Archive for the ‘Esteemed’ Category
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portable dance floor (pdf)
Object: Dance Deck
Reason: Enabling dance troupes to (grand) jeté, i.e. leap, a significant barrier of entry to rehearsing and performing.
Background: How did I not know about Dance in Public Places, an exhibition that took place February 2011 at The Gallery? Dance Up turned a … Read more
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dueling posters
Object: Philadelphia neighborhood posters
Location: poster shop on 4th street between South and Bainbridge sts.
Background: The one on the right is the Philadelphia version of Ork’s City Neighborhood poster series. Chicago-based designer Jenny Beorkrem quit her day job and started Ork when her Chicago neighborhood poster … Read more
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JHG + AWD stool
Object: Revolution Furniture’s JHG + AWD stool
Location: Jesse Gerard’s apartment
Background: I wrote about Jesse Gerard for “Making It” in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Gerard now makes custom, limited edition speakers under the label Carrot Grant. (He and his speakers were one of two Pennsylvania makers … Read more
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freshly printed floral
Object: freshly printed floral
Location: Printfresh Studio, Paper Box Studios in Old Kensington
Background: Amy and Leo Voloshin founded Printfresh Studio in 2006. Amy and her team of designers create about 80 textile designs per week to sell to clients ranging from mass-market (Kohl’s, Macy’s, Target) to higher-end apparel … Read more
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folding bistro chair (hidden city philadelphia)
Object: folding bistro chair
Location: “The Porch” at 30th St. Station
Background: This chair, first described in the “Simplex” patent registered in 1889, is made by Fermob, the same French company that makes “the Luxembourg chair“—the green metal, tubular steel stackable chairs scattered around Paris’s … Read more
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bespoke chef’s table
Object: bespoke kitchen/dining room table
Location: the Philadelphia home of Chef Jonathan Adams (executive chef, Pub & Kitchen; co-owner, Rival Bros. Coffee)
Background: ”Back in 2006, Snackbar (formerly at 253 South 20th Street) was starting to come together and a millworker who was driving … Read more
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hair chair (art break)
Object: trompe l’oeil chair (look closely, it’s there)
Location: Fishtown home of independent curator, Eileen Tognini
Background: The chair is by Brenna K. Murphy, whose medium is hair.
Here’s her artist statement from InLiquid: “Working primarily with my own hair, I create works on paper … Read more
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heart screen
Object: screen used to print Sara Selepouchin’s ”anatomical heart diagram”
Location: Girls Can Tell‘s studio/boutique off of East Passyunk Ave., South Philly
Background: Six years ago, Selepouchin started making diagram-style illustrations for friends. She was inspired by the instruction manuals that came with her grandmother’s sewing … Read more
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octo chandelier
Object: octopus chandelier by Adam Wallacavage
Location: ceiling of the Jules Verne room in the designer’s South Philly home
Background: Wallacavage went to University of the Arts for photography and is a founder of Space 1026. He found his calling — making fantastically trippy and ornate … Read more
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