Many holiday memories are linked to traditions – pulling out the boxes and remembering all your favorite decorations – trying to recall which year you recieved what, from whom and any special memories from that year. So create a little family tradition or one amongst friends with the wide range of holiday figurines from Alessi.
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We have long been fans of Sebastian Wrong and Richard Woods’ ( if you don’t know Woods, you must click on this link to see some of the amazing large scale projects he has completed) collaboration on WrongWoods for Established & Sons. A unique collection of pretty ordinary forms finished in an extraordinary manner. The opportunity to get this piece, which really teeters between funishing and art, at a fantastic discount will not last long. Just one is availabe through Context for about $1389, a 40% discount.
ALL DAY ART @ mixture
Saturday, July 23rd
10am-6pm
Open to the Public
-Exhibiting over 40 local artists
-100’s of new works (paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry, vases…)
-Artists working live during the day
-Large hanging glass installation by artist Hugo Heredia Barrera
-Everything in the store 10% off for the day
-Brumby will be back in the kitchen serving up some delish food and refreshing beverages
Created by New York artist Maggie Wells, these one-of-kind hand formed ceramic sculptures can be stacked, piled and rearranged as you like. They have no title but I see shells, petrified wood, ancient flowers or bones… in any case there is a certain subtle wisdom about the composition that we find really compelling. Available @ Karkula.
Its bold, its high contrast and it never seems to fall out of favor. In his H Torsion free-flowing wall mural, Jim Soliven takes it all a step further. An organic show of thousands of lines on white actually consist of tiny black rectangulars generated by the artist’s computer programming. Jim Soliven is a programmer and computational artist based in New York City. @ Hang & Paste
Mobiles have a unique way of lighting up a room. Spektral and Sto-Lang are no exception. What does make them exceptional is that these delicate yet durable garlands of laser-cut velumn are hand tied by craftspeople with physical or mental challenges. At $18 and $28 each, these are a wonderful gift, all around.
This is not your average bunch of daises. Oopsa Daisies are graphic depictions of the real thing but supersized. A group of six flowers, the heighest measuring 45″. Available in a selection of colors, about $86 for the set.
National Cupcake Day – I actually didn’t know there was one but apparently Jason Miller did, or he just likes cupcakes. Little Gift is a porcelain cupcake wrapped in cellophane that looks alot like those ones that used to be in my lunchbox a long, long time ago. What better way to say “Thanks” “Happy Birthday” or “Thanks for Inviting Us” @ twentieth for about $35.
When I attend a design show, its usually in some sort of a non-descript hall, so one of the things I most look forward to is, well – design. What can be done with a trade show booth? One of the most interesting I saw at dwell ON DESIGN in LA was this installation of Clouds by Ligne Roset. Erwan & Ronan Bouroullec follow a recent trend towards additive design. Each of these fabric tiles is connected to the other via a sort of high-design rubber band. The design allows that tiles to hold 2 or 3 dimensional shapes, depending on how you utlize the scored fabric tiles. Designed to be used as a room divider or art installation, the gigantic Cloud installation at dwell ON DESIGN certainly caught our eye.
It’s almost an obsession – you start researching something on the internet, it piques your interest, so you dig a little deeper, and a little deeper and pretty soon two hours have passed. What started this mission was my previous post about Kekazze. I was really intrigued by this piece and started reading about Omar Ronda and Cracking Art. In his own words, he explains what he does:
“I have sought the origins of life in the earth’s oldest natural material, that is petroleum. A black, dense liquid disgorging from the warm womb of Mother Earth, and the natural repository of the planet’s entire history of organic life-forms, from its origins to the present day. I studied the technique known as ‘cracking,’ which breaks up this natural magma into a series of synthetic, artificial derivative products. I discovered plastic, the most modern and extraordinary element that any artist can manipulate.
I use objects and shapes in plastic that evoke or simulate nature, so as to reinstate petroleum’s ancient, primary forms of life and imagery. This means turning life back in its tracks, as a way of finding the poetical voice an sould of art in the material itself.”
— Omar Ronda
Many works have resulted, but the Red Penguin is pretty cool. 40 0f the 200 that were orginally produced reside in a permanent collection at 21c Hotel / Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. This 90 room hotel features a 9000 square foot contemporary art museum with works by living artists. (You can see how I got kind of caught up in this whole thing). Apparently, the penguins make their way around the hotel on a regular basis. There was even a rumor floating around that one of the Penguin’s had been abducted.. at that point, I had to stop.
