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Archive for October, 2007
Panda Chair
Oct 11th
I thought I was in love with the $10,000 bug lamp that I spotted at Moss a few months ago, but I have just found a new black and white impractical piece of furniture to covet.
I require a panda chair.
This limited edition seat was made exclusively for Moss by the Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana, and it’s so expensive that the price is only available on request. Notice in the photo above that it was placed next to my beloved bug lamp in the store window. It must be a sign.
If pandas aren’t your thing, the Campana brothers have made chairs out of several other cuddly animals.
There’s the teddy bear chair:
The alligator chair:
And the miscellaneous stuffed animal chair:
I’m still partial to sitting on pandas myself. But only if I can have my bug lamp to coordinate.
Plush You! this Friday
Oct 10th
If you’re in the Seattle area this Friday, you must check out the Plush You! show. It’s the annual plush toy show curated by Schmancy, a hip and funky toy store in Seattle. All of the best names in plush art will be there—this is a really big show. And I’m thrilled to say that the show will also include three pieces by me!
They’ll be exhibited at Nancy (Plush You! is actually going to be happening in three locations this year, all relatively close together from what I gather), under my name, Anna Hrachovec. This is one of the few opportunities to purchase something I’ve made, as opposed to a pattern.
The opening is this Friday, October 12th, starting at 5 pm, then the show will run for one month. (I so wish I could make it, but New York has other plans for me.) You can get more information at the official Plush You! blog.
Free Pattern: Toilet Paper
Oct 8th
This is a free and easy pattern for everyone to enjoy. Please check out the Mochimochi Land Shop for more patterns that you’ll love!
Who doesn’t need a roll of knitted toilet paper? Great as a bathroom gag, an unconventional scarf, or the perfect Halloween costume: a toilet-papered tree! More >
SOS
Oct 5th
You’ve probably imagined what it would be like to be stuck on a deserted island. But what if you were the deserted island?
Diameter is 8″, height is 7.5″.
lost in gaze
Oct 4th
My friend Makiko Sasanuma, as I mentioned before, is the amazing photographer who took excellent shots of my Woodins for Knitty. Her product photography is obviously fantastic, but her personal work is what really blows me away—she works with light and natural elements to create images that make you look at the world from a completely different perspective.
Makiko shared some images from one of her projects with me today.
The project, “lost in gaze,” is a series of photographs that Makiko took of the space between two frosted glass panels. You can see just the faintest hint of what is on the other side of the glass; it’s this momentary act of seeing that she wanted to capture with these images.
When Makiko exhibited these photographs, she tried to recreate the atmosphere in which they were originally taken by covering the space’s glass windows with scrim and leaving a gap to see through.
I absolutely love the simple (but not simple) beauty and depth of this work. You can see more of Makiko’s photographs at her Flickr page.
