We’ve been hard at work collaborating with the magnificently talented artist Annika Connor. We’ll be launching her artist edition collection in 2012 but we’re too excited and have to showoff her new textile, Lottie.
Dearie ( our office mascot) admiring Lottie.
STAY TUNED FOR MORE!
One of my favorite quotes of all time is by the great Oscar Wilde: “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.”
In the past 20 years, his tomb in Paris has been attacked by kisses.
The destructive kisses were eroding the stone so they had to clean it all up. Today they unveiled the scrubbed tomb with a plastic wall to keep the smooches off. More juicy dets here.
Designsponge.com posted some images today by Lena Wolff and that must be shared.
Black & White (and a bit in between)
So I’m currently reading Murakami’s, “Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”…( I know, I’m so late to that bus). Man in the well? I mean, the book and the these drawings should have tea together. I feel like they’d be best friends.
And for some facts on Martin Ramirez: ( I’m going to let wikipedia take this one): Having migrated to the United States from Tepatitlan, Mexico in 1925, Ramírez was institutionalized in 1931, first at Stockton State Hospital in Stockton, California, then, beginning in 1948, at DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, near Sacramento, where he made the drawings and collages for which he is now known. At DeWitt, a visiting professor of psychology and art, Tarmo Pasto, came across Ramírez’s work and began to save the large-scale works Ramírez made using available materials, including brown paper bags, scraps of examining-table paper, and book pages glued together with a paste made of potatoes and saliva. His works display an idiosyncratic iconography that reflect both Mexican folk traditions and twentieth-century modernization: images of Madonnas, horseback riders, and trains entering and exiting tunnels proliferate in the work, along with undulating fields of concentric lines that describe landscapes, tunnels, theatrical prosceniums, and decorative patterns.
And she even added WALLPAPER!
Mega props to Ms. Meyn, who built this treehome in Brooklyn, NY.
Ok, we made that up…but we’ve been petting these with our eyes all day.
wallpaper Cavern’s Thatch in Silt
pillow at The Future Perfect
lighting at Lindsey Adelman
rug at New Mexico’s Digital Collection
axe at Best Made Company
We bring you the creepsicle master, Edward Gorey and his Gashlycrumb Tinies.
And his book in action set to one of our favorite tunes by Dead Man’s Bones, “My Body’s a Zombie for you”.
