as my interests are beginning to lay in mixing materials and bringing back old styles it was these vintage inspired lamps, that quickly caught my eye. the design duo rothschild&bickers, grads from the royal college of arts, mix materials and combine traditional glass techniques with contemporary design.
so i promised a few i would put up the photos of the snow in holland. it was some sort of freak snowfall that lasted only a day...but it was a bit of home for me and daniel! On a busy day where Daniel was cutting up garbage with Mike, Susana was making models (and burning herself with the glue gun) and I was desperately trying to come up with genius ideas...it began to snow.
This trimester was my first time truly working with metal! Other than the crash weekend i spent watching james skillfully put my chair together, it was my first time. I began to really love welding once the amperage differences was explained, and once i got to use the torch!
andre helped me make the most effective mold, and after a lot of practice i came up with a system to basically mass produce my scalloped edges! and i'm happy to say my mentor dick actually asked me if i had found the metal already like that...
Daniel and I took a lovely cold day trip one saturday to Dordrecht. It's an old city in the Netherlands that claims to be the oldest (this seems to be common for cities here...) But oldest or not, its really beautiful! We didn't expect it, but even despite the chill and the grey, the center of the city was quite quaint. We also found a christmas outlet store--hence the toting of the christmas tree! And as icing on the cake, we found the ultimate poffertjes, mini pancakes. These, unlike the ones we found in delft, were truly fresh, melting in our mouths, and delicious. Jealous Dad? Anyone who visits us will be brought to this gem of a city and cafe! With my new discovery of the pictobrowser, i'll be putting up photos of when my parents were here, and my daytrip to amsterdam soon!
while trying desperately to focus on getting my final presentations ready, i came across this really beautiful fusion of iconic western furniture with the textures and colours of the east. The tastefully eccentric furniture by boyka are a bright, and as they say haute-bohemian, breath of fresh air!
