Showing posts with label wall art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wall art. Show all posts

Friday, October 4, 2013

I couldn't not to stop by Fenella Elms Ceramic's stand at DesignJunction design fair. I thought it was something really creative and unique. Fenella works with clay and creates those wonderful porcelain art pieces. 

Fenella says that Aspects of her past career in mental health continue to influence her work with clay: the subconscious approach, a sense of rhythm, attention to detail and difference. She doesn’t seek to put her experiences into the clay, but marvel at how they emerge.


From the website:
There are 3 ceramic collections: Flows, Edges and Sculptures.

Flows
Mounted for wall hang­ing, these works are in­tu­itively built in porce­lain clay to cre­ate shift­ing per­spec­tives.  In­di­vid­u­ally made beads of clay joined to a sheet of porce­lain with slip be­fore the whole work is fired to­gether to make one, sin­gle piece.  





Edges
Very fine rib­bons of mostly porce­lain clay del­i­cately aligned and joined with slip to cre­ate in­tri­cate struc­tures. After fir­ing, these struc­tures are mounted (in the dif­fer­ent ways il­lus­trated below) for wall hang­ing.



Sculpture
Ribbons of porcelain in a mobius or twisted double helix form with fine porcelain interleaves to build structures that hold light and alter form.



Fenella's Artwork in Interior Design:




Fenella Elms Ceramics

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

One of my favourite finds this year was a company called 'Shermans' who design beautiful wall art made out of real lotus flowers! Such an innovative idea and totally customisable for every space. One can decide the arrangement of the flowers, the colours (all the same or mixed tones, or completely multicoloured). The flowers can be arranged flat onto a canvas in a size of your choice, or fixed, floating onto a metal frame that stands out from the wall to create a most unusual 3D wall art effect.

We were admiring these creations thinking of all the high-end projects we could be using this on until we heard the price. We were so positively surprised at how affordable these amazing custom creations were that we are excitedly specifying them on projects right now! Hopefully our clients will like them too. ;)

From their website:

Total passion for “well-living with exotic touch“ is, what drives us again and again to find new products, objects and design elements for your living space. We offer you furniture and objects from distant lands – and bring them also directly to your place.

t is no coincidence that you have found us! We have been importing treasures – without equivalents in Germany – from China, India, Indonesia and Thailand for many years. In the remotest corners of Asia we find unique objects, which mostly exist only once – and especially once in Germany.
On more than 1000 m² of modern ambience and a fantastic inner courtyard we present you our vision of a symbiosis between living and working in a modern manner with Asian touch.
Only a stone’s throw away from Munich, Passau, Landshut, Regensburg or Nurnberg you find a dreamlike selection of Asian furniture and objects at our place. For enthusiasts of Asian home decor, who are far away, we have designed this Internet shop. Different from the others you take a closer look.
With our high quality products from Asia your homes do not only get distinctive but also individual and unique. 










Maison et Objet - Shermans