Originally posted on munahome: Tatiana Blass’ s installation called Penelope is an impressive fiber artwork which creates the feeling of construction and deconstruction at the same time. Borrowing its name from Greek myth, “Penelope” is a tribute to the power of love and the praxis of weaving. 14mt length woven red carpet starts from the gate of…
This weekend, I visited the Contemporary Chinese Art exhibition called Transformation: A view on Chinese Contemporary Art at Istanbul Modern Museum featuring the 15 artists from China. I think we as Istanbullers are lucky to have a chance of viewing these wonderful Art exhibition as part of the celebrations of 2012 Chinese Cultural year in Turkey until […]
Yesterday, I was invited to a very exciting exhibition at the heavenly beautiful store of Armaggan Nuruosmaniye Gallery in Istanbul. If you are a fan of this exotic city and its rich culture I m pretty sure you know or at least heard about this historical neighborhood of NuruOsmaniye in Sultanahmet (It is the street where one of the major Grandbazaar gate is […]
I always love the room decorations completed by eastern antique figures and art pieces. While they add sophistication by their characters, they express gratitude of life. Therefore, to me they are the best complements of living spaces by their poistive energy and that explains why they help to add sensation where they stand. I think the smart combination of […]
Gaudi had achieved to embellish hard to decorate surfaces with beautiful colors of Mediterranean ceramics. This technique of gathering the previously broken pieces of ceramic called trencadis. I certainly give credit to the laborers who had worked madly on realization of the crazy design projects of Gaudi. Today, it is a feast to the eye of residents and visitors of Barcelona to […]
The anthropomorphic shapes are the most crowning elements of Catalan’ s art nouveau stream called Modernista. The snail, spiral and organic forms, leaning columns, soft hand shaped materials, whirlpools, uneven holes, bone like shapes, melting shapes, most extraordinary designs are all part of Catalan architecture. The mad man, genius Catalan architect of the human history, Antoni Gaudi is the main […]
Another trip has been finalized in great passion.. Today, feeling like I have visited an art museum in the size of a city. Filled up by so much information as well as inspiration. I am lucky if I could download all the things I have seen into some part of my brain so my subconscious would feed my creativeness to broad my perspective… Put yourself […]
When you see a design product, would it be possible for you to guess how it was made? Which tools were used to put them together? The machines, the atelier, the industrial story behind?? Here, I m sharing with you some details from our furniture atelier’s back stage. The performers (machines, tools,…) work precisely to change the shape of the […]
Yesterday, I went to our atelier to work on the details of our projects. But, I was more in an artistic mood so I was looking around me from different point of view and all the gorgeous art on the walls caught my attention. I decided to capture them with my camera and share with you to say how much we are actually involved […]
The small town of Avanos in Cappadocia region is located by the Red River (Kızılırmak) which gets its name from the clay that deposits. That is the major reason for many years, the pottery art and craft had been the major industry in this area. As a result, it is possible to see the artistic talents and beautiful decorative materials anywhere you go. The […]