AN ALEXANDER MCQUEEN HALLOWEEN

How can you not think of Alexander McQueen on Halloween?  He found beauty in the grotesque.This incredibly talented tour-de-force of  fashion  could turn the unthinkable into something sexy and mysterious.

What you see here are 2 Styrofoam skeletons from Target sprayed silver. They are sitting on a huge pair of butterfly wings, a little girl's costume, flower, also from Target. The cocktail forks were my mothers, could not resist. Have fun with your table decorations!

McQueen loved to  mix color and texture. Here is a pumpkin dressed in lace fabric, tied at the top with a rubber band. It is sitting on an Alessi bowl turned upside down. Mixing the unusual with traditional, straight lines with curves makes design much more fun. Check out his link and don't forget to visit www.lettuceart.com and Happy Halloween!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Alexander McQueen

www.metmuseum.org › Home › Exhibitions‎. This show was amazing.

THE TOAST MAN

Meet Maurice Bennett, the "The Toast Man". I like working with vegetables, and he likes working with bread!  I'm guessing this is pita......

Below is The Mona Lisa, all toasty, in a mall in Hong Kong

You can also read a bit about Mr. Bennett below and check out his website, www.mauricebennett.co.nz/toast-art/

For more vegetable art, check out www.lettuceart.com!

A FRENCH INSPIRED TABLE SCAPE

Meet Fifi! I saw this artichoke and thought of this skirt! The cauliflower was so pretty, I wanted to use it as a base before I cooked it! For more vegetable ladies go to www.lettuceart.com.

VEGETABLE ART ON A GRAND SCALE

Renaissance master Guiseppe Arcimboldo painted portraits of an arrangement of seasonal produce. Now artist Philip Haas has contstructed 15 foot tall fiberglass busts to look like Arcimboldo's four seasons. These were recently on display at New York Botanical Gardens. Below are the Haas figures of The Four Seasons.
To see more vegetable art on a smaller scale, please check out my website, www.lettuceart.com!

TABLESCAPES

Meet the Tomatillo Twins. Here are two ladies sitting on baked pita bread. Consider using a platter as part of your centerpiece for a luncheon. Tomatillos have a great papery skin which make great skirts. For more images, go to my website, www.lettuceart.com

INTERESTING TABLE SCAPES

Instead of using flowers for your luncheon, dinner or buffet, why not get creative with vegebables? With a bit of floral wire and imagination, have a little fun. For more images, go to my website, www.lettuceart.com

Artist Warren Muller

Meet artist Warren Muller. His studio, Bahdeebahdu is located in Philadelphia. He has been creating illuminated sculptures out of re purposed material for many, many years. His work can be seen in the Guggenheim Museum in New York City , the Dallas Fort Worth Museum , countless restaurants and buildings in New York, Philadelphia and even the Bat Bar in Japan.

Former education director of the Museum of Modern Art, Phillip Yenawine describes Warren's work:

"A glance is all it takes. We grin and think, never saw anything like that before..

The way Frank Gehry has reshaped our expectations of buildings, Muller has exploded the notion of look and function of lighting."

I so enjoyed working with Warren. We had a lot of fun searching through his wonderful, odd, old, shiny, collection of flea market finds.Once selected, he starts to assemble and magic happens.

Below are examples of his work, enjoy!

                                                           Here is Warren in his studio

                                        A look at how Muller's sculptures read in living spaces

                                         

                                                        
                                                          Brooms never looked so good

                                             A close up of Warren's newest work for the Sherle Wagner showroom
                                                    in Los Angeles. Look at the swan faucet!

This is a vintage jeep that hangs in the Philadelphia Cruise Ship Terminal's Naval Yard. It weighs over a ton.

                    Reception desk at Bahdeebahdu. portrait is made entirely of one tread and straight pins.

this is a close up of the front of the desk above. you are looking at ephemera and toys painted white

Lastly, here is a photo of Warren and Yours Truly standing below our collaboration in his studio this past summer.
To read older design blogs, go to www.merlehillaryinteriors.blogspot.com and go to the archives on the right. Also, stay tuned for the next blog which will feature a different kind of art. It will  also be sculpture, but the materials used are VEGETABLES!