cabinet.

Impulse Seattle.

2008-04-08T18:05:00.001-07:00

WHYRED CANVAS & LEATHER PUMPS

DUNLIN LAFAYETTE BAG

WWW.IMPULSE SEATTLE.COM

1st Dibs.Dot.Com

2008-03-19T17:55:00.000-07:00

DENTAL RETAINERS. - I'd hang it on my wall.

USA

1960's.

THREE PARISIAN DRESS FORMS.
1920's

DRESDEN WIGMAKERS MODEL.
Germany
circa 1950's

UNIQUE RED LEATHER & IRON FRAME MEN'S DRESS FORM.

U.S.A. 1960's.
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.

DECORATIVE VINTAGE MANNEQUINS.

Belgium. Circa 20th Century.

EARLY 20th CENTURY SHELL COLLECTION
Collection of 25 boxes of early 20th century shells

CHEST OF DRAWERS.
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.

2008-03-19T09:06:00.001-07:00

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).

Shoe Teapots & Negative Space.

2008-03-16T08:43:00.001-07:00

CAMILLA SKOVGAARD.

Been Through Hell. Part 2. (sneakers & boots)

2008-03-16T08:17:00.000-07:00

GOLDEN GOOSE. Charlye Pull On Boot.

Wrinkled, vintage-inspired, like-you-just-trudged-through-the-mud perfect.
Made in Italy.
Don't even ask about the price.

Perfect. I'll look for 'em at the thrift store.

Graffiti and Teapots.

2008-03-04T19:16:00.001-08:00

Public wall in Nijmegen, the Netherlands by Klaas Glubbels.
Poem by K. Schippers.

Not a public wall.

Right Place? Right Time?

2008-03-03T21:40:00.001-08:00

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.

2008-03-03T18:42:00.000-08:00

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.

"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.

Flannel and Plaid.

2007-11-29T18:18:00.000-08:00

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

Irene Suchocki.

2007-11-20T10:00:00.000-08:00

www.irenesuchocki.com
find her on etsy and flickr

Rainy Day Boots.

2007-11-20T09:35:00.001-08:00

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)

Fingerprint Trees.

2007-11-17T17:32:00.001-08:00

i love this graphic by vermont woods studios.

handcrafted solid wood sustainable furniture.

Amazing.

2007-11-16T22:03:00.001-08:00

NO EYES

by Pocket Paul.

I Like Them Just The Way They Are.

2007-11-16T21:55:00.000-08:00

Pinchers
(recycled wood and metal)

Caravans of Curiosities.

2007-11-16T21:11:00.000-08:00

free people's blog.

don't like the clothes. like the design.

My Blog = My Wish List.

2007-11-16T19:47:00.000-08:00

from matte art:

books:

from onegoodbumblebee:

from luxedeluxe:

Chest of Drawers.

2007-11-13T12:05:00.000-08:00

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."

No Distractions From Sleep. Like your favorite t-shirt washed a million times.

2007-11-11T20:30:00.000-08:00

(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.

Perhaps my favorite. Keith Carter.

2007-11-11T12:06:00.000-08:00

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?

My Vocabulary.

2007-11-09T11:06:00.000-08:00

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.

4 Photographers.

2007-11-08T22:35:00.001-08:00

SCOTT IRVINE.

(mine metal art, brooklyn, ny.)

SUZANNE CLEMENTS:

(suzanne's blog)

TDBERG.

(flickr)

ALICIA BOCK.

(alicia's blog and etsy)

atmospheric, nostalgic, and brilliant palettes. if i could i would quilt my wall with these images.

Autumn Leather.

2007-11-05T19:51:00.001-08:00

FIORENTINI BAKER:
collaborative effort from interior designer Gianpaolo Fiorentini from Bologna and shoe designer Deborah Baker from London. Soft and supple leather, vintage materials...I can only say that I am enamored. Too bad Dave puked in mine. I had 'em in gray.

Too Bad This Isn't New York.

2007-11-04T10:35:00.000-08:00

i dream about dreaming in this bed:

MINE Metal/Art LTD. brooklyn, ny.

i need some of these:

Hudson City Antiques. ny, ny.

October 31.

2007-11-03T14:40:00.001-07:00

(me in the spider hat.)

Zero Sum, #20

2007-11-02T09:58:00.001-07:00

Marc Snyder (Pittsburgh, PA) of Fiji Island Mermaid Press, The Zero Sum Art Project, & The Blogger Show.

OLD/NEW

2007-10-30T22:08:00.001-07:00

I like shoes inspired by these guys:

(OLD)

(NEW)

http://www.nike.com/nikevintage/

Terra Plana / Flat Land.

2007-10-30T21:32:00.000-07:00

HTTP://WWW.TERRAPLANA.COM

Floor.

2007-10-30T21:21:00.001-07:00

Amazing rug designs by MANSOUR MODERN.

(click on the photo to view the collection).

Bits of Foliage.

2007-10-30T19:58:00.000-07:00

design sponge posted this artist: DIANA FAYT.

I dig her work.

(i would paint my room with this palette)

bits of foliage makes me think of the "wabi-sabi" collection by 3 SHEETS 2 THE WIND:

(i love this 100% linen throw covered in poppies, find it here.)

(and the linen hanging panel here.)

(...because i liked the monkey).

I Love Buckles & Gray.

2007-10-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

anthropologie.com

gray? grey?

Functional Entomolgies.

2007-10-29T13:06:00.000-07:00

ENTOMOLOGY from the Greek entomo-/εντομο- "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented".

LAURA ZINDEL ceramics.

Inspired by Victorian Cabinets of Curiosity.

Handmade white earthenware, slip cast with non-toxic low fire glazes. Images are original pencil drawings by Zindel, printed in enamel and transfered and collaged to each piece.

I obsessed over these delicate studies in abc carpet & home this past summer.

Prints I Bought Once. and still have not framed.

2007-10-29T08:49:00.001-07:00

Fantastical imagery and minute details:

Etchings By VALERIE LUETH OF TUGBOAT PRINT SHOP, PITTSBURGH, PA

BUTTERFLY

(a bit of a theme in these last few posts)

LAZY FALLEN SUN

NIGHT MACHINE WAKES

TWINS

Visual Anatomies & Topography. part 2.

2007-10-28T23:04:00.000-07:00

By Michael & Doug Starn
(now showing selected works @ The Print Center, Phila, PA)

ATTRACTED TO LIGHT. By Michael & Doug Starn.

Portraits of moths. The first movement of the Starns' investigations into light: large-scale photographs pinned to the wall like moth specimens and hi-gloss, digitally printed film stills onto Thai Mulberry paper with encaustic, varnish, and scotch tape (Mulberry paper?). The Starns used custom-made macro lenses and developed their own specialized printing method in which the silver emulsion softens and minute flakes of the image wash away, recalling the moths' delicate velvety tattered wings.

The four movements of ABSORPTION OF LIGHT explore the metaphors of light through real symbols such as leaves, trees, moths, and the worn sculpture in Nara of Ganjin-the 8th Century monk who reformed Buddhism. The interrelatedness of these symbols is compressed through their common "lexicon with the sun" and the necessity for light to form their topography.

Botanicus Topographicus.

2007-10-28T21:58:00.000-07:00

ANATOMY is subdivided into macroscopic and microscopic. Macroscopic, also called topographical anatomy, (anthropotomy) is the study of anatomical structures that can be mapped and seen by unaided vision. Microscopic anatomy is the study of minute anatomical structures, organization of tissues (histology) and cells (cytology).

THE ANATOMY OF PLANTS WITH AN IDEA OF A PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS.
By Nehemiah Grew, 1682.

Transitionwallpaper.

2007-10-28T20:49:00.000-07:00

So much for WILLIAM MORRIS, LENE TONI KJELD's Wall Decoration is simply outrageous:

WALL DECORATION is produced in Denmark in a traditional wallpaper factory with rotary print. The collection consists of 8 patterns, including 4 hybrids. By means of transitionwallpaper, it is possible to combine 2 different repeat patterns.

Nothing Like Some Angsty Teenage Riotous Schizophrenic Fingerpaint.

2007-10-28T14:31:00.000-07:00

this is the BEFORE of my recently re-inhabited bedroom-turned-storage room two months ago...before stripping and sanding and priming and painting, 3 car loads to goodwill, 2 coffin-sized rubbermaids, and new carpet: