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Twitter Request #1: Grims Grenka, Oslo

James Davidson — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:57:16 +0000

We received a tweet a few days ago from @warrenbuckley, asking us if we had covered any boutique hotels in Norway, we hadn’t (shame on us), but it did get us thinking… why don’t we open our Twitter account up to requests for things you’d like to see featured over here on the wonderful We Heart. So, that’s exactly what we’re going to do, if you want to see the best bars in Brooklyn or the slickest interiors from Istanbul then just tweet your request through to us on @weheartstuff and we’ll do our best to oblige. In the meantime, here’s Twitter Request #1, the fabulously opulent, and wonderfully named Grims Grenka hotel in Oslo.

Situated next to the Akershus Fortress in the centre of Oslo, Grims Grenka is the cities first foray into the world of boutique design hotels and it hits the mark straight away. All dark, gothic and so traditionally Norwegian but with a dramatic contemporary chicness that belies it’s ‘Design Hotel‘ status, Grims Grenka has all the usual trappings of a top class urban hotel. It’s slick and sensual Asian influenced restaurant is complete with flaming ornamentation, the exclusive lounge serves sophisticated organic cocktails and the summertime rooftop lounge is an urban oasis with it’s luxurious pillows and house mixologist. The sleek, contemporary rooms offer Wi-Fi, Bang & Olufsen televisions, iPod docks and the obligatory Egyptian cottons, ensuring that once you’ve spent your life savings on a notoriously expensive Oslo night out, you’re at least guaranteed a good nights kip!

Johanna Basford’s #TwitterPicture

James Davidson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:59:38 +0000

We hope you haven’t been missing our posts too much, we’re working on something very special and we promise it will be with you soon so hold tight, in the meantime we couldn’t resist telling you about the brilliantly unique Twitter art project that London based, Scottish born, designer, Johanna Basford, is half way through. All throughout the day Johanna has been taking requests for things that you want her to hand draw, in her own intricate style, within the delicate circular design to appear on a forthcoming stupidly limited edition print, yes, just 100 will be silk screened and accompanied with a certificate detailing the name and request of each submission. If you want to take part in this beautiful project, that really uses technology to bring artist and public together in a unique and surprising way, then follow Johanna and tweet your request between 9am and 5pm GMT tomorrow, then join the inevitable scramble for one of those uber-rare prints.

Happy Socks ‘Chapter Two’ Twitter Giveaway

James Davidson — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:48:28 +0000

Since we featured the rather wonderful Swedish sock sensation (accidental alliteration alert!) ‘Happy Socks‘ last year, they’ve gone on to become the brand associated with sock chic, if of course there was such a thing. Having taken the western world by storm with their concept of glamorous foot culture, they’re now on their way to becoming an ‘uber brand’ as they are set to stock their latest collection of 100 quirky patterns and designs to recognised and respected retailers across Asia. What’s more is they’ve only gone and given us 20 pairs to dish out to some of our lucky readers.

Here’s what you need to do…. We’ll be Tweeting random pictures from our location today, the first 10 We Heart Stuff followers who tweet us with the name of the city we’re in will get 2 pairs from Happy Socks’ brand new ‘Chapter Two’ range. If you don’t follow us already, then now’s the time to do so. twitter.com/weheartstuff

We Heart Stuff goes Twitter

James Davidson — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:54:13 +0000

Ok, so you might be asking ‘what took you so long’, but we’ve obviously been too busy digging out the latest in fashion, travel, luxury, design, art, dining, entertainment………. It’s no excuse we know, but it’s here at last, the official We Heart Stuff twitter account so you can keep up on the latest in what’s cool right now. We’ll be posting loads of exclusive content that you won’t find on the site, so no need to worry that it’s just going to be a glorified RSS feed like some sites churn out, we’d really love to get feedback from our readers too, especially as we are working on We Heart Stuff 2.0 with a new design, features and functionality, we’ll even throw in some Twitter only special offers from time to time, so head over there right now and get following.