Is it absolutely necessary to finish everything I start?
I do need to unlearn quite a few things!
I envy this Unfinished Clock made of steel sitting so pretty on the shelf without a care & don’t rush me look.
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photoart architecture
Along with the camera, Bengaluru based Indian photographer Pallon Daruwala uses light and space as his tools. His love for the uncluttered and clean lines is evident in his work.
A leader in his own right he is dubbed as an advertising or industrial photographer. But I refuse to agree. I call him documentative photographer of architecture and interiors. In fact he has done lot of fashion photography too.
What I find enduring about his work is that his images are intimate and distant at the same time!
I simply love his interiors and architectural images.
And his architectural images are pieces of art!
I have wasted 4 days deciding which images to put and which ones too leave out. I can’t do justice to his work if I put everything together.
So here is Pallon Daruwala’s work in two posts- 1st on architecture and 2nd on interiors.
Please donot use or copy these images without photographer’s written permission.
weft, warp, clutch
This bag bibi has captured Indian grandeur and royalty onto bags. A riot of Indian colours and sensibilities are portrayed with the use of mediums like wood carving, marble inlay, brass, copper and silver engravings, the use of ‘kinkhabs’, ‘jadau’, ‘kundan’, semi-precious stones with extremely rich embroidery.
Meera Mahadevia is a Mumbai based accessory designer. Qualified as textile designer, Meera in her handcrafted bags uses exquisite texture like silk, jamewar, zari borders, organza, velvet inter woven with multiple layers. Her accessory line also makes shoes and belts and more recently sarees.
Her ornate bags have come to be considered as heirloom pieces and were displayed at Asian Civilization Museum Gallery, Singapore and at the Newark Museum Gallery , USA as pieces of creative art.
On October 3, as a part of The India Celebration Week (incredible India @60), a preview of Meera’s accessories and garments will be hosted by the Newark museum and displayed in the Museum Rotunda and the Education Shop in New York for exclusive shopping. She will be felicitated by the Newark Museum in New York for her 21 years of hard work and creativity.
house of mud
‘Bhung’ or mud hut a traditional construction in Kutch is an engineering wonder.
Here are the mud houses or bhungas and glipses of people of Kutch.These traditional circular homes withstood the devastating earthquake (2001). They are also considered cyclone proof. They can be constructed with local material.
The colourful and one of the extremely rich in crafts region of Gujarat (India) is Kutch. Many communities and tribes in this region have their own distinctive styles in textiles, embroidery and handicrafts. Each community and tribal group has its own lexicon of motifs and embroidery stitches.
Bharwaads
Rabaaris are the ones who decorate the insides of their mud-and-thatch huts with ‘lippankam’ or mud-mirror work; the Bharwaads are seen in their exquisitely embroidered dresses and clothes; the Meghwaals decorate the exteriors of their mud huts with alluring patterns; the nomadic Jaths whose subgroups include the graceful Fakirani Jaths, live in huts made of coloured reeds. And you can see a group of Jath women walking along the road in their brightly coloured and beautifully embroidered costumes.
Meghwaals
What makes the `bhungas’ so strong?
Their circular design and the steely mesh of mud plaster and twigs make them resist any wind pressure and quake. The `bhungas’, which ‘even a king would envy’ for its elaborate design and artistic elegance, have a light dome-shaped bamboo and thatched roof and a circular wall plastered with mud, twigs and dung.
Their thick walls keep the interior cool when the temperature rises to 46 degrees celsius in summer and warm when it drops to two degrees in winter.
Above image is part of permanent exhibitionin in the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig in Germany.
bhunga out of clay and reed
mirror work embroidery, hand woven jute rug
Rabaaris
I had to bring these enduring images of Kutch & Bhung before I do a post on lippankam and other crafts!
(Images courtesy BAPS charities, Michael Sheridan, craftsinindia,
art ties
Jeff de Boer is a Calgary-based multi-media artist known for his original and quirky works in metal. He creates pieces like suits of armour for cats & mice, rocket lamps as well as exquisitely crafted pieces like these ones ?
corporate ties
made with aluminum, brass & leather
corporate ties
made of aluminum, brass, bronze, leather & mixed media
hidden finds
I saw this image on emmas lovely blog and got curious.
I clicked the link and found these very cozy and full of hidden surprises- home. This lovely home belongs to designers of something’s hiding in here. (hello there! I did not find your names anywhere. One of you Philly?) There blog too is full of funny and cute little things they sell.
hi hidden, coming out?
deery, why bother yourself with vintage dictionaries!
can’t say ‘outside there window’ view is not engaging.