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A short post tonight because I just can’t seem to find that much information about Shiwa Rashtian online, though I do love her creations. Her design studio is located in Utrecht, Netherlands and her pieces are largely functional.

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Yesterday afternoon was the Phillips de Pury theme auction called, Latin America, of all contemporary Latin American inspired or rooted works. One of the artists at auction was Tanya Aguiniga, whose work I missed when I went to the press preview a few weeks ago. Tanya has a MFA in furniture design from RISD, which […]

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Chris Labrooy seems to focus on graphic design but he made a lamp that I had to share — as it’s out of felt. This lamp is constructed felt over an acrylic dome — so simple but yet so so beautiful. I’m not sure what kind of a house could hold it but I want […]

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I received my needle felting kit and roving from my mother at the end of last week and immediately left town for the weekend so I’m excited to go home and play around soon! In the meantime I’ve kept my imagination busy by exploring Ronel Jordaan’s site with all the lovely images of her felting […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Today it was sunny and almost 60 degrees in New York. I wore a coat but could still tell that Fall and Winter were behind us and Spring was just around the corner. As we say goodbye to cold weather I found these amazing, needle felted (of course), acorns that will serve as a colorful […]