February 2011
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Leanne Eisen - "Play"
My heart started beating faster when I first saw these images. Needless to say, I am now a super fan of Leanne Eisen.
The games we play as children are rehearsals for the roles we play in life. Traditional toys for girls nurture homemaker stereotypes, simulating traditional domestic roles through play. In these photographs, I am exploring the possibility of the same staging taking place with...
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It's easy to reuse/renew/recycle in miniature
A lot of light bulbs are getting changed in the gallery today so I thought I would be helpful and recycle this dead one by using it in my dollhouse. I think it’s going to make a really swell ceiling fixture.
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Behold, the creepiest dolphin table ever
Located in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts wing at the Metropolitan Museum, a center table from Tula, Russia, made for the Russian imperial family circa 1780–85. Constructed of steel, silver, gilded copper, gilded brass, and basswood, and dolphins that look like they could tear your face off. This table was the first piece of Russian furniture to enter the Museum’s...
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Get yer own creepy dolphin table
there’s plenty to be found on 1stDibs:
Vintage Bronze Dolphin Table France 1970s Lewis Trimble
Plaster Dolphins Coffee Table (in the Manner of Serge Roche) France 1970s Galerie Sommerlath
Bronze Dolphin Base Table France Circa 1900’s Old Town Crossing
Vintage Brass Dolphin Coffee Table 1960’s Palm Beach Antique and Design Center
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Valentine’s kisses from the lips sofa in the dollhouse!
P.S. I put together this tiny coffee table by placing an oval mirror on top of a gilt base of stylized dolphins. I found the base (for under $5) on a trip I took to the Antiques Garage flea market with the Antique Flâneur, who is absolutely brilliant at treasure hunting.
And yes, those are dolphins. That’s how dolphins looked...
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The geodes of John Sowden House get a post all...
There are geodes to be seen in every nook and corner of this house - they make for some pretty gnarly decoration but I wonder if they were also considered for their healing/cleansing qualities… I don’t know anything about that subject, nor do I read vibrations but I can tell you this: the house has energy and I don’t mean gas & electric.
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Get Inside: The John Sowden House
At the end of a very cold, and very snowy January, I fled New York for a long weekend in Los Angeles, where I had the good fortune to visit the John Sowden house, in the Los Feliz area of Hollywood. The iconic, 6,000-square-foot showpiece was built in 1926 by Lloyd Wright, eldest son of Frank, in a dramatic, Art Deco gone Neo-Mayan-modernist style. Offered below is a brief history, descriptions...
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Just when I thought I couldn't dislike Walmart any...
Alice Walton Deems Folk Art Museum Too Weird to Save: The Walmart heiress reportedly declined to provide funds for the ailing New York museum, which continues its financial tailspin, because she was “turned off” by the odd nude children populating the institution’s show of outsider artist Henry Darger. [Observer]
via ArtInfo
Don’t even get me started. Henry Darger!...
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