Sybil Sage, a comedy writer and mosaic maker

This is a NY Times article back from October 2010 that I am happy to share with you.

Sybil Sage, a veteran television comedy writer (for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Maude,” “Alice” and other gems from the written age), had been making objects with pique assiette — a French mosaic technique using broken plates — for years as a hobby, whacking china into shards to put on frames, vases and furniture for friends like Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Lily Tomlin and Larry Merchant. 

Read the whole article from the New York Times here

Faenza's lovely maioliche

Faenza is a little town close to Ravenna which I remember vividly because when I did the mosaic course in Ravenna we went for a little tour with some of the other students to see the place and the wonderful ceramics (maioliche) they produce which Faenza is famous for. I remember I bought a plate for my mother. I recommend those wanting to go to Ravenna to find the time to visit Faenza too.

View some wonderful pottery artifacts on http://www.micfaenza.org.

Alexander McQueen Fall RTW 2011 and Sara Burton's "broken pottery" garments

 I am positive that more people will appreciate mosaic art after seeing this. Textiles made of smashed pottery, a mosaic technique often practiced today.

Read Vogue Review to find out more about the collection and the inspiration behind this and other pieces.

For more mosaic with broken tiles and china, you can check older posts on this blog Eco park garden, and mosaic e cards and in the meantime I am attaching some new images.

What do you think? Is there something you particularly like, prefer or even reject and dislike?

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table, via

Gaudi, Barcelona, via

flower pots

lampshade

table (with matching chair covers)

silver plated mosaic tray

image credit for the last 4 images http://lavenderhillstudio.blogspot.com/

I would like to thank Little Augury for emailing me the link to McQueen collection.

Gaudi-style garden in Echo park

I admire people who know how to transform their "disasters" into beauty, those who start from zero, meaning basically dealing with what you have. From LA times today, here's an example. The artists used broken pottery, the result of an earthquake, triggered the idea of a Gaudi-style garden in Echo park, LA.

Here's a paragraph from today's LAT Times:
 
The 1994 Northridge earthquake dished out the idea for the projects as well as the material: pottery shards that the couple stored in boxes beside their home. Smashed works by such renown artists as Beatrice Wood and Andrea Gill proved difficult to toss.

"I even went around the house and broke a few things that weren't damaged," says Kibler, former head of Glendale Community College's ceramics department as well as past chairman of the visual and performing arts division. "I thought, break it now and it will last longer on the garden wall." 


pictures from LAT, article "smashing success"