Category Archives: Art/Craft

Do you turn for a lathe? Is engraving etched deep in your psyche? Are your pockets filled with brass shavings right now?

If so, then clear 20 minutes, you deviant, and watch as an intricately detailed 24k gold plated card press is hand made for puzzle collector Chris Ramsey by master metalsmith and watchmaker Clickspring.

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Murals inspired by mythology and alchemy from Bordeaux-based anonymous artist duo MonkeyBird: clean, industrial stencilling, accented in gold and detailed with elements of classical architecture, clock workings and weighing scales.

From top: Decazeville, France (and detail); Waterford (2018); Fanzara, Valenciana, Spain; Le Locle, Switzerland; Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, Germany (x2) and Penellas, Cataluna, Spain.

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An enamel pin business born of a love of architecture – some of the world’s most iconic building façades recreated in pleasing minimalist 2D pin brooches.

Above: Geisel Library, California; Pagoda House, Tel Aviv; Eames House, California; Pantheon, Italy; Villa Savoye, France; clockwise from top left: Guaranty Building, Buffalo NY; VitraHaus, Germany; Notre Dame, Paris; house on Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv and Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo.

Currently crowdfunding and accepting advance orders (Busáras, the Casino at Marino, Supemac’s in Moate and so forth) for the façades of your choice

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The adorable, slightly unnerving, big-eyed hybrids of Japanese artist Naoto Hattori.

Most a mere 7.5cm square, the highly detailed surreal acrylics reflect an obsession with eyes that has stayed with the artist since he was three years old. Sez he:

“When I closed my eyes, I could see a colourful eye like a mandala and it kept changing shape like a kaleidoscope. I drew hundreds of the eye images. Back then, I was thinking that it was something everyone could see.”

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