Hey New Yorkers, f your morning coffee could talk, it would probably have a very specific accent — and now it might even come with its own neighborhood storyline. NewYorkPrideGoods has released a collection of NYC Toile coffee mugs that turn your daily caffeine fix into a mini tour of the five boroughs.
At first glance, these mugs lean classic — traditional toile patterns in blue, red, and green. But look closer and the pastoral scenes you’d expect are swapped out for something much more local: New York City streetscapes, neighborhood landmarks, and those hyper-specific details that make each corner of the city feel like its own world. Continue reading Eye On Design: NYC Toile Mugs By New York Pride Goods →
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At first glance, Old Fashioned (2001), a delicate ink-on-paper work by artist Mark Dean Veca, looks like something you’d find in your grandmother’s parlor: a vintage wallpaper design done in the classic French toile de Jouy style. But as your eyes linger on the piece, the façade of refinement starts to fall apart—in the most delightfully subversive way.
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Mike Diamond (Mike D of the Beastie Boys) wanted a Brooklyn-inspired toile wallpaper for the walls of his Cobble Hill brownstone. In 2012, he worked with designers Vincent J. Ficarra and Adela Qersaqi at Revolver New York, and John Sherman of local manufacturer Flavor Paper to produce a design that pays tribute to Brooklyn in a manner that looks, from a distance, like a traditional eighteenth centre French toile — a printed textile with small scenes that make up an overall pattern.
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