Maxine Bristow

The austere, minimalist workings of Maxine Bristow make strong references to crafts within it's process of careful, meticulous, repetitive stitch.

Refreshment Room

This interior was created before The Peacock Room but has clear similar influences. Designed by Philip Webb & William Morris, 1865-70. It seems to me that this room did have some inluence on Whistler for the Peacock Room.

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Eastern influence & Peacocks

The Peacock Room was an interior created by the painter James McNeill Whistler. Originally created in a Kensington (London) residence it now is located in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington. There is such a strong influence of east asian art and ornament within the interior. Created in 1876-77. The book titled The Peacock Lounge by Linda Merrill is beautifully illustrated and informative.

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Butterfly Scales

3D flea - microscopic image.

Synchaeta (transparent predatory rotifer).
Under the microscope. This site has some cracking imagery: www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/

pattern / nature / pattern ....

Hairpin Banksia
Fern detailing.
Bright Feathers.Arctic Char (not sure what it is but looks good - will go and look it up)(up close it looks like fish scales)

This links to 30 amazing nature images:

http://www.technology.am/patterns-in-nature-130055.html

Pomme Chan

This work by designer Pomme Chan has a strong graphic but feminine feel. Her work includes car design, fashion, illustration, textiles.

www.pommepomme.com

trompe-l'oeil, architecture

This is an amazing facade for a building in the centre of Paris.

Basso & Brooke

Another textile exuberant fashion design team: Basso & Brooke. All things pattern, texture, scale, weights, material choice.

loop.ph

Metabolic Media, 2008.

New Orleans - experiment in architecture, 2009.

A long time fan of the work by loop it continues to develop in the space between technology, computers, design, nature.

Design duo Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl work together and with nobel scientists through Central St Martins to develop disigns / products that have the intention of making a difference.

http://www.loop.ph/

Timorous Beasties

Toile de Jouy, nature meets contemporary society, repeats, interiors.

http://www.timorousbeasties.com/

Kahori Maki

Design

Interior commision ( themagentalinks.com/2009/02/12/kahori-maki/ )

Comme des Garcons commision.

Car exterior commision.

Illustrator, designer, interiors, fashion. commisioned by Comme des Garcons, vehicle manufacturers as well as fashion and interiors. Maki is succesfully recognising the wide variety of opportunities available.

Japanese born artist and designer is heavily influenced by nature, insects etc.

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Re-Modelled

Paul Smith, 2010. Crochet blankets, cottage industry. Source: 5

Fancy yarns, jacquard, dobby, edging

This piece by Louis Vuitton play's with scale of stitch, over working, dye and comes from a classic case of a reworked textile.

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