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Hamlet Lamps - Modernist Colored Skulls in Transparent Polymer Add An Eerie Glow.

Hamlet are transparent polymer table lamps in Red, Violet or White available at Skitsch. Each side can be used as the base. E14 bulb connection.

Dimensions L14,5 W19 H19,5 cm
Price 95.00 €
Buy them here

Le bureau de Paolo by Sam Baron

This unusual and beautiful desk is made in a limited edition of 8 pieces. Crafted of Teak wood by Sam Baron for the Secondome Gallery, it measures 120cm X 75cm X 150cm and has lots of storage in its wonderfully modern design.

Inquire about the price and availability at the Secondome Gallery

Human Hardware Cast In Bronze. Tongues, Ears and Hands Handles and Drawer Pulls.

Brooklyn-based Artist and sculptor Malia Jensen has created some interesting functional art for the home, exclusively for Artware Editions. Drawer pulls and door handles cast in bronze and patinated bronze are shaped like human tongues, ears and hands. The unique hardware is made in only 100 editions of each.

Tongue Pulls, 2013, polished bronze:

Tongue A (small): 7/16" h. x 1 1/8" w. x 1" d.
Tongue B (small): 3/8" h. x 1 1/8" w. x 1 1/2" d.
Tongue C (large): 5/8" h. x 1 5/8" w. x 1 7/16" d.
edition of 100, each

Small: $175 each
Large: $200 each

Existing hardware can accommodate a drawer up to 1/2" thick. Hardware can be replaced to accommodate drawers of different depths.

Ear Pulls, 2013, polished bronze:

Round: 1 1/2" x 7/8" x 7/8"
Pointy: 1 1/2" x 3/4" x 7/8"
edition of 100, each

Existing hardware can accommodate a drawer up to 1/2" thick. Hardware can be replaced to accommodate drawers of different depths.
$180.00

Hand Handles (based on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel), 2013, patinated bronze:

installed dimensions: 1 1/2" h. x 6 3/8" w. x 1 1/2" d.
edition of 100 pairs

Existing hardware can accommodate a drawer up to 1/2" thick. Hardware can be replaced to accommodate drawers of different depths.
$600.00

Shop for these and other items by Malia Jensen here at Artware Editions.

Introducing Jaw Drop Coolers. Fun Flavored Alcoholic Beverages In Fabulously Designed Cans.

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, The Jaw Drop Cooler Co. was launched in Spring of 2012 by Aquilini Brands - best known for their real estate holdings but who also launched the 2011 Bassano Hard Soda, which seems to have been replaced by this new collection of flavored vodka and malt beverage coolers.

Australian artist Ben Frost is known for his kaleidoscopic Pop Art, mash-up paintings that take inspiration from areas as diverse as graffiti, collage, photorealism and sign-writing.

One of his fun series of works consists of acrylic paintings on McDonald's French Fry packaging. Happy Meal to Super sized, the familiar red and yellow Golden Arches containers feature hand-painted pop culture icons, Super Heroes, images reminiscent of Lichtenstein's pop art, Cartoons, Japanese Manga, Universal Iconography and more.

By subverting mainstream iconography from the worlds of advertising, entertainment and politics, he creates a visual framework that is bold, confronting and often controversial. With a blatant disrespect for the signifiers of our visual culture, Ben creates multi-layered surfaces of refreshing intensity.

About Ben Frost:

He has been exhibiting throughout Australia and internationally over the last 10 years, including solo shows in London, New York and San Francisco, as well as group shows in Beijing, Mongolia, Amsterdam, Berlin and Singapore.

A selected artist for the 2002 Primavera exhibition at the Sydney MCA, Ben was also guest speaker at the 2008 Semi-Permanent and AG IDEAS conferences throughout Australia.

His work has appeared in countless magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Oyster, WeAr, Monster Children, Ok!, HQ, Eyeline, Australian Art Collector, Broadsheet, and Art Monthly. Television appearances include Rush TV 2010 (ABC3), The Apprentice 2009 (channel 9), The Barefoot Investor 2009 (CNBC), Sunrise 2008 (channel 7) and Today Tonight 2008 (channel 7).

In 2006 he co-founded the online art portal StupidKrap.com and also began and runs the international paste-up event ‘Paste Modernism.’

He currently lives in Sydney and operates Stupidkrap Studios, a multi-displinary art collective of 10 established and emerging artists in Annandale.

His work is in the collections of Kerry Stokes, Art Bank, Griffith University and numerous local and international locations.

text and bio from Ben Frost

Ben Frost Is Dead (his official website)

Typographic Furniture. Chairs That Talk And Lamps That Punctuate.

More fun 'Font Furniture' has hit the market. In addition to the Fontables Tables, The Letter Furniture from Set 26, Saporiti's Letter Bookcases, The Alphabet Chest, Letter Lights, and ABC lamps, you can add Typographia by Tabisso of France to that list. A fabulous furniture collection of letters and numbers, from A to Z and 0 to 9.

The TABISSO® lounge collection consists of chairs including all letters and numbers, a set of floor lamps covering more than 20 punctuation marks, and low tables to complete the set.

Totally fun and innovative with a high-end target in terms of quality, this new furniture concept allows creative solutions blending interior design and communication — ideal for the project market and the planning of corporate, public and private interiors.

The Lounges at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design):

The Lounges in the Pax Hotel in Switzerland:

The letter forms are upholstered in either Stolz® leather or Kvadrat textiles (Divina 3, Divina Mélange 2, Hot, Lucca 1+2, Tindra, Topas 2) and placed in a wooden shell of European Beechwood that is available in black, white or naturally varnished. The chairs sit atop a metal base that is available in powder coated colors of black or white satin.

Development of custom models to fit your interior, corporate identity or logo, from various fonts, alphabets, pictograms, ideograms and much more are available. Made-to-order in 6 to 8 weeks standard lead-time, along your specifications and 100% Made in France.

TABISSO® cares about sustainability with regards to materials and manufacturing — wood is European and certified from sustainably managed forests, manufacturing is entirely local in France. Socially responsible, a charity program is intended to sponsor basic literacy material to elementary schools in developing countries.