Name: Laura Kim
Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn
Website: fusiondesignlab.com
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Watertower pic and portrait by Ron Albertson who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He does silkscreen prints of NYC cityscapes, landscapes and portraits and sells his prints for $35 a pop (6in x 12in silkscreen prints). He can be reached by phone: 718.369.6226.
The collage work is by Katherine Streeter who is an illustrator. Her work can be viewed at http://www.katherinestreeter.com
The walking hand is by Raphael Lopez who is an illustrator. I took a workshop course the AIGA was having and he did this super fast demonstration. He was throwing this away and I asked if I could have it. His trash was my treasure!
Thanks,
Laura
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*sigh* If I like the art, how it's hung makes me nervous. If I like how it's hung, I hate the art.
Either my tastes need updating, or there's a dirty joke in their somewhere.
I absolutely love your style. The color on the wall truly makes the room. I am tempted to paint my bedroom a very similar color. I am a huge fan of the way in which you hung and framed most of your pieces. And I love how your art looks like you have travelled around the world and these are the trinkets you picked up along the way.
I love how everything is put together and the total effect is whimsical, light and says so much about the person who lives there. Personally, I'd like to see the pieces on the wall grouped closer together, but hey, it's not my room....
Yes, the collection looks randomly hung-- like when you first move into an apartment and just hang things on the nails that were already there, until "someday" when you get around to doing it right. Several of the pieces themselves are rather interestng. But as a collection, they definitely look as if they have been brought together by accident. Love the furniture, though!
Lovely robin's egg blue walls. I can picture a birds nest with little speckled eggs....
Holly
Laura,
I adore your wall color! I'm trying to find just that shade for my bedroom walls. Would you mind telling me what paint you used?
Thanks,
Courtney
I third the wall color! Love! I like the way the art's hung, actually...probably b/c everything I do is so symmetrical.
Yup, that wall color's great. I wonder if it's because it's close in weight to a medium gray, which would show off a wide range of artwork well.
I do tend to subscribe to the yearbook layout way of grouping pictures, which is to keep spaces between pictures equal, and shove all "white" space to the outside.
But the blue hides a multitude of sins.
I actually REALLY like this. The wall color is lovely. The art is cool. I am so into dia de los muertos stuff. Very nice job, Laura. I wouldn't change a thing, including the spacing of the art.
Very cool, and I like the way it's all hung. Must agree that the wall color is GLORIOUS. It's one of those colors I would never choose myself and then wonder why, when I see it in your house ...
I like this a lot. The wall color is fantastic. There really is a reason that color was popular for quite a while. It's somewhere between green and blue, so it's earthly and celestial, grounded, yet airy. All of your art looks fantastic against it.
This wall color looks exactly like what I have in my bedroom. Bluer in the light, and greener in the shadows. Since everyone keeps asking, I thought I would chip in to say the color i used is "bleu passe" and it was Pratt & Lambert. The bottom third of my room (chair molding and below) is painted a medium grey, It's a great balance. I highly recommend it.
I love your home. I would have mistaken it for a botanica which is a wonderful look for me. The wall color, the placement of everything is great. All is missing are saint candles and tea brewing to bring back memories. Gotta copy this one. :)
Thanks for the comments everyone. I was just about to re-work that wall (have many more pieces to add and some to subtract or move) but thought it would be interesting to enter and get some feedback. The paint is a Martin Senour paint and I've lost the swatch. The code is: ECO844V 07671. There are so many variations of this color out there though. I know Benjamin Moore has one that's called Tropicana Cabana (or something to that effect) which is similar.
Thanks again!
Its good to get a snapshot of Laura's surroundings. It doesn't take away from the mystery but adds to it. Manic and cluttered but very specific. Somehow, knowing you, it makes absolute sense.
Ron's piece is quintessential Ron. Again, anyone intrigued will be blown away by the detail and repetition of all of his works-or even a few, lined up together. Colors>>you are both into them, huh? Yeah, botanical.
This is the most ass kicking art work I've ever seen and I've seen alot of art. Holy shit! Wicked awesome! Yeah...wicked awesome. Seriously.
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