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December 2012

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la Famiglia

Maria Cavali

Eligijus RamanauskasKate Pickering Sandra Kliukaite

Photographer

Author Art director/interactive design Stylist, designer

Photographer, stylist

Author

Dietlind Wolf

Cover image: Concept, styling, photography: Dietlind Wolf

Olga Lempert

Melina Hammer

Stylist, designer Proof editor

Photographer Photographer

Augis Narmontas

Barbora Adamonyte

For you and yours...Dietlind Wolf

OkiikoPlayful accessoriesThe secrets

of PicadillyHandmade handbags

Gregory’s mise en scéneArt in Paris

The feeling of homeFinnish ChristmasCollector of ideas

Paulina Arcklin

Pie time

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When does Christmas begin and when does it end? For some, including me, all year is about Christmas. Perhaps with the exception of summer when I am lounging on warm sand by the sea and the memory of Christmas dims slightly. Come fall, my wait begins again. Slowly. Unhurriedly. In my mind, I arrange white and black, grey and green, looking for that special color scheme for this Christmas and this Christmas only. I run my hand over a wooden log and can almost smell Christmas. As my fingers crumple a brown paper bag which just a short while ago held some orange cookies, I suddenly hear the rustle of Christmas.

There is a white sheet of paper before me, with just the one word: “Dear…” A long and frank letter is forming in my mind. It’s been a while since I’ve written a letter. Now I am writing one, and not just because of Christmas. I am writing because I have something to say and someone to say it to. Becau-se I know that a few days from now someone will read this letter, then look up smiling. This is why we wait for Christmas 364 days of the year…

Alge RamanauskieneEditor-in-Chief

Llamas’ [email protected]

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Enjoy the read and have a magical 2013!

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Photography and styling: Dietlind Wolf

Dietlind WolfVisual multi-disciplinary designer

Living and creating in Hamburg, Germany

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Christmas is special. As we all know from our own stories, when it comes to Christmas, everyday rules become useless, our inner child popping up with its desires and wishes…

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Paulina ArcklinPhotographer - Photo Stylist

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Styling and photography: Paulina Arcklintext: Alge Ramanauskiene

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ColleCtor of ideas

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- Paulina, what were the last 3 things to make you stop and think for a moment?

- Photos, atmosphere, and people with their own passion.

- As a photo stylist and photographer, do you

see beautiful points of view everywhere you go? Is it easy to separate yourself from your work in your daily life?

- Yes, I see potential photos everywhere and I love it! The world is so visually alive for me! Fran-kly, I’ve never really tried to keep my work and dai-ly life separate. My work is my passion and I want to live my passion daily.

- For many years you told stories of homes to the readers of different interior magazines aro-und the world. If you had to choose only one, what would be the most amazing home story you ever told or heard?

- A couple who went to see an apartment and decided immediately that they wanted it without knowing if they could get a loan from the bank. The next day, while they were at the bank nego-tiating the terms of the loan, the real estate agent called them three times to tell them of other pe-ople’s higher bids, forcing them to raise their own bid right in the middle of signing a loan contract.

They really wanted this home and they finally got both the loan and the apartment. The couple also really worked miracles with this apartment – pul-led the walls down, used high-gloss white epoxy floor, etc.

- And what is your own home story like? What do you like most about your home in Amsterdam?

- My home is like a Home Studio where I live and work. So all my stuff is also being used as photo-graphy props that I can use for example when I have photo shoots with kids - white products go with all the colors of kids’ clothes.

I love the open floor plan, but I don’t like the flo-or color - I should do something, but this is a ren-ted house and I’m not sure how long I’m going to stay at this home… I do have ideas for the floor, but cannot decide whether it is worth doing that.

The house where I live at the moment is not my dream home, but it’s amazing how close to the dre-am you can make it by styling. I love finding solu-tions to such things.

- How do you like to decorate your home for Christmas?

- Less is more. And less is more effective, too. A few large-scale items, and I have a modern and industrial Christmas at home.

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Is it interesting or difficult to live constantly mo-ving from one place to another in the world? It is the only way Marita and Juha Vänskä, who invited Llamas Valley for a visit, can imagine living. Mr Juha is a diplomat, so his family has never lived a settled life. But wherever they land, they manage to find that magical feeling of home.

Finnish Christmas

We are sitting on a soft Finnish couch upholste-red in grey fabric, in a house built in 1912, on a se-rene street leading to a large and beautiful park. “I think it is a benefit,” Marita replies to our question about her nomadic lifestyle, “When you live this way, you get to experience new things, meet fas-cinating people, see new places, maybe even learn new languages. I cannot imagine my life any other way. Us living in a little Finnish town… Naturally, that, too, would have been lovely, but I have been granted more than that in life.”

The Vänskäs have lived in Finland, then Saint Petersburg, Russia, where Juha and Marita had their two children – son Anton and daughter So-lange. Then they moved to Moscow, then back to Finland, and then Saint Petersburg again. Late last summer Vilnius, Lithuania became their new home.

At the time of our visit to Marita and Juha’s ho-me, their son Anton had just returned to see his parents from Tallinn where he studies. So the home was already in a festive mood: a tiny Christmas tree on the desk (because the time before Christmas is called Little Christmas in Finland!), Christmas biscuits, ginger honey cookies, and gingerbread houses on the plates.

The feeling of home

Photography: Augis Narmontastext: Alge Ramanauskiene

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OkiikO: twO in One

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Photography: Augis NarmontasText: Sandra Kliukaite

Laura TuLaiTeGraphic designer

eivaras rasTauskasArchitect

Creators of Okiiko accessoriesWeB

The creators of playful minimalist Okiiko acces-sories are very well described by the cliché “two in one”. And it is not that their story is cliché in any way. Quite the opposite! Okiiko is two people: gra-phic designer Laura Tulaite and her husband archi-tect Eivaras Rastauskas. They both design original accessories. This may be rare among architects, but Laura and Eivaras count a few such broad-pro-file creatives among their friends. There are even some who keep goats in a village while working for an ad agency.

Laura and Eivaras live in an apartment in Vilnius Old Town. This is both their home and office. They say they have been preparing for the challenge of quitting their old jobs (an advertising agency for Laura, an architects’ studio in Eivaras’ case) and making something of their own for a while now. Once they made good on the plan, most of the ap-artment’s first floor transformed into a studio that fits work desks, computers, an accessory-making zone, a living room, a kitchen, hundreds of books, and the pets – cacti and a dog called Lape (Fox). Lape was returned to civilized life from a pet shel-ter and can be somewhat “rude”, but her owners say that in the three years she has been with them, she has almost fully socially adapted and has be-come an excellent house dog.

Laura and Eivaras have been enjoying the love-ly views of the Old Town through the windows of this apartment for eight years. Over that time the

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Photography and styling: Melina HaMMer

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Lamb Neck Shepherd’s Pie

Serves 41 1/2 lbs (700 g) lamb neck, finely diced1 large onion, peeled and chopped2 carrots, chopped2 celery stalks, chopped2 garlic cloves, minced1 1/4 cup (300 ml) stout – i used a chocolatey version, and it turned out unusually delicious2 cups (475 ml) beef stock1/4 cup (50 ml) Worcestershire sauce1 tbsp (15 g) tomato paste1 1/2 tbsp (20 g) hot English mustard2 fresh bay leaves1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves1/3 cup (40 g) all-purpose floursea salt and freshly cracked peppergood olive oil

For potato topping1 lb (450 g) floury potatoes – I used a mixture of Sebago and Yukon Gold – peeled and cubed1 egg, lightly beaten for wash3/4 cup (175 g) heavy cream4 tbsp (56 g) butter, cubed1 tbsp (15 g) hot English mustard



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Butcher’s Pork Pie

Serves 10for filling2 lbs (900 g) pork shoulder, cut into 1/4-inch (0.5 cm) cubes1/2 lb (230 g) pork belly, cut into 1/4-inch (0.5 cm) cubes1/2 lb (230 g) slab bacon, cut into 1/4-inch (0.5 cm) dice1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg1/2 tsp mace1/2 tsp cayenne1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper1/2 tsp freshly ground white pepper1 tsp sea salt, plus more to taste10 sage leaves, chopped1 1/2 tbsp fresh thyme leaves

for pastry1 cup (200 g) lard4 1/2 cups (560 g) all purpose flour1 cup (250 ml) cold water1/2 tsp kosher salt1 egg, for egg wash

for broth2 pig’s feeta handful of peppercornsa generous pinch of salt1 large onion, roughly choppeda few sprigs of thyme2 fresh bay leaves


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