Here’s an awesome story and experience that Chris Fralic of First Round Capital shared on his blog, nothingtosay.com. You can check out the post originally here, or read on and scroll right to see how he took a bit of forgotten history and made it something new.
I thought I’d share an experience I had recently with [...]
Custom walking sticks topped with one-of-a-kind carvings can make wonderful personalized gifts for your favorite ramblers. How would you top a walking cane?
“If you can dream it, we can create it,” says Milo Mirabelli of Mirabelli Designs. You can have anything you’d like hand carved and attached permanently to the oak or walnut shafts [...]
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Maker Spotlight on April 26, 2012
Is the limited imagination of retail fashion strangling your personality?
CustomMade wood sculptor Marvin Beloff likes “plaid, striped, colorful shirts” and when he went shopping for a basic, solid bow tie he had little luck:
I used to have some, but my wife threw them away years ago. I shopped! Few bows and [...]
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Maker Spotlight on March 26, 2012
Using recognizable American pop culture in art never looked so delicious. Although it may look good enough to eat, I wouldn’t unless you want to lose several teeth in the process.
These extraordinary custom stone sculptures are part of the “Realism in Stone” collection by New York based artist Robin Antar. Her objective is to create a [...]
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For Customers on March 11, 2012
Artisan Emily Scott of e. scott originals can create custom jewelry inspired by nature, Victoriana, grandmothers’ heirlooms, and tattoos.
Yes, tattoos.
The design for “The Original,” a handmade sterling silver necklace with a vintage glass heart, was inspired by a tattoo. Intrigued? Contact Emily and discuss your own custom jewelry design.
Your own ink, or [...]
“If Stradivari was working today, I wonder what he would do with an Apple Mac computer, a CT scanner, and a CNC machine.”
One amazing violin.
Violin maker John Waddle asks this question from a special perspective. He and fellow violin maker Steve Rossow and radiologist Steven Sirr have reproduced a celebrated Stradivarius violin, the [...]
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Our Favorite Custom Finds on February 21, 2012
To some, chainsaw carving may sound like a gimmicky parlor trick, a world away from fine art design. Long considered one of woodcraft’s more interesting (and more dangerous) methods, chainsaw carving is a precision technique used to create ornate, custom wood sculpture. This hazardous approach to wood carving produces pieces that are unquestionably fine art.
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Our Favorite Custom Finds on January 24, 2012
If you’re a fan of the new hit series Portlandia starring Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, you’ve heard the adage “put a bird on it” a time or two. This refrain was taken from a comedic skit that suggests when a bird is placed on a functional object it heightens that object to art. The [...]
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in Concepts & Buyer Guides,
For Customers on December 16, 2011
No, it’s not a child developmental stage that comes before tween, but its boundaries, too, can be a little nebulous.
Treen is an archaic word used mostly, appropriately enough, in the world of antiques to describe objects made from a single piece of wood. The term was resuscitated largely due to the collecting and writing [...]
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in Concepts & Buyer Guides,
For Customers on November 4, 2011
If you’re collecting art for your home, you should be as mindful of displaying your pieces as you are about selecting them. Nicholas H.J. Hall, international director of Old Master paintings and British Art at Christie’s, offers some advice for exhibiting art in your home in “Exhibiting Works of Art, Wall to Wall,” an article [...]
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