Colored Daylight 4.29.11

Happy happy Friday everyone! My apologies for my tardy posting today, I was at work celebrating the Royal Wedding all through the night and am just now starting my day. Just wanted to leave you with some colorful inspiration for your weekend, reds and pinks done my way, in dip dyed fabrics, color field paintings and recycled glass...

photo via color collective, Mark Rothko, me

Mark Rothko's work continues to be a constant inspiration to me, always reminding me of the impact color alone has and I love the brilliant hue variations in a pile of recycled glass at Bedrock Industries for adding color to a garden or tabletop..hope your weekend is just as vibrant and full of life as this palette...Enjoy!

Love it / Live it: Seeing Red

Lately working for Kelley Moore, I've been seeing a lot of the color red, and I have to say, it is really starting to grow on me. Of course, my version would have to be richly infused with pattern and design and handmade of natural materials like this beautiful Indian heirloom cloth...

via textile arts, and devibooks.com

And though we all tend to be attached at the hip to our laptops, there is something about good ol' fashioned pen and paper that is absolutely therapeutic. So power down and start writing, and while you're at it, you might as well be writing on 100% recycled paper in a gorgeous embossed leather-bound journal right? Enjoy!

One Man's Trash...

Alex Uribe...

Uribe is one of many artists today taking what we throw away and making it into art. I love the re-working of an ordinary or mundane object or material into something beautiful. Here he makes undulating, feminine curves out of corrugated cardboard.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

The men of www.graypants.com/ are taking it to another level and making fully functional works of art of both cardboard and scraps of plywood. I serendipitously met these guys in Seattle and was utterly inspired. Their architectural backgrounds give them a unique grasp on structure and space and paired with their never-ending creativity the possibilities here are endless.

I was most impressed when they showed me their prototype for the Slice Chair below. The innovation here is incredible and the chair itself is an ingenious sculpture.

Live in it...

 

I cannot wait to have a client project where I can use these pieces. The scrap lights are great for such a variety of spaces, I know it won't be long. They add a stripped, industrial feel to a space while also bringing in warmth and texture, two components that rarely seem to go hand in hand.