Liam Flynn has been making wood vessels in his Co. Limerick studio for 25 years. His work has evolved over the course of his career from smaller explorations of open vessels to his current work exploring volume, shape and line. His works are a regular feature on the international circuit marking him as one of the most accomplished wood turners of recent times.
JoJo and his Crew
Joe and his crew make the recycled wire products. Most of his team are refugees from Zimbabwe. They ingeniously weave and twist the wire into their well known and loved pieces . They work together as a team in their work shop just out of Cape Town.
These elegant yet quirky little refrigerator magnets each conceal a very strong rare-earth magnet. Available in sets of seven, these assorted hardwood magnets add a touch of sophistication to your fridge while retaining your most prized refrigerator-worthy postings.
Magnets
SAMMA (the Swedish word for same) found it’s beginnings in 2009 when Hanna Sandin came home to find her apartment ransacked and her valuables and jewellery stolen. She began stringing materials from her studio around her neck and her jewelry became a natural, wearable extension of the mobiles and sculpture for which she was already known.
An intuitive handling of materials informs a simple, though idiosyncratic aesthetic. Sandin works with various materials including woven metals, cast pyramids and hand crafted elements, incorporating the repetition of geometric motifs. Her sculptural background is evident in the unique sensibility of each piece.
Hanna Sandin lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Designed by Taku Satoh and sold at a charity market earlier this year to benefit victims of the 3.11 tsunami and earthquake.
You can stack them, you can draw with them or you can just cradle them in your hands. There are no rules to this game.
Lovisa Wattman for Iris Hantwerk
Today, visually impaired craftsmen attach each individual bundle of bristles to the base of the brush with their steady hands, just like they used to in the 19th century. The result? Beautiful, functional and much coveted brushes which also help make everyday life that little brighter. Iris Hantverk is a Swedish organisation that has been employing blind and visually impaired people to make high quality household items since 1903.
Torafu Architects
Catch Bowl
Bent plywood / Sycamore / Stainless steel / Magnet
Designer’s Statement :
We proposed a shelf, focusing on corners, which inevitably exist in every room. When a hemisphere is divided into a quarter and three quarters, the quarter snugly fits into a concave corner and the three quarters onto a convex corner.
Based on this idea, we created a joyful and lightsome shelf that allows the user to adjust its height and also use it as a bowl to enjoy putting things in it just like playing a ball toss game in an athletics festival.
On the lid and at the bottom of the bowl, the radial patterns made by the alternately inverted wood grain of the shiny sycamore sliced veneer seem like twinkling stars.
By splitting into two parts, this bowl catches edges and catches things to become little shelves in the corners of a familiar room. When one part catches its counterpart, they become one whole bowl again.
White + Wood + Grey makes me smile.
These pages are snippets of things I find inspiring, interesting or simply aesthetically pleasing.
To see my work inspired by these pages please visit www.linea-studio.co.uk
Thanks for taking a peek today.
Kathryn Tyler.
