As you might know Vagabond is based on the west coast of Sweden, in the surfer’s paradise Varberg. Next weekend the event “Coastal Culture” is arranged (18-20 May), where people are invited to be a part of the growing "culture".

During these days everyone is welcome to enjoy and try costless activities like surfing, yoga, art, skating and more for three days. Several good bands are also going to play and one of them is sponsoerd by Vagabond! That band is Urban Cone and will do their performance on the Saturday evening.

URBAN CONE is a young band that got together in 2010 and consists of Rasmus Flyckt, Magnus Folkö, Tim Form Branch, Emil Gustafsson and Jacob William Sjoberg. They met in high school and quickly realized that they shared musical influences as well as ambitions. The sound of Urban Cone is a melting pot of influences and expressions collected from their personalities and individual musical backgrounds.

Come and join in!

This hotel my colleagues stayed at when they went to Paris! Looks really nice, don’t you think? It’s created by the Triago family (co-founders of Club Med) and the French philosopher Cyril Aouizerate. The hotel is designed by Philippe Stark. Both the rooms and not least the restaurant looks truly inviting and warm I think!

Have a look at their website: Mama Shelter

Street art has got its own gallery in Gothenburg! At Friggagatan 21 Viktor Byhr has his gallery which he calls a “stop shop” for unique art that will give your home the right urban touch. Viktor hope that even those who don’t use to shop at art galleries will come and visit him.

One of my colleagues has been there and thinks it’s really worth a visit! (She has also taken the pictures above).

Feel like dropping by? Urban Artroom is open 6 days a week (closed for dog walking 15-16 though), admittance is free and as Viktor says: animals, children and art byers are all equally welcome.

One of our designers has visited The Gothenburg Museum of Art where one of the art world’s most celebrated couples, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, are presented for the first time in Sweden. So if you are interested in Mexican art, or just want to visit a fascinating exhibition this might be worth visiting.

The exhibition showcases some central works from the two artists’ production, from the Natasha & Jacques Gelman Collection of Modern Mexican Art, including a number of Frida Kahlo’s best-known self-portraits as well as important and rarely shown oil paintings by Diego Rivera.

You can visit the exhibition until January 22.

Are you planning to visit Copenhagen? Or looking for a great exhibition? 
One of our designers visited Arken Museum of Modern Art, which has opened a large special exhibition of two legends, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. She just loved it and has told us it’s very much worth visiting! ARKEN’s exhibition is the story of Warhol and Basquiat – the times they lived in, the artists’ roles, the myths and the mutual fascination that propelled the two artists’ singular collaboration and made sparks fly in the works. The exhibition offers a unique window into an unusual collaboration between two very different artistic temperaments!

Ann Toebbe's handiwork reminds me of some '92 after school computer game-ish. Back then,
unless you saved up months worth of pocket money (meaning no candy ever), "free" entertainment
was ALL hustle. Never just a simple click away. Usually, that meant persistantly calling (see stalking)
some neighbouring kid you hardly even knew - not to mention getting those unreliable floppies
actually working once acquired! Personal nostalgia aside, domestic clutter does rather well on
paper, no?

You can buy original prints by Toebbe and other artists here. Simply size down if you're
penny pinching.

As a talented youngster already set to become a successful jazz trumpet player, loosing
three fingers in a work accident inadvertently jostled him down a very different life path -
fortunately enough, it came to be as one of America's all time greatest illustrators.

Bernie Fuchs (1932-2009) started out producing ads for the booming Detroit auto industry
in the early 1950's and later moved on to creating editorial artwork for some of the
biggest selling magazines of the era, including the weekly issued Sports Illustrated.

In compliment to this he was also frequently commissioned to paint portraits of numerous
presidential candidates and celebrities, one notable subject being the late John F. Kennedy
who supposedly was so pleased with the outcome he even used it for official matters.

Ed Templeton decked out in well pressed Dickies probably is to 90's skateboarding what
butter is to toast - pretty damn essential! From epic video parts in classic productions like
'Welcome To Hell' to pushing himself creatively as proprietor of the infamous Toy Machine
label, he's grown to become something of a cultural cornerstone.

For those of you not obsessed with canadian maple, abec 10's, or give-away stickers,
chance is you've still stumbled upon his art in magazines or through regular exhibitions at
venues worldwide. His latest show in Belgium last spring was accompanied by a retrospective
book called 'The Cemetery of Reason', luckily, good ol' Amazon's got you covered.



The polaroid of Mr Templeton featured top of the post is courtesy of photographer Scott
Pommier, for a lunch well spent, head on over to his site for more lifestyle infused
photography.