A cabinet of wonder
Since already ten years the Blogazine HERZ&BLUT is telling inspiring stories about design, lifestyle and travel. The influencers also regularly put KPM pieces in the limelight. Jules Villbrandt, Maria-Silva Villbrant and Wilkin Schröder show us why their passion is for beauty, how they work and what you can learn from their styling during a visit to their studio Maison Palmė in Berlin.
All photos: HERZ&BLUT
The eye should wander, collect impressions and in the best case even capture ideas.
HERZ&BLUT
HERZ&BLUT love to stage "object neighbourhoods". The bathroom shelf without the tiger? The excitement would be missing! There is always room for decorative "stages". Ideally you make one piece the star of the ensemble.
TIP: SMALL PIECES GIVE SHELVES (FOR EXAMPLE IN THE BATHROOM) A SPECIAL CHARM.
The stylish trio:
Jules Villbrandt (far right) founded HERZ&BLUT in 2010. Three years ago she brought her sister Maria-Silva Villbrandt and her college friend Wilkin Schröder on board. What unites them all? Their sense for beautiful things.
On about 80 square meters on the second floor of an industrial ensemble from the twenties, beautiful visual worlds are developed. Primarily they are created and captured photographically for the company's own blogazine HERZ&BLUT. As #interiorgoals these stagings also serve as a pool of ideas on the corresponding Instagram account and invite the viewer to update his or her own four walls with a styling update.
The studio Maison Palmé is a modern cabinet of curiosities:
Over the years, in addition to many design pieces, numerous vintage objects have moved in, making it possible to style very different living situations. A living room detail in Parisian chic, or should it rather be Scandinavian hygge? The Maison Palmé masters almost all variations, and some productions seem like a scenery construction à la Babelsberg. The constant change of the main room always creates new looks, and the diverse atmosphere has an inspiring effect on the work.
BODENVASE SAALE, 480 mm high, and To-go cup KURLAND are part of a still life that decorates a corner – and frees it from its niche existence.
TIP: NEW POSSIBLE USES. STACK OF BOOKS AS PEDESTAL, CUPS AS VASE
There is no consistent overall picture in the Studio – rather, the rooms radiate something mysterious and invite you to discover everything in detail. A credo that, by the way, also applies to the respective homes of the three creatives. The eye should wander, collect impressions and in the best case even capture ideas. Imitation desired. Just not when it comes to design objects. Fake and slightly modified replicas are an absolute no-go in the work of the trio:
"Good design is unique: the original shape characterizes the design. Every change from the outside dilutes the intention."
H E R Z & B L U T
all photos: HERZ&BLUT
2017 Storyboard designed a magazine for the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin: WEISS. The fourth issue of the yearly magazine was published in September 2020. On the cover: a whippet dog as a reminder of the royal manufactory founder Frederick the Great. His favorite dog Biche became the muse for a hand-painted cup.
