If you're lucky enough to be in London right now, head over to Saint James Square to check out the stainless-steel sculpture "Balloon Flower (Magenta)," by artist
Jeff Koons, who's known for his public art and whimsical, childlike sculptures. The giant sculpture, which does indeed look like shiny twists of balloons, will be exhibited for the next 10 days in Saint James Square in London, England. The sculpture, which has an estimated worth of around $23.6 mllion, will be auctioned at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on June 30.
Apparently, my love for home furnishings runs so deep that I even
hang it on my walls. I also have a friend who has successfully mounted legs from a
bentwood chair in her living room as a sculptural piece, and I have to say, it looks great.
It should come as no surprise then that I'm enthusiastic about Jess Gonacha's silkscreen print,
The Idea Chair ($15).
San Francisco artist Phoebe Washer, who was only 20 years old, died this past Saturday in a tragic accident, when she
fell of a cliff when hiking with a friend in the Marin Headlands, just north of San Francisco. Washer grew up in Petaluma, CA, and had already shown at a number of galleries. Please take a look at her beautiful art, and then visit
her site to see even more images.
When the Volkswagen Fox launched a few years ago, the
Hotel Fox in Copenhagen, Denmark, invited 21 international artists to outfit and design 61 rooms as they saw fit. The designs that emerged ranged in style from fairytale fantasy to cool modern art. Artists such as Miami's
Friends With You and Australia's
Rinzen worked to create rooms that would truly transport visitors from the everyday workaday world to a vacation fantasy realm.
Besides the amazing rooms, the hotel also features a bar and restaurant that work together to pair signature cocktails with healthy and innovative food.
I'm so grateful to
Inhabitat for bringing me news of eco-minded street artist Edina Tokodi. This Brooklyn artist makes site-specific moss installations that sometimes appear in the shape of animals, and other times in fuzzy outcrops of green on streetlights and other urban objects.
In her artist's statement, she says:
I think that our distance from nature is already a cliché.
On this, the last day of
Dress Your Walls month, I bring you another picture from my home. As you may know, my fiancé and I are currently in the middle of trying to combine our styles and belongings, which is always something of a challenge.
This painting, by Austin artist
Brandon Petree, only received a so-so reaction from Peter when I hung it on the wall.
Not so long ago,
Jill Bliss spent a month at the
Strybing Arboretum studying native herbs. All of that erudition resulted in these beautiful limited edition art prints, which are printed on recycled matte cardstock with soy-based inks
By simply leaving a comment on Jill's art, you'll be entered to win this set of native herb posters ($45 value). (For the official contest rules,
go here.) So comment away, Casa readers, and tell me how much you love Jill Bliss!
The ideal office should both inspire and soothe, and that's precisely why I love this workspace of North Carolina-based artist
Rick Catlow. It's colorful without being distracting and functional without looking too buttoned-up.
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