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four posts to rediscover
1. A beautiful book. 2. A beautiful photograph. 3. Inspiration for a stunning dinner party. 4. A fun web project that charts the emotions of thousands of people. *Top photo by Andrew Moore. About these ads
Van Gogh painting literally brought to life in a vertical garden
June 27, 2011
I love this idea: one of Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh’s renowned paintings, A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, is in the process of being adapted to a ‘living wall’ or vertical garden at London’s National Gallery. The painting is in the Gallery’s collection and the vertical garden is on an external wall and will mirror the composition […]
Public art by Krijn de Koning
June 2, 2011
I love this spatial art/architecture installation by Krijn de Koning … I think it is the intriguing balance of the solid colourblock shapes with the softer, older, crumbling infrastructure of old buildings in a neutral, natural setting. I especially love the way the old shapes and the new shapes sort of play with one other – […]
(yet) more little arty people – Sandwich Mountain
April 27, 2011
Beauties, I hope you don’t think I’m becoming obsessed but here are some more adorable little people! Sandwich Mountain chronicles the lives and adventures of The Littles: a curious extended family of little ceramic people crafted by Brisbane ceramicists Mel Robson and Kenji Uranishi. The Littles have done all sorts of adventurous things: they’ve been […]
100 abandoned houses
January 27, 2011
I discovered this photographic blog a while ago and I often think of it; it is one of my favourite creative projects. 100 Abandoned Houses belongs to Kevin Bauman, who has spent more than 10 years capturing the haunting, exquisitely sad beauty of abandoned houses in Detroit. Some of the houses depicted in his photographs […]
Paintings by Gus Leunig
January 15, 2011
I have always been a fan of Michael Leunig’s whimsical cartoon characters. I grew up following their philosophical adventures in The Age newspaper – to me Leunig is as Melbourne as the Yarra River and yellow brick Flinders Street Station. So imagine my joy when I discovered his son Gus Leunig is also an artist – […]
Paintings by Ralph Goings
November 8, 2010
American artist Ralph Goings is perhaps better known for his photorealism style of painting: when I write ‘photorealism’ I actually mean super hyper realism as his exquisite work, depicting all-American diners, street vendors and classic American fare (doughnuts, ketchup, black coffee), seriously look like high gloss photographs. However I also love his single piece of […]
Crystal Flask + Chandelier = Decanterlight
November 5, 2010
The Beauty Philosopher loves chandeliers and she loves cut crystal. So imagine her joy when she came across these gorgeous exotic-meets-domestic Decanterlights by British designer Lee Broom. Who would have thought decanters are ideally shaped to moonlight as lighting fixtures. The ‘liquid gold’ dipped ones are quirky and contemporary but the romantic classicist in me […]
September 3, 2012
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