Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Ghost of a Chair
Ten years ago Starck designed the Louis XV Ghost chair.
He mocked the decadence of the Roccoco period, which was born in France under the reign of Louis the XV when interior and furniture design were flourishing.

Large stately homes and grand banqueting halls were becoming full of this decadent furniture. When these rooms where not in use, the furniture would be covered with white sheets and locked away. It was this mixed feeling between romantic nostalgia and boredom that inspired this clever girls artwork ( I have stumbled across a hidden gem) the furniture no longer existed once under this clothe it was hidden away, abandoned, DEAD no chair, only its memory, its disembodied spirit captured and frozen in time.

bringing this heartfelt rendition of how the ghost chair was created back to the here and now, this piece of furniture’s popularity is ever increasing for the urban inhabitant. They are quite simply space savers, illusionists in their own right tricking the mind and eye into believing they are not really there. Perfect for that “pesky” space you have that you never wuite know what to fill it with.
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Valentina Gonzalez's take on the starcks orignal design.


Starks master piece.....
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Can a tea cup be seductive?

Seductive tea wears guaranteed to make drinking tea a fun and glamorous affair.
The Blaue Blume range has witty and subversive messages with a girly-naughtiness and nostalgia to inspire people to feel more sexy, flirty and fun, and to enhance the seductivity of the food itself as well as opposed to traditional tea parties
where you had to mind your manners.
manners haa! what manners!
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