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Design we love: Buddha machines
Maybe there ought to be a column in this blog called Design That Simply Catches Our Fancy—a place to explore objects that, while they may not kick the history of design ahead by much, are, nevertheless, attractive and pleasing.
Like …
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“If we actually possessed one grain of knowledge, there would be no holding us back.”
Michel de Montaigne…
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Design we love: the Duke lamp
This guileless-looking but somehow cheerfully forceful lamp–the Duke table lamp by Salgado Saucier of Milford, Pennsylvania–is made of resin with a silk shade. According to Hanson Tan of Industrial Storm you can have the lamp “in any colour in the …
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“I have great love and respect for colour, just as I do for words. I find it very hard work to employ both effectively.”
Ettore Sottsass in The Curious Mr. Sottsass: Photographing Design and Desire, Thames and Hudson, 1994, …
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Design we love: horse brasses at Index G Gallery
This personable cat is a typical example of what are known as horse brasses – that is, solid brass castings used as tackle fasteners and sometimes just as decoration for parade horses. They were at the height of their popularity …
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“How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.”
Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just, Princeton University Press, 1999, p.15…
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Art we love: Art Brownies
These hotly coloured, inventively composed mini-blocks of art activity are, in fact, Art Brownies: small, unique works of art made by various artists, both local and international, on one standard format, each Art Brownie being a mini-canvas consisting of a …
