I came across this great photo on the beautiful blog three85
A bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, Germany advertises their goods with a wall of around 120 bikes mounted on the building’s exterior in lieu of a sign.
I like the idea, the graphic effect and the grandeur of it all.
Well.. that’s an ongoing discussion of course but I think the work of the Swedish contemporary jeweler Adam Grinovich is a good example of conceptual jewely.
“My work is a constant question of history, formation, prehistory, marks, and value. I’m looking for the connecting threads”. Adam Grinovich.
3 works by Adam Grinovich rom the series: Found and Stolen objects
The Britisch artist Antony Gormley is famous for his spectacular projects in archetypal natural landscapes. When I first came across his work I immediately liked his work. The project he has taken on now, Horizon Field is in Austria and consists of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body spread over an area of 150 square kilometers.
In collaboration with Kunsthaus Bregenz, Antony Gormley is realizing a unique project in the mountains of Vorarlberg. Horizon Field will be the first art project of its kind erected in the mountains and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date.
There is enough time to go and see the project, it will remain in the mountains of Australia until April 2012. Please take a look overhere for lots more photos.
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This week I worked on a few new necklaces for our next exhibition “Designers at the Oude Hortus” in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Jewelry Story is invited along with 10 other designers to present their work in the wonderful setting of the Botanical Gardens of the University Museum in Utrecht.
Like to know more? Please click here for more info.
This morning the weather was beautiful and our dog Lucky Fons the 4e could not wait to begin our daily walk …. It is now a few hours later and we just had the greatest downpour of all time with hail and thunderstorms.
Jan, my partner quit smoking this week! His mood didn’t improve but his work ethic did, to be more precise, he is just downright hyper…but I am very glad he quit smoking! He finished his sculpture and is brooding already on a new idea …
And finally, I would like to point out the blog of 13Threads to you.
(Yes … 13Threads of the beautiful handmade clothing)
In today’s post Lois shows us two great new designs!
Hope y’all enjoy your weekend and lets hope the rain stops…
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For some time now I have been looking for new kitchen chairs. While surfing I came to the site of Sjoerd Vroonland a Dutch designer.
Sjoerd Vroonland is in his fourth year of Product Design at the School of Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands.
He was inspired by the traditional and early industrial furniture designs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the collection of Thonet chairs. With those in mind Sjoerd devised new connection methods.
This is what he says about the technique ; “With wooden beads attached to each other – like a ball-joint –threading them and putting tension on them, I make a chair frame.”
Peg hanger chair
The designs are very innovative and so far only for sale in Coming Soon in Arnhem, The Netherlands.. There is a nice site with lots of exciting designs from chairs to jewelry to clothes hangers.
Clothes hanger
Via VT Wonen
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Melding her passion for photography with her love of animals, Sharon Montrose’s definitive photographic style has made her one of the most sought-after commercial photographers specializing in animals.
Because I like her work very much I wrote about the photography of Sharon Matrose before, you can read it over here. Today I would like to ask your attention for the new site of Sharon.
Please take a look the pictures are absolutly wonderful!
Baby giraffe
Owl photography by Sharon Matrose
Is luxury to be found in the outrageously expensive, or rather in precious and unique objects?
Johanna Törnqvist is educated in fashion design, ceramics and image therapy, and has worked in Paris, New York and Japan. Today she lives and works in Stockholm. Her neck ribbons were exhibited at the Röhsska Museum of Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts in Gothenburg.
Johanna Törnqvist wants to erase the boundaries between craft, fashion and folklore and give a new perspective of what folklore is today. She made neck ribbons out of small pieces of ribbon, lace and buttons that she found in her grandmothers house.
Neck ribbons by Johanna Törnqvist
Balloons are magical… don’t you think?… the small colorfull balloons reminding you of happy times in childhood. Often big balloons fly above our house and I wave at the people in the basket… the movement is slow and the weather is allways nice otherwise the balloons would not fly…
The artist Maggie Mailer paints colorfull paintings full of balloons.
At the moment there is a solo show of Maggie in the Ferring Gallery in Pittsfield Massachusets. Maggie herself tells us about the paintings…
“The paintings themselves are balloons, vehicles of levity, escape and suspended motion”…
The Getaway by Maggie Mailer
Chariots
The Balloonists by Maggie Mailer
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Today our atelier The Jewelry Story is open but after closing time, we are leaving for a small trip to Maastricht, all the way in the south of The Netherlands. Maastricht is a lovely city. We are going to visit this jewelry gallery and for the evening we made reservations in Restaurant O. We are staying in a small B&B along the river the Jeker and Monday we are planning on making a long hike.
Anyway… I will be back on Tuesday.
Last night I came across a new on-line store. Maska is a Swedish knitwear brand launched in January 2010 by Maria Svensson and Lisa Leierth. Maska (“knitted stitch” in Swedish) offers lovely knitwear for women…
Have a very good and relaxing weekend!
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Nosideup, graduated from Product Design at Central St. Martins, London.
She studied Fine Arts in Barcelona and is currently studying for a Master in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture in Madrid.
She also makes these beautiful pen and ink drawings… for more please see her Etsy shop.
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