Category Archives: Object Making

Now in Shop! Honorine Necklace by la collagiste

Encircled in a laurel wreath motif, the brilliant red faceted cabochons and patinated “gold” bezels on this necklace call to mind a festive evening on the town: a ruby elixir, a trip down the red carpet, her scarlet-red lips.
Fittingly complemented with 6 mm chartreuse cathedral beads capped in gold and finished with a regal 8 [...]

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13 Lady Photogs on One Hot Trip

Well, just as the light was waning over West Texas last evening, the Marfa Girls were returning safely home from their reckless adventures in the sleepy, brushy, desert town of the same name. If you are not familiar with Marfa, it’s an amazing (I am told) once nearly “ghost town” turned artist colony, thanks to [...]

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Mad for Mod

Quickly, form a single line and move toward Veerle Pieters amazing street-level foto-document of Interieur 08 – which, for those of us on this side of the Atlantic, might otherwise be missed. I am really rather smitten (as is Veerle) with these quixiotic 1963 Alexander Girard dolls. Pieters points out that Girard was inspired to [...]

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