Category Archive: product

30 Nov

coloured binding

coloured binding

Australian Bookbinding has it’s annual showing at the AGNSW, ending tomorrow. Various designers playing with the idea of graphic enticements of the book covering variety. …

 
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14 Nov

Paris fleas

Paris fleas

Flea chairs are a tad difficult to carry on the metro, let alone back to a guest couch, so I sadly had to forego each purchase. I will go back with a car next time! and suffer the drive and the tunnel, since what I saw would make it all worth it.

 
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12 Nov

Venetian French Rococco Chair

Venetian French Rococco Chair

It’s easy to look back at the past and think that all other eras knew their own minds and with purist zeal were able to create entirely new work, for and of the time, without reference to their predecessors. Not so at all, which is one reason why I love scouting around the decorative arts in museums so much. Perhaps they validate my penchant for re-appropriation. Influence, or inspiration?; magical words that treat us to new ideas and open an old way to a new frame of vision.

 
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22 Oct

Nigel Coates & the Poltronova Connection

Nigel Coates & the Poltronova Connection

Coates’ latest collection delves into bones and limbs, joints that connect and form skeletal frameworks that sustain weight….the genesis of this idea had come from thinking about the body’s supporting structures and one stool in particular that had started the ball rolling.

 
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17 Sep

Horsehair Lace

Horsehair Lace

The intricacy of the woven horsehair strands; their red dyed coloration and the tiny scale of brooch and necklace components is perhaps not surprising for a country with such a lace-making heritage.

 
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12 Aug

Jan Plecháč iconic chair

Jan Plecháč iconic chair

Wire worked icon chairs, a throwback to the wire work of Harry Bertoia, and an homage to major design silhouettes in furniture. The exploration of …

 
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12 Aug

diamond chairs and small moments

diamond chairs and small moments

Harry Bertoia’s diamond chair; a classic design for Knoll that Bertoia created shortly after setting up a studio in Philadelphia in 1950. Trash day and …

 
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06 Aug

Bardith on Madison

Bardith on Madison

Favorite Manhattan stores… Bardith is on this list for sure…the beginnings of an education.

 
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06 Aug

Decorative arts in Ireland

Decorative arts in Ireland

There is a quality of wild, abandoned, unabashed florality about these hand painted pieces from the early 1800s.

 
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04 Jun

Alyson Shotz latest work

Alyson Shotz latest work

Who knows where inspirations come from, but since there really isn’t much new new under the sun I think the only one of a few things that is new is our own realisation of the things we love. Shotz’s work is in that book for me.

 
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