December 9, 2010
Malia Jensen's Multiples
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Malia Jensen, a 44-year-old artist in Brooklyn, considers her life-size painted bronze cherries and stainless steel bird feet to be small sculptures. But whether they are art, functional objects (paperweights?) or simply decorative, they are certainly tactile. Ms. Jensen began making them in 2008, working in wax. When she made the cherries, she said, “I thought of them as a play on still lifes, and on painted still lifes, so I painted the bronze with an enamel.” The feet belong to no particular species. “I made them up,” she said. “I imagine them to be pigeons.” But she has a definite idea about how they should be used: “Stamp them on wet concrete, or cake frosting or sand,” she said.
December 12, 2010
Peter Eudenbach's "Chimera"
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Looking for a decoration to take you from Halloween to Christmas? Peter Eudenbach may have a little something-something for you. The conceptual artist in Norfolk, Va., took cast-metal bluejays' feet manufactured for taxidermists and wood carvers and attached them to a mouth-blown glass ornament. He photographed the weird but wonderful results, barely 3 inches tall, for his 2009 holiday card. It caught the eye of Artware Editions, a New York firm that sells artist-designed household goods. Now Eudenbach is producing a limited run of the hand-assembled "Chimera." The title of the piece, Eudenbach said, "is a term used in genetics and mythology relating to any kind of fusion between two creatures." In this case, the ornament sprouting feet represents the fusion of "the animate and inanimate, the natural and the commercial, the end of winter and the beginning of the spring..."
November, 2010
Kiki By Kiki Smith
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The fragrance combines woody scents like musk, sandalwood, and patchouli with splashes of warm fruity flavors such as fig and black currant. Smith’s favorite component? The boxwood shrub – which she fondly describes as a faint cat-pee odor that reminds the artist of her grandmother’s garden."
November, 2010
Amanda from Amanda Lepore
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Amanda fragrance captures gentle elegance, glamour and the amazing power of new molecular Orriniff, which provides warm notes of iris root and amber, and creates an ideal platform for the floral notes such as tuberose, orange blossom and violets. Sparkling citruses and Cristal champagne aromas are inspired by Italian Renaissance elixirs. Accords of cucumber, strawberry and red lip stick contribute to the mischievousness composition."
November, 2010
Kiki fragrance from Kiki Smith
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When Kiki Smith was in college, she took a picture of herself for a school magazine with the words “scratch and sniff” written beneath. No actual scent was emitted, but Smith’s preoccupation with odor evidently never disappeared, which helps explain her latest collaboration: a limited-edition perfume she is launching this month with Artware Editions. One of its strongest notes—boxwood shrub—is as unconventional as the artist."
October, 2010
Jonathan Van Dyke's Emma cup
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The shape of cooling towers, the coffee cup, the hand-made vessel - these things come together in my mind. I love the cast concrete surface of the cooling towers, and that's how I first turned to Hydrocal plaster. Each cup is cast from the sort of real cups one might find anywhere and are named after women I know, starting with the small espresso cup, Barbara, named for my high school art teacher."
September 2010
John Gerrard's Bone Cutlery
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Both a Michael Pollan-esque commentary on knowing where your food comes from and a bit of dare-devil design, John Gerrard's primal place settings were cast from the bones of single goat — the knife and soup spoon fit together and hinge like a tibia and metatarsus. (Not shown: salad servers cast from scapulae.) Gerrard, an animation artist, worked with French silversmiths to add classic heads to the animalistic handles so the silver-plated pieces are properly weighted and have a pleasing hand-feel.
September 2010
Love It, Want It
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Jigsaw "Carnival and Lent" puzzle by artist Cecily Brown, edition of 200, signed or unsigned.
September 2010
Sitting Pretty
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British superstar artist Damien Hirst takes ordinary objects and makes them thought-provoking, iconic, and occasionally just plain fabulous. Witness his four-position deck chair: It looks as playful indoors as out.
August 25, 2010
StillTime for a Deck Chair
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Artware Editions is discounting all its artist-designed deck chairs by 20 to 30 percent, while supplies last.
Kunst für Alle
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Finally one can afford a work by the cult artist Damien Hirst. His famous pickled shark in Formaldehyd is worth about 15 million. However, a butterfly image printed on one of the iconic artist's deck chairs are now being sold commercially.
Amanda from Amanda Lepore
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The world's most famous transsexual Amanda Lepore has created a small cosmetic with an easy-to stylized living Barbie doll. Now, the smell of this postmodern fable whose Christian Laudemen captured in a classy sparkling bottle.
May 2010
Markus Linnenbrink's GESTALTKUNSTWERKE
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GESTALTKUNSTWERKE by Markus Linnenbrink featured in Interior Design...
Roy McMakin's The Broken Juice Glass
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The elegant Broken Juice Glasses are a set of four tumblers emblazoned with a morphing message: Watch "Things Change" become "Change Things" by the end of the set."
Markus Linnenbrink's GESTALTKUNSTWERKE
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Out of his admiration for used plastic bottles and takeout containers. In a phone conversation from Berlin, where an exhibitons of his works opened April 30 at the Fiedler Traubert Contemporary gallery, where Mr. Linnenbrink explained his process.
March 2010
Michelle Jaffe's Fjords Collection
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Michelle Jaffe's Fjord Collection consists of sets of three graduated felt bowls, available in a variety of colors.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Michelle Jaffe's Fjords Collection
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Michelle Jaffe's Fjord Collection consists of sets of three graduated felt bowls, available in a variety of colors.