Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards 2015 (Architectural Design) is Hansen Partnership’s MacKenzie Falls Gorge Trail with it’s cascading. corten mesh steps. See Blogroll for a link.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
A calm spirit is transmitted to the projects of Tai Chi & meditation practitioner Chang Yong Ter. His practice, Chang Architects, is in Singapore. See Blogroll for a link.
Namly House, Singapore / Framed House, Singapore / Elok House, Singapore / Joo Chiat Shophouse, Singapore</
‘When the subject holds sufficient intrigue, while the surface offers a strongly sensual pleasure.’ The paintings of Richard Twose, UK. See Blogroll for a link.
Following my post on Vlisco fabrics: Dutch designer, Simone Post, puts to use Vlisco fabric scraps in furniture & mats. Some of her other work is here also. See Blogroll for a link.
Simone Post is a designer of Vlisco fabrics but she also makes use of their scraps of fabrics to make mats and upholstery for stools / Blankets inspired by reliefs, […]
Have an enjoyable Christmas or celebration of any kind, & thanks for sipping from Decanted over 2015. Signing out for a few days.
Thanks to Silje Lian, Amsterdam (Netherlands again!) for the Christmas gif: Björn Borg Xmas Challenge gif inspired by Bjorn Borg’s Nordic knit: https://www.behance.net/liansilje
Tomoko Kashiki, Kyoto: her beautifully detailed, mixed-media studies of fey, languid, girls in their dreamy surrounds. See Blogroll for a link*.
*The link takes you to Kashiki’s work on the OTA Fine Arts Gallery, Tokyo / Flower: acrylic, paper, cotton, wooden panel / Arm Piano: Acrylic, alkyd, pastel, sand, clay, linen, wooden […]
Lenneke Langenhuijsen & Brecht Duij of Buro Belen, Amsterdam, find new utility in the use of tapa (wooden cloth), cottonmix (cotton plaster) & brushed & naturally dyed materials. See Blogroll for a link.
All text has been taken from the Buro Belen site / Merging Wallpaper by AGA, Paintingplants.nl & buroBELÉN: ‘What happens to colours over time? Just like all other colours, vegetable colours […]
Shelley James, UK, has, in collaboration with others, encapsulated prints in glass as a means of exploring ideas of illusion & reality. See Blogroll for a link & clarification.
Essential Symmetry series: Icosahedron: Shelley James / blown by Liam Reeves / Essential Symmetry series: Dodecahedron: Shelley James / blown by Liam Reeves / Essential Symmetry series: Truncated Octahedron: Shelley James / blown […]
Vlisco’s endeavour to build a collection of fabrics with stories from around the world. They are based in Amstelveen, The Netherlands. See Blogroll for a link.
Many years ago I traveled through Africa and was struck by the colourful and original fabrics made into kangas or fabric wraps that women and girls wore, both elegantly and […]
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