The art of quilting is a meticulous one. The craft celebrates the slow evolution of a growing jigsaw puzzle. I recently came across the work of Gina Rockenwagner and was amazed by her palettes and geometric formations.
Each quilt is breathtaking in it’s crisp coziness. The range swings from 3D color stories to reflective prisms to hombre gradations. To shop Rockenwagner’s etsy shop, click here…you’ll be delighted by the menagerie of choice.
This silk box clutch from French Connection is a real eye catcher. From the geometric linear shapes to the folk inspiration to the nod from bedding, this collection is the perfect balance of hard meets soft. The color palette’s bright and bold and an interesting example of functional color blocking. At $53.99, it’s also a sweet addition to any futurist’s wardrobe.
In our modern times, filled with GPS and GoogleMaps, it’s no wonder that we seem to have developed a fascination for knowing where we are at all times. It’s reached a new level of poignancy to be able to locate yourself as well as peer over your neighborhood from above, observing it’s grid-like form. This sentiment is popping up in various textile projects and is most successfully executed by Emily Fischer of Haptic Labs and Marcello Campa and Stefano Avesani of the Instant Hutong Project. While Fischer references the borough of Brooklyn, quilting on silk dupioni, Campa and Avesani explore the Hutong districts throughout downtown Beijing. Regardless of the landscape, both works bring a permanency to topography that has become nearly extinct with technology’s latest advances. Nowadays lines are blurred so easily perhaps there is a certain comfort in being able to see and feel the things that don’t change so easily.
Compiled by: Emily Gup
Most of us are too impatient to let ideas evolve overtime without overwatering them. Christie Wright of Brooklyn, NY, embraces the idea of storytelling as a strategy for designing. “Building by Leaving,” one of her latest creative endeavours, embraces the idea of growth through location and experience. Sewing rungs together from various fabric swatches, her ladder grows over time, accumulating new colors, shapes, and patterns. In an effort to understand growth, escapism and personal history, Wright’s creation is reminicient of a modern day Rapunzel.