Lacroix's New Furniture & Homewares For La Redoute (With a fun microsite to match)

Seems that fashion designers are all getting into the housewares game and Christian Lacroix's latest collection for the department store La Redoute is another wonderful example.



His line of whimsical rugs, cushions, outdoor furniture, gardening tools, towels and more has all the whimsy of his fashion designs. The UK store carries the following products, but for some reason the US site does not, although they carry Lacroix's clothes and towels.











Buy the collection here.
or visit: http://www.christianlacroixpourlaredoute.com/

They have designed a microsite to browse the collection that is a fun way to walk through and see the entire line:





Visit the microsite here that has a fun game and extras like cool wallpapers.

Fashion & Art Collide: The Gap Artist Shirts For The Whitney

And here are the shirts:

Kerry James Marshall:


Barbara Kruger:



Glenn Ligon:


Marilyn Minter:


Cai Guo-Qiang:


Ashley Bickerton:

Sarah Sze:



Rirkrit Tiravanija:

Hanna Liden:


Chuck Close:

Jeff Koons:

Kenny Scharf:

Kiki Smith:




Where can you buy them? A few select GAP stores, online at GAP.com, a few art museums in the US, and Colette in Paris for between $28 and $32.

As you might expect, many are already sold out (hint: look on ebay for those)!

the t-shirts at the Gap.

the whitney.

Funky Find Of The Week: The Tuliptoaster Lamp

Created by Studio Hergebruik in Rotterdam, the tuliptoaster is a functioning lamp that functions when you press down the taoster button, illuminating the lightblbs withint the faux tulips placed inside the toaster. Available in various colors as seen below.



Studio Hergebruik, Rotterdam

Around 1990 several young Dutch designers started work suddenly with waste materials. Most known became Piet Hein Eek and Tejo Remy who formed, under the influence of the punk movement, their resisted against the wasting society and operating with a anti-design mentality. Except for aesthetic reasons also ecological ideals (re-use) played an important role. This development uses ideas from historical movements as the Pop Art and the Art Povera.

At that time Eek and Remy were imitated a lot and nowadays there is again a new generation that is using waste materials in their designs. For them above all ideological goals are important.

For more information or to order the tuliptoaster, go here.