Often when people think about set design they imagine elaborate stage sets with hoards of props and fixings. For the first issue of Virgine magazine, publisher and photographer Ryan Yoon together with stylist Hissa Igarashi create these sexy photos by substituting fashion with creatively layered, every day items, which evoke texture, depth and complexity.
I really like how the final result reflects the current trend for DIY (do it yourself).
Because I want to encourage everyone to first go see, and experience the Alexander McQueen “Savage Beauty” exhibit at the MET, I continue to impatiently withhold my personal thoughts until Aug 7, 2011 when the exhibit is scheduled to end. In the mean time, please email me your one most inspiring thing about the exhibit which I would very much like to include in my final post.
email me at: thebohmerian(at)gmail.com – Title “Savage Beauty Thoughts”
If you can’t make it to see the exhibit, feel free to order the book here, and email me your thoughts.
Folded Felt Table: Designed by Pratt Institute design student Li-Rong Liao. Built of folded cardboard and felt with a glass top, the table’s design was a result of Li-Rong’s experimentation with folding profiles that would result in a balance of structure and aesthetics.
This design is yet another result of Pratt partnering with furniture design firm Cappellini for their Perpetual Motion furniture design studio which challenges students to create pieces intended to inspire future design.
Happy Father’s Day Dad!
A Trip Down Memory Lane: The last photo is of my dad under a Redwood at Muir Woods from the Coast to Coast, California trip we took together with my brother Jake back in the summer of 2009. I really miss my traveling dad and hope we can do that trip again, sometime soon.
Born in war torn Yugoslavia, Serbian based designer and photographer Ana Kraš is as excited about design as she is about life. Her approach is practical, unpretentious, and delightfully inventive. Her designs are cleverly modern, and with names like “noodle” and “bonbons” it’s obvious that this talented designer is eagerly forward thinking.
Ana, whom if I may, is a blond bohemian beauty, is also a humble and energetic designer whom I recommend you all keep an eye out for. Currently Ana travels between Belgrade Serbia and LA where she now lives and works. For more on her photography work click here.
Designed as a Father’s Day DIY by Laura and Julie from the ModCloth blog, these used necktie vertical gardens are as clever and easy to make as they are a great gift idea for the midlife crisis dad who could use a little plant buddy love to help him through his day. Love you dad!! 🙂
Accession II, a 1967 sculpture by German born American Post-minimalist Sculptor Eva Hesse. A la lata chair, a 2007 lounge chair made of recycled aluminum can tabs, designed by Colombian born industrial designer Carlos Alberto Montana Hoyos.
accent color + colorful = color-pull
ex. To complete Margret’s room I added lots of green and purple color-pull to suffice her fixation with potted purple orchids.
Mysterious concrete sculpture monuments in former Yugoslavia, photographed by Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers.
Order his “Spomenik” book here.
Outspoken: I rather live in a cabin made of love then a mansion made of pain.
Above: Fragment #45, #42, #51, #44, and #50 by Mary Ann Unger.___
Join artist Eve Biddle tomorrow, June 14th 2011 at the Maxwell Davidson Gallery on 5th Av NYC for the opening reception honoring her late mother, American artist and sculptor Mary Ann Unger. See invite below for details.
Please credit responsibly! Two Untitled, 1978 works shown, by Mary Ann Unger.
From this weeks “On Earth As It Is In Heaven” article in the NY-Times Magazine, these brilliant black and white Alaska photographs were taken by Brazilian documentary photographer Sebastiao Salgado.
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These photos remind me of how I had once imagined my life as a dedicated climber and mountaineer with a special urge to be lost in the undiscovered America’s. Nowadays I channel those thoughts into the rooms I design by infusing a constant sense of discovery for the people who are to live in them.
Moon Viewing Chair: 1999 by American furniture designer and craftsman Clifton Monteith. Made of bent willow and aspen twigs, and like most of his work, it is rustic interpretation of art nouveau, better known as “rustic noveau”.
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Often rustic works can be over-scaled and or to particular which makes them difficult to use eclectically. Yet all of Clifton’s work is so elegant and its details are in my opinion minimally influenced and therefore so easy to mix into any style interior. I can already see Vogue doing a chic fashion spread with the models sitting in some of these aesthetically American chairs.
American fashion model Hailey Clauson photographed by New York City based photographer Sebestian Kim for Numéro magazine.
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After seeing the Alexander McQueen “Savage Beauty” exhibit this week, I can’t help but notice his influence on much of today’s fashion. Feathers, bones, and hair like materials have now transformed and become beautiful textural elements that are being applied to organically constructed pieces.
I look forward to seeing more of this happening in the world of interior design.
Endless by Dirk Vander Kooij at DMY Berlin from Dezeen on Vimeo.
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Most of you already know how important and thus trendy the word “green” or “Eco” has now become, specifically for the design and architecture industries. Although I am not a big fan of the “green movement” trend, this Endless Chair, 2011 by dutch furniture designer Dirk VanDer Kooij is a perfect example of everything that does excite me about the more important “sustainable” integrities I am a much bigger fan of.
a – Its aesthetic is modern and futuristic.
b – The process can easily inspire similar technological ideas.
c – Its material is recycled but is also very beautiful.
A robot extrudes one continuous line out of plastic from recycled refrigerators. I think that the process (look at video above) is as beautiful as the chair itself. To me that is the ultimate inspiration.
LOVE –> In honor of her birthday, today’s “dubbed” was inspired by this iconic photo of American actress Marilyn Monroe.
1. A 1960’s Brutalist brass floral chandelier. 2. “Psychose” console by Italian designer Herve Van De Straeten.
vase = stalker
ex. Poppies in a glazed black stalker are mad rad pretty atop a table of wood.
The Reflexion Chair: Designed by Pratt Institute design student Arnold Chu. Built of two-way mirrors in the silhouette of a diamond, with embedded LCD panels that serve as digital upholstery, which can ultimately provide unlimited color and pattern options.
This design was a result of Pratt partnering with furniture design firm Cappellini for their Perpetual Motion furniture design studio which challenges students to create pieces intended to inspire future design.
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I really like how futuristic yet minimal this chair is and I agree with Chu who believes that “infusion of technology will be the future of furniture design.” This was also one of my favorite pieces at the ICFF 2011 show this year.
American abstract expressionist painter and artist Helen Frankenthaler sitting amidst her art in her New York City studio. Photographed by Gordon Parks for LIFE magazine ca. 1956.
Buy this or other Helen Frankenthaler art prints here.
Hello friends, fellow bloggers and readers. Last week my computer and backup was destroyed by a freakish virus and in the process I lost all my work and saved files from the past 9 years or so. Among the lost files were the posts I had prepared for the following two weeks and so while I try and recover some work and set myself back up again I hope you are all enjoying this wonderfully sunny + positive day.
Lately I have been working on some fun interviews with some really interesting designers and have also been preparing great new features to be posted on the blog soon. In the meantime, I hope you will continue to visit and please feel free to follow the blog on facebook, twitter, blog catalog, or bloglovin. Look at side bar for more info.
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naftali stern – theBohmerian.com
hipster + rastafarian = hipfarian
Glitter + Metallics really are hot n’ heavy right now.
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Models Patrycja and Justyna from D’vision Model Management, are photographed by Remik Kozdra & Kasia Baczulis for the May 2011 issue of Papercut Magazine.
Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this.” – David Craib
Personally I am not a big fan of figurines and yet lately I have been finding many vintage pieces that can easily pass for decorative or sculptural art. Often these porcelain or ceramic pieces are quite affordable and if your a tag sale junkie like me you can find great pieces for as little as five to ten dollars.
The pieces above are all animal themed and made in Hungry by Zsolnay. Because of their abstract quality and their iridescent metallic like colors, I think these will soon gain a renewed interest from both collectors and the general public.
In case your not up on the latest in color and design trends, shiny and organic are hot and in. Either way, one or two of these can be great accent pieces without making your home feel like”grama is havin a chachkie party.”
Keep your eyes open for overlapping trends with lots of colorful metallics, many inspired by nature, like those found on a Bismuth crystal.
