Corn Craft: An installation designed to highlight the properties of one simple, agrarian material; corn.
Produced by Gallery FUMI and Studio Toogood
Studio Toogood, under the creative direction of London-based interior stylist Faye Toogood, designs, directs and executes interiors and environments from concept through to creation. Offering event, interior and exhibition design as well as styling and set design for the interior and fashion industries, the Studio’s projects range from the two-dimensional page to the three-dimensional space, and from the real to the conceptual.
Check out many more of their absolutely stunning portfolios and incredible projects on the website.
I love it.
(via MocoLoco and Scout Holiday)
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In Ingrid Hill’s book “Ursula Under” she takes a moment to describe the titular character’s great-great grand- mother in Finland in the early twentieth century, sitting serenely on a hill. She eloquently writes “…we will look at this snapshot only, which is regardless only in our imaginations, the only cameras anyone had before our own era. The caption of this picture would likely be ‘Innocence’. It would be a romantic oversimplification – hence falsification – like most of the tales in our family history.”
While I was speaking to Danielle Wilmore and Wade Papin, head designers and owner of Pyrrha jewellry, my mind kept coming back to this book. The necklaces molded from old seals has a remarkable sincerity, and an undiluted truthfulness that is almost non-existent in recorded history. Favouring emblematic expressions of the peasantry over the complicated opulence of the family seals of the aristocracy, their jewelry is a totemic expression of the wearer.
(Danielle and Wade photographed by Alexa Kirsten Stroth)
It’s been unusually cold here which has led me to think about socks more than I usually would. They are one of those things that just about everyone wears and rarely thinks about, but what makes a great sock? The answer is hand-stitched toes, uncomfortable seams are created by machine finishing. Hand-stitched toes are words to live by, once you have a pair it’s hard to wear anything else.
1589
The first knitting machine, the hand frame, was invented in 1589 by the Rev. William Lee of Calverton, Notts. Constant improvements led to the growth of an industry in London by 1600 producing fashion stockings, hence the term ’stocking frame’. Knitters served a seven-year apprenticeship, working under a hosier’s control. The idea of a circular machine was brought to life in the late 1830s since it could operate faster than a flat machine which involved a series of discontinuous movements.
(Images via QUICO at House of Lotus) Photos: (C) Yoshihiko Ueda
Ilmari Tapiovaara (a Finnish interior architect noted for his furnishings and textiles) took his design ideology from functionalism, the Bauhaus ideology, inspiration from Alvar Aalto, and from international influences. The pieces of art of his design are timeless, deliberately abstract, and pure of form. ‘Only the simplest is best. Take away all that is unnecessary, develop the plasticity’. (Read more about the designer here.)
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Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) 1958.
Directed by Louis Malle Music by Miles Davis
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The advertising images for Steelcase Coordinated Office in Fortune magazine in the 1960s.
Steelcase Matchbook! How cute.
Above images via The Mid-Century Modernist
From Portland, Oregon, Blind Pilot came to play a wonderful show in Vancouver BC last week.
at The Biltmore December 3rd, 2009
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.” – Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel and Jeanne Moreau, Paris, 1957
What inspired her and how she applied the inspiration. What she wanted and how she reached it. It’s more than just fashion that tells me from her life story. I’m fascinated by the way she lived.
I believe in reality in style more than fantasy in fashion.
Rush Hour (1970)
British Transport Films Collection
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- Backstage at Balmain- Paris, 1954. Photographed by Mark Shaw
