Monday, May 18, 2009

to continue on a colorstory...


Pontormo's Deposition from the Cross at Santa Felicita in Florence.  Cappella Capponi is very dark and I had no tripod, but I think its good enough to remember it by and see the colors used adjacent to eachother

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Color Scheme





A logical post to follow Laura Letinsky... seems as though his fabric selections could be literally derived from her arrangements and lighting.
Dries VanNoten

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Still Life



Laura Letinsky Some of her photos/ palette remind me of a little bit of another favorite still life artist

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Erin McIntosh




A good friend whose new work I can't stop looking at. She is out of Athens, GA (hopefully it will be uploaded to her website soon...

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Monday, April 27, 2009

Custom Weave



Above are selected images from her catalog.
The most perfect custom woven linens I have ever seen! View her website: Chiarastella Cattana

Nomi

colors together


Patterns hand-block printed with metallic pigments on linen, silk, or velvet.

Morandi




I got to visit some Morandi's at an exhibit in the Phillips Collection this past February.. some of his other pieces

Friday, April 24, 2009

3 forests

Cassander Eeftink Schattenkerk
Laurie Sermos
Susan Ludwig

Charles Clifford & Giorgio Morandi

Morandi

Bridge and Chapel. Martorell Spain. Clifford

Cressida Campbell






http://cressidacampbell.com/

Monday, April 13, 2009

pretty emblems

A linen fragment at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artwork displayed in an interior designed by Steven Knollenburg

Gold leaf on paper: 'Law and Gospel' by artist Sandra Bowden

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Tents!

as an altar


These are made by Guido Toschi Marazzani Visconti & Co.
Of course I was about to lose it when I saw these.
http://www.guidotoschi.it/home_en.htm

Brion Vega Cemetery













Carlos Scarpa's Brion Vega Cemetery. These images came from a spread in Wallpaper Magazine- including great shots of his details that I had not seen in more widely published books.