Edward Steichen's photograph of Marion Morehouse (Mrs e.e. Cummings)

This is surely an amazing moment in time! The photograph by Edward Steichen, the model is Mrs ee Cummings: Marion Morehouse; and the dress is by Louis Boulanger, and taken in 1926. I so wish I could take a time machine back to the twenties and thirties, the fashion, photography, art, design and architecture was extraordinary, especially when you compare it to the late nineteenth century, and Edwardian times, which were pretty interesting. Even the beginning of the awakening in Art Nouveau, however magnificent and iconoclastic at times, doesn't compare in my opinion.

BTW:Thanks to Gatochy on flickr for the shot...

People font

Backbreaker. Typeface made at the beach of Zandvoort aan Zee in The Netherlands.
I just love this! Not only is it a font, but all of these guys are doing a kind of Yoga! So it fulfills two big loves of mine. I studied typography when I was at art school doing my diploma of graphic design about three hundred years ago. And to this day, I keep an eye on new developments in that world, and occasionally. (like the logo on my website for example.) If you like fonts go to: my fonts.

Henri Matisse - 'Poster Show'

WOW and wow again...How can this be compared to anything or anybody? Henri Matisse created this print in 1945. (yes..) Everything else here on this blog today just gets wiped away into a frivolous little pile of nothingness. I love it when that happens. Everything just gets put into perspective. BTW, this poster is for sale. Yes.

Thierry Mugler photo

aaahhh...yes, this somehow evokes a universal beach dreaming state I think. It is from a book I have of Thierry Mugler's photographs from the late eighties. He has been a big influence on me.
And I like this image so much because it brings Africa into the picture. It does really bring back something about the essence of that time, other than the caricature padded shoulders and brash trash jewellery from the eighties...

art deco place mats

These exquisite hand made place mats are from the 1930's. They are perfect. The colours glow, the weaving is just so neat, the colours are jaw-droppingly beautiful (the reduduction I have created here really doesn't share how saturated and radiant the colours really are...). I inherited them from my mother. She had a draw full of linen and straw place mats. These were the best ones. They are some of my favorite things, and continue to nourish my eyes and heart with their simple beauty.

diamonds 'n rust series continues

Ok, I still haven't got this series out of my system. I just love the old brass chain, which is quite dull and grungy, with those glimmers of the vintage fire-polished coppery glass beads shining through. This piece is big big and wild. It is nearly jumping off my bench at the moment, it'll either wear somebody, or end up abseiling the Rialto. Anyway..its great to be making things on this level again. I will also make some smaller sort of ones, for those who love this, but say things like: "I love it, but don't have anywhere to wear it to...." (happens all the time! My answer is usually: "build it and they will come")

Art Deco box

Yes, I think this is an appropriate place to start. I inherited a very large collection of costume and design items from my mother. And not only many of the objects from it in life; but I realize more and more that I absorbed everything she gathered and hunted and inherited herself from her rich cultural life, by osmosis and I imagine: DNA. So I'm very very lucky. And I have a big responsibility, not only to my family, but to all interested in, or passionate about beautiful things, to pass on this extraordinary legacy. And that's why I'm inbetween things. I have been making jewellery for years and years. I still love to make jewellery. But I also paint and draw. And I also design and create logos, design styles and images for other people, including my own 'house'.
So here we are. I've finally started this blog, and hope it brings you as much inspiration and creativity as it brings me.