Saturday Blues

Walking from the Meatpacking District to Times Square last Saturday (to see the King Tut exhibit) we were seeing blue...

A blue hotel ( Westin Times Square)

A blue flower hanging over a blue-grey door

Blue tiles on a parking garage on 42nd Street

Blue color blocks on a very intriguing poster on the parking garage with blue tiles

A blue bar (Billymark's West on 9th)

Blue plant pots outside a bodega

And a blue "shop" sign above a pink pig ( Esposito's Pork Store)

Taste, Color, Design

We stumbled upon Plain English bespoke kitchens in last month's The World of Interiors. The clean, classic lines of their designs would be perfect in an antique home (or any home!), paired with a dash of color and a taste of the outdoors.

Bespoke kitchen by Plain English; oranges at the Manhattan Fruit Exchange; Orangery byFarrow & Ball

Long House glazed cabinets by Plain English; white asparagus at the Manhattan Fruit Exchange; Babouche by Farrow & Ball

The Williamsburg solid wood Shaker style kitchen by Plain English; Asparagus at the Manhattan Fruit Exchange; Cream by Farrow & Ball

Long House farmhouse kitchen by Plain English; Royal Trumpet Mushrooms at the Manhattan Fruit Exchange; Cat's Paw by Farrow & Ball

Long House traditional kitchen by Plain English; Bluefoot Mushrooms at the Manhattan Fruit Exchnage; Pitch Blue by Farrow & Ball

Collection of a Lifetime

Primary school teacher Ettore Guatelli has collected over 60,000 vintage objects that reflect lives of peasant workers in Parma, Italy. Everyday objects such as tools, toys, boxes and shoes have been turned into masterful installations at his Museo Ettore Guatelli which is just as much a comment on interior design as it is a narrative on the history of mankind.

Counting Crows, Bird Specimens as Art

We've had Andrew Wyeth's Crows on the desktop for quite sometime, waiting to use the beautiful study. When a friend at work showed us San Francisco artist Heidi McDowell's studies of bird specimens, we knew we had something! With such active lines, there is a quiet irony in the drawings.

Andrew Wyeth, Crows (Study for Woodshed), 1944

Heidi McDowell, Egyptian Goose

Great Kiskadees of Southern Texas from the MWFB Collection, Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology

Heidi McDowell, Chickadees

Lark Bunting at Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Heidi McDowell, Hummingbirds

An alternative bird specimen at the Smithsonian

Heidi McDowell, Common Cuckoo

Heidi McDowell, Squirrel Cuckoo

Common Bird Specimens on Flickr via Fiberartsfanatic

Heidi McDowell, Poorwill

Heidi McDowell, Heron

Lost at Sea, Fiber Artsist's in Soho

We had the opportunity to stop by Lost at Sea, daring fiber artists delve into the deep at Gallery Hanahou in Soho last week. The work was consistently strong, and the curation commendable, in this little space devoted (at least until June 11th) to fiber arts. From embroidery to felt making, soft sculpture to crochet, here are some of the highlights:

Joetta Maue, Under

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Jennifer Dubish, Resigned

Kristen Rask, Shore

Margaret Oomen, Gather ye pebbles where ye may

Hine Mizushime, Nautilus

Hine Mizushima, Jellyfish

Hine Mizushima, Squid

Two Works by Jessica Marquez, due north (t) and how many nights?(b)

Coco Howard of Softlife, Relief

Roadkill on the Mean Streets of NYC

We were a bit dismayed this weekend, on a trip upstate, at the amount of roadkill along the highways. It's Spring folks--wildlife are on the move with their babies, so be careful! Back in the hustle and bustle of the city Monday morning, the first sign of carnage was an unfortunate eggplant. Not to make light of what we saw upstate, we're happy to report that after three days scouring the mean streets of NYC for roadkill, this is what we found:

Splat

Scene of the Crime

Full Moon with Pizza Grease

Impending Doom

Clean Kill

New Faces in Familiar Places

From street art, to fine art, to local art (from Hudson County), we were introduced to some new faces last night as we walked to a dinner party at a friends in the West Village. New barricades in the Meat Packing district were already filled with wild-postinsg and stencil art, and our friend showed off some new acquisitions of her own once we arrived...

Wild-postings, Meat Packing District NYC

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Stencils, Meat Packing District NYC

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P.J. Smalley

Earl Swanigan

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