10 Favorites: Stealth Glamor at ICFF - Remodelista
At New York’s ICFF and satellite design shows, amid the big and the bold, we discovered a refreshing undercurrent of summer-camp arts and crafts presented in high-style ways: woven leather baskets, dart lights, chrome oil lamps, and more. New York studio Apparatus describes its new line of Horsehair Sconces and Pendants as “a robust study of material that evokes the grace and strength of its equine contributor.” The lights are Palomino (shown) or Jet horsehair with brass or tarnished silver and etched glass; the sconces are $4,440. Photograph by Ingalls Photography courtesy of Apparatus Studio. London artist Deborah Bowness specializes in photographic trompe l’oeil wallpaper. Toronto design studio Castor partnered with Canada’s oldest gas lamp manufacturer, Harnisch, to create this 21st century Oil Lamp. “We’ve pared down light into its two elemental ingredients: the source (the bulb) and its illumination (highlighted by a brass ring),” explain Dylan Davis and Jean Lee of Seattle’s Ladies and Gentleman Studio. Spotted at Wanted Design: a Perpetual Calendar of porcelain, maple, and brass by Fruitsuper Design, a Seattle industrial design studio. Made in Long Beach, CA, by BYAMT in collaboration with Mimot Studio, the Strap Basket is leather with copper-plated rivets; $174. In an earlier post, Izabella presented 5 Favorite Leather Baskets (including one by BYAMT) and then she showed us How to Make a Tray Made from a Piece of Leather. Fredericks & Mae’s Lamps are made of hand-turned maple or walnut detailed with colored cotton cord; $280 each. Not coincidentally, the company has also just designed a collection of darts and a dartboard. We’ve been detecting a hippie art revival. The tapestry hangs from copper rods and is $4,900. From Grain Design, James and Chelsea Minola’s studio on Bainbridge Island: a series of hand-thrown terracotta designs called Grail (each is stamped with Grain’s modern hieroglyphics).