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Hsiao-ron cheng… again. Hsiao-ron cheng… again Mmmmm, I can almost smell the peonies and roses… just imagine if my whole head was covered in them! This is the delicate, yet kinda weird, work of Taipei based artist Hsiao-Ron Cheng. I wrote about her paintings in 2012 {there were bunnies, a T-Rex, an alligator in a classroom}, but when I saw these new pastel-hued, flowery portraits, well… need I say more? Happy weekend… I hope you get a face full of flowers! Scala Regia Inspirational Archives. Office Pets by Hella Jongerius. Hella Jongerius has updated her website to include her Office Pets project commissioned by Vitra Edition last year. The limited edition pieces are made mostly by hand from materials associated with the corporate environment.

Details like the wheels reference furniture usually found in offices. See more from Vitra Edition 2007 in our earlier story. Here's some information from Jongeriuslab: Office Pets Date: 2007 commissioned by: Vitra, Basel Type: Limited edition For Vitra Edition 2007 Hella Jongerius designed three curious wheeled objects - Office Pets - combining worlds of difference. Office Pets not only provide office staff a light-hearted escape from their tightly organised office life, but also represent a new stage in design.

In 2007 we ask so much more from products than the serviceability that was the central feature of industrial design at the beginning of the 20th century. Office Pets form the daring but logical next stage in Jongerius’ career. Brown dress with white dots. “ There is a life review, of course, but it was so much more interesting than I had ever imagined. For one thing, they show you how and where your life really happened. Things you didn’t experience or weren’t ever aware of, but which dyed the fabric of your life its final color.— Jonathan Carroll / Child Across the Sky “ How volatile and untrustworthy memory is. How naive we are to depend on such a fragile, temperamental mechanism to keep our most important records straight.— Jonathan Carroll / Bathing the Lion “ We want to be loved for what we are, but also for what we want others to _think_ we are.— Jonathan Carroll / Bones of The Moon.

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