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The Hauntings Sculptures of Sabrina Gruss

Hi-Fructose

Inside her workshop, Sabrina Gruss re-animates found natural materials and animal remains into eerie sculptures. In terms of inspiration within fine art, she cites outsider and fringe art, as well as Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.

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Take 5: Lamp-Making, Basket Weaving, Metal Art + More

Design Milk

The Philadelphia-based marketplace and design studio Lostine, helmed by husband-and-wife duo Natalie Page and Robert Ogden, gave fellow journalists and myself a chance to indulge in this inclination during their lamp-making workshop hosted in their studio.

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Poul Kjærholm’s PK15 Is a Masterpiece in Steam Bent Wood

Design Milk

Master craftsmanship and sculptural expression capture the essence of steam bent wood in what was to be the Danish architect and furniture designer’s last chair. I am very connected to this chair because I was working as a cabinetmaker in the PP Møbler workshop when Ejnar Pedersen developed it. This was in 1979. And that was it.

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Gabriela Basin on developing her style, finding inspiration, and the importance of embracing your own creativity

Creative Boom

I decided to choose the creative path: I studied fine arts, got a degree in graphic design, and also did a very nerdy and theoretical specialisation in Communicational Design at Universidad de Buenos Aires, where I investigated the relationship between gender theories, power and illustration," she explains. "I

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Where I Work: Marie-Louise Høstbo of Fritz Hansen

Design Milk

After receiving a Master’s Degree in Architecture in 2000 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Høstbo worked as an architect before establishing galleries in Copenhagen, Paris, and Zurich for the Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery. Catherine’s College is a sculpture. The workshop at Fritz Hansen is a place of its own.

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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

Inkbot Design

From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age. He aimed to start a new movement in the visual arts that rejected the excessive historicism and ornamentation that defined late 19th-century design in favour of a modern , industrial aesthetic.

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Bizarre Sculptures by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt From the 18th Century

Design You Trust

Later, Messerschmidt attended the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts and assisted at a foundry. In 1769, Messerschmidt taught at the Viennese Academy and established his own workshop. After failing to gain a professorship of sculpture position at the academy, Messerschmidt left Vienna and returned to Wiesensteig.