The Sky Over Downtown Kansas City Today

Photo taken by Gary Lezak, (television meteorologist).

Item of the Day: Boyd Reath Wallcovering

I canNOT get enough of this wallcovering designed by James Boyd of Boyd Reath. Colonial Revival -- an American favorite -- has been revived and revived and revived. But regurgitated and never reinterpreted in a new an unexpected way. Boyd has taken it and put a new twist. Not only has he made it whimsical but featured in his silhouettes such figures as as Nefertiti and Charles de Gaulle, (though my favorite is the dog).

Mint

Vermilion

Ecru

Azure

Maize

Rose

Which one is your favorite?

(see Studio Print Works HERE and Boyd Reath) HERE

Designer of the Day: Sophie de Vocht

Sophie de Vocht is a young Dutch designer.

She has designed a number of different creations from clocks to furniture to plastic frogs. (I'm crazy for her frog.)

For the Italian furniture company Casamania she designed this lounge chair.

The Loop Chaise Lounge features a metal frame constructed with gigantic woven yarn.


She was inspired by the technique of tufting.

The seat and back are tightly woven, the weave gradually becomes looser spilling out on the floor.

The concept is an object that works as both carpet and furniture.

What triggers your thoughts?

Crochet pot holder from the 70s?

Beautiful 18th-century dress with a fitted bodice that explodes into a skirt?

Or disemboweled intestines?*


do not google
image these words. i anticipated to see woodcuts from the middle ages,
but this horrendous practice apparently still continues in some parts
of the world.

Images from Sophie de Vocht, Casamania and designboom