Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
1st Dibs.Dot.Com
DENTAL RETAINERS. - I'd hang it on my wall.
USA
1960's.
U.S.A. 1960's.
A unique mens suit dress form with complex iron frame and riveted thick red leather strap "skin"
A unique mens suit dress form with complex iron frame and riveted thick red leather strap "skin"

19th CENTURY ARTIST'S WOODEN MANNEQUIN.
France. Wooden artist's model, headless, articulated with brass hands.
Belgium. Circa 20th Century.
CHEST OF DRAWERS.
The Netherlands. Designed by Tejo Remy. Collection of 20 old drawers bound together with a belt.
The Netherlands. Designed by Tejo Remy. Collection of 20 old drawers bound together with a belt.
LINE VAUTRIN MIRROR.
French c. 1950.
Small square mirror framed in Talosel resin and bits of colored glass. Signed.
GILT METAL & WROUGHT IRON DAY BED BY FERRABINI.
Italy. c. 1950
Designed by sculptor and architect, Giovanni Ferrabini. Painted white over the original lipstick red/orange enamel with gilt details.
Wolfie & The Sneak.

Wolfie & The Sneak.
Painted in layers on vintage maps and ledger paper and reproduced as archival prints on watercolor paper.
Signed limited editions for sale here.
(between $18 and $22).
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Been Through Hell. Part 2. (sneakers & boots)
Wrinkled, vintage-inspired, like-you-just-trudged-through-the-mud perfect.
Made in Italy.
Don't even ask about the price.
Made in Italy.
Don't even ask about the price.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Right Place? Right Time?
Sartorial.
1. of or pertaining to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
2. of or pertaining to clothing or style or manner of dress: sartorial splendor.
3. Anatomy. pertaining to the sartorius.
4. THE SARTORIALIST: one of TIME Magazine's Top 100 Design Influences. Photographing real innovators and engineers of their own style... on the street. These are not models.




To-the-point headers. Rare captions. Simply show-stopping style on the street.
THE SARTORIALIST lets "sartorial splendor" speak for itself.
Been Through Hell.

Engineering for The Denim Supersnob.
Woven on vintage Levi's shuttle looms combining African cotton with Japanese construction, the distressed denim line PRPS, aka PURPOSE, creates denim that is "bruised but never broken"... put through hell... for our convenience and vanity.
The rest of the line (only available in men's sizes), with super sexy structured tailoring and authentic detailing and distressing, pays homage to military uniform and the blue-collar worker.Woven on vintage Levi's shuttle looms combining African cotton with Japanese construction, the distressed denim line PRPS, aka PURPOSE, creates denim that is "bruised but never broken"... put through hell... for our convenience and vanity.
"PRPS, who made their name producing incredible looking men's denim are about to launch a range of jeans for women. The collection will include bootcut, straight and slim cuts all of which will come in PRPS's distinctive range of washes. According to founder Donwan Harrell, the inspiration for his distinctive washes comes from the drag strip track where he used work on his super sotck race cars. The grease, gas and oil stains that he ended up covered in are now reproduced in women's jeans that are in his words the height in 'casual functional luxury'." -denimology.co.uk.
Check out the SUPERIOR WEBSITE.
I do not own these.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Flannel and Plaid.


Flannel. flan·nel. a warm fabric of various degrees of weight and fineness, usually made from loosely spun yarn.
Plaid. plad. is a Scottish word meaning blanket, usually referring to patterned woolen cloth. a cross-hatched dyeing pattern. The wearing of it by males was forbidden by parliament, under penalty of transportation from 1746-82.

The Bonfire Shirt by ELIZABETH & JAMES
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Rainy Day Boots.

The Wellington boot, also known as a wellie, a topboot, a gumboot, or a rainboot.
from TRETORN:

1. Ballena Lace-up Rubber Boot
2. Ballena Zip Rubber Boot
(more colors available)
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Chest of Drawers.
DECADES. from wis Design."Chest of drawers made out of discarded drawers, found and rescued at flea markets. A mix of different styles from earlier decades, with woods and knobs of various kinds, in a single piece of furniture. The old drawers are enhanced by the new frame in white lacquered MDF."
Sunday, November 11, 2007
No Distractions From Sleep. Like your favorite t-shirt washed a million times.

(quatrefoil quilt and due vintage cotton sheets.)
Matteo was founded by Matthew Lenoci in 1996 to create "simple sheets from the most luxurious textiles in the world". Every piece is woven in Italy from natural fibers, including cotton, flax, alpaca, and cashmere. Another drool-worthy summer find from abc carpet and home in nyc. Expensive? absolutely. I searched on ebay with no luck, but I finally found design public carries their DUE line which is not only cheaper than their original MATTEO collection, but they list it at an even more agreeable price than on Matteo's website. And if you're lucky enough to catch design public when they are having an outlet sale (their latest just ended in october), you will find prices anywhere from 50-75% off.


There is a vintage "loved and lived in" look and feel to the bedding that i love. No burlap potato sack-stiff linen, these have a luxury that linen has only after being washed 100 times... nearly falling apart like your favorite t-shirt. Same goes with the vintage cotton, which is 100% cotton but with unique stitching that gives it a linen texture. it's all very simple. with amazing eco-friendly materials and the look and feel like you discovered them in some medieval hill town in Italy that no one else knows about. most important: it's machine washable. who in their right mind would purchase dry clean only bedding? I never understood it.


There is a vintage "loved and lived in" look and feel to the bedding that i love. No burlap potato sack-stiff linen, these have a luxury that linen has only after being washed 100 times... nearly falling apart like your favorite t-shirt. Same goes with the vintage cotton, which is 100% cotton but with unique stitching that gives it a linen texture. it's all very simple. with amazing eco-friendly materials and the look and feel like you discovered them in some medieval hill town in Italy that no one else knows about. most important: it's machine washable. who in their right mind would purchase dry clean only bedding? I never understood it.
Perhaps my favorite. Keith Carter.
KEITH CARTER says he photographs "the ragged edges of the human psyche"...those small askew moments of the ordinary. His selective focus and mysterious rendering of form creates timeless and EXTRAordinary images. I LOVE them.





How can you choose just one?
Friday, November 9, 2007
My Vocabulary.
Rendering.
an act or instance of interpretation, rendition, or depiction, as of a dramatic part. a translation. a representation executed in and from a perspective. to arrange. to express in another language or form; translate. to cause to become. to reduce, convert, or melt down. an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious. inspect. distill.
distill.
to extract the essential elements of; refine; abstract. exude. separate to concentrate fundamental form. dissect.
dissect.
to examine the structure and relation of parts. to examine minutely part by part; analyze. break down into components or essential features. anatomize. segment. intersect.
intersect.
to cut or divide by passing through or across. geometry. lines. wires. overlap. traverse. interrupt. a choice. ruptured landscape. broken. pass through. branch off. perambulate. traverse in order to examine or inspect.
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