All Pretty Things

inspiration week 45

 

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

 

{Henri Fantin-Latour, Portret of Eva Callimachi-Cartagi, 1881}

Loving...

...Victor Pasmore.

inspiration wednesday week 20

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

 

{Little Doodles}

Inspiration wednesday week 18

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

 

 

{by kris atomic}

inspiration wednesday week 17

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

{Queen Elizabeth's Wedding Cake, 1947}

inspiration wednesday week 16

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

 

{Elizabeth Schuppe}

inspiration wednesday week 08

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

 

{Carl Kleiner}

Inspiration wednesday week 03

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

 

{Wyne Veen}

Loving...

...botanical illustrations.

 

{this one by Sydney Parkinson}

the wedding ifs

If I were Barbie, I'd wear this dress for my wedding.

 

{Painting by Holly Farrell}

inspiration wednesday week 51

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

 

{Amy Bennett, via Elephant}

inspiration wednesday week 50

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

{Jarno Kettunen}

inspiration wednesday week 48

//no words//one image//every wednesday//

 

{Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy. Jacques-Louis David}

Loving...

...Tim Enthoven's work. 

 

{this poor pictures I took at Design Academy Eindhoven Final Exam Exhibition don't do much justice to his work I'm afraid. This is part of 'Binnenskamers'}

 

{detail of the above image, equally poor I'm afraid}

 

He has won the Keep An Eye Grant, which will allow him to publish! We need to wait until 2011 though...go check it out!

ordering

Putting some order within my images is becoming a nightmare! For some reason I have four copies of the same image but don't know where others are at all...you get the picture ;)

But lucky for you, while ordering I found these graphic goodies that I photographed in Metz at the Centre Pompidou. I am not so sure I ordered anything, but at least I got some inspiration I had forgotten about. ha!

 

 

Centre Pompidou-Metz

  

The first time I went to Paris with boyfriend we went to Centre Pompidou and wandered around for hours. I think it was the first time art really really got to me. The new Centre Pompidou in Metz had this effect too.

 

The building itself is a masterpiece, totally worth a visit, regardless the exhibition! (which was also worth visiting).

I love that feeling when an art piece makes you stop just a little longer than other works. These two did just that. The first one by Marcel Duchamp, the second by Joseph Kosuth. Needless to say, there were so many other pieces I enjoyed and made me stop, but I feel like showing you these two:

 

"I enjoyed looking at it" "Just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace."{Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel}

"I used common, functional objects - such as a chair - and to the left of the object would be a full-scale photograph of it and to the right of the object would be a photostat of a definition of the object from the dictionary. Everything you saw when you looked at the object had to be the same that you saw in the photograph, so each time the work was exhibited the new installation necessitated a new photograph. I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw. By changing the location, the object, the photograph and still having it remain the same work was very interesting. It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important." {Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs}.

And yes, it seems I really really like chairs. ;) 

If you have a chance, I would suggest you visit the new Centre Pompidou and the city of Metz. I think you would enjoy it as much as I have!

 

 

color

 

I took this photo in Paris, didn't write the gallery's name, don't know where it was..and I have no clue whose work this is..please let me know if you know!

 

I am fascinated

I am fascinated with Abelardo Morell's work. 

 

 

I think I need to get one of his books...

Happy Sunday! 

Loving...

While doing some research for school I went to check Louise Campbell's work and I just had to share it with you. It's so inspiring! Not only she creates really beautiful pieces, but I find her concepts very interesting too. It's not over-thought, it's a bit literal so there's some degree of fantasy and it's intelligent. Here are some of my favorites, but check her website, it's worth a visit!

 

{Cammeo storage units}

 

{‘Blah, Blah, Blah’ at Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand}

 

{Honesty chair}

Whishlisting

Phaidon Design Classics

A three step Wednesday

i. study

 

{Le Ballon Rouge, Albert Lamorisse}

ii. lunch

{chicken breast, rocket salad and parmesan sandwich}

iii.bake (or preparation for Christmas)

{(not so) Melting Moments, via Joy of Baking}

This is the probably the only way...

...I could allow sports to be on one of our living-room walls. Believe it or not, this is a sports game, a drawing of a game in fact. Genius!

By Lee Walton, seen via Emma's Design Blog.

Loving...

...the work of Marjolijn de Groot.

{first seen at Farpitzs}

Special days...

...need to be celebrated. I strongly believe in this. Yesterday it was a special day for boyfriend and me and although we didn't do much to celebrate it, I decided to make myself a special lunch.

I know it might not seem that special, but it was really delicious (compared to my chesse+ham grilled sandwich, at least).

And special as the day was, boyfriend gave me a beautiful present that I love love love. It's a 33 cm Authentics plate designed by Tord Boontje. It's called "Deer in Forest", isn't it sweet? 

Unnecessary beauty

If beauty is ever unnecessary. But in this case, it is for me as I can't really imagine any coming event I would use as an excuse to order any of the below invitations from Paper & Cup. I read about it through Frolic, in this post.

And what a wonderful idea to order these icecream spoons for a party!!!

Happy mornings

This morning the sun shined and I felt good about life. So I took my time with breakfast, called the office and said I'd be (deliberately) late and just after I missed my tram-oh, what a shame! (not)- I bought Dansk and sat down under the sun hoping for the next tram to be late.

Right now, I am loving these pictures in the fantastic and classy quarterly magazine.

And I am also dreaming of going to Copenhagen, pronto.

Good night.