Feeling Blue

Feeling Blue

We’re finding March a bit difficult. Especially here in Toronto, Canada where you experience a glimmer of good weather and sunshine only to have horizontal winds and snowfall to knock you backwards and make you want to stay in bed.

The title of one of my favourite albums is “You Must Believe In Spring” by Bill Evans and the promise of Spring is unwavering. In that spirit we have crawled out of bed and shaken off the cold to bring you our newsletter and it’s brimming with exciting new additions to the showroom.

Continuing our long time collaboration with Thom Fougere we’re offering a special new finish for the arm sofa, round coffee table and Tambour cabinet. The finish is inspired by the beautiful elmwood used in French modernist furniture (think Perriand and Chapo). We looked into sourcing elm, but the quality wasn’t good enough especially considering all of our pieces are made from solid substantial lumber. The next best idea was to develop this special smoke oil finish on our usual oakwood. We are absolutely thrilled with it! It’s a very similar effect but in a much denser and harder wood (not to mention, local).

Since the finish is a limited batch we’re only going to be offering the sofa and cabinet in an edition of 2x each! It’s a small run, but this will ensure the specialness for the people who do make an order.

Above: The Mjolk arm sofa in specially ordered silverly blue corduroy by Raf Simons for Danish fabric producer Kvadrat. It’s made from 90% cotton so incredibly soft to the touch.

Mjölk Round Coffee Table

Our new round coffee table also designed by Thom Fougere in that monolithic smoked oak finish. Substantial but soft feeling and a great surface for books, pottery and riff raff.

Tambour Credenza in Smoked Oak

It’s so nice to have the Tambour cabinet back in the showroom, and it feels very new in the smoke oil finish. On the cabinet is a pair of vases by Toru Hatta which are wood fired and have hints of blue and pink dappled throughout the surface.

Here is the cabinet again, paired with this beautiful artwork by Ronan Stewart, Basica table lamp and Elizabeth Lenny candle sconce.

JH43 Archivo Shelf by Jaime Hayon

The Archivo shelf in sky blue is also getting a lot of attention here in the showroom. We have it tucked behind the sofa here to act as a bit of a console table to hold books and objects. I’ve also tested it with records and they fit in the bottom shelves perfectly. I think this would be an ideal setup for someone’s Hi-fi setup.

The blue is very soft and although the expectation here at Mjölk would be to display the shelf in natural oak (which is also very nice) I’m proud of us for sticking with the blue.

The Tung table in the foreground which we also have in the showroom.
We will have the Inland sofa pictured above arriving soon,

but ours will be a dove grey fabric upholstery.

Back in stock!

The Kito trays in beautiful Japanese Zelkova wood by Oji Masanori. The various sized trays tend to lend themselves to different things. We like the small tray for stationary objects, the middle size holds a pair of cups perfectly and the largest can hold a whole suite of serving pieces whether thats a teapot and a pair of cups or as you can see on the right a sake set.

The trays come in three sizes, sold individually but nestle together in a beautiful composition.

Charcoal Flower Stand

We just got a fresh stock of these compressed charcoal flower frogs / kenzan from Kyoto, Japan. These are used to prop up flowers in a vessel. It’s quite handy as it turns any bowl or shallow dish into a flower vase.

We’re also a fan of the “bed of nails” variation which is kind of the standard that we have kept here before but there is something particularly poetic about these charcoal ones, in fact you don’t mind seeing them at the bottom of the vessel.

Delicate fritillaria, one of our all time favourite flowers. We have them growing in a few different cultivars in our own garden. fine flowers like this are perfect for the charcoal kenzan.

If you want to use heavier or longer stems simply use some blue tack to stick the kenzan to the base of your vessel.

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