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On a recent stroll through the Rosie The Riveter Memorial Rose Garden in San Diego’s gorgeous Balboa Park, I came across a flower that screamed to be given a spotlight: the Rock N Roll Rose. With its bold red-and-white striped blooms and dramatic flair, this flower’s streaked petals recall a whimsical moment from Alice in Wonderland, when the Queen’s playing card gardeners frantically paint the white roses red to please Her Majesty. Yes, they exist!
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In 1970, fashion critic Bernadine Morris wrote that designer Stephen Burrows maintained “an absolute disregard for all the established laws of color. Does a dress have a red top? He’ll make the sleeves lime, the middle peach – and he’ll add orange stockings for good measure.”
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Christopher John Rogers (b. 1994) created his eponymous Brooklyn-based brand in 2016, designing elegant pieces for the effortlessly chic individual. The designer draws inspiration from a variety of sources, from the vintage atmosphere of built spaces of the mid-to-late 20th century to modern artists, including John Chamberlain and David Hammons.
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The research laboratory called Oeuffice was estalished by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte and Jakub Zak to develop innovative objects in limited editions. The designers met in Milan after studying in their native Canada and attending university in Berlin. Like Ettore Sottsass, they share a vision of a contemporary utopia in which they refashion architectural design on a domestic scale. The Ziggurat, an iconic architectural form that Sottsass revered, provided inspiration for this stack of Wooden Storage Boxes inlaid with acrylic and solid stained wood (2012). The ziggurat’s form and masterful wood inlays originate in the Near East and were executed by Lebanese artists specialized in the technique.
Photographed in the Met Breuer in NYC.
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