Felt+Fat is a collaborative design and production studio founded in 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their small team of designers and crafts people create work based in material exploration, process driven discovery, and playful sensibility. All of their wares can be finished in a number of candy colors, including the blue waters, bright sun, and white sand-inspired summer color ways of Satin, Sky, and SunGold.
At first look you might assume that these images by Australian artist Anna Carey were different rooms in an installation or maybe just a monochromatic house remodel, but you would be wrong because her work overlaps photography, model-making, film, and drawing. This spectrum study – In Search of Rainbows – feels especially appropriate following Pride, seven rooms recreated in miniature from rooms Carey found from properties on Google maps.
Through memory and imagination, she creates fictive architectural spaces based on familiar iconic architecture which she photographs. The camera lens magnifies the model with all its imperfections and reminds the viewer that the photograph has been constructed with a miniature materialized object. This aims to reawaken imaginations for the viewer by creating a space of stillness and reflection for one to drift between reality and daydreams – for rediscovering the universe that is inside ourselves.
When you grow up in West Virginia, a quilting and crafting hotspot, you quickly realize that clothing is a wearable canvas. Caroline Kaufman‘s tactile treasures are based on found beauty and the quirkiness of small treasures, her garments are known for their experimental textiles, hand painted prints, use of color, and all around playfulness. So much personality!
Adrienne Pitts // Abercrombie & Fitch // Cocoon Home //
via Arro Home // Cait Rose // Danielle Basser
Eat Your Beets // via Isabella Thorsden // Our Food Stories //
Gray Malin // Lack of Color // Paper & Stitch
Paper & Stitch // Paper & Stitch // Sophie Aprile //
Sarah Laird // Valentin Chenaille // The House That Lars Built
Brazilian artist Camila Pinheiro does a bang up job at translating her South American roots and high fashion background into clean lined illustrations. The saturated fields of tropical colors make me want to hop a plane to some distant beach oasis and not look back until October!
Even though it’s not officially summer until tomorrow, it feels like it’s already landed in full force. Elisabeth McBrien‘s oil paintings feel like perfectly encapsulated portraits of the season.
McBrien’s oil paintings reflect her interest in depicting the personal relationships that we share with nature, and the places that have had a part in shaping our identities. Preserving a simplicity in composition allows her to focus on the captivating interplay of light and color in her work, evoking a sense of presence and familiarity in the viewer.
1/High Rise Cuffed Denim Shorts 2/Asymmetrical Neckline Tee
3/Mad Love Adia Bow Footbed Sandals 4/Weekend Bag
5/Knots Linen Shirt 6/Eclipse Earrings
7/Pineapple Printed Sunglasses Case 8/V-Cut Swimsuit
9/Strappy Button Down Pocket Flare Dress 10/Victory Chambray Joggers
11/Cabo Espadrilles 12/Flint Sunglasses
Linden Eller combines found fragments and personal elements to create floating abstract shapes sewn together with thread on paper. Themes of memory, its process, and layers of recollection are a central theme in her work, conveyed through the use of pale colors and tracing paper to create a hazy environment. Linden also communicates the melancholy in unresolved matters, like her brother’s autism, or natural losses.
These De JONG & Co. salt and pepper mills are 8-inch tall works of art. Each piece is hand turned and crafted for its feel, usability, and table presence. The stainless steel, adjustable grain size grinder can also be used to mill coffee beans and other spices, giving the piece a nice versatility.
