| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME Jun 3, 2008 at 6:00 am by Elaine Lipson The Artisan Bookshelf: Kim Parker Home Remember when everyone was clamoring to be the new Martha? Instead of just one uber-maven of the domestic and decorative arts, we’ve seen a whole plethora of talented designers, chefs, sustainable lifestyle guides, and experts come to the fore with aesthetic gifts and business smarts. In the design realm, Kim Parker is one of the best. A classically trained musician turned textile designer, Parker aims to help you create an “interior garden” with her graphic, modern floral pillows, rugs, dinnerware, fabrics and prints.  Kim Parker Home offers a window into the design process - she improvises with water-based paints, and the freedom and joy of her method are evident in the results - and are completely contagious. Parker also makes brilliant and liberal use of flea-market finds, recovering, reclaiming and boldly mixing cultures and eras. This book is a must-have if you love intoxicating, pretty floral print and textile design, if you’re looking for inspiration for flea-market and thrift-shop decorating, or if you simply enjoy reading about how successful artists find their creative spark and thrive.  ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
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| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME May 30, 2008 at 7:00 am by Elaine Lipson Team EcoEtsy: The Green Heart of Handmade The handmade revolution is showing up everywhere, and Etsy is its most concentrated virtual village, with more than 100,000 artists, artisans and crafters setting up shop on the site. Now a team of Etsy sellers dedicated to reducing, reusing and recycling have created ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME May 29, 2008 at 7:00 am by Elaine Lipson Will You Need the Get Out of Refashionista Jail Free Card? Feeling creative, ambitious and disciplined? Take the Wardrobe Refashion pledge for a minimum of two months. Wardrobe Refashion is a recurring virtual club of people dedicated to reusing and refashioning instead of buying new garments, founded and hosted ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME May 28, 2008 at 9:30 am by Elaine Lipson 5 Easy Steps to Artisan Style for Your Home It seems the whole world is trading in industrial, factory-made conformity for artisan style. “Many of the pieces at this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair . . .felt more artisanal than manufactured,” wrote the New York ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME May 20, 2008 at 9:00 am by Elaine Lipson Here, There and Everywhere How important is good lighting in your life? I can’t live without it for working, reading, creating and illuminating the world, so I love finding well-designed, interesting lamps. Here There Designs makes gorgeous lamps and lighting fixtures that are, in their words, “100% non-toxic, ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME May 20, 2008 at 6:00 am by Elaine Lipson Enter With Serenity There’s something inviting and a little mysterious about curtains in entryways instead of doors. The Japanese, masters of marrying beauty and elegance to utility, use split curtains called noren to signify that a shop is open and welcome visitors. Noren ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME May 19, 2008 at 10:36 am by Elaine Lipson The Artisan's Garden: Green Building for Birds Gardens are magical places, especially in spring. Plants shoot through the ground, flowers bloom, and birds add music and share in the abundance. Why not make your garden super-friendly to birds by giving them a lovely eco-home? Artist Carol Garringer, of Eugene, ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME May 16, 2008 at 4:23 pm by Elaine Lipson Mod Continues: Hemp Couture Strong, versatile, highly renewable hemp fiber can truly be a “straw into gold” story in the hands of a talented textile artist and designer like Anne Kirk of San Francisco. Anne Kirk Textiles ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME May 30, 2008 at 9:42 pm by Elaine Lipson Green Hero: Sandra SteingraberLast month, concerns about hormone-disrupting plastics leaching into food and posing very real risks, especially to children, finally reached critical mass. (And if you somehow missed the news, this excellent article from ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| FASHION / ECOSALON HOME May 19, 2008 at 9:48 am by Elaine Lipson Coming Soon to the USA: hessnatur Organic Fashion My American friends living in Germany always comment on how noticeably green the country is; there’s recycling everywhere, organic food is a significant part of the food market, and everybody participates in environmental responsibility as a matter of course. Now hessnatur, one of ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |