The New Domestic

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02/06/10

Still Life Self Portrait

Last year at work, as part of the new website design, we created a team section where we individually created compositions that represent who we are. For my self portrait, I decided to gather some of my favourite things and put them together to create a still life. Here’s a list of what you see:

- The framed pattern was a gift wrapper found at the Vancouver Art Gallery
– Framed illustration purchased from Yumi Yumi via Etsy
– My handmade Bricolage journals
– Baby Eames chair reproduction from Nood (50% off sale! btw)
– White Eames Eiffel chair from Herman Miller
– Skirt from Anthropology
– Matryoshka doll was a souvenir from my trip to Alaska
– Twigs & rocks from the beach where I live
– Brown shoes brought back from Paris
Smena 8M toy camera
– Catalogues: Habitat, Muji, Anthropolgy


Last note for the weekend: hello to Hooray Design. Thanks for including us in your awesome blog.



02/03/10

Inspiration Board

We keep an inspiration board up in our studio. It’s a easy way to casually pin-up artwork, clippings and other tidbits that inspire us. Items currently include:

  • paint chips and fabric swatches for on-going projects;
  • few old photos that don’t have a home in our albums;
  • spare art prints that we haven’t framed yet;
  • reference material and souvenirs;

But most special are the hand-made cards & mini-crafts given to us by our friends. Those gifts always get a special spot on the board or in our library. Alice Cho holds the current record for most things pinned up.


11/20/09

Christmas Tree!

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Xmas tree is up! Thirty-five more days till Christmas. Tree skirt: an old white wool sweater. Star: bookmarks I made a few years ago taped together to make a star. Ornaments: Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn, Michaels. The hand-carved wooden nativity figures on the mantel are from the Philippines.


10/24/09

Luna’s Nursery

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Welcome to Luna’s nursery. We wanted to create a playful and creative space where she can grow, learn, be nurtured and dream – a room where her imagination can roam freely and memories are to be made.

We also wanted to surround her with pieces that Peter and I love and have inspired us. Most of the pieces on the walls are things we’ve collected throughout the years. The illustrations on the walls are from one of our favourite illustrators – Charley Harper (It’s actually an alphabet card game that came in a box with other letters but I just picked out letters from her name – L-U-N-A – and framed them individually). The Black & White ABC Neutraface type poster is from House Industries, it creates a visual pattern that is classic but playful at the same time. Also from House Industries, are the wooden alphabet Neutraface slab blocks sitting on her night stand. The large canvas you see on the wall is a Marimekko fabric remnant we purchased in Seattle years ago. We stretched it onto a canvas to create a large piece of art to hang on the wall. The white mobile above the twin bed was a present given to me by Peter 8 years ago; it was made by a local artist. We also love the wooden bowling pins sitting on the ledge of her window. We saw it at our favourite home interior store called Habitat in Paris (they have stores all over Europe). They were so cute, we had to take them home with us.

We hope the space we’ve created for her will make her feel at home – a space where she can create her own memories as we watch her grow.