September 9, 2008
It would be a cliche but probably also true to say weaving is an endangered or at least increasingly uncommon art, so I’m always excited when I see being done, especially locally. Diane Thorp is a weaver from Vancouver Island whose work has been widely exhibited and has been featured in Fiberarts Magazine and other places.
September 7, 2008
Fur hammock by Bless, the design collaboration of Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag, who work out of Paris and Berlin. The fur is probably not recycled, but it’d be a great piece if it were.
August 29, 2008
A few blocks from my studio. When the building was painted, the painters preserved the graffiti by boxing it in. Now it has a white room of its own.
August 27, 2008
Magical kindergarten in Tromso, Norway, by Norwegian architecture firm 70° N. Via contemporist via trendinsights.
August 24, 2008
These textile shop banners are common in Japan. Given how easy they are to install and how much more beautiful they are than typical signage, it seems strange that they haven’t been widely copied.
August 22, 2008
This somehow manages to de-doilify doilies which is almost achieving the impossible. It makes the lace more reminiscent of bark or lichen or something from the bottom of the ocean—another example of how re-purposing a thing can actually improve on the original.
August 20, 2008
Drawerment by Czech designer Jaroslav Jurica is constructed from vintage drawers. First seen on apartment therapy. See this offshoot too, and these similar ideas.
Seen in the office of our feather pillow insert supplier.
August 16, 2008
On a hot day in Vancouver, I was thinking of this hotel. The Jukkasjarvi Ice Hotel in Sweden is rebuilt every year, always to a different design but always from ice and always with blankets of reindeer hide (sustainably produced nearby).
July 19, 2008
