For those of you in New York, looking to score a few more beautiful discounted pieces, Rachel Comey is hosting a sample sale today and tomorrow. Styles will be 50-80% off clothing, shoes and accessories. I have my eye on this beautiful marble print…it looks like a paint/water/mineral mashup.
The Parisians love hot pink. They also love mustard. These designs are from the company, Les Papiers Peints, and showcase a variety of paper goods and wall decals. This faux headboard is a fabulous and economical alternative to the usual wooden or quilted variety. Click here to see more from their beautiful boutique.
Here are a few snapshots from last week. It was a pleasure getting out from behind the computer screen and finding an unlimited supply of inspiration by the shore. These pictures are from the beach, the boardwalk, the ferry and a few shadow/umbrella formations. Most, could easily transition into textiles…number 4 has Calvin Klein home written all over it. What are some of your favorite everyday patterns that you’re spotting this summer? Share your pictures with us on instagram (with the hashtag #patternpulp so they group together) and I’ll post a few favorites next week!
In this week’s gallery picks, the artists explore fragmentations of reality and of the self.
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1.Peter Regli presents a stylized landscape with carefully composed arrangements of marble sculptures depicting ancient statues, such as Hayagriva, the horse-headed avatar of Vishnu; religious idols, such as the Buddha; popular figurines such as the Japanese maneki-neko fortune cat; and household items, such as a child’s piggy bank—familiar images rendered unfamiliar by material reconstitution at Karma
2. In I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn…, four artists navigate altering realities at Lombard Freid
3. Michiel Voet and Karim Ramtani’s artistic reconstruction of an invisible life at Nieuw Dakota
4. These paintings explore the experience of living in a society that fragments our identities. By layering multiple images onto a single plane, Kaitlyn Stubbs seeks not to abstract reality, but to create a more whole representation of it at The One Well
5. Michelle Jezierski’s newest paintings emphasize the creation of new spatial dimensions through contrasting different layers of imagery at Feinberg Projects
6. Franklin Evans’ practice is a network, in constant flux, in absorption of adjacent content, in defocused experience of the contemporary, in rhizomic replication, and in reference to itself. at Ameringer McEnery Yohe
As designers, strategists, merchandisers and buyers, we see inspiration all the time. If you’re anything like me, you have magazine tears all over your office and home – tacked to moodboards and stacked in piles on your kitchen table. We collect, hoard, and piece together stories, waiting for the final puzzle piece to transition an idea into action. Most of the time, an idea’s come to fruition after a folder’s been filled with random (yet not-so-random), disparate imagery.
Today’s pieces, which are void of color (specifically red, white and blue), come from a Saint Laurent ad, a dress pattern from Tel Aviv, and an illustration I found on Pinterest. The movement through line is interesting- specifically through the varied application: beading, shapes and storytelling. The vibe is timeless and a reminder of what’s current in both high and mass production.
1. Design icon: the American flag via design*sponge
2. Loving everything from Arro Home by Beci Orpin via The Design Files
3. Super summery paintings by Josep Moncada via The Artful Desperado
4. Toino Abel’s gorgeous traditional Portuguese baskets via Miss Moss
5. Festive lei inspired jewelry by Rebecca Roke via Present & Correct
6. DIY some star spangled shorts via What I Wore
7. A selection of perfect summery fonts via The Fox is Blank
8. Greg Klassen embeds glass rivers and lakes into furniture via Colossal
9. Michelle Blade’s ethereal artwork via The Jealous Curator
10. Love this look inside San Francisco’s flower market via SF Girl by Bay
11. Zim & Zou crafted the fox’s den window with paper for Hermès via designboom
12. The lights of the US at night as a silk scarf via Swissmiss
Contributed by Emily Gup