louis

louis xv commode wine rack
axis formlab
vote!

again

honey pop chair
tokujin yoshika
(i thought there was an o in there)
up for vote for the national design awards

paper plates

paper plates
by virginia sin
up for vote for the people's choice award
national design awards

dear my beau

next month can we please go to philly and go here?

jean

so, jean shin is participating in the open studios program at mad (which i went to this weekend, and it was so awesome (except the permanent collection which could be cooler) but more on that later) on saturday november 1 at 2:00 & 3:00.
i really love her, i think i'd like to go to that.

patricia

preview of patricia urquiola's new "landscape" collection
to be shown at the design museum in london beginning on october 10th

christmas in october

national design week at the cooper hewitt begins on october 19th
i. can't. wait.
i've already registered for events, and i can't wait to try and meet some of the national design awards winners.

jean

broken umbrellas

i think this sound wave is at mad now

jean shin

mad

i went to the museum of arts and design yesterday, so excited, like it was christmas!
and then when i got there not only was it raining, but there was a line around the corner.
rats.
there were, however, some pretty spectacular balloon people/monsters outside, which i'll address later today.
so i'll be going back next saturday morning at 11:00 am, opening time.
the last thing i want is to go there when it's totally packed full of people and i can't see anything,
as was my experience at design and the elastic mind.
such a bummer.
but anyway, i'm more than excited
i've always liked the design room (and the lithographs and prints room) at the moma the best,
so i feel like this museum was sort of made for me.
plus i also love the folk art museum, which makes m.a.d even more perfect - i get a strong folk feeling (hello, arts & crafts heaven).
i'm really glad, though not surprised, that tara donovan is included in the second lives exhibition, but i'm especially excited to see stuart haygarth's chandelier in person and also susie macmurray's latex glove dress (above and below), and also el anatsui's work (i love, love, love his piece in the met's masterpieces of modern design) and the campana brothers' creation (here too).
and if the photographs from the nytimes' visit to second lives are any indication of how great it will be, then it's probably going to be a pretty wonderful saturday.

susie macmurray - a mixture of frailties

tara donovan - bluffs

freddie robins - craft kills
from radical lace and subversive knitting