Buonasera from Merano.
Small behind-the-scenes note this week: I’m currently working on a new design for the newsletter.
Nothing too dramatic. This is still a Sunday email with five nice things from Europe. I’m not turning it into a luxury magazine with 48 pages and an unreadable serif font.
But after 100+ editions, it feels like the place could use a little polish. Better layout, cleaner structure, maybe a bit more of its own world.
Hopefully, I can share the new version with you already next week.
Until then, we keep it classic.
If you’re new around here: Every week, I share 5 of the nicest products from Europe I’ve discovered in the past 7 days.
I scout, you explore.
With love 🌞
Jakob
P.S.: Missed the last edition? The Clicks Communicator phone with buttons AND the Elemental Squeezer were the most-clicked products.
© Habity
Habity Bedside Clock 🇩🇰
A reader pointed me toward Habity, a Danish bedside clock designed in Copenhagen to get your phone out of the bedroom. It has sunrise light, calming tones and sleep sounds, so basically a tiny wake-up buddy that tells your iPhone: “Thanks, but we’re good.”
© Stilnovo
Stilnovo Minibox Table Lamp 🇮🇹
Designed by Gae Aulenti and Piero Castiglioni in 1981, the Minibox is inspired by miners’ lamps, which explains the compact body and the little adjustable “eye” of light. Very Italian.
© Allday Goods
Allday Goods Kitchen Knives 🇬🇧
Allday Goods is an East London kitchenware brand turning plastic waste into knife handles with proper cult-brand energy. Founder Hugo Worsley started by melting plastic milk bottle lids in a toastie machine. Which is either completely unhinged or exactly how good ideas begin.
© Maximum
Maximum Gravêne Chair 🇫🇷
Another reader sent me Maximum, a small French company making furniture from industrial waste in Ivry-sur-Seine. So after Allday Goods gave us waste-to-kitchen-knives, here’s waste-to-colourful-chairs. Gravêne comes as a chair, armchair or bar stool, made in France from industrial leftovers that would otherwise be binned. Nice when circular design doesn’t look like a school project.
© Courant Sauvage
Courant Sauvage Pablo Parasol 🇫🇷
Courant Sauvage was founded by childhood friends Tiphanie Hayet-Saunois and Loïc Gauthier, and their Pablo parasol has full French Riviera energy. Acrylic canopy, cotton fringes, beechwood pole, and just enough drama to make your terrace feel like it has a better summer plan than you do.
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