nanacompany… pretty little things
ice flower tank for girls (débardeur) + camilla, crazy dot, half-apron for girls (mini tablier) + playtime sugar cookies in a lil bakery box (cookies pour jouer dans une boîte à pâtisserie) + playtime sugar cookies in a mini-valise style lunchbox, limited edition (cookies pour jouer dans une valisette, édition limitée) par nanaCompany sur Etsy.
Ce sont juste quelques unes des créations délicates que vous trouverez dans la boutique d’Amy Sinibaldi.
Je suis d’abord tombée sur ses cookies en parcourant Etsy parce que je n’ai découvert qu’assez récemment tout ce qui est “felt food” (les aliments fabriqués en feutrine) et je suis encore comme une gamine face à ces objets, j’ouvre des grands yeux à chaque fois que j’en vois. Mais la plupart du temps, après m’être exclamée “comme c’est mignon !”, il ne reste pas grand chose. Voilà c’est mignon, c’est sympa, mais bon… Je regarde, j’aime bien, et puis en général j’oublie assez vite.
Je trouve cependant que les cookies qu’Amy fabrique vont au-delà du “truc mignon”. Ils ont quelque chose de spécial, une sorte de perfection qui doit beaucoup me semble-t-il à la qualité des matériaux choisis et à l’attention et à l’amour qu’elle semble mettre à les faire. Regardez cette image grand format sur son Flickr ICI. Vous avez déjà vu des cookies aussi beaux ? Vous n’avez pas envie de les toucher ? Je ne suis pas spécialement une adepte du “rose”, mais ces cookies me font un effet que j’aurais bien du mal à expliquer.
Je crois en fait qu’il y a quelque chose de magique dans les créations d’Amy Sinibaldi. Elle écrit sur la page de présentation de sa boutique :
Mon mari me compare à un de ces lutins qu’on trouve dans les contes de fées et qui travaillent quand tout le monde dort – des jolies petites choses apparaissent “par magie” sur la table de la cuisine le matin.
J’aime la référence aux contes de fées, parce qu’il me semble que ça a beaucoup à voir avec le monde merveilleux que nous propose nanaCompany.
Ces créations semblent davantage liées à un monde idéal et fantasmatique qu’au monde “réel”.
Elles sont explicitement faites pour être offertes :
un cadeau unique et spécial, parfait pour offrir lors d’un anniversaire, pour faire une surprise apràs l’école, ou un petit plaisir pour célébrer un joyeux non-anniversaire!
Et c’est exactement ce qu’elles sont, des cadeaux uniques et très spéciaux, qui disent clairement à l’enfant à qui vous les offrez : “tu es unique et spécial à mes yeux, et tu mérites d’avoir des belles choses parce que tu comptes beaucoup pour moi”.
Amy Sinibaldi les destine à être offertes à des petites filles et le femme moderne que je suis – vous aurez remarqué j’espère avec quelle habileté je me suis débrouillée pour ne pas employer le mot “féministe” ici, ah ben ça y est, je l’ai dit quand même – la femme moderne que je suis se demande pourquoi ce sont toujours et encore aux petites filles qu’on devrait acheter des ustensiles de cuisine et des tabliers. Certains diront que les tissus utilisés ont à l’évidence des motifs et des couleurs “de filles”. Je n’en suis pas si sûre. Et de toute façon, les cookies ne sont pas uniquement des trucs de filles, si à Et la cuisine n’est plus exclusivement le domaine des femmes, en tout cas dans mon monde…
Ceci étant dit, les créations d’Amy Sinibaldi sont plus modernes, moins “traditionnelles” et “rétrogrades” qu’elles pourraient sembler à premiere vue. Les tissus qu’elle utilise sont élégants et j’aime beaucoup le tablier from tokyo with love et pink lemonade a un côté très frais. Il y a également un débardeur un peu plus coloré et d’aspect moins classique : débardeur “pretty posy”.
De plus, elle peut customiser l’article que vous voulez. Vous pouvez par exemple lui demander de mettre des boutons dans la couleur de votre choix sur le débardeur “ice flower”. Vous pouvez aussi commander un tablier dans une taille adulte pour 28$… (De toute façon, elle fabrique les articles à la commande, il vous faudra donc tenir compte d’un délai de 2 semaines avant qu’elle n’envoie vos articles.)
Enjoy !
nanacompany… pretty little things
ice flower tank for girls + camilla, crazy dot, half-apron for girls + playtime sugar cookies in a lil bakery box + playtime sugar cookies in a mini-valise style lunchbox, limited edition by nanaCompany on Etsy.
Those are only a few of the exquisite items you will find in Amy Sinibaldi’s shop!
I first noticed the cookies because I am only just discovering “felt food” so every time I come across one of these things, I feel like a child and look with amazement. But very often having said “how cute” well, there’s not much more left. I mean these things are “cool” and “nice” indeed but, so what? You see them and like them, and then usually forget about them.
I think Amy’s cookies go beyond the “cuteness thing”. They have this special quality, a kind of perfection achieved no doubt with carefully chosen materials and great care and love making them. Look at the full sized image on her Flickr here. Aren’t they just the nicest cookies you ever saw? Don’t you feel like touching them? I myself am not into pinky things and yet they appeal to me in a way I cannot totally explain.
Somehow I think there is something magical in Amy’s creations. She writes :
My husband likens me to a magic elf who only works when everyone’s asleep — pretty little things “magically” appear on the kitchen table in the morning!
I like the Fairy Tale imagery, because I think it acounts a lot for the beautiful world nanaCompany proposes. Those creations seem to me to be more related to a fantastic and ideal world than to the “real” world.
They are meant to be gifts :
a unique and special gift… perfect as a birthday present, end of school surprise, or merry happy un-birthday treat!
And this is exactly what they are, “unique and special”, thus clearly stating to the child you are offering them “you are unique and special and deserve to have beautiful things because I care about you”.
Amy Sinibaldi is making them for little girls, and the modern woman in me – noticed how I managed not to say the word “feminist” here, oops now i’ve said it – the modern woman in me is wondering why it is still only girls who should get offered cooking ustensils (the miniature “just-her-size” wooden spoon) and aprons. Some might argue that the fabrics nanaCompany uses have definitely “girly” patterns and colors. I am not so sure. And anyway, cookies are not just for girls, are they ? And the kitchen is no longer the realm of women exclusively, at least not in my world…
This being said, Amy Sinibaldi’s creations are more modern and less “conservative” or “nostalgic” than they might appear at first sight. The fabrics she uses are elegant and I particularly like the from tokyo with love apron, and pink lemonade is fresh and nice too. There is also another tank with a bit more color and less classical feel to it : pretty posy tank.
Note that she can customize your order. For instance you can ask for your favorite color for the buttons on the ice flower tank. You can also order an adult size apron for 28$… (Anyway she pretty much makes everything upon order, so that you have to allow 2 weeks for your order to be ready to ship.)
Enjoy !
my first “treasury” on etsy
I am so happy ! I managed to grab a spot for a Treasury on Etsy tonight, not an easy thing to achieve believe me !
It will be online for 2 days, I will try and write about some of the artists I chose, but you can check it out HERE.
black polito : le blog
J’ai écrit mon premier article sur ce blog à propos du Black Polito.
Nous n’en savons guère plus pour le moment, mais on peut désormais suivre l’avancée du projet sur un blog : Black Polito. On s’en serait douté, celui-ci est très beau et d’une grande élégance !
Vous pouvez toujours allez voir la Black Polito Stickers Gallery ainsi que le groupe We love Rolito sur Flickr.
Deux photos que j’aime parmi toutes celles montrées : Red for Rolito de krysto_O et Rolitobleu de Shifty.
black polito : the blog
My first post on this blog was about Black Polito.
We don’t know much more about it, but you can now follow the project on a blog : Black Polito. And as you would have guessed, it is both elegant and beautiful !
And there are still the Black Polito Stickers Gallery as well as the We love Rolito pool on Flickr.
Two pictures I like among them : Red for Rolito by krysto_O and Rolitobleu by Shifty.
beautiful vintage pillow covers by absoluut on dawanda
Starry eyed blues, Greg, Yams in space & Poppy love pillow-covers by Absoluut on DaWanda.
Check out those gorgeous vintage fabrics !
The quality looks really nice and heavy – you can see detail views for every item – but only one side of the cover is with a pattern, the other side is made of cream cotton fabric. Zipper closure at the back.
Sizes : 20″ X 20″ or about 50,8 X 50,8 cm.
Price : 20 Euros each not including shipping from the Netherlands.
“and everything nice”
Designers of Tomorrow : Ragnheidur Osp Sigurdardottir
I stumbled upon Ragnheidur’s work on This is Blythe Forum and even though she showed only a few pictures of her work – she is still young and is currently studying product design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan – those few pictures clearly pointed to some strong personality and a great talent. Ragnheidur was born in 1981 and comes from Reykjavik, Iceland which accounts for her Northern sounding name : Ragnheidur Osp Sigurdardottir.
Her work is both elegant and familiar. The objects she makes are beautiful without being intimidating. They have something of the obvious in them – a quality not easily attained and which requires work and talent. They have not yet been produced but you wish you could already find them in shops.
Amongst those projects she would like to see produced, the Pick Me chocolates look very promising. She has thought of making them herself and selling them, but what she really wants is to work with a chocolatier that makes premium chocolate. There is also her Aromalarm, an alarm clock that wakes up and puts people to sleep with aroma. Here is what she wrote to me when I asked her how it was really working :
The Aromalarm is still a concept but I thought of it working in a way where you buy little capsules containing different aromas and inserting them inside the clock (on bottom). They would then get attached to tubes that would release the aroma depending on if you are falling asleep or waking up. If it ever gets made and could really function, I would like there to be all kinds of different aromas to buy.
And although it is not exactly the kind of things I like, I must admit that the way she worked on the BENJAMIN stool designed by Lisa Norinder and produced by IKEA by drilling holes in it and decorating it with brodery – she calls it Bentey – is very interesting. I came to think about it afterwards which is always a good sign with objects. I think it works better with some color and the brodery on top so that you don’t get to see the reverse side of it, but on the other end, this version has a more modern touch and is really inspiring.
And I love her digital patterns for ceramic tiles! I think it goes way beyond what you usually see that has been made with a computer. (Edit : The tile patterns are not available any more on her new website. You can only see this one on her Portfolio at coroflot.com. 27 August 2007)
Ragnheidur Osp Sigurdardottir’s links :
Umemi : her website.
Her Portfolio.
And Everything Nice, part of her research for her thesis on cuteness.
And would you believe it, she has a pug too! Hers is called Panda, you can see pictures of her on Ragnheidur Osp Sigurdardottir’s Flickr.