Karl Lagerfeld - House Tour

One-thousand-eight-hundred-and-twenty-five days is how long it took me to convince Karl Lagerfeld to let the world have a SnOOp inside his Paris home. Emails and phone-calls more emails and phone calls to Mr Lagerfeld's office concluded that his press team, in 2008, ended up feeling sorry for me and decided to mail me the BEST parcel I have ever received. No it wasn't a Chanel handbag it was a disk containing images shot by our generations fashion design icon of his new Paris home.

What Happened This Weekend - Pays Respect To Those In Japan

"My mother came over and gave me my childhood toy rabbit that I left in my family home. I love this guy,"says artist Mambo Key

 

"I travel a lot with my work so when I'm home I like to sit still and make things. I created Dandelion Bottle this weekend," says Daisuke Matsumura

"I decided this weekend I was going to take the time to think and rest. I wore this t-shirt to remind me" says TEPPEI

 "I have got so obsessed with drawing mustache's lately I'm putting them on anything I can get my hands onto" says model Aoiyuu

 "I can't believe how fast my son is growing up. He is like a little man now and likes to entertain himself at the dining table by reading and drawing," says Hideaki Hamada

This is a very small mark of respect of the tragic events happening in Japan. "What Happened This Weekend" is the opportunity to celebrate the love people have for their homes.  Some of my favourite contributors over the last year have come from Japan so to think how their lives have be turned upside down and what they are emotionally and physically going through right now breaks my heart.  I know some of our contributors are OK but others I'm not so sure. Please, please support the relief work happening in Japan. 

Here are some organisations providing amazing support

Architecture For Humanity 

Red Cross 

Shelter Box

What I Love --- David Nicholls - Design Editor - Telegraph Magazine

The Telegraph newspaper is one of the UKs largest selling broadsheets and each Saturday readers look forward to browse through the magazine supplement. As the Telegraph Magazine's Design Editor, David writes about the best design for the home. He is always bang on with his choices.To find out more about Reiko visit here.


This is the end of our series "What I Love".  It has been such a treat to have some of the most inspiring editors from the best shelter magazines from across the globe being a guest on SnOOp. This series has gone way beyond the beautiful and pretty. Suzanne, Sam, David C, Michael, Paul, Alice and David N have shared design ideas to provoke us to think, make us aware of tradition and craft and to appreciate quality.

I really hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have. As Paddy McGuinness would say... "If you don't likey don't wrtiey"... But if you have loved it then please leave a comment and let us know.

What I Love --- Alice Rawsthorn - Design Critic - International Herald Tribune

I recently rated Alice Rawsthorn as one of 10 Influential Women In Design so it's a real honor to have her contributing to SnOOp and sharing with us what her favourite piece of design is for this spring. I love how she has chosen a book.  To find out where to purchase this wonderful book  "I swear I use no art at all: 10 years, 100 books, 18,788 pages of book design" by Dutch book designer Joost Grootens visit 010 Publishing

Tomorrow is our last day of "What I Love Series" and we finish with David Nicholls, Design Editor, from The Telegraph Magazine.

What I Love --- Paul Lowe - Editor - Sweet Paul

 Sweet Paul Magazine has become an online sensation. Beautiful styling combined with great photography, mixed with scrumptious recipes is why we all flock to this free online magazine. Paul Lowe is proof you can make dreams happen... 

Hermes if you see this post help Paul out with this bag 

Tomorrow on SnOOp is Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the International Herald Tribune

See Suzanne Imre - Livingetc -  Editor - spring favourite
See Sam Grawe - Dwell - Editor-in-Chief - spring favourite
See David Clark - Vogue Living - Editor - spring favourite

See Michael Boodro - ELLE Decor - Editor-in-Chief - spring favourite

What I Love --- Michael Boodro - Editor in Chief - ELLE Decor

 

 I'm really loving Michael Boodro's editorship on ELLE Decor. He had some big shoes to fill and in my opinion he fits into them perfectly. The magazine and website is looking fantastic. Make sure you visit Bernhardt Interiors

Tomorrow on SnOOp our very much loved Paul Lowe from Sweet Paul magazine will be visiting. 

See Suzanne Imre - Livingetc -  Editor - spring favourite
See Sam Grawe - Dwell - Editor-in-Chief - spring favourite
See David Clark - Vogue Living - Editor - spring favourite

What I Love --- David Clark - Editor- Vogue Living

Visit Michael Hansmeyer to see more

I want to take this opportunity to say from the United Kingdom how proud I am as an Australian of Vogue Living. It doesn't matter where I go in the world everyone I know loves this magazine. Architects, designers and photographers all love to be featured in it.  It's intelligent, aspirational, confident and balances international and local talent perfectly. I rate it as one of the best interior magazines in the world.

I hope you're enjoying this series. This is such a rare and amazing opportunity for us to have a little insight into the creative personalities who produce our favourite interior magazines located in one spot. One of my goals is helping to bridge the gap between interior magazines and design blogs. I have done the legwork in asking the editors to contribute but it's up to you guys to comment and let us know what you think.

Tomorrow Michael Boodro, Editor-in-Chief from ELLE Decor will be here