"Almost Incredulous Feats in Mid Air....."

 

 Ingenious display @ Andrew Martin (Maison et Objet)

With The Zush @ NYIGF 

  Lamp Base by Dunes and Duchess

 (the yellow is just perfect with my dark grey walls!)

Happy to bump into Anna Spiro

Storefront Elizabeth Bauer

VaVaVooom from Paris to New York back to Amsterdam!
I hope I don't make you mad by just "flying by" occassionally nowadays. It is what it is, I do the best I can dividing time between creating my art and designs, building the brand, doing the trade fairs, make sure that my products turn out the way I want them to turn out and oh yes there are my children as well 13 and 16, lovely age :)). Hence this fabulous antique Circus Poster that was gracing the walls of Andrew Martin's booth at the Maison et Objet. It simply says it all!
[According to the Oxford Dictionaries  "incredulous" means "unwilling or unable to believe something" and a "feat" is "an achievement that requires great courage skill or strength"]. REALLY in all honesty I can hardly believe that I survived the last 12 months (and still absolutely LOVE what I do).

Paris was covered in my previous post and as far as New York is concerned, our second NYIGF was beyond expectations.  We have wonderful new stores on board (including one of America's iconic department stores!) which we will disclose on our list of retailers as soon as the products are delivered early Spring.
I was delighted to see Jonathan Adler (again :)), but I did not take a groupie picture with him this time (ha ha), the elegant Quintessence and Hamptontoes, wonderful client The Zush,  ELLE Decor, Canadian House and Home, Home Accents Today and many more (and I apologize about the lack of pictures, there was hardly any time...). I also took some inspiration home from the fair. A wonderful lamp base designed by Dunes and Duchess. I just can't wait to design a lamp shade to go with it but in the meantime it already looks superb as an ornament!
After the show I had a day of meetings (of course :))}} but also some time to play so I finally managed to see Elizabeth Bauer's store whose eclectic style is right up my street. The cherry on the cake was bumping into one of my favourite designers Anna Spiro!

2012 HERE WE GO AGAIN! Kicking off with shows in Paris and New York

 Ikat & Fish tray based on a hand-painted design (Mariska Meijers) made in Scandinavia out of FSC certified birchwood

to be launched at the Maison et Objet and NYIGF

Oh yes the wonderful circus has started again. In full preparations for the shows in Paris (Maison et Objet 20-24 Jan) and New York (NYIGF 28 Jan-2 Feb). I am excited, nervous and still have a massive list of "Things to Do", but I Do I Do love it!
Today I received a letter from the organisation of the Maison et Objet that 'Mariska Meijers Amsterdam'  has been selected by their Committee to receive the label of Special Archi Designer which according to the letter "you receive for your know-how, your recoginized expertise and your custom-made production for large-scale projects". A wonderful reward for all the hard work last year!

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work*."

Colin Powell 

*and in my case also tears sometimes Mr Powell :)

New York NYIGF Diaries (part 3 finally!)

Proudly debuting The Painted Peacock silk scarve

All smiles with the team of HGTV magazine

Painted Ikat linen  pillow on vintage chair

Hamptontoes' Lisa Ehrlich

The Decorista and Luxury Monograms's Melanie Duncan

With Parker Bowie of ELLEdecor

Timeout with Eva Uribe Roepers and Bobby Berk

You must be thinking WHAT HAPPENED! No posting and pictures of the booth at the NYIGF. Complete radio silence. Did something go wrong.....No we just did it. Our first paticipation at the NYIGF! It went really well but everything just happened so fast and there was so much follow up and work that there was no time to blog about it. We had great response from retailers, interior designers and (social) media. Guess who came in to our booth: ELLEdecor, Coastal Living, House Beautiful, Women's Day, HGTVmagazine, Hamptontoes, Diane James, The Buzz Blog, The Decorista, Neimann Marcus/Horchow, interior designer Meg Braff (who will be opening an exciting store soon!), Celerie Kemble's team, HD Buttercup, HB Home, Style Beat blog and many more! Thank you all for your enthousiasm and we will be back in January. Otherwise meet us in Paris at the Maison et Objet, Hall 5A booth D104 (9 to 13 September, Woonbeurs (RAI Amsterdam, 24 Sept- 2 October ) or Highpoint, Suites at Market Square (22 to 27 October).
Interested in my art and designs? For the US contact Eva Uribe Roepers of Interdecorations or send an email to [email protected]

New Press: Thank you Dutch women's weekly Margriet!

 the interview (by Saskia Smith)

 sharing a page with Tom Hanks

and Dutch politician Jolande Sap

 With stylist/make-up artist Petra Neumann
 and photographer Ester gebuis 

 Petra in action

 Margriet magazine

Yes I am still here!!!! Trying to catch up after 10 days New York! A blogpost about the NYIGF experience will follow later this week. Will do so from the Austrian mountains as I am leaving for a much needed short break. But here is some news to share. This magazine was in my piled up mail when I arrived back in Amsterdam! Dutch Women's weekly Margriet did an article on women that took the leap changing their lives radically to follow their dream!....and I share a page with Tom Hanks :))).
Thank you Margriet magazine, Saskia Smith (interview), Petra Neumann (styling/make-up) and Ester Gebuis (photography) for such wonderful exposure!

Note: I am sporting one of my new designs, the Painted Peacock scarve, 100% Silk (Crepe de Chine).
We introduced the first scarve designs at the NYIGF and the scarves will be available soon. For information send an email to [email protected]

FAIR(Y)TALES and THANK YOU NOTES

with Ashlina in her NYC appartment

FAIR(Y)TALES
OK so what is new, or even better what is not new! After 2 weeks in the US I have been back in Amsterdam for just over a week and already packing for New York again. This weekend the NYIGF starts where I will be presenting my designs together with my US distributor Eva Roepers of Interdecorations. As you can imagine we are both very excited (and a bit nervous of course) as this is our debut! Organizing a fair from a distance is never easy. I spend a few days in New York during my last trip for some preparatory work. We decided to keep the booth display real simple. Ashlina (the Decorista and long time blogging friend) helped me to source a couple of vintage chairs. I bought  matching shelving units and adding my color popping designs should do the job! I will give a full report from New York.

THANK YOU NOTES
As a result of the wonderful feauture in RUE Magazine I had many shouts and tweets including: Casasugar, Bright Bazaar, Simplified Bee, Carribean Living, Of Beauty and Love, Twelve Chairs, Lifestyle Treats ... I apologize for those I have missed, google alerts is not always flawless and neither am I :). So thank you all for loving and supporting my work!