“If you have a troubled mind, watch a mobile and unwind” Ole & Aase Flensted

Danish Flensted was first created in 1953 by Christian Flensted and his wife Grethe to celebrate the birth of their first daughter. By 1955 Christian gave up his job to devote his full attention to the mobiles and “The Stork’s Nest” was now based on his home island Funen. By 1971 the mobiles had became so popular and the business had expanded so they needed a larger premises, so they moved in to the old school on the island which became the Flensted Mobile Centre and still is today.  Flensted Mobiles is today run by Christian’s son Ole and his wife Aase.

All the lovely mobiles are hand made in Denmark. For nearly 60 years their skilled and diligent home-workers are mounting, assembling and packing the mobiles.

When we opened the shop, one of my suppliers (now my friend) tipped me about Flensted. She was pregnant at the time and looked for something for her nursery and had come across these. As you are aware I was quite pregnant my self and fell in love as well!

So why this long before they arrived in the shop? Good question but we have a long list of Scandinavian brands we love and would like to see here in the shop and decided to introduce them after some other brands, and finally, here they are!

We hope you enjoy them and fall in love just as much as we did. We have started with a small selection mostly for children, but as you can see on the Flensted website there are many designs.  But of course since we are in Edinburgh the Panda Mobile was an easy choice, who doesn’t like pandas? However I know my daughters favourite, the first thing Stina said when she came with me to the shop the other day was “Moomin” and she pick up all the Moomin boxes and gave them to me…

Charlotte x

As soon as a delivery arrives I get very excited.  So when Danish MENU arrived last Friday afternoon, lucky me was the one to receive it, unpacked it and got super thrilled! Stunning fresh designs! Over the weekend lots of the products became new favourites with our customers and got new homes!

Danish MENU is quality, functional, bold and good designs. Often theirs designs are award winning such as their thermo mugs, water carafe and our latest edition in the shop, the stunning jewellery tree in aluminium.  All their products comes in beautiful gift boxes and are our number one brand for wedding gifts. Here are some of the designs we have in the shop from MENU (and yes I know I have said stylish way to many times, but stylish design is what it is…stylish).

Personally I have not been able to resist a few products for my own home. Love my Verner Panton colourful bowls and storage jars. The Nordic Wool mugs, we use them daily now since they are our new favourites, just so lovely to drink from and very stylish. And in June when my birthday is I think I will wish for the bread basket set. Perfect for my knitting:)

Charlotte x

It is time for a competition here at Spektakulär!!!

Spring is here and we like to celebrate with an amazing competition. We love colours and we love functional designs too, most of all we believe everyone need a little colour in their life. So do join the fun and compete for one of the lovely MENU silicone “Dropp” bowl in the colourful spring leaf (green). Perfect on the lunch/dining table filled with rolls, salad or perhaps a trifle!

So this is how it works, you need to like us on Facebook , and share this competition on your own wall or a friends wall. That is it! Super simple! The winner will be randomly drawn from those sharing this post when the Competition ends midday Friday 25th May and will be announced on our Facebook page.

Well a big GOOD LUCK to all of you!

Charlotte x

P.S. Each person gets one entry in the Competition, there isn’t an extra chance every time you share