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Buy this incredible, wonderful set of desktop accessories from Plant & Moss.
You may remember we blogged about Melbourne based artist Liesl Pfeffer last year and her beautiful mountain range art works collaged from photographs. Her latest works are just as covetable; giant semi precious stones and gems in all their faceted glory, collaged together from bits of sky, water and surfaces. We love her delicate, feminine colour palettes (utterly on trend) and graphic touch. What girl wouldn’t want a rock like this?
Kate, Editorial Assistant
It may be raining outside, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream of sunnier climes. It doesn’t take much but the photography in Helen Tsanos Sheinman’s new book, Love, Laughter and Lunch certainly puts us in the holiday mood, with its celebration of the culinary and interior style of Cyprus.
‘Food is nothing without the love of the people who share it,’ says Sheinman, who reconnected with her family heritage to create a book that’s part-memoir, part-travel journal and part recipe book.
It’s not all food, there are plenty of droolworthy interiors shots, too.
Love, Laughter and Lunch, £28, is available from Anthropologie and online from April 22.
Who needs to paint a mural when you can use staples?
There was certainly no other medium in sight when Baptiste Debombourg took on this amazing project titled Aggravure. Baptiste has created a series of art installations created inspired by 16th century engravers Hendrick Goltzius, Jan Harmensz, Cherubino Alberti.
If you have a spare 500,000 staples and approximately 340 hours free this weekend, you could do something similar.
Lucy, Style Assistant
We’ve featured the brilliant stitched creations of Peter Crawley on our blog before, remember? He just got in touch to tell us about his latest, very limited-edition series – a stitched sound-wave depiction of classic Sixties songs (from top: A Day In The Life, Good Vibrations and Blowin’ In The Wind). Each line of stitching represents one minute of audio. They’re also available as digital prints from Print Process.
Look at these amazing paper-based balls of joy! If that’s not too over-the-top a description. Look out for more from The Balcony Gardener in the April issue of Livingetc. Love this, too.
Mo, acting news ed.
Being a foodie at heart I can never resist a label with ‘Eat me’ on it! I am just loving the typography of Alison Carmichael and am going to buy the whole set of these tags from her online shop. There are also a fun pack of 10 emergency greeting cards for £20 for all those last minute notes that need to be sent. Absolutely lovely!!! Mel, Art Editor
Popped in to East London’s Whitechapel Gallery yesterday and was truly inspired by the small but fascinating Rothko in Britain exhibition. The Abstract Expressionist’s work was first seen in the UK at The Whitechapel in 1961, and to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark occasion, a set of archive photographs capturing the reactions of attendees at the time is on display, alongside various letters and instructions from Rothko.
I love the way the images capture a fascinating period when society was about to go psychedelic, yet World War II was still part of living memory. I couldn’t help dwelling on who these people were, and what they thought of the work…
Duffel coat. Check. Stovepipes. Check. Nerdy specs. Natch. No doubt these intellectual chaps went on to analyse the art in a Soho coffee shop…
Wonder what these women, who I like to think were called Doris and Ethel, made of Light Red Over Black?
Amazing to think Marjorie and her cronies on the right lived through the Blitz, while the bearded Beatnik on the left might still be a working as a City fat cat or a human rights campaigner. You decide.
The little boy would be middle-aged now. I hope he’s still passionate about art.
The free exhibition continues until February 26.
– Neil, deputy editor
This is definitely a design favourite! German designer Stefan Geisbauer created ‘looksoflat‘ for ingo maurer in 2010. Since then this modern reinterpretation of the classic 1937 Jac Jaobsen task light has been introduced as a permanent part of the Design Museum collection in Finland. Thin LED’s are cradled between flat sheets of aluminium in order to create the shadow-like appearance. Yes please! Lucy, Style Assistant x
