Archive for February, 2012
Early Bird and Night Owl
This is a sweet little commission I did, I liked how it turned out.
No commentsEve Zeisel
Dan and I went to the Dank Haus for a vintage bazaar. It was a collection of vintage/retro dealers all in one place for the weekend. There was food and drink and a free photo booth. We weren’t planning on buying anything but we met a very enthusiastic dealer who had some Eva stuff and I really liked these salt and pepper shakers. They are inspired by a mother and child.
They are her “iconic” design. She lived until 105 and died this last December. All her stuff was made so it fit nicely in the hand. You can still buy her designs today all over the place, they are timeless.
Read more about her here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/arts/design/eva-zeisel-ceramic-artist-and-designer-dies-at-105.html?pagewanted=all
and here
http://www.evazeiseloriginals.com/meeteva.shtml#
No commentsChristmas Thorne rooms at the Art Institute
The Art Institute was free for the month of January. I got there in time to see the Thorne rooms decorated for Christmas. Well, a some of the rooms were “decorated” for the holidays. I don’t know what I was expecting. Something more elaborate but this totally makes sense. I guess my love of miniatures made my imagination run away with me. Tiny Things! Tiny Tiny things!
Side note - The Sixty-Eight Rooms’ By Marianne Malone is a young adult novel about magically shrinking down the size of the rooms and exploring the worlds in each setup.
They picked a few rooms in different time periods to show how Christmas was celebrated throughout time.
One of the rooms wasn’t even decorated because of some political/religious reason.
I snapped shots of the ones I liked.
This is traditional English Christmas.
English Drawing Room of the Victorian Period, 1840-70
The decorations are the wreath on the door and the garland on the stairs.
Virginia Entrance Hall, 1751-55
Wooden shoes in front of the fireplace.
French Provincial Bedroom of the Louis XV Period, 18th Century
California Hallway, c. 1940
Celebrating hanukkah with dreidel and menorah.
You can see them all here.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/thorne