customs Archive
sculpture
Kiehl’s is a skin care company that, perhaps due to its East Village roots, has always been one of the artier apothecaries. Among their contemporary collaborations: Andy Warhol astringent
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Pop CULTure
Thanks to Instagram, I’ve recently become fascinated by the lavish lives of custom clothiers and jewelry makers, who largely serve a clientele of rappers and young Hollywood. They
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sculpture
There are two incongruous comparisons that well-meaning outsiders occasionally arrive at when attempting to bond with me about the kinds of objects I collect. The first is Beanie
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sculpture
Once in a while, a story comes along that lends itself to making a glorious gif and a puntastic headline, and this is it: Italian luxury fashion retailer,
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sculpture
Michigan-based etsy seller, FunkyJunky, has sold more than twenty custom toilet seats with an embedded marijuana leaf design. Each seat is hand-cast, sanded and polished by FJ, who notes
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tech toys
Washington-based painter, Tyree Callahan, modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter by replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels. Presto: painting machine! Callahan submitted the Chromatic Typewriter
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sculpture
So you like customized stags, but you’re sick of the old Gucci and guns routine? UK-based Graham and Green, purveyors of designer home decor, commissioned 16 artists and designers
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vinyl
This is a rad idea, and it doesn’t surprise me that it comes from a man who spends his time in subterranean Tokyo inhaling vinyl & V-color vapors
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fashion
For New York’s Fashion Week, designer Carin Goldberg, curated a collection of nine custom scissors by fashion designers. The cutting edge clippers include pieces by Doo-Ri Chung (Doo-Ri), Consuelo
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prints
The “earth” without “art” is just “eh”. I dig this combination of wisdom and wordplay: The Earth Without Art is Just Eh prints by Portland, Oregon’s, The Ink
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