Category: Art
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I vow to transcribe and photogenically share some of my interior design jobs in this new year. I know I have been the lazy blogger. I thank you kindly dear readers for visiting from time to time and through the years. I will devote myself to YOU — well some of the time, heh. More…
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Vintage pastels from Lawrences auctions in the UK.
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If you read this blog even semi-regularly you'll know at least these two things: I suffer migraines and I love Paolo Nutini. Not especially in that order. Well I just came out of a one-week migraine that kept me prisoner in my bed for much of that week. On one of the final days I…
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Leslie Oschmann blossomed when she moved from New York to Amsterdam and turned her childhood passion for creating objects into a business of reclamation and redemption called Swarm. She manipulates cast-off furniture pieces and infuses them with artistic elements that make them feel alive and animated. She gleans her materials from local flea markets. Red…
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How lovely on this grey winter morn to discover the wonderful art of Three Graces Gallery. I have to give credit for my discovery to Kim Naumann, a great artist in her own right, for including some of the gallery's artwork in her Flickr stream. Three Graces, out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was founded in…
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Stick with me here. It's a tangled yarn. This has been a morning where the message is "outsider art". First I went to "visit" Victoria over at sfgirlbybay and she had this excellent post on the film Beautiful Losers, a documentary about underground American artists (still trying to find out how to see it). Then…
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I'm fascinated by creative use of paper lately which lead me to discover artist/designer Isabelle de Borchgrave. Her collection of paper costumes is a feast: Here is an excerpt from her site: "The collection of life-size paper costumes travelling throughout the world retraces the history of the last 300 years of fashion. Isabelle collaborated with Rita…
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