August 31, 2009 by mimecine
My father sent this to me today. I can’t decide, is this dog simply a furniture hater or is he a connoisseur of good design…one can argue that sofa is not the epitome of good taste, perhaps he only wanted a Moroso Principessa by Doshi Levien so he trashed the crap out of the JC […]
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July 2, 2009 by mimecine
Combing through pages and pages of “support USA made products” on the internet in preparation for the next American installment here at KIOSK is at once exhilarating – seeing how many people think and care about this sort of thing – and sad as many of the links lead to “this site no longer exists” […]
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September 5, 2007 by mimecine
hi some more things from Stockholm I am remembering: A lovely, little, old flower shop where the man is as uplifting as the flowers. Open on Sundays too from 10 – 15.00! Good to know if you are going to visit family. We got one amazing peach gladiolus there and people were mesmerized by it […]
June 27, 2007 by mimecine
A quote from a good read “The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri, published in 1923: “I love the tools made for mechanics. I stop by the windows of hardware stores. If I could only find an excuse to buy many more of them than I have already bought on the mere pretence that I might […]
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May 1, 2007 by mimecine
With the merging of art and design all around me in Milan I found this persons comment on the street to be very of the moment. I mean, since when did design loose it’s definition, should it not function in some manner and be hands on? Since when is design another pretty object to look […]
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