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Brunschwig & Fils

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I can’t stop myself from jumping, late, onto the Ikat bandwagon. I love that the design is created by dying either the warp or weft of a weave, such a simple change that creates such a distinct, painterly look. In this month’s Elle Decor I came across one I had never seen before from Brunschwig […]


Kate Henri

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I was re-discovering Nest yesterday and came upon Kate Henri’s amazing handwoven pillows on their site. Nest’s mission is to connect women through art, craft and opportunity. A great concept that they back up through a sort of “pay it forward” system whereby designers select one or two products of theirs to have the proceeds […]


Tristin Lowe

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This weekend I was down in Baltimore for my brother’s fiance’s bridal showers. I met my mom on the train from New York to Baltimore as she was down in Philadephia to see various art exhibits with my father and uncle and aunt who were in from San Francisco. She immediately started showing me photos […]


Ursula Suter

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I couldn’t stop myself from continuing to explore the Fashioning Felt artists – I have to share Ursula Suter’s work. All I can think is that my surface design professor in college would have been blown away by these pieces. All of these pieces are from her Cooper-Hewitt exhibit. Close up – the light behind […]


Brigit Daamen

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There’s a new exhibit here in New York at the Cooper-Hewitt design museum called Fashioning Felt. I anticipate that there will be multiple posts here about various artists that the exhibits awesome site and blog have led me to, especially after I make it up to the exhibit myself but for now I wanted to […]


Jim Hodges

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Another item from my mom who seems to be my source for all things odd right now is Jim Hodges, whose work she just saw while at the Philadelphia Museum of Art yesterday. As someone who has worked a lot with silk flowers to make me various hair accessories the idea of deconstructing them was […]


GS Lillian

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Over at Charm & Chain I’m always discovering great new jewelry designers that I love. Most recently I discovered GS Lillian whose pre-order earrings appeal to my inner- amoeba. I like those in that clean white but also in the more oceanic tones below. Her huge cuffs are great too – though they may not […]


Jennifer Kellogg

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I saw the coolest thing mentioned really quickly on Daily Candy today and I had to know more about Jennifer Kellogg’s Noodle Necklace. She cast various noodles in 10k gold and sells each noodle individually. While these necklaces don’t come cheap – the one above with 10 noodles would fall somewhere around $10,000 – they […]


John Robshaw

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On mine and Charlotte’s epic journey through ABC Carpet and Home last weekend we also rediscovered John Robsaw Textiles – essentially an Indian block printing textile and bedding company that has tapped into some of the best patterns and resources available. A great little stripe. Shall pattern – terrific. Very Sonia Delauney. A pillow selection. […]


Gabrielle Sanchez

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This weekend I had a completely gluttonous lunch with Charlotte at Almond near Madison Square Park. Afterwards we decided to explore ABC Carpet and Home as we were close and it was much colder out than we expected. We were in the mood to try on baubles so we did just that – especially Gabrielle […]