Category: Curiosities

I had the pleasure of meeting Swedish designer Marie-Louise Hellgren at Tent London a few years back. It was here that she introduced me to Pink One … Read More ›

Ilaria Bianchi is a furniture and product designer from Pisa, Italy. She studied Industrial Design in Turin, and after winning a scholarship moved to Stockholm … Read More ›

Melbourne designers March Studio transformed the foyer interior of Hotel Hotel in Canberra, using thousands of planks of salvaged wood. The planks are fixed around the … Read More ›

Highlighting something seemingly worthless by casting it in bronze was explored by Jasper Johns in the 1960s. Works such as Painted Bronze (Ale Cans) (1960), … Read More ›

Debbie Wijskamp has been operating from her studio in Arnhem, Netherlands since graduating in Product Design in 2009. Inspired by everyday objects and materials that … Read More ›

Ariele Alasko is a full-time woodworker living in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from California, Alasko started building furniture for her own apartment, shortly after she … Read More ›

Los Angeles based artist Paige Smith aka A Common Name has installed crystal geodes into quiet, hidden corners of the globe. Made from folded paper and cast resin, … Read More ›

Veronika Richterová is a Czech artist and aficionado when it comes to upcycled plastic bottles. Using heat and various methods of technological processing, she has … Read More ›

Canadian-born British fashion designer Michelle Lowe Holder cleverly utilises offcuts from previous collections and end of line cuttings to craft dynamic and individual, sustainable statement … Read More ›

This upcycled chair collection by East London designer Yinka Ilori are sculptural pieces inspired by the traditional Nigerian parables he was taught as a child. … Read More ›

Delicate street art by Polish artist NeSpoon can be found in abandoned urban spaces all the way from Warsaw to Tunisia. Decorative lace touches are given to … Read More ›