Love Made Visible

I love Hermès. In case you couldn’t already tell. Popped over there following a link in my inbox and found the adorable Peony Tea Set. The teapot and cups are so perfectly proportioned with beautiful illustrations of peonies, my official favorite flower of the moment. Perfect gift for mother. Or yourself. Gorgeous.

Ane Christensen works with various metals that she molds and shreds to form bowls and other vessels that explore negative space and optical illusions. (Refer to the above for a perfect example of this.) Her Fruit Bowls are wonderfully shredded and seem to be made of the most delicate of paper. Her Ribbon Series are so gracefully elegant and appear to defy gravity. Totally beautiful work.

Jenifer has turned me onto Barbara Barry’s line of fine china for British china maker Wedgwood. Her design called “Musical Chairs” features white china with black trim and a graphic image of a chair. So simple and clean. The shot is just a preview of the to-be-released collection which will launch in Fall 2006. Lovely.

The work of Julie West is available for purchase at her online shop Sno. For sale are limited edition giclee, serigraph and gocco prints as well as stationery and tote bags. Her work has great line quality and the papers she uses to print are all gorgeous. Each gocco print, for example, is printed on its own unique sheet of paper. No two prints are alike.

I was framing a bunch of Tiny Showcase prints last night and remembered the work of Deth P. Sun. The work in general is dark yet playful with great color combinations (love that bright fuschia with the dove gray.) and reminds me of the work of Maurice Sendak.