Currently Coveting: A Color-Blocked Dining Table

by Margot Guralnick

Swantje Hinrichsen is a graphic designer and illustrator with a flair for interior design: see her Artful Kitchen Built from Reclaimed Ikea Parts, Extreme Budget Edition. She and her family have since moved to a bright space in Münster, Germany, that we’ve been admiring on Instagram. We’re not the only ones: furniture and interiors studio Donnerblitz Design also of Münsterland recruited Swantje to come up with color combinations for its metal-framed Friis dining table lending the minimalist design, in their words, “a new expressive dimension that makes it a real eye-catcher.”

For those of us who have been eyeing color blocking options, such as Reform’s Match kitchen cabinets, but are not prepared to go quite so bold, the multi-toned Friis may be the perfect answer.

Photography courtesy of Swantje Hinrichsen (@swantjehinrichsen) and Donnerblitz Design (@thunderbolt_design).

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The case for colorful quarters:

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