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Stenciled Arts and Crafts textile motifs from 1910
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Friday, Aug 14 2009
Found in a 1910 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, and perfect for a bungalow like ours: This one was upside down for some reason: More after the jump.
Richard Elliott, reflector artist, RIP
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Saturday, Nov 29 2008
A few months ago I wrote about the lovely reflector art installed on Martin Luther King Jr Way as part of the light rail project, and was thrilled when the artist himself replied to my post. So I am very sad today to hear that Richard Elliott, the reflector artist, died recently of pancreatic cancer….
Not stained glass, but reflector art
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Wednesday, Jun 4 2008
Not a lot of posts lately — sorry. I’m kind of overwhelmed with stuff lately. Anyway. This is art along the new light rail line on MLK Way in SE Seattle. It’s all reflectors. It’s by the same artist who did the reflector art that used to be on the side of the Henry Art…
A wealth of stained glass on Flickr
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Monday, Mar 17 2008
Photo by steve.wilde. (Creative Commons) While looking for an image for someone tonight, I stumbled on one of the most beautiful photosets I’ve ever seen on Flickr: Gordon Plumb’s Stained Glass. 183 beautiful photos of stained glass, including some lovely photos of William Morris-designed windows. After viewing Plumb’s set I wanted to look at some…
Tasty art
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Tuesday, Jun 5 2007
While browsing Shorpy, I saw a link to Box of Apples — a site devoted to fruit crate label art. They sell giclée prints of them, but even if you’re not in the market, the gallery is a fun browse. They mention in their blog that “…one reason these labels are so pretty is that…
The past in photos
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Tuesday, Jun 5 2007
Shorpy: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog is one of those blogs that just makes you say “Wow!” on a regular basis. The photos aren’t all a century old, though some of them are. (Lately a lot of them have been Depression-era.) But they are all quite old, and quite amazing to look at. Many are just…
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Tuesday, Jun 5 2007
Vintage design of the day
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Girl with a Bullet Wound
I wonder if the Seattle P-I photographer who took this photo intended to evoke this famous painting? (About which, more here.)