Category Archives: art

Hot and Fresh.

by Jessica Posted on January 3, 2013

New in the shop!  Two vintage Chinese Communist Party Propoganda posters – one from 1977 the other from the late 1950s/1960s.  Get get ‘em.  We think they are delicious.

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Lately I’m Loving…Donya Coward

by Jessica Posted on October 24, 2012

…more specifically her wall mounted animal heads.  And even more specifically this one…

A sequins wall mounted zebra head – are you kidding me?  True love.

Images from here

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Lately I’m Loving…Michael Angove

by Jessica Posted on October 5, 2012

The artworks above are by Michael Angove – the images to the right of each shows the extraordinary detail that he captures in his works, making ordinary objects something to gawk over.  Below shows Angove’s work applied to housewares.  Your opportunity to take a bit of the wonder home.

images from here

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Lately I’m Loving…Art by Klaus Ramka

by Jessica Posted on August 15, 2012

 

All images from Chauchet.com

(1) Wind I  (2) Totem Factory V  (3)  Big Totem II  (4) Yellow Network  (5) Black Network II

 

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Tokyo LLove Hotel.

by Jessica Posted on May 30, 2012

A very different kind of hotel experience which allows you to actually interact and “stay” within the installation, which just so happens to be a hotel room.  Created by eight Japanese and Dutch designers.

images from DesignBoom

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Noma Bar posters

by Jessica Posted on April 8, 2012

Look very closely at each of these.  There’s an optical illusion at work in each. Clever clocks.

From left, top: Scandinavia, USA, Japan

From left, bottom: Spain, France, Germany

Images from wallpaper.com

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Kai Samuels-Davis

by Jessica Posted on March 4, 2012

Look who I collected from the framer yesterday!

This piece is called “The Disappearing Boy”.  View more of Kai Samuels-Davis’ work here (you’ll thank me).

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We’re back …and hand-beaded furniture.

by Jessica Posted on January 6, 2012

Hello Colonistas!  We’re finally back from our Christmas and New Year travels.  Oh, how we’ve missed you.

I’m on a major beaded furniture kick after seeing some in Elle Decor in the home of Christian Louboutin.

Here are a few pieces I’ve come across in my research.

Beaded peacock bench, Horchow

Beaded African chair from this amazing blog that we’ve just added to our blog roll (in the right-hand column of this page – scroll down).

Not furniture, but heavily beaded – made by the Huichol people of Mexico.  from LN-CC.

 

images from Elle Decor, Horchow.com, AbsolutelyBeautifulThings.com, LN-CC.com

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