Large logos do not stand for high class

Are you like me tired of those larger and larger logos on everything from clothes to textiles and other things. Have you also noticed that the products from well known designers like Chanel, Ralph Lauren and so on seem to have large logos on their cheapest clothes  and bags (if you can call them cheap) and very small discrete logos on their more expensive items.

An exclusive item does not depend on large logos, instead it is the exquisite craftmansship, the material and the details in for example a Chanel jacket or a Louis Vuitton bag that stands for the true luxury.

At Millefeuille we do not have large logos with flags or other things, our bed linen and other products have very discrete signs that tells you that we are the producers.
So think one time again before you put on that large logo shirt in the morning- who do you want to be?

Annelie

Win a beautiful lavender satchel from Millefeuille

Our beautiful silk lavender satchels

In two weeks we will send one of these beautiful lavender satchels from Millefeuille filled with wonderfully fragrant lavender to one of you readers who can write the best motivation to why Millefeuille lavender satchels are a good autumn present to your loved ones. The competition starts today and ends on friday next week.

Send your answers along with your adress to homedesign@millefeuille.se

Bonne chance!
Annelie

Meet the autumn in luxurious bed linen from Millefeuille

             The Collection Park Avenue in 700 TC Egyptian cotton sateen

Let yourself sleep in these beautiful and luxury linen from Millefeuilles autumn/winter collection 13/14. In the night they are extremly soft and comfortable and during the day they make your bed look awesome. Find this collection and several others at www.millefeuille.se we deliver all our products free of charge and directly to your door ( Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand)

My best
Annelie

Bed set for your Prince or Princess

The collection Petite Paris in very soft Egyptian cotton sateen and with elegant embroideries

Let your little one sleep as comfortable and beautiful as the little prince or prinsess he or she is.
This beautiful bed set from millefeuille is made in an extremly soft and beautiful Egyptian cotton sateen and elegant embroideries available in white, pink or blue.

The duvet cover have the measures 130 x 100 cm ( 51,2" x 39,4")
The pillow case have the measures 55 x 35 cm (21,7" x 13,8")

The price for one bed set including shipping to Europe or USA is 100 €

Kindest regards
Annelie

The bedroom, the new It room

The collection Cote d´Azur in Egyptian cotton sateen, TC 600 and adorned with beautiful embroideries and hemstitch

Today the bedroom is a room that many people choose to renew and make extra nice. After a time with focus on kitchens and bathrooms it feels refreshing to concentrate on a room where one spend at least one third of the days of a life time. An inspiration is the Master bedrooms, bedrooms adjacent to a walk in closet and a large bathroom with a lovely bathtub.

The bed becomes really inviting if you use bedding you really like and plenty of nice shams in different sizes, among which you can lay down and really relax. Choose a type of bedding that makes you happy and avoid too many colours if you are searching for a calm and relaxing feeling.

Annelie

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Relaxing calming bath

   Photographer Jorg Sundermann

When me and my family was planning our largest bath room we all agreed that we wanted it to feel as a big spa and that the bathtub would have a central place in the room. I am not a fan of different jacuzzi tubs with jet streams and many different functions. Instead I prefer to lie down in nice warm water in an large and calm bathtub like the one in the picture.

Then I use fragrant candles and calming bath salts to make the whole bath even more relaxing. In the end I want to embrace myself in really soft and white terry towels.

Have a nice next bath

Annelie

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How to make your bed perfect

The bed set Park Avenue from Millefeuille, newly ironed and ready to use


I really enjoy sliding down between newly ironed and freshly fragrant linen. Even if the ironing means extra work it is well worth the effort. There is a large difference between sleeping in smooth shiny and wrinkle free linens compared with wrinkled and matte linens. The bed also looks better when the linens look good, it becomes an important design detail in your bed room. I recommend you to have at least some sets to change between then you can always have ironed and maybe lavender scented linen ready to use.

Have a really good and soft nights sleep

Annelie

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Morning training in the pool

                            Picture kindly provided by Six senses spa

Whenever I have time I take the chance to train before breakfast. One of my favourite training forms is swimming alone in the morning in a nice pool.  During the training I have time to plan the day and relax at the same time. Then I arrive fresh and healthy to my breakfast.

Warmest regards

Annelie

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Jolie, the negligé for sweet dreams

    The night gown Jolie from Millefeuille

Some time ago we launched our much longed for collection of negligés. The collection is called Jolie and consists of beautiful negligés in baby doll model. Jolie is made in 100 % silk and has lovely spaghetti straps.

Jolie comes in the colours white and cream white and will soon also come in black and dark blue.
The sizes are small, medium and large.

My best
Annelie

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Sweet for the baby

The Collection Petite Paris, beautiful bed set in the finest Egyptian Cotton Sateen


Let the small one sleep really comfortable and sweet already from the start. This collection is called Petite Paris and it as beautiful, stylish and elegant as the city. The collection is made in the softest Egyptian cotton sateen that is smooth and comfortable against delicate baby skin. The triple bourdon embroideries with a sweet bow is available in pink, white and light blue on a white bottom.

Annelie

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Fashion inspirations

Something to be inspired by.....

Many are those fashion designers that are inspired by everyday things. A colour, a thing or something that happens can be the start of a whole new collection. Then people will buy the clothes and that original idea will affect the whole world.

During a fashion show it is always exciting to see the new trends and to hear the story behind the collection. The surrounding interior and the music makes the whole show even more inspiring. Like Louis Vuittons spring collection 2012 where Marc jacobs let the models sit on a carousel with prancing white horses and to the sound of a music box melody, beautiful! Another example is Karl Lagerfelds Chanels spring 2008 collection where the models walked around a 75 feet tall white Chanel jacket, simply stunning. If you do not have the possibility to watch the shows live many designers shows them on their home pages as well.

Good inspiration is important and at Millefeuille we work in the same way. We see something beautiful that inspires us and then we transform this idea to our bed linen. We produce samples which if they become fine then becomes new collections.

What inspires you most?

Annelie

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A lovely dinner by the sea

                                                      A nice place for a lunch or a dinner

It is so nice to eat by the sea. The food seams to taste better when the view is beautiful. Start with a fresch lunch or why not go for a a three course dinner? When the sun sets it is nice to use torches as a cosy lighting by the table.

Annelie

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The little black dress

The Little Black Dress or in short LBD is a must have in every stylish womans wardrobe. Coco Chanel introduced this kind of simple elegant evening dress in her collections already in 1926.

Go for one with simple and clean lines and pair it with "killer" high heels and accessories that gives it an extra elegant touch, like the pearls Audrey Hepburn combined it with in "Breakfast at Tiffany´s".

In same famous restaurants they change the usual white linen napkins for black versions when you arrive in your black evening dresses so the napkin matches your outfit.

With the right LBD you about to succeed at every dinner or cocktail party. Or as the Duchess of Windsor once said " When a little black dress is right, there is nothing else to wear in its place."

Annelie

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Timeless Design

 Triple Bourdon embroideries on 600 TC cotton sateen, Collection Elegance Hotel

Triple bourdon is a three stipe embroidery that seems to never go out of style. The design is timeless, calm and elegant. Since we started to produce bed linen with this design it has always been one of the favorites among our customers. Maybe because it is so common among the worlds most luxurious hotels and who would not like the same design at home?

Annelie

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A summer with Vogue

Recently the latest issue of American Vogue arrived in the mail. It is as always full of inspiring pictures, articles and news. Anna Wintour and her co workers does not only make a magazine they litteraly makes the reader part of their visions in every single article and photo reportage. When a magazine can evoke happiness and inspiration in almost every spread it is very impressive and admirable.

American Vogue was founded in 1892 and has since several years back been given out in local versions in several countries. In my opinion the american version is still the best of everyone.

Annelie

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Bed linen inspired by the French riviera

The collection Riviera lilies from Millefeuille, made in 600 TC cotton sateen with beautiful embroidery and hemstitch

This beautiful collection above contains our most delicate embroideries and are made in very soft and shiny cotton sateen. It is a part of our couture collection and it contains beautiful hemstitch which contributes to its elegance.

This bed set can transforms your bed room to a luxurious retreat and the beautiful and timeless embroideries adorns every home. In these collection we were inspired by the French Riviera and its extravagant residences in all its beauty and style. White lilies is also one of my favourite flowers so it felt good to let them be a part of this collection.

Annelie

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Free lingerie boxes

    Lingerie box CherieJolie in silk fabric with matching bow tie

Everyone who orders a bed set from Millefeuille this month (july) recieves two lingerie boxes for free. They are perfect for storing your sets of lingerie or stockings and makes every walk in closet, wardrobe or bathroom more stylish. Please visit www.millefueille.se, where you can see all our bed linen collections and other products.

Annelie

The perfect Terry Robe

  A perfect Terry Towel  adorned with three silk lavender satchels from Millefeuille

Is not the feeling of a really nice terry robe against your skin fantastic? Especially the ones made of really thick, smooth and white terry fabric. When I stay at hotels I like to use the terry robe in the spa between nice treatments like  facial massage, herbal baths and when I get manicure or pedicure. At Millefeuille we are at the moment searching for really good terry fabric because we want to delvelop a really beautiful and comfortable terry robe that we will start to sell.

Annelie

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Time for relaxation and rest

View over Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii

Sometimes it can be hard to relax when the so much longed for vacation starts. I often get in the right mood when spending time in a beautiful and relaxing environment. A place where the eys whereever they land sees something beautiful.

On vacation it is lovely to at least some days stay at an all inclusive resort. A place where you can totally relax and leave the outside world behind. The day starts with a lovely breakfast in the room or in a beautiful restaurant followed by a lazy day on the beach, sunbathing, bading, sailing or doing some other nice vacation activity. A nice lunch at the beach or the pool followed by a fantastic candle lit gastronomically challenging dinner.

There are lots of beautiful places in the world and resorts situated at remote islands with peace and tranquility are often good choices. The resorts owned by Sheraton and Four Seasons have never made me dissappointed.

Where do you go for a relaxing vacation?

Annelie

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Little Black Jacket and Design

The collection Cote D´Azur in Egyptian  Cotton Sateen with beautiful embroideries and hemstitch

I just admired some pictures of Chanels Black Jacket. What a beautiful piece. Coco Chanel with her eye for details and that excellent quality that Chanel stands for even today are true inspirations. Exquisite products weather its clothes, shoes or bed linen is about elegance in every detail. Every seam must be perfect and placed in a way that suits the design and makes it more beautiful. The materials shall be the best there is to buy and the feeleing behind the creation of the product shall be built into the design.

Annelie

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Infinity pools

                            Picture kindly provided by six senses spa

Infinity pools are so beautiful. Especially like the ones as in the picture where you can see the ocean below. Here you can swim and concentrate just on yourself and the beautiful surroundings. This picture comes from beautiful Elounda which I can highly recommend you to visit.

Annelie

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Become a Designer for a day

The collection Park Avenue in Egyptian cotton sateen

This popular collection will be launcehd in a new version during 2014. The base will still be white but the frame will come in another colour. Which colour do you suggest. Take the chance to be part of the designing process. A nice price will be sent to the person who first suggests the colour that will be choosen in the end.

Annelie

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Get summer fresh lips

Juicy Tubes from Lancome

The summer is here and it is time to freshen up your lips with summery glosses. A gloss makes your lips look fuller and smoother.

Glosses are at the moment super trendy. The sometimes dark coloured autumn/ winter collections from fashion houses like Dior, Givenchy ans Zac Posen this year inspires us with shiny glossy lips.

My favorites are Dior Addict Ultra- gloss and Juicy Tubes from Lancome. They are available in all sorts of fresh colours or transparent ones if you prefer that. Apply the gloss alone or use it over your favorite lipstick- then you are ready fora day at the beach or any other summer adventure you are in for.

Annelie

Cruise Collection

Who would not want to be here when the icy winds rules and the snow flows in the air?

We have decided to create a Millefeulle Cruise Collection with bed linen and accessories. Since some years back the large fashion houses launches not only spring/ summer and autumn/ winter collections but also Cruise or Resort collections. From the beginning these collections were intended for the wealthy customers who went on cruises or vacationed in the warm cuntries during the cold winter months. Nowdays these collections are intended for customers that have already shopped their entire fall collections  and are looking forward to buy clothes to bring on their  upcoming vacations. 

After Millefeuilles autuumn/ winter collections which often are inspired by the colours and scents of the autumn and by Christmas and New Years eve we will launch collections with bed linen that breathes warm weather vacations. We will also launch collections of beach towels for beautiful white beaches and lingerie that suits the most luxurious hotel rooms

Our plan is to launch our first Millefeuille cruise Collection during the summer 2014 but inspirational pictures of what it will contain will be shown in this blog before that.

What do you readers think of this?

Annelie

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Beautiful and comfortable bed linen are important

 The collection Elegance Hotel in 600 TC Egyptian cotton sateen and stylish embroideries

I have always loved luxurious bed linen and that special feeling of the soft shiny cotton against your skin and the fresh scent of newly washed and ironed linen. You sleep like a princess and you never want to change back to rough thick ones that many stores sell. Good quality bed linen shall be made in high quality cotton and the thread count is an important factor.

However only a high thread count does not guarantee high quality cotton since there are different types of cotton. The best thing to do is to feel the fabric and see how it feels against your palm and trust your feeling if it feels good.

Please visit www.millefeuille.se for some inspiration

Annelie

Kaanapali, Maui

At the moment we are busy at Millefeuille with our autumn collections. We have fun and stimulating days but sometimes when the thoughts flies like butterflies in my head it is very calming and relaxing to just take a paus and walk down to the beach. There I can breath the fresh air, watch the waves and enjoy the silence.

When I visit warm countries I often take the chance to book seaside massages. It is a fantastic feeling to hear the calming sound of the waves and at the same time feel the relaxation that spreads throughout my body

What makes you feel relaxed. Feel free to share your best tips, then we will soon have a long list of relaxing activities to enjoy when we need them.

Annelie

Walk in Closet luxury

Beautiful Silk box for storing your beautiful lingerie

Are you so lucky that you have your own Walk in Closet? A paradise with all your clothes in nice rows, your favourite shoes arranged by colour and style, a soft welcoming carpet on the floor....

My favourite among walk in Closets is the one Big built for carrie in Sex and the City 2. It was sad that they had to sell their apartment but absolutely tragic that they had to let go of their wonderful Walk in Closet, or what is your opinion? In the next movie Carrie has a new walk in Closet but not nearly as beautiful as the first one.

The luxurious boxes you see in the pictures above are designed to make your own Walk in Closet even more elegant an stylish. They are meant to be nice places for your beautiful lingerie and stockings and they are available in several colours, all with a matching silk bow. Every box is delivered in a beautiful white gift box with an exquisite scented silk lavender satchel- it will make a nice gift for a friend, wive or fiance that already has everything.

Visit us att www.millefeuill.se for more information regading the boxes and our other products!

Annelie

Fresh flowers -something I can´t live without

Plumeria flowers- I love them for their beautiful fragrance
 

I love the sight and the smell of fresh flowers. The feeling of arriving home, open the door and be welcomened by a largebeautiful boquet is sensational. I don´t think it is a coincidence that many of the large fashion houses like Chanel, Dior, Ralph Lauren to name a few often have beautiful flower arrangements in their botiques. It makes us customers happier and possibly more keen to buy. And why not reward yourself with this luxury at home? Myself I am thinking of starting to book a new boquet every friday afternoon from my local florist. Then I can enjoy the flowers the whole weekend and also some days into the following week.

I like to choose the look of the boquet myself at least until I have found the right person that can create boquets in ”my style” and who knows what I want. I like large beautiful boquets with many white and cream coloured flowers as well as flowers in other light colours and lots of green beautiful leaves.

Some floral shops are a little bit depressing to visit, they show boquets consisting of tired flowers in strange colour combinations. It is als sad when you meet florists that are not interested or are un capable to understand what you as a customer want. This have happened to me, recently just a few weeks ago. I asked for lots of white roses combined with nice greenery- I got five white roses and a lot of thorny very ugly bush like leaves. Although the boquet contained lots of green it was hardly beautiful.
 
I celebrate florists who knows style and elegance and knows the flowers they are working with and how they are best combined with other flowers and leaves. The ones that are interested in giving the customer what he or she wants and dont hesitate to go that extra mile to get a happy customer who most definitively will come back. You are many out there but we need more of you. Maybe you who read this blog can give some recommendations of nice florists around the world? Then we will have a list to turn to the next time we look for flowers.

A truly inspiring floral designer I would like to recommend is preston Bailey. He is a New York based event and wedding designer with clients like Donald and Melania Trumph, Oprah Winfrey and Joan Rivers. His homepage is stunning and I always become happy when I visit it.

Annelie

Beautiful bed set for children with a nice price

The collection Petite Saint Barthélemy

I was recently contacted by a client who had received this bed set (please see photos) as a gift to her daughter when her daughter was baptized last summer. To my delight, she told me that she was very happy with it and it was just as beautiful now as when she got it a year ago. It does not matter how much we write about Millefeuilles nice quality and style, it's still you, our customers and your positive reviews that shows how good our bedding is. We do not just sell fine linens but an entire lifestyle. As you lay  down between Millefeuilles sheets, you should feel the exquisite soft and shiny fabric against your skin, you will feel beautiful and luxurious and know that the world lies beneath your feet.

As a thank you for the nice response and for giving more people the opportunity to enjoy this bed set  we lower the price right now on the collection Petite Saint Barthélemy (one duvet cover +one pillow case) now 180 € (before 320 €). Do not think too long, first come ..... Every bed set comes in a beautiful white gift box with a pretty bow on and in the box is a pretty lavender satchel that spread a beautiful fragrance in the room when the box is opened.

Annelie

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The best gift for the baby shower

 Our most popular baby collection, Petite Paris

What is the perfect gift to bring to a baby shower or a christening ceremony? Of course you want to find that perfect gift that the soon to be parents will like the most of all gifts they get. A new baby is a big occasion and it is nice if the gift is elegant, beautiful and will last for long time.

With millefeuilles beautiful baby bedding collections you will have a gift that is both elegant and stylish as well as useful. It is so durable regarding both the time less style and the quality that the baby when he/ she gets own kids can let them sleep in the same bed set. The collection you can see in the pictures above is called Petite Paris and it is a truly wonderful bed set in incredibly soft and beautifully shimmering cotton sateen. This fabric is very comfortable against the babys delicate skin. The time less and elegant embroidery called triple bourdon is very stylish in its simplicity and the little bow makes it extra sweet. The embroideries is available in blue, pink and white. All of our bedding collections are sewn in Italy, a country known for its craftmanship and style. All the materials are choosen with care so the bedding both will be and feel luxurious.

Each bed set comes in beautiful white gift boxes bound with a cute bow so they are very suitableas gifts. Throughout the spring and summer, we are also adding a exquisite lavender bag in silk so when the gift box is opened a fresh and soothing lavender scent fills the room. All bed sets can be washed in warm water (60 degrees Celsius).

Please visit www.millefeuill.se for all our baby and other bedding collections

Annelie

Four seasons- the hotels that never dissappoint you

Four Seasons, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii

There are many hotels around the world who claim to be really luxurious and fine. Many of them are just that, others live on its beautiful location, old reputation or perhaps the belief that they still live up to guests' exacting requirements. Who has not been seduced by the hotel's fine web page with pictures and descriptions of how wonderful the hotel is and once you arrive you discover that only the lobby,  lives up to the pictures. Many times I have had this kind of disappointment. I often find flaws in service, style and cleanliness at hotels that say they are among the finest. However a hotel chain that never disappointed me is the Four Seasons. I have visited several of their properties around the world and never been dissappointed. The service is always excellent, the hotels are beautifully designed and the whole experience is altogether luxurious. The fact that they also are represented in some of the world's most beautiful places does not make things worse