One of our on-going projects over the last couple of months has been slip-casting bowls. I think we now have about 6 bowls all made with this process, so we’ll take them off to be fired soon! We probably could have done a lot more bowls in all this time, but we’ve been pretty lazy with the whole thing really.. we keep forgetting about it!
Last weekend we took the opportunity to visit the amazing new VitraHaus, which is only about a 10 minute drive from where we live. It really was fantastic – so many chairs, so little time! I just wish they were a little bit cheaper.. or me a bit richer, because I would really like to buy one before we leave Germany. Naturally, it’s this one that’s had me drooling for quite a while now, but at just under €5,000 I’ll be lucky to own it at all in my lifetime. Instead, I have my eye on either this one with wooden legs, or this one.. and then probably trying to find a second-hand one at that :) Wish me luck! And go visit the Haus if you’re around – it’s well worth it!
i.love.pencils. Not just any pencils.. coloured ones. You know, those ones in the shop that are perfectly displayed in giant fold-out wooden boxes? That’s inevitably where I always end up, running my fingers over the rows and re-sorting the colours. Yes, it’s an addiction I should address considering I don’t draw, but it’s been with me since I can remember.
Needless to say, I got pretty excited when I saw these images from Social Designer.. look at all those colours! Actually.. there’s 500 to be exact, and they can be yours if you purchase one of their pencil subscriptions – 25 different coloured pencils every month for 20 months (making 500 total!). Awesome huh? They also offer clear, wall-mountable cases to store your collected pencils in.. which, by the end, looks like a magnificent artwork… i’m in love!
Found via Jolie Jolie who found it via 2Modern
The current work-in-progress.
A new shape I’ve been working with…
While we were in wandering around Sacre Coeur in Paris, we found this beautiful store selling all different coloured ‘ball’ fairy lights. It’s called ‘la case de cousin paul‘. While they do sell ready-made sets in certain colours, you can also browse the store with a basket in hand, and pick out the colours you would like to have on your string of fairy lights! All the different colours make for such eye-candy.. I literally had to be dragged out of the store. Luckily for those of us that don’t actually live in France, they have a website in which you can drag and drop your favourite colours onto a string of lights, and they’ll ship it to you. Brilliant!
So I’m finally getting some images up of something I’ve been working on lately. It turned out to be very difficult to photograph! I’m hoping to eventually sell my work in an etsy shop.. but want to get a few more together first.
Yesterday we headed to Freiburg with some friends to visit a ceramic market being held in a park just outside the centre of town. There were some really fantastic pieces on offer, but one stall in particular really caught our attention and we ended up walking away with with a couple of their beautiful pieces (not before we’d spent a good half hour standing at their stall in turmoil, trying to justify buying everything on the table!).
The photos above are what we ended up with.. it makes me happy just looking at them! They’re by Medi Zimmermann, who I think also has a showroom/shop in Villingen, a small town east of Freiburg. Unfortunately they don’t have a website.. but I can imagine the shop would be worth a visit if you *happen* to be in the area!
