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Posts tagged “handmade”

"Historically Inaccurate" Toile by Richard Saja
The New York Times 5.22.08

We've admired Richard Saja's embellished toile designs ever since we first spotted them at The Future Perfect a few years ago. This week, The New York Times follows Saja while he shops for textiles ...

Crepe Paper Flower Kits from Martha Stewart Crafts

Are your Deli-daffodils dying too fast? While we've always preferred our flowers fresh, there is something sweet and simple about these crepe paper flower kits from Martha Stewart. The kit provides ...

House Tour: Eliphante & Hippodome
NYT House & Home Roundup 1.31.08

This bizarre sculptural home is perhaps the best (and most extreme) example of Slow Design. Located in Cornville, Arizona, Eliphante was created with found materials over a period of 28 years by the...

Slow Design
NYT House & Home Roundup 1.31.08

Last year, Maxwell asked the question "Who do you think will be the Alice Waters of the home design world?" In today's New York Times, Penelope Green answers that question as she begins to define "S...

Packing Tape Marquetry from Johan Bruninx

This unique collection of furniture uses brown, matte, packing tape to refinish damaged pieces of furniture. In his graduation show at Design Academy Eindhoven, Johan Bruninx used intricate patterns...

Of the Young and the Restless Textile Design

Of the Young and the Restless was recently profiled in The New York Times, but we decided to look at more of their unique, hand-printed designs for textiles. We are glad we did! Their first collecti...

Porcelain Bowls by Karin Blach Nielsen

We're on a hunt for products that support this morning's post on "Things that look like things." These delicate porcelain bowls from Danish designer Karin Blach Nielsen are made from molds of folded...

NYT: Novelty and Things that Look Like Things

Remember those creepy/cute Hand Soaps that made appearances on all the design sites? In his latest Consumed column for The New York Times, Rob Walker breaks down the meaning behind Foilage's hit with ...

NYT: Currents
House & Home Roundup 12.20.07

South African textile designer Ronel Jordaan's recycled-wood benches with elaborate felt cushions will soon be available at twenty Anthropologie stores (two designs per store). The felting business...

NYT: Etsy and the Craft Movement

The craft movement has never been bigger and the New York Times Magazine published an in-depth look at the recent growth of the industry: Handmade 2.0. Written by Rob Walker (we've blogged his ideas ...

Non-traditional Christmas Trees

Collectively, we've posted a lot of non-traditional Christmas trees in the past few weeks. The Buro North plywood tree, two versions of a bookshelf tree (and this one too) and Danielle at The Styl...

AT Europe: Paris - The Embroidered Universe of Aurelie Mathigot

Paris-based artist Aurelie Mathigot creates strangely poetic crocheted furniture and accessories, and embroiders photographs of Paris, Tokyo or Rio printed on canvas with string or pearls... ...

NY Gift Fair: Art Department Ceramic Buildings

Handmade. We finally got to see the amazing Ceramic Buildings from Art Department in person. The bright colors and thoughtful details make these small art pieces stand out......