Forget Me Knot silk scarves are the product of hand-drawn illustrations by French artist/designer Coco, in a collaboration with Yazmin Rizvi.
It’s cool to see how the design translates once it’s tied up in scarf-mode!
Available online for purchase at a hefty $257 (€ 178.00).
Mohawk General Store is based in Los Angeles but many of their carefully chosen goods are available online. Great taste and many very likable things for gals and guys.
I particularly liked (listed in order of the pics): People In Summer Safari sunglasses by Super; the Grey Perf Chuckman shoes by The Generic Man; Mini Sac in Red by Vivier; the Picnic in Black clutch by Marie Turnor; and the Rebozo Tunic in Blue by Carla Fernandez.
(*via Honeyed Figs)
A cape is just the thing! Leave it Postalco, the dreamy and subtle Japanese brand that produces beautiful, simple objects such as notebooks, satchels and now, rain capes. Available in dark green or dark blue and made from 100% water resistant nylon. Now if only they didn’t cost almost $400 and weren’t so hard to find…sigh. At least the sun has reappeared in NYC.
(*Images via A Treasury Of)
Here’s how The Sketchbook Project works:
Anyone can sign up (until October 31st) and for $25, you receive a blank moleskin sketchbook with a bar code and a particular assigned theme. You have until January 15th to fill it with doodles, drawings, paintings, collages, whatever you want. Then you send it back and all the sketchbooks go on tour across the country in galleries and museums!
You can track where your book is at all times and even view it on display at one of the above scheduled tour locations. At the end of the tour, the books will all be cataloged as a permanent collection at The Brooklyn Art Library. For an extra twenty bucks, they will scan and digitize your book so that you can have an electronic record of all your hard work.
This is the first I’m hearing about it, thanks to The Donut Project, but Art House Co-op has been running this for five years now.
I am excited to get started! Join my sketchbook on tour and sign up here.
I’m pouf crazy these days.
Here are some favorites. Above, Nos Da Poufs by Donna Wilson for SCP from The Future Perfect.
Left, Solomon Rug Pouf from Jayson Home & Garden. Right, Jodhpur Pouf from Calypso Home.
Above, Sheepskin Pouf from West Elm.
Above, Handwoven Raffia Pouf from Walker Zabriskie.
Project Soul Cell was designer Jesper Jonsson‘s thesis project last year. I’m hoping to see this developed as a real product sometime soon. It’s an attractive and intelligent lantern — small and collapsible, and powered by the sun through the panel at the top. This one is sized for soft lighting and hangs easily from the little handle. Jesper suggests hanging it from your bike handles when you’re set up for an evening picnic in the park.
(*via Inhabitat)
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“On June 17th every year, my family goes through a private ritual: we photograph ourselves to stop, for a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by.”
Diego Goldberg
Buenos Aires, Argentina
(*via Snippet & Ink)
ShackletonThomas (established crafters of handmade furniture and ceramics) runs The Naked Table Project. The project consists of several weekend programs a year at their workshop in Vermont where 15 participants work with the ShackletonThomas team to build their very own dining table made from locally harvested, sustainably grown, Vermont maple wood.
In addition to the woodworking lesson, the program also includes a woods visit with a professional forester who explains the system for sustainable lumber sourcing. At the end of the weekend, when all the tables are finished, they join the tables together (75′ long) for a final celebratory meal.
(*via Re-Nest)
Some friends took me to the Brook Farm General Store this weekend, tucked into a quiet storefront on South 6th Street and Berry in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It’s a wonderful shop filled with soft whites, linens, new and vintage products — basically a million things I wanted to buy for myself and as gifts. Reasonable prices too. Here are some pics of products available from their online store but make a trip to the shop if you can for an in-person browse.
Above, Sugar Spoon ($12) and Canvas Essentials Bag ($29).
Anglepoise lamp ($250) and Bensimon sneakers ($50).
Canvas Tool Bag ($68) and Linen Day Blanket ($225).
Florentine Rose Water ($12) and Recycled Ball Vase ($25).
Cotton Hammam Towels ($68) and Savon De Marseilles ($12).
Brook Farm General Store
75 South 6th Street between Berry and Wythe
Brooklyn, NY 11211
My friend Amanda brought me this amazing journal, Keel’s Simple Diary, as a gift this week. It’s clever, funny, thought provoking and unique. Some pages excerpted below will give you a sense of why this diary is like no other. It’s amazing. I’m smitten.
For purchase from Taschen for $15.
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