Knit, Crochet and Tricot

Knit graffiti as an advertising medium, is this the beginning of a trend ?

A Smart Car stands out with crochet cover in Rome, 2010

Mexico City Bus Project, 2007

At the Standart, Los Angeles

National Gallery of Australia, 2009

Knit graffiti by Magda Sayeg
Photos courtesy KnittaPlease

To celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Lionheart Project "Clouds and Crochet".

The Lionheart Installation

Knit by Shauna Richardson

Pink tank, crafted for a peace protest in Copenhagen

A crocheted coral reef, created as a statement about the impact of global warming on the coral reefs in Australia and the world.

A knitted house during London Architecture Biennale

Random ones, for keeping rescued chickens warm

For keeping trees cozy

From artist Kate Jenkins
Current exhibition in London
Come Dine with Kate

Bottles of Bubbly

Valentino Garavani. Una grande storia Italiana

The glamourous life and work of Valentino Garavani.
Think Valentino: think luxury. Think elegance. Think red carpet. Fashion’s most beloved upholder of refined decadence and the most exciting couturier in business is known around the globe simply by his first name.

This luxurious limited-edition publication renders homage to Valentino’s illustrious career via a copious selection of images from his archives, including drawings, magazine shoots, advertisements, portraits of Valentino, and documentary photographs.

Courtesy Taschen

Gaetano Pesce: Pieces From A Larger Puzzle

Pieces From A Larger Puzzle, the first retrospective in the Western United States of architect, artist, and designer Gaetano Pesce, celebrates the maestro of art-design and his years of experimenting and creating works with polyurethane foam, resin, and plastics. The exhibition is on view through August 31 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles. Many of the designer's most iconic pieces, including also his most recent work, his limited-edition plastic shoes from the Brazilian company Melissa are displayed.

Photo courtesy L.A Modern Auctions

Melissa shoes

These series of lamps were created for the interior of Il Costello, a restaurant in Florence Italy, and designed by Gaetano Pesce, a rather unique installation.

Clothes - Lamps

For more info, click on Gaetano Pesce

Haunted Houses

I grew up in a haunted house......
The first house we owned, my husband and myself, was haunted.... The house was lovely, cape code style, in a quaint town of New England, not the kind of houses seen in movies, dreary, decrepit and dark....

There are quite a number of haunted places all over the globe. Here are pictures of some famous ones in the USA.

The Amityville House, New York

The Grove, Texas

Lemp Mansion, Missouri

Hemingway House, Key West, Florida

Jean Harlow's Home, Westwood, CA

This topic brings me to Richard Hawkins's Haunted House. Hawkins, an artist who works in a variety of media, including sculpture, painting and collage, has been making haunted house sculptures out of dollhouses since 2007. His earlier haunted house sculptures evoked a Paris bordello frequented by Proust and reflected his interest in French decadence.

Bordello on rue St Lazare, 2007

Richard Hawkins's current exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art in Los Angeles, features his latest work "The Last House,"and a group of collages titled "Edogawa Ranpo" which means Edgar Allen Poe in Japanese.

The Last House, 2010

Details

Collage

Link to Haunted Places

Richard Hawkins courtesy of Richard Telles Gallery

Source NYTimes