There's something so absolutely calming about the creations from Shadow Play NYC. I feel like if I slipped the moon shawl over my shoulders, I'd immediately connect with the peace of a dark night. Fabrics and patterns and textures can feed into our psyche and magically soothe us until calm creeps quietly back.
Different. Outstanding. Deconstructive. Maria Queen Maria.
You know those hundreds of tea lights you have shoved at the back of the cupboard? Well, here's the perfect excuse to take them out of the dark and get them giving some light. This skull sconce candle holder, with a dirty steel finish is cast in solid plaster. The creator was inspired to make… Continue reading Her skull? It’s on the wall
It's not everyday that you come across an armchair in the shape of a skull. Harold Sangourard's steel and velvet creation is something I could see myself lounging in, after a day of slaughtering those who pissed me off just a little bit too much.
This will sound most bizarre (remember which site you're on) but when I look at this selection of work from Dutch artist Aline Eras, I feel as though I have a hair ball stuck in my throat, that keeps trying to make it's way up into my mouth, to wrap itself around my teeth. I've… Continue reading Hair In My Throat
I knew driftwood could be beautiful, but this beautiful? Words fail me. Available at SSD Jewelry.
Have you ever seen furniture as beautifully unique as the pieces created by Hilla Shamia? These pieces look as though they've been abducted from a magician's attic.
The designer of the gloriously dark pieces you see here was born in 1989. I'll just let that sink in. Trip into the mind of one of my new obsessions, Hogan McLaughlin.
I think I can safely say that your work colleagues would think twice before nabbing your ceramics if they encountered this is the cup cupboard. Get yours at The Cotton Cult.
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 