Here's what I found while second-hand shopping today - a little silkscreened/handcoloured dish from Stavangerflint. I have seen a few of these souvenir dishes from various places before, but it hasn't felt 'right' for me to have one from just any place. Oslo, on the other hand, I can relate to :-) Call me biased, but I think it's one of the better looking souvenir dishes too...
Last weekend I scored a couple of vintage furniture pieces in teak and rosewood that I'm excited to show you later. Stay tuned!
PS. I tried blogging this from my iPhone first. I'm not too happy with the Blogger app, though... What's your experience with the app?
I was out thrift-shopping again on Tuesday and was about to leave empty-handed when I suddenly spotted these little cuties. The two soft pink glasses look like very small vases and are unmarked. I liked them very much as a pair. The tiny smoked glass dish is marked 'Fuga' by Orrefors and the small hand-painted ceramic cup is from Stavangerflint. It's marked by a number but no initials, but I'm pretty sure it's by Inger Waage. I was very happy to find it :-)
The next two items are 'Turi design' by Figgjoflint. The cup and saucer in this yellow and brown colour combo is called 'Siri', and is quite rare. The more common colour combination for this pattern is a dark red and teal (you can see it on the lidded dish in the next image.) In this color combo the pattern is called 'Astrid'. The cup and saucers were found in an online auction and I forked out a little in order to get it in my collection.
This little creamer is my first item in the 'Arden' series. I just love the tree illustration and I think it's one of the best items I've seen in this sought-after pattern.
I saw this one over at SwissMiss today and just had to share it. I love these guys, OK Go - they make some funny videos. If you want to learn more about their collaboration with Sesame Street, click here.
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in London. When there, I made a point of catching some inspiration at the V&A through an exhibition called 'Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990'. I was worried there would be a lot of Memphis style stuff (which I don't like), but I trusted the V&A to put on a varied show as usual. They did not disappoint.
Kunstkredit, poster by Wolfgang Weingart, Basel
As I started my graphic design studies in London just at the end of the postmodern era, this exhibition was a huge trip down memory lane for me. Especially the graphics of early issues of Emigré magazine, The Face and Wolfgang Weingart’s posters struck a chord. I was also pleased to see that my favourite artist Jenny Holzer was represented:
The biggest discovery I made at this exhibition though, was that of Bricolage. I had seen the term before but never really paid it much attention. Now I realised that based on the products I have been making over the years, I have actually been practicing some bricolage myself! I'm not sure I can label myself a bricoleur, although it amuses me to think I could then be in company with MacGyver... (!)
I'll end this postmodernist post with a quote I saw at the exhibition and which I found very interesting, being a blogger of superficial stuff:
Superficiality has depth, if understood and accepted as the profound difficulty of human life. Alessandro Mendini
PS. Actually, I'll end this post the way the exhibition ended. With this video by New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle :-)
Inspired by the New Year’s Eve fireworks that is starting to pop, here's a little work in progress by me. And with this I'd like to wish you all a happy 2012.
I'm not sure where Whatsbloggingmyview will be in the new year, but if you stick around you'll find out :-) Take care!
What's blogging my view is a lot of things; Interiors, architecture, ceramics, patterns, textiles, people, dogs, music, travelling and shopping to mention the more frequent distractions.
