Still Life Photography by Arjan Benning.
29th February
I have extreme love for these deliciously inspiring and visually arresting images by Dutch photographer Arjan Benning. His work is both subtle and striking, at times crossing the boundaries between photography and fine art. In particular, I find his underwater and flower series reminiscent of the paintings by the Dutch Masters…
Arjan is a magician with light with an impeccable understanding of texture and composition, and a true master of elevating the mundane to the extraordinary…
Rug Sling Chairs | Still + Co. with Sit and Read.
28th February
New York based Sit and Read and Still + Co. put their clever heads together and came up with this magnificent concept for rug sling chairs. Overdyed Persian rugs are cut, hemmed, and hand stitched into welded wrought iron frames. Made in Brooklyn, New York, available in edition of 2. Buy them here.
Design alchemy at it’s best…
Scandic Grand Central Hotel in Stockholm.
27th February
Scandic Grand Central hotel in Stockholm opened it’s doors in November of 2011. And let me tell you, I am having trouble inventing an adequate number of superlatives to describe how much I adore this place. Designed by Stockholm based firm Koncept, the hotel is housed in a building that dates back from 1885 – yet another glorious example of carefully resuscitated heritage building turned into contemporary gold in the hands of intelligent and talented Scandinavian designers…
Jacob Hashimoto.
24th February
Today I would like to sing praises and throw the yellowtrace spotlight on Jacob Hashimoto. Jacob is contemporary artist born in Greeley, Colorado in 1973, who currently lives and work in New York. Drawing on his Japanese heritage and the tradition of kite-making, Hashimoto creates three-dimensional structures made out of thousands of miniature ‘kites’, constructed from bamboo-stiffened rice paper suspended with nylon fishing line.
I am so deeply moved by Jacob’s work that I am having trouble putting it in words. I mean, imagine… really IMAGINE standing underneath or within one of these mesmerising installations in real life. His work communicates a deep and profound stillness and weightlessness, an extreme and delicate beauty which would make me feel too scared to breathe…
Design Free Thursday | Truth Hurts by Nico Ordozgoiti.
23rd February
Madrid based art director Nico Ordozgoiti created these iPhone wallpapers called Truth Hurts. Yes, you know it – this is tragic because it’s true!
