Jen Bekman is a gallerist, entrepreneur, and writer. Her eponymous gallery has been on Spring Street in NYC since 2003. She is also the founder of the international photography competition Hey, Hot Shot!. Her most well known venture is one of our favorite sites, 20×200, which offers limited-edition fine-art prints at affordable prices, curated by Jen herself. What are the current inspirations of someone who sees and works with so much good design and art day in and day out? Jen gives us a glimpse in this week’s Friday Five.
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The selection of modern rugs and doormats at Chiasso is exceptional right now.
Finn Juhl designed, built, and furnished his house, Kratvaenget 15 in 1941-42 with his first wife, Inge-Marie Skaarup. It’s located in Ordrup, just outside of Copenhagen. Juhl lived here until his death in 1989, after which Hanne Wilhelm Hansen, a music publisher who lived with Juhl after he and Skaarup divorced, looked after the house. After her death, the home’s furniture and accessories were restored to the state that they were believed to exist when Juhl was alive.
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I discovered Francis Jens Spitta‘s work on Pattern Pulp. In his pillow patterns, he takes inspiration from his own life – he says, “I’ve taken the iconic images of my life and I’ve twisted them around a bit. Those stunning delicate handkerchiefs in my grandmother’s top drawer? Pillows. The batiks I wore in seventh grade? They’ve been urbanized. Those groovy hippie skirts in my mother’s closet? Painterly Ikats. The globes and maps in my fathers office? They’re all pillows…”
Seattle-based artist Jesse Brown works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, and more. His work features geometric shapes and patterns, lines and tonal variations. Whether he is using a pen or a brush, his pieces have an awesome graphic quality about them.
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Bulgarian product designer Petar Zaharinov has introduced a new collection, Coordinate, under his Prakrik label. Like his other lines of “puzzle furniture,” the pieces are inspired by interlocking, wooden burr puzzles, and meant to stimulate some intelligence from the user. The components, which fit together without the use of tools, are made from beech plywood produced locally and finished with natural plant oil.
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Fuse-atelier is at it again with a beautiful new project — House in Abiko — located in Abiko, Japan. The 80-square-meter residence is a concrete monolith, a request made by the clients themselves. The building sits on a soft foundation that required the use of stakes to support the concrete structure.
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A few years ago, I introduced you to Leaf-It, Appree’s leaf-shaped stickies. They’ve since launched a few different styles of leaves, including the most recent — ivy. I can think of so many fun projects I’d like to do using these…
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David Jameson Architect, based in Alexandria, Virgina, completed Record House, which is located in Owings Mills, Maryland, last year. However, the original house was built more than four decades earlier, and when the original owners sold, they did so on the condition that the new owners, a young couple, would respect the character of the project. They were, however, able to open up the interior and make some renovations without disturbing the architectural elements of the original home.
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SleepBox is a contemporary and organic piece of furniture made from HI-MACS® material. Resembling a giant chaise lounge, the seat has an interior cutout with a leather cushion, which would make a great place to curl up and read a book or watch a movie.
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