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Desire/Acquire: Butterfly Chandelier
I've oohed and ahed about this gorgeous chandelier in the past, but that's no reason to not sigh over its beauty one more time. The Bodo Sperlein Niagra Chandelier ($45,000) features porcelain butterflies lit up by fiber optics. It is, indeed, an object of immense beauty.
Steal of the Day: Mixko Delight Belle Light
I don't know what it is about butterflies lately, but they've had my heart all aflutter. The cutout butterflies on the Mixko Delight Belle Light ($49, reduced from $83) are quite dainty and appeal to the side of me that secretly loves pink, unicorns, and party dresses. And I love how the light just seems to peek through its skirted edge.
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Inspired: The Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum
The Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in London is a new $78 million scientific research and collections facility that opens to the public on Sept. 15, 2009. In this photo, a projection of butterflies shows on the hand of an employee.
Love It or Hate It? The Vitra Virus
Artist Pieke Bergmans has created a collection called the Vitra Virus, which disrupts iconic pieces of wooden furniture from the Vitra Home Collection by blowing hot and fluent crystal onto the furniture so the wood itself burns and the crystal and furniture melt together. As a result, the crystal becomes a pedestal for the crystal object or "the crystal object sits on the furniture like a parasite, a virus."Above, he's tampered with the Sori Yanagi Butterfly Stool ($645-$860), an award-winning midcentury design, but other subjects include works by Charles and Ray Eames, Jasper Morrison, Jean Prouvé, and more. Are you a fan of this work of art, or do you think he's just messing with a good thing?
Nine Nice and New Things From Urban Outfitters
Urban Outfitters may be the go-to fashion and décor shop for high school and college kids, but the retailer's inventory is looking a little more grown-up these days. For instance, the Carnival Slipper Chair ($325) cues in on the ikat trend in a sophisticated, Pottery Barn-like palette. Like this ripe find?
Found It! Rees Roberts Bedroom Stool
This photo, from the portfolio of Rees Roberts, would've been a great example of a masculine bedroom. My eyes immediately honed in on the handsome, minimalist stool in the center of the photo. Curious as to where you can get it?
Link Time!
- Porcelain goes punk.— 2Modern
- Lifelike crocheted butterflies are a sweet ode to our fluttering friends.— Shelterrific
- Meet another master carpenter.— Charles & Hudson
- Tour a moody Aussie mancave.—AT:LA
- Learn to make beaded flowers.— Craftzine
- Check out an entirely papered space.— Desire to Inspire
- Visit a Parisian home entirely engulfed in ferns.— Inhabitat
Link Time!
- Beat the Winter blues by fashioning a technicolor felt butterfly mobile. — Craft
- 10 easy steps toward DIY valentines. — Simply Stated
- A home studio space full of creativity and warmth.
Crave Worthy: Bodo Sperlein Niagra Chandelier
From a young age, like many little girls, I fawned over butterflies, scribbling them everywhere in crayon. In fact, I even wrote this poem in kindergarten:
Butterflies are pretty things
Floating lightly with their wings
Higher, higher in the sky
Oh how I love the butterflies.
Nowadays my adoration of the insect is fleeting, and I actually find them rather lame when reproduced (thanks Mariah Carey).
DIY Inspiration: A Midsummer Night's Dream Light
Craftster reader FrouFrouFreak made this "Midsummer Night's Dream Light" from floral wire, electrical wire, newspaper, Mod Podge, paint, LED lights, and some craft store details like silk flowers, birds, and butterflies. I can't recall the last time I was floored by a DIY project, so this one definitely takes the cake! It's simply magical.
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