Category — art

Carlo Giovani is a visual artist living in São Paulo, Brazil. He recently created the cover design for the new brazilian edition of Journey to the Center of the Earth (pictured above). He also creates some pretty awesome paper sculptures (pictured below). Can you believe the nature scene below is made entirely out of paper? Pretty cool!

To see more of Giovani’s work please visit these links:
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Designer Pete Fecteau has taken the love for Rubix Cubes to a whole new level. Back in April 2011, he created a mosaic titled “Dream Big” of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. using 4,242 officially licensed Rubik’s Cubes. It measures 19′ x 8’6″ x 2.25″ and it weighs roughly 1000 pounds.

Each cube has been “reversed solved” or twisted so that one of the faces maps it’s nine stickers into the total image, 38,178 stickers total. The construction process took a little over 40 hours and the final installation to about five and a half hours with 6 volunteers helping. And here we were thinking how hard it was to solve just one Rubix Cube, when Peter has solved an entire installation using them!

If you are looking for a statement piece of furniture that combines modernity with nature, then you have Spanish artist Máximo Riera‘s very unique mix of chairs. He has been a practicing artist for over thirty years, predominantly working in photography, painting and sculpture, yet he has also published a collection of poetry. Inspired by his travel and experiences through Europe and the Caribbean Islands, Máximo’s vibrant use of colour and evocative attention to detail have been an inspiration which convey the meaning of his creations.

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His work demonstrates influences from the Pop Art movements and abstract expressionism. Born in Asturias, Northern Spain, Máximo has now retired to his studio in Cadiz, where he paints and sculpts each day. His portfolio site states that, “The artist wanted to be faithful to the animal’s physique and the natural majesty of its movements. Maximo therefore attended to each physical detail of the octopus in order to make the animal the unique protagonist of the whole piece.” Just to make the octopus chair took over thirty individuals and four different companies to assemble this specific design by hand. We think these chairs would definitely add an bold element to any home, however we would love to see the octopus in bright colors. How lovely would that be?

detail of the octopus in the middle of painting

the tentacle base before assembly

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Happy First Day of December Lovelies! Can you believe it’s only 24 days till Christmas? We’ve already put our tree up and it’s so pretty but we haven’t taken a photo of it yet so you will have to settle for this lovely image by photographer Erica Lea. Isn’t is gorgeous? Stay tuned tomorrow when we share more lovely handmade items to give AND receive this holiday season!