Tableaux Cloths

Mark Cutler is an Interior Designer in Los Angeles and often works for the biggest stars in Hollywood. Whilst normally working with the designs of others to decorate houses, he recenlty designed his own series of tables, called "Tableaux Cloths". He designed them to fill a need for low cost, yet stylish covered tables. They are currently available at Colburn Sassaman. You can read more about Mark and his work on his blog.

Tinlark Gallery

{artwork by Brooks Shane Salzwedel}
I received a very nice email from Cris McCall, the director of Hollywood based gallery, Tinlark. Tinlark represents some amazing artists. But Cris particularly wanted to introduce to me the art by Brooks Shane Salzwedel. I wasn't  familiar with it, but I'm glad I'm now. Still I hope to see this beautiful work in real one day. Brooks creates graphite drawings on Duralar, then pours on a layer of resin, then repeats that process 2 more times and the result is a deeply layered, thoroughly mesmerizing treasure you see in the images above. 

{hand-painted bottles by Laura Normandin}
Other work that I was familiar with is from Laura Normandin. Laura is Kansas where she grew up listening to old country music and creating. She moved to New York to go to Cooper Union and now lives in Park Slope Brooklyn. She crochets in winter and drinks beer in the summer. and her business is called WrenHandmade, named after an old doberman.

Finally two paintings also available via TinLark Gallery are these two from Ramis Kim and Drew Beckmeyer, Beautiful!! Thanks Cris!

Joel Henriques

Today Bloesem will be all about artwork and paintings. I know how hard it is to find something for your walls that fits with your furniture and will look nice after 20 years...Joel Henriques is an artist who paints modern still lifes and abstracts. He says he has always been fascinated by color, shape and craftsmanship, like textures, technique, and hands-on care that can be seen in art.  I agree with him totally. Here you can find Joel Henriques' whole collection!

Pedlars

Via Kathleen Hill's website I found this fun online shop from the UK, Pedlars, love  the fully reconditioned 'Target' telephone and the numbered teatowels. Have fun browsing through their shop, while I will start working on a wonderful new Special Read about two ceramic artists, which will be shown on Bloesem later this week. Also I will be finishing a special project I'm working on with the people from DaWanda, the cool market place for unique products by independant artists and of course I will be posting on BloesemKids today, right here. Hope to see you back tomorrow!

Of Paper and Thread

When I received an email from Danielle Smeets this morning I knew directly I was going to show her lovely new limited edition screen-printed fabric to you. The design is called Flower Garden, it has been professionally screen-printed by hand onto 55% linen and 45% cotton blend fabric using solvent-free ink. It is available now in Danielle's online shop. Danielle is a West-Australian based designer with a particular interest in textile and surface design.

Welcome back

Hello and welcome back for a new week! The whole morning I have been on finishing my deadline for the next issue of Hide&Chic, the theme was "Green"...and i will show you the designs I have choosen for this issue once it is published! After that I wrote a post on 2Modern about a very talented designer for the UK, Kathleen Hills, Her Disc light is just amazing, here you can read more...