I don't mean to crib from the very well done web magazine sightunseen but I can not get this work out of my mind. I am always looking for new ways to develop form and artist Juliette Warmenhoven is making great strides. Form developed from the growing plant life it seems, a sensibility from a chic garden shed...
I have just survived the birthday party for the giant teenager (thirteen) a delightful all girl affair and I am remembering all the pretty parties, cupcakes and stories of "little girlness"
. While cleaning up I found my copy of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Racketty-Packetty House. The story of two doll house families, one wealthy and brand new and one many times used and pushed behind the nursery door. I wonder if this is the origin of my secret hope to be a marxist decorator-if one is reading about class wars in Victorian dollhouses at a young age it must have some effect.
I started furniture class this week and gave my speech about plagiarism verses derivation
. Its a hard call in design school but what I do say is study furniture that has come before you know it well and make the derivation your own. My newest source for inspiration in the study of great furniture is the Wright auction house in Chicago. This site is so well put together and educational-a gift really.
I am really in a strange space with the Haiti crisis-hard to be upbeat about furniture and shiny new buildings when there is so much to be done. I did see this article about the production designer for Where the Wild Things Are and the creative process for making Max's fort.....A metaphor for going deep and recognizing the need for epic ideas.....
This is from Martha Stewart Mag this month.... A refined way to light a building.
I stumbled upon this very nice idea via Design Observer. Yale design student Benjamin Critton has sent up a forum to examine consumption. Everyday for 100 days he is putting a object owned by him up for sale-the project is called Surplus. I own a lot of the things he wants to sell but I will watch avidly anyway.....
Billy Elliott dances with a chair....And I cried almost throughout the performance. I am forever amazed at the power of the Broadway community to discuss potent political issues. Give it a shot it is an amazing piece of art.
I had to share this image of what I would say is chair heaven...just think what we could do to those babies. Its from the very peaceful blog beautyeveryday by Kristen Bach, Rebecca Wood, and our friend Rinne Allen. I love the site because it really is a site about the "eye" and how one see the world, your not to consume it just revel in these talented women's sensibilities.......
. While cleaning up I found my copy of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Racketty-Packetty House. The story of two doll house families, one wealthy and brand new and one many times used and pushed behind the nursery door. I wonder if this is the origin of my secret hope to be a marxist decorator-if one is reading about class wars in Victorian dollhouses at a young age it must have some effect.
. Its a hard call in design school but what I do say is study furniture that has come before you know it well and make the derivation your own. My newest source for inspiration in the study of great furniture is the Wright auction house in Chicago. This site is so well put together and educational-a gift really.
