Ikebana artist Toshie Yokoi practices the Japanese art of flower arrangement with fruits, vegetables and other readily available plant life to illustrate that you don’t need expensive and exoti...
Found at the downtown LA Public Library
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After moving to Los Angeles from New York, I quickly planted a garden. It’s been one of the best things about living in California. Someday, one day, it would be amazing to do a Vena Cava gardening l...
Meet our friend Lillian Gallay. Lilly lives with her husband Charley, and their dog Roosevelt in Los Angeles. Currently Lilly is studying Psychology and writing her dissertation on where Artist’...
We were both obsessed with Fiona Apple in high school. When we designed our 90’s collection a few season ago, what we were actually doing was designing our “Fiona Apple” collection....
Cubist Steam, 1980 Marbleized Teapot Tea Service, 1978 Teapot with Lid, 1978 Teapot, 1983 (via: I’m Revolting) Teapot, 1984 I stumbled upon Peter Shire’s LA studio in Echo Park one day a...
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Louise Bourgeois did some amazing quilting. Any one of these would make an amazing print. The images below were made between 2002 and 2008. This was the period when she did most of her two-dimensiona...
Recently we have been obsessed with Neo Noir. Our bulletin board is filled with old Helmet Newton shots. Newton is known mostly for his black and white work, but we are really attracted to his color ...
Psychedelia has been with us all along.. This isnt your grandma’s beige granules- this is what sand really looks like up close. Magical (sandgrains.com)
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Jane Farrell - 12 years old Stole 2 boots and sentenced to 10 days hard labor Isabella Dodds - 17 years old Sentenced 4 months for stealing a watch Isabella Smith - 60 years old Sentenced to 6 weeks ...
Joe Yamanaka of Vena Cava favorite: Flower Travellin’ Band. (The Japanese Black Sabbath)
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Floriography, the use of using flowers or floral arrangements to send messages in code, was wildly popular in the Victorian Era. In 1884 The Language of Flowers was published and became the standard ...
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Check out the amazing documentary Eames: The Architect and the Painter, about Charles and Ray Eames. Its a fascinating look into the evolution of their designs and the process behind their collaborat...
We’ll be posting random photos from our image library every week. For the past three years we have been pulling images we love off of our favorite blogs and websites. The files are overwhelming. We t...
Atwater Bungalows Elysian Park, Los Angeles. Robert Stacey-Judd designed these bungalows for H. Gale Atwater, a prominent Los Angeles dentist. Dr. Atwater, described as “a Socialist and a peacenik” h...
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