Barcelona

Here's one very impressive and creative photo of a mosaic detail from Barcelona.

Via Barcelona Photo Blog.

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"