Innovative stone and brick twisted columns.
Goa based Mozaic‘s traditional architecture rendering in a holiday home where verandahs and innovation with local materials rule.
Monthly Archives: October 2007
celebrating kantha artisans
I was not paying any attention to ongoing Lakme Fashion Week spring summer 2008, Mumbai until I saw this photo feeling a little heaviness around my vocal chords!
It is a rarity, the kind of scene I have not seen before! A fashion designer brought with her kantha artisans on stage to take a bow . I have developed sudden admiration for fashion designer from Kolkatta; Agnimitra Paul who celebrated kantha embroiders in such a beautiful way. (Such things are long over-over due from fashion industry)
Just to celebrate kantha artisans, here are few random kantha work images and how-to and award-winning artisans’ work.
How to do kantha work step by step. More here.
What is kantha embroidery and history.
A few award winning creations and the artisans.
modern benches
Though these are called public seating, I am thinking of geometrical fluidity, sleekness, clean modern lines and yes colours of these benches. To say the least I am impressed and inspired!
Designobis, a design team headed by Hakan Gürsu Dr, based in Ankara, Turkey has other many such fluid concepts in chairs too.
citylights
UFO bench
cipablo bench
row bench
noodle bench
zen bench
I want this saltbox
Just indulge. Because this is my mood today.
‘flower’ vase by Anne Nilsson
Dream. Because it costs nothing but gives everything.
‘Fragancia’ vase by Klas Goran- Tinback
Utility and beauty. Think many uses of it (vase for me).
Nero Carafe
if you were a bird
Bahai, Lotus Temple, New Delhi, India
If you were a bird or a kite or a camera perched on a kite in the sky, how the world would look according to you? Kite aerial – French photographer Nicolas Chorier‘s earth from up above!
Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri, India
Practising Kalaripayattu on the Beach of Kozhikode, India
coconut wrapping
Product from Loose Ends (India)
Via Artnlight
This is a great green gift packaging in the form of ‘coconut zipper’. Open the zip put your delicate of surprises in and be sure it is going to reach intact!
Recycle green too! What you say?