Archive for the ‘arts & crafts’ Category

Today I loved this delicate embroidery by London-based Susie Cowie.

Last week I had a perfect day biking through Amsterdam with Sophia. We had an early appointment at Restored with the owners Marijke and Petra. They are selling my jewellery now as well! I simply love their shop at the Haarlemmerdijk. It is a conceptstore filled with young designers like; Lenneke Wispelwey, Tas-Ka, Satara and many more. The atmosphere here is just perfect, you can feel their passion for true creativity!

When in Amsterdam you should definitly visit Restored and say hi from me! They will also be the first in the Netherlands to sell Frankie Magazine!

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I seem to appreciate traditional, folklore patterns and colours more and more. I like this jewellery by Lauren Manoogian because of its different style and read an nice article about her and her work here.

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Via Intelligent Clashing I came across these rugs from Morocco. They are simply stunning. I love the colours and hope one day to own a beautiful rug or kelim in these worn out shades. An exposition of these rugs is held at the Cavin-Morris Gallery in New York.

These are quilts, to me they are just pieces of art. These quilts are from Gees Bend a small place in Alabama. The skills for making these quilts are passed over for many generations. Each quiltmaker brings her unique personality to the quilt. You can read the history and story behind these quilts here. Very interesting. More quilts….

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I think these hand embroidered plastic bags are gorgious. The patterns, the colours, the idea to make from something so ordinary a piece of art.

The bags are made by artist Josh Blackwell.

I love these collage kind of photos. Top: sorry can’t remember the resource, middle: Scout Holliday, bottem: Lena Corwin

This caught my eye over at Montmartes sketchbook. The ‘Casual Object Garden and Other Material Matters’, a temporarily instellation by Carson Fisk-Vittori. I like the sublety and it made me think of the falling garden, just another interpetation on what a garden can look like.

These spoons by Fine little day are the cutest things I have seen in a while! I really like the idea to give ‘used’ items a new life and look! And I fell in love with this cuttingboard!

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There is not really a reason for a party over here (Holland lost the world cup yesterday against Spain and the whole country is dissapointed and sad) but I still love love love these beautiful garlands by Confetti System.

Besides the garlands they make pretty necklaces and pinatas.

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