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Amsterdam, Netherlands
I travel the globe for a living. Luckily I get to see many beautiful things when traveling. Design is one of my passions. On my blog I try to collect a lot of my design-encounters around the world. I hope you'll like it! XOXO Nina

donderdag 15 maart 2012

Coffee and the city



Here a post about a subject I have been thinking about for a long time.

Living in Amsterdam is great. I go almost everywhere by bike.
Because of my job I get to have a lot of time off (yes, I am that lucky!). One of my favorite passtimes is to sit in a nice coffeeplace and chill. Mostly surfing the web, answering emails, meeting up with friends and, ofcourse, enjoy good cups of coffee.

I have a couple of favorite spots.

My very favorite spot is Two For Joy-Coffeeroasters at the Frederiksplein (they have another place at the Haarlemmerdijk) . The best coffee in town, in my opinion, and the owners are two fantastic guys, whom I grew very fond of.
The atmosphere there is very 'Brooklyn'. Customers from all over the world enjoy their coffee, whilst sitting in Chesterfield sofa's.
I have spent hours and hours and hours over there. That's how much I love the place.

My second favorite place opened up a short while ago. In the area called 'de Pijp', which is close to my house. It is called Cotton Cake. Run by two of the cutest young ladies in town.
It is a such a joy to sit there. So light and airy (and they serve Two For Joy-coffee!). They also sell the cutest pieces of clothes and jewellry. And those sandwiches, brownies and toasties... Sigh.
Well done for these ladies!

Since last week a new runner up has opened. The Starbucks- concept store at the Rembrandtsplein.
Fantastic interior. Very impressive how many typical Dutch elements have been used in the interior. The coffee? Well, just Starbucks. Although they joined the hype of having a drip coffee bar.
Not a place where I can hang out all afternoon. It is too dark, too much artificial lighting. So. No.

Eventhough I love hanging out at these places, I'm still hoping and waiting for the 100%-perfect-spot.

In my next post I'm going to let my imagination run wild and tell you about my fantasy of the perfect coffee-hangout.

Until then,
XOXO

Nina

Two for Joy- coffeeroasters

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Cotton Cake



photos by me


Starbucks, Rembrandtsplein



(San Francisco coffee > )
 photos by me

woensdag 14 maart 2012

For real!

I've been working on it for a long time. A loooooooong time, actually. Sometimes I wasn't sure where to begin, how to go on (and how to finance).

But. Finally. It is going to happen! My long running project is going to go into the world and shall be sold, for real. KRATNET is going to be out there!

The launch will be april, 1st. No joke.

At the Sunday Market. It's is every first weekend of the month, here in Amsterdam.

It is a market (quite a big one) at the Westergasfabriek-terrein in Amsterdam-West. As 'they' say: it offers a platform for designers and creatives to show/sell their stuff.

Perfect! I think it is the ideal way to introduce my KRATNET. I'm going to consider it as a sort of market-research. I hope I will get feedback from customers and hopefully get an idea if it will sell ok, or not.

Ofcourse. Come all!!!!!! It is from 12.00 'til 18.00