Recently Erin from Design for Mankind featured one of Takashi Iwasaki's embroidered art works. I was so engaged by Takashi's lovely piece that I had to check out more of his work and I was blown away when I did. Takashi, at 27 years old, has an impressive body of mostly abstract work in various mediums. These lovely collages make me smile...
His embroidered pieces are just beautiful...
But it's Takashi's paintings which stole my heart.
What a lovely way to end the week! Have a great weekend lovelies. I will probably go to the COFA Spring Fair tomorrow. See you there?
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Inspiration :: Takashi Iwasaki
18 September 2009
Etsy Search Top 10 :: Kokeshi
17 September 2009
It's been too long since I've done an Etsy search Top 10 and I'm into kokeshi dolls at the moment so I had a poke around Etsy using 'kokeshi' as my keyword search. I thought I'd share some that are not so traditional.
And if you'd like to make some of your own here are some places to buy blank forms. I recently bought some from Goose Grease Undone... but the little spool ones are so adorable I might have to get some of those too... Oh, and I just love the shapes of the ones from Rapture!
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Inspiration :: Petra Storrs
16 September 2009
London based Petra Storrs has an impressive portfolio of set, prop and stage design, costume design and illustration.
The costumes below are made of paper... the detail in their construction and the execution is mind blowing. They're amazing, aren't they?
From the amazing to the absolutely incredible... Petra designed and constructed a mirror dress stage costume or Paloma Faith (the white paper dress was also for Paloma). You can see the music clip featuring the mirror dress on Petra's website.
Image Source: Petra Storrs
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Revisiting :: Marimekko Style
14 September 2009
I was catching up on reading Marimekko's blog always mod last week and I discovered that they have a new range of wallpaper, and in Finland you can get a Marimekko Mastercard. How fabulous is that!
Image source: Marimekko.It reminded me of a post I wrote this time last year about my seventies style Marimekko childhood and I thought it would be worth a revisit.
Some of my mum's gorgeous vases from the '70s,
together with a vase which belonged to my husband's grandmother
(although, obviously not from the seventies).
Image source: Marimekko.
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together with a vase which belonged to my husband's grandmother
(although, obviously not from the seventies).
In the '70s my parents had an interior designer redecorate our house. Our family home was architect-designed in the early '60s and had floor to ceiling windows taking up at least one wall of every room. Combine that with new cream shag pile carpet, funky curtains, blinds, bedspreads and tablecloths all by Marimekko and you'll get some idea of the style of my childhood. Our double height laundry blind was in the classic red 'Unikko' pattern. My mum (who would have loved to have a Marimekko Mastercard) even dressed herself, my sister and I in Marimekko clothes... and underwear! Unfortunately I don't have any photos on hand to show you - I mean of our Marimekko lives, not our underwear. My parents took literally thousands of photos, but they are all on slides and I haven't yet been able to face the enormous task of sorting them and getting them transferred to disc.
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At the time Mum also bought the wild Acapulco design Villeroy and Boch dinner set "for good", and the now much sought after Arabia Rustica dinner set for "every day". We ate with Georg Jensen cutlery and I was surrounded with beautiful Scandinavian and European design pieces. My bedside table was lime green, made by Kartell.
I had so many clothes in the Marimekko stripe fabric like the T shirt above. I wore maxi dresses, nighties, T shirts, singlets - in stripes of every colour. And my collection of Marimekko coin purses surely must be unrivaled.
Image source: Marimekko.Although as a child and teenager I think I took it for granted I am now incredibly grateful for the exposure I had to the pureness of Scandinavian design. I'm thankful to my lovely mum for (amongst a whole list of other things) instilling in me a love of good design and an appreciation of buying quality. I know that it has shaped a significant part of my design aesthetic.
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