FAUX BOIS LIVING

My fascination with wood continues... Yesterday, I played hooky and visited the Picasso Guitars exhibit at the MoMA. (If you live in or around NYC it's a must see). I was fascinated by Picasso's use of faux bois (or fake/false wood) paper in his work. When you think of faux bois today, it might conjure up images of the kind of stuff you see covering cheap particle board furniture, but in the form of wallpaper it definitely peaked my interest.

 Image courtesy of MoMA

Image courtesy of MoMA

Last night I started looking around for "fake wood" pieces done in an interesting way. Here are a few of my favs...

I stumbled across this Soft Wood Sofa by Front at Moss. It closely resembles a solid wood bench, but instead it's photo printed fabric over foam. So soft and comfy. I want one!

This Woody Table Lamp combines real wood and faux bois in a modern way. 

Faux Bois Placemats at BLTD

 OMFB (Oh my faux bois!) screen printed pint glasses by Vital

 Love these! Wish they had more at Something's Hiding in There

This has been posted everywhere, but I love these faux bois floors featured in Coastal Living.

 Faux Bois Vase by Jadeflower

Faux Bois Rug by Horchow

Last, but not least cool packaging found on Pinterest by Viva Bailey via sfgirlbybay

 

Friday Obsession- 1920s Vintage Typography

Lat weekend, I went to see a great design exhibit at the MoMA. The exhibit featured graphic, colorful ads of Czech, Russian, German and Dutch designers from the 1920s and 1930s.

During the so-called New Typography movement in the 1920s and 1930s modernist designers, "rejected traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, [and instead]  organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions."

 I would love to get my hands on a print for my apartment...

The exhibit runs through July 26, 2010 at the MoMA