Igbo Ukara cloth
Beautiful Ikara cloth designs from the Igbo people of Nigeria.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVA
This post goes out to our main girl AVA KAUFMAN who turns another year cooler today.
We think you’re the greatest, hope you’re celebrating well.
+++ If anyone is hungry - this lady can COOK !
Ed Ruscha at the Hammer Museum
ED RUSCHA: ON THE ROAD
June 4, 2011 - October 2, 2011
“It is completely fitting that Ed Ruscha would take up the challenge of looking at Kerouac’s On the Road. In many ways Ruscha’s entire career has offered an artistic corollary to Kerouac’s linguistic portrait of the American landscape, giving concrete visual form to the poetry of our vernacular roadside. These new works are no different except that they channel one of the greatest chroniclers of the American landscape by appropriating and artistically framing fragmented instances of Kerouac’s language.” - Douglas Fogle The Hammer Museum is located at: 10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Memphis
Memphis-Milano was an Italian design and architecture group started by wild genius Ettore Sottsass that designed Post Modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass and metal objects in the eighties. Check out some more funhouse furniture here.
Nail Art
Other crazy talented Japanese nail art can be seen here
Also, come check out the Bernard Wilhelm + Uslu Airlines nail polish collabo online or at our New York store.
Grace Jones’ Maternity Dress
In 1979, a pregnant Grace Jones commissioned Puerto-Rican designer Antonio Lopez and Jean-Paul Gaude to make her this insanely cool maternity dress. In an interview that year, she told Jet Magazine that her and Gaude were “calling it ‘the rhythm baby, because every time a certain music blares from their stereo, the fetus jumps!”.
Snack Attack: Jonathan Gold
New York has a lot to offer, snack-wise, but we think LA is still the best place for inexpensive, exotic, and authentic gastronomy. Jonathan Gold, food writer for LA Weekly, is our fearless leader.
LA’s 99 Essential Restaurants for 2010
Margaret Howell’s Favorite Designs
The Observer, Sunday 11 September 2011 The 10 best product designs – in pictures Meccano Check the rest of her choices here: and come by our New York store to see pieces from Margaret Howell’s new collection. Thanks South Willard!
Fashion designer Margaret Howell’s choice of timeless classics that marry function and aesthetic
Frank Hornby, 1901
Frank Hornby just wanted to make a toy crane as a Christmas gift for his sons, but realised that standardised shapes and connections could create an infinite number of objects. Vision, number, engineering, aesthetics, fun – Meccano offered it all in one magic box. As a girl, I rarely got to play with it, but by the time my children were ready, Meccano had been superseded by Lego, another brilliant example of standardisation, but handling nuts, bolts and pulleys gave a greater feeling of connectedness with real-world structures
“Well Voguing is really great because it finally really forces fashion to be a part of music - it’s forced - it’s that it couldn’t exist without it”
Voguing was a dance movement that started in 1960’s Harlem and brought together cat-walk posing and modern dance. This little documentary explains it’s evolution and has some awesome footage of people getting down and some even more awesome hats.
Art Cars
Esther Malangu (1991)
Matazo Kayama (1990)
The BMW Art Car project started in 1975 with Alexander Calder decorating a BMW for a race-car driving friend in France. Since then, the company has commissioned dozens of art world heavy hitters to jazz up their sports cars.
Denim Art
In 1974, Levi’s challenged people to customize their jeans through the Levi’s Denim Art Contest. It got crazy! There’s an out-of-print catalogue of the winners floating around somewhere. Check out a few more after the jump.
Just In: BLESS
Come on by the NY store to see all the cool new BLESS gear we got from their Autumn and Winter collection. It’ll be online next week!
TOP Issue III
NY Friends - Tomorrow night is the release party for the third issue of TOP Magazine at Printed Matter. This awesome periodical is produced by CofC’s own Danielle Top. Let’s celebrate!
Jessie’s Girl
LA and NY Friends, Overduin & Kite and Taxter & Spengemann are simultaneously showing Frank Benson’s insanely cool Human Statue (Jessie) until October 11th. A two year process, Benson took photographic scans of the model from which he made a digital design of the body and then cast that in bronze. Added bonus, Jessie is the Creatures web-store model!
