munich in 1972. The pattern with yellow crowns on a blue background becomes Djanaieff’s perhaps most famous work.