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Vanessa Von Hessert
AT Offline 09.04.08, New York

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petdesignphotos248.jpgVanessa Von Hessert is the last of our profiles from last thursday's meetup. Vanessa, a furniture designer in training, was kind enough to share with us one of her latest innovations in pet furniture design.

Formerly a web designer, Vanessa has chosen to dedicate herself to learning the art of furniture design. Her home hosts a few of her earlier projects, (stay tuned for a house tour later this month) but most recently she has turned her attention to accommodating her two cats...

 
 

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These two shelves were originally meant as resting spots. Only after installed, did Vanessa realize that they would love to eat up there. In her next iteration of this piece, she would like to have a built in food dish holder.

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Oh, I LOVE it! My kitties would too.

posted by als1 on September 12th 2008 at 1:13pm
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I wish my kitties could do that!

posted by cherrybomb on September 12th 2008 at 1:16pm
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I wish people said "cats" instead of "kitties."

posted by patrick (the other one) on September 12th 2008 at 1:23pm
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My kitty loves to be called kitty!

And she'd love that little ledge, I bet.

posted by blueroses1 on September 12th 2008 at 1:42pm
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How clever - Cat shelves!

(For when you don't know where to put your pussy...)

posted by bepsf on September 12th 2008 at 2:24pm
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love them and so would my"boys", is that better than kitties?

posted by sassydo on September 12th 2008 at 2:29pm
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Oh, this is the Vanessa from a previous house tour? This tour is one of my all time favourites. Looks like she has moved since then tough.

posted by Lillian on September 13th 2008 at 12:03am
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Very beautiful - sculptural and elegant. My flesh eating monsters would enjoy perching on it, I bet. But I wouldn't feed them on it. (My flesh eating monsters eat... uh ... well... mostly flesh.)

posted by Lauren T. on September 13th 2008 at 6:11am
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OMG- this would be so much better than the food station on the counter!

posted by TracyJ on September 13th 2008 at 4:13pm
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Did she make these? Impressive- I need one, because my dogs always try to eat my kitty's food, so I have had to put it up high out of reach. And this is such an elegent solution- bravo! bravo!

posted by jenna on September 24th 2008 at 9:49am
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