14
March
2013
Friend's house in Bali
posted in Interior | Life & travels
at 6.29 AM
from
Hubug coworking space, Ubud, Bali
/ Indonesia
listening Antony & the Johnsons
Enjoy life ! This is how I sign my email. I do my best to do that everyday, and of course it is easier to do in Bali. But do not get wrong, I do not spend my days on a beach... I am most of the time in front of this screen, trying to do 30 things while I have time to do 10 only !
Last month I get contacted by Pascal and Claude, his wife, who live between France and Bali. Pascal has a project we may work on together, he own a restaurant and do music for movies; Claude was photographer and made documentaries. They invite me and my family in their house, an amazing "home" in the south of Bali, in Jimbaran. We spend very quiet and relaxing days there, sharing about life and creativity, eating some amazing fish on the beach, visiting the local market on the morning... Life should be like this everyday !
While we where there, Frédérique, my wife, shoot their beautiful house. As crazy as it can seems, they are selling the house, as life is bringing them somewhere else... I hope they will found the right place, because for us this one is just perfect ! So much space and nice objects everywhere...




One of the great thing of living in a tropical country is that you can have amazing open spaces like this... It is built above an antique Joglo and it is was on the most amazing place I work in !










On each sides of the main living space are rooms... 3 large rooms, each with their open bathrooms. Pascal use one of the as his music/creative room.








In the back of the garden there is 2 old javanese wood houses... both can be used as guest houses... I can stay some weeks in these !!!!






You can see more of Frédérique photos on her new facebook page Symbiose. And if you want to stay some nights in one of the guest houses or if you want to buy you a home in paradise, please contact me and I will pass your message to Pascal and Claude...
13
March
2013
10
March
2013
The design rules wall stickers
I am totally obsessed by these "rules", and how they improve and "made" myself. Of course they are "products" now, but there are also my way of life... I just bring a new vision on them with these images, while they are available at a special price at FAB for the next hours...
The origin : the type composition
This is a new one...
The wall stickers catalog
I also want to share with you the catalog I design for the wall stickers. If you want to have it in pdf, just email me...











10
March
2013
Nyepi, the Balinese new year day...
So, tomorrow is the night before Nyepi here, the Balinese new year day. It’s that time of year once again where the monsters come out. So tomorrow, all the locals go wild with the parade of “ogoh-ogohs”, large monsters made from paper mache by the villagers, which are paraded through the streets and later burned to symbolise a cleansing of negative energies. From midnight, everything goes silent. All phones are switched off, no internet, no electricity, not even flights in and out of Bali for 24 hours.
Time for contemplation and appreciation. A day of total silence across the island. There is no sound, and black cloth is pulled across the windows. Nobody is allowed to work or to go outside, tourists included. No electricity should be used, and no noise is permitted. The idea is that the evil spirits, roused the night before, are duped into thinking that nobody inhabits the island, and decide to go away.
Happy to be here for this strange an usual day (me without electricity... what will I do !!!)
Lars Henkel illustration work
So, I figure out the strange an usual world of Lars Henkel was appropriate for tonight...

























