A dear friend of mine, Sara, has a vase that she loves. When she told me about it initially I thought – well, she works in contemporary art at Christie’s so she must only have the most fabulous artistic works in her home, which, in many cases she does, however, this vase we’re all lucky […]
A few weeks ago I went to an event at ABC Carpet and Home hosted by the New York Women Social Entrepreneurs. The panel presentation was on sustainable sourcing and fairly traded goods and one of the women on the panel was all about textiles. She talked about how she can go into communities and […]
This Saturday my brother’s getting married. I leave in the morning for the wedding and it’s interesting timing that the last few days all the dialogue my friends and I have been in over email has revolved the idea around women being able to manage families and careers and the variety of approaches they take. […]
In this month’s Vanity Fair I read about this company, Thornwillow Press, who was noted for creating custom-bound editions of Obama’s inauguration speech from January 20, 2009. I wrote the name down in my Blackberry quickly as I thought it might make a great gift for my father for Father’s Day coming up this Sunday. […]
Tomorrow is the Whitney Museum’s annual art party, which also has an auction component. I was going through the art that they’re auctioning and came across the artist Michele Oka Doner who I can’t believe I didn’t know about before. Her work is also inspired by nature, she also makes large scale figural works as […]
Based in Australia, Dinosaur Designs brings together a lot of things I’m into. The company was founded in 1985, the women who founded it were students in art school together and they make pieces that are inspired by nature and its patterns – their most recent collection was on funghi. The lines encompass jewelry, textiles […]
I have a vague memory of being somewhere in Western Massachusetts looking at colleges and walking right into a Patrick Dougherty installation. I have no idea if this is actually true or if in my dreams somewhere there was an amazing sculptor using saplings as construction material but Patrick’s work exists either way. Above, The […]
I just Googled some how tos on needle felting so as to not waste any roving and I came across Stephanie Metz so I needed to pause and share before starting whatever project I may be getting involved in. Over a year ago my brother sent me one of Stephanie’s teddy bear studies as a […]