Quality and timeless design that performs equally well as a center piece of attention or as a reliable friend in the background. madetostay makes companions for live.

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Carsten Jörgensen Carsten Jörgensen

What Is Good Light At Home

Lighting the different rooms in your home requires some knowledge. This blog will help you find the right lamp for your living room, bedroom, kitchen or office. Tips for your lighting decisions include the functions of the rooms and the emotions that make life more beautiful.

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Kirsten Henkel Kirsten Henkel

A Home Fragrance Journey

We wanted to make fragrances to which you can say “you love it or hate it” rather than “pleases me” with a headache as a result. The fragrance should become an additional sensory dimension to a room, we wanted to create a series of fragrances that could enhance a particular spatial feeling and a memorable ambience in a contemporary home.

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Carsten Jörgensen Carsten Jörgensen

Enlightenment made in Italy

Dedication to quality and willingness to work on perfecting the product in close contact with the designer is what makes Krelamp such a valuable partner to us.

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Carsten Jörgensen Carsten Jörgensen

That's the way we draw it

Founded by architect Li Han and designer Hu Yan in Beijing, Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS) is a creative platform integrating architecture, art, design, urban study, pop culture, and aiming to explore the new models for the creation of contemporary urban culture.

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Kirsten Henkel Kirsten Henkel

Scented candles made in France

The pure natural Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) wax with no artificial additives makes madetostay scented candles release their pleasant light and fragrance for more than 40 hours.

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Carsten Jörgensen Carsten Jörgensen

Ceramic with tradition

We at madetostay wanted to explore the Portuguese way of making faience or what they call white clay ceramic as the tradition of faience-making goes a long way back in Portugal.

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Carsten Jörgensen Carsten Jörgensen

Magic in wood from Portugal

Every single shape of the Hobitat is made by hand and with an extraordinary sense for the finishing touch. The craftsmen create a luxury product from a natural and sustainable wood named Freixo Negro, a name that adds a certain poetic tone to the Hobitat.

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Carsten Jörgensen Carsten Jörgensen

Glassblowing art from Portugal

For us, it is important to stay close to production and every single person behind what we put into life. Therefore, we have made it a rule that we get to know each of our suppliers in person, and some of them we even know for many years.

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Carsten Jörgensen Carsten Jörgensen

Cocooning light

For any designer or user of lamps the light source and its ability to create a full rendered spectrum of colors must be the essential point of focus when judging light quality. Strange enough, we actually can’t find better light sources than the candle and the incandescent light bulb that comes even close to the rainbow.

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Carsten Jörgensen Carsten Jörgensen

How Much Light Do I Need

How much lumen do I need for each room?

A simple overview of approximately how much light is in demand in the various rooms throughout a home.

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Jürgen Henkel Jürgen Henkel

Direct trade-lower prices

We have decided to keep the distribution of madetostay completely in our own hands from now on and to do without external trade levels. Sales without sales agents.

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