Oct 27, 2009
Top 5 Design Pieces I'm Extremely Bored Of
1. if I hit my head on this one more time.... ARCO lamp
2. Starck's ghost chairs - Ghostbusters
3. Noguchi table - sigh
4. Oh look, it's an Eames lounge chair and ottoman
5. Barcelona chair - ho-hum
Honourable Mention - the don't make me want you Saarinen table
Oct 26, 2009
Quote of the Week - Crosby Stills Nash and Young
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
Oct 22, 2009
Trends - Superhero Interiors
Both Spiderman and Superman are doing it.
Red and blue. I foresee a return with accents of gold.
Red and blue. I foresee a return with accents of gold.
Sorry Vancouver, you're not Brooklyn's bag
How pleased was I to see that Brooklyn Flea has a Design Co-op.
MAPTOTE was formed after an inspirational trip to Europe by Rachel Rheingold and Michael Berick. The duo took their love of maps, travel and design and presto they created a tote. The totes feature various schematic maps of cities, their neighbourhoods, icons and landmarks. Silkscreened on cotton in Downtown Brooklyn there are twenty three cities to choose from - Vancouver, not being one of them.
Vancouverites, which famous neighbourhoods, icons and landmarks would be on our map tote? After all, aren't we holding some sort of event soon that's supposed to 'put us on the map'?
The totes are great idea, they remind me of those kitschy vintage souvenir scarves or better yet - the black souvenir pillows, you could get with city maps on them.
Here's one designed by Grayson Perry for the Tate. It's not vintage but it's still fabulous.
Oct 21, 2009
Taxidermy - Selfish, Scientific or Stylish?
Does taxidermy always expose a longing to capture animals and tell stories about their significance within human lives?
The Museum of Vancouver attempts to answer this question with their latest exhibit, Ravishing Beasts (Oct. 22 - Feb. 28). Viewers are confronted with the 'visual power of taxidermy' and invited to examine taxidermy's cultural aesthetic, scientific history and artistic revival.
Here's a sneak peak from the opening party.
images © stacy reynaud
Fin
*No animals were harmed for this exhibition. Most of the taxidermy that will be on exhibit is from the museum's own collection and was acquired between 1894 and 1950 from Vancouver residents.
The Museum of Vancouver attempts to answer this question with their latest exhibit, Ravishing Beasts (Oct. 22 - Feb. 28). Viewers are confronted with the 'visual power of taxidermy' and invited to examine taxidermy's cultural aesthetic, scientific history and artistic revival.
Here's a sneak peak from the opening party.
images © stacy reynaud
Fin*No animals were harmed for this exhibition. Most of the taxidermy that will be on exhibit is from the museum's own collection and was acquired between 1894 and 1950 from Vancouver residents.
The Digs - What you see is what you get
I've had a few requests for some pics of the new digs. Here it is in all its unstaged glory - dark (cause that's the way I like it) and scantily clad with what's left of our furniture. Everything is still where we left it when we brought it in off the moving truck and will probably stay that way for awhile.
Don't you just love wires. My Dad won that lamp when he was a kid for delivering the most newspapers. The hand painted tea pot is a thrift find from years ago. I use it to hold my pens.
One really big slab table and a bent plywood Singer sewing chair.
My old LED clock from the 80s. It's so bright we have to put a sock over it when we go to bed. Part of the husband's guitar collection.
Our highly coveted thrifted $40 rosewood chair and my Grandfather's iron night table. That's Sherman down below. Oh, and there's my Casio Illuminator LED digital watch. Note the gorgeous rental white snagged rental apartment curtains. The emerald black out drapes will be up soon - I hope.
This is our old place.
The studio.
Don't you just love wires. My Dad won that lamp when he was a kid for delivering the most newspapers. The hand painted tea pot is a thrift find from years ago. I use it to hold my pens.
One really big slab table and a bent plywood Singer sewing chair.
My old LED clock from the 80s. It's so bright we have to put a sock over it when we go to bed. Part of the husband's guitar collection.
Our highly coveted thrifted $40 rosewood chair and my Grandfather's iron night table. That's Sherman down below. Oh, and there's my Casio Illuminator LED digital watch. Note the gorgeous rental white snagged rental apartment curtains. The emerald black out drapes will be up soon - I hope.This is our old place.
The studio.
Oct 20, 2009
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