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What a week in London

2011-09-30T11:21:00.002+02:00

Just a few more pictures from the show - Now we are back in Denmark trying to digest all the things that happened in London

Back in Copenhagen

2011-09-27T17:35:00.003+02:00

Now we are all back in Copenhagen after a great London Design Festival. We want to thank everybody who went by our stand K05 at Tent in London. Thank you for fantastic respons.

Mr. Craftsman at home

2011-09-25T22:50:00.003+02:00

Finally at home, taking a cup of tea.

Goodbye London Design Festival, see you next year.

Our last day at our stand K05 at Tent/London

2011-09-25T14:32:00.002+02:00

It is our last day at Tent/london drop by and say hello, we will be here from 11.00 - 6.00.

Mr. Craftsman on his way

2011-09-25T10:31:00.002+02:00

Mr. Craftsman at Tent. Today will be the last day from 10am un til 6 pm.

See you there.

Mr. Craftsman walking around slow

2011-09-24T11:41:00.003+02:00

Faye toogood

Phillips de Pury

V&A

Pictures from our stand - More will come.

2011-09-23T19:27:00.005+02:00

Here is some pictures from our stand af Tent in London. More detailed pictures of all our work, will come.

MR. CRAFTSMAN at Tent London

2011-09-23T11:15:00.001+02:00

Our booklet for London Design Festival

2011-09-22T21:14:00.003+02:00

This is how our booklet ended up looking like. The green color is a neon green on the print. Drop by our stand at K05 at Tent in London and get a copy. Then you can read something about our theme, a biography of us all and some pictures from this show and some earlier work. It is an informative fine little booklet.

Builting up our stand

2011-09-22T16:03:00.004+02:00

2 days of hard work - we are here, the tent London fair is open and it fells sooo good :o

MR. CRAFTSMAN at mar mar co London

2011-09-21T13:07:00.004+02:00

Hi´s alive!

Yesterday evening Mr. Craftsman appeared at the opening for the show of Torsten Neeland at mar mar co. We love the "Cocoon" that Torsten showed.

Tent newsletter today

2011-09-20T17:05:00.003+02:00

Just arrived to London and working hard builting up our stand and then this information came in - jybiiii!

Quilting weekend

2011-09-19T09:41:00.002+02:00

This weekend has been absolutly busy, busy and busy. Me and my assitant Rikke has been working like mad. I can not wait to show you how the quilt is looking, it really looks great. I am very proud.

Ready

2011-09-18T22:01:00.000+02:00

A beautiful book to avantGarden

2011-09-18T21:58:00.001+02:00

My wallpaper came today

2011-09-16T15:44:00.003+02:00

Today my wallpaper came, adn it is fun to see how it looks together with the quilt items. This weekend will be quilting weekend, on monday my quilt should be ready to go to London.

And on monday our booklet will arrive from the printer, can not wait.

Hallo out there

2011-09-16T10:03:00.002+02:00

Today our computers are burning. Sending out loads of invitations. Are you excited girls? We are!!!

Quilt and wallpaper making.

2011-09-14T16:35:00.003+02:00

The last couple of days have been quite hectic, and still are. I am finishing up the embroidery tomorrow afternoon, and are starting to put together the quilt by sewing.

Personalities

2011-09-13T10:52:00.003+02:00

Hi girls. At last working on our small people. Love it...so much fun. This little group are going to the kiln today. Cross your fingers, no time for mistakes.

Danish Design at London Design Festival

2011-09-09T10:02:00.003+02:00

A number of Danish activities will take place during this year's London Design Festival, 17-25 September. Danish Crafts has highlighted a few of them here.

Mr Print is Printing............

2011-09-08T19:40:00.000+02:00

This or this poster ?

2011-09-08T18:10:00.004+02:00

Dots on my wallpaper

2011-09-08T14:26:00.002+02:00

Here is the next two wallpapers of my collection for London Designfestival. Dots, dots and dots.

More wallpapers by Lisa Grue

2011-09-08T13:28:00.002+02:00

I continue my wallpaper making today. 4 more rolls of wallpaper to go.

Preparing Photos

2011-09-08T12:33:00.000+02:00

Wallpaper sketches

2011-09-07T14:45:00.004+02:00

I am going to do 8 different rools of wallpapers for the wall at our stand at Tent at London Design festival. Here is a selection of two of the wallpapers, six more to come.

Embroidery and inspiration from Milk magazine.

2011-09-06T09:49:00.004+02:00

Hi girls, another day with embroidery and thoughts about our show at Tent in London. Today I am also starting to do the wallpapers for the wall - I will post about it when i have something to show. I need some color so today I will also dive in the french magazine Milk.

by the way my quilt is 40 pieces (15 x 13 cm) with embroidery, 18 pieces (26 x 30 cm) with embroidery and 1 larger piece (53 x 45) with embroidery. I don't know what I was thinking when I decided to do this large quilt....hallelujah

Proces from the jacket right now

2011-09-05T13:11:00.002+02:00

Working on the jacket these hours, have to be finished tomorrow for photo shoot in Arhus

Hello bobcat - Needle work in Meatpacking cph

2011-09-05T10:32:00.002+02:00

I guess it is a bit cracy of me to do a large quilt with embroidery, it looks good, but OMG a lot of work.

Flowerpots with faces

2011-09-01T15:38:00.003+02:00

Finally we have started the process of our new flowerpots. Drawing on different character and working on the form. Feels so good.

More embroidery.

2011-08-31T14:53:00.002+02:00

So much work with the embroidery for my quilt, the needles are red-hot.

PLANING THE BOOTH

2011-08-31T12:57:00.010+02:00

We meet up yesterday to plan our booth at the London Design Festival in 3 weeks.
What a great and good working meeing ;o

Brown dresscode ?

2011-08-31T12:02:00.000+02:00

The portfolio

2011-08-31T11:57:00.001+02:00

We haven choosen this for our portfolio.

Simple Old School Portfolio ?

2011-08-26T16:52:00.001+02:00

Pølseteknik

2011-08-23T09:53:00.002+02:00

Kære avantGarden piger, jeg er lidt i tvivl om hvilken vej jeg skal arbejde videre med.

Har lavet et par større arbejder med pølseteknik og en hel del mindre arbejder.

Metoden vil jeg gerne have til at se umiddelbar ud, måske lidt Beautiful Mortality agtig, som om værkerne ikke ved om de skal gå eller blive.

På disse fotos står keramikken helt rå i dets nøgne ærlige materiale ubrændt.

Forestiller mig at de enten skal have mat glasur eller stå rå men brændt.

Men jeg har brug for et par kommentarer fra jer,

skal de forfines mere ?

eller er de et interessant modspil til jeres arbejder ? med deres meget keramiske udtryk ?

Måske bruger Tina og jeg kun de større keramiske værker på et foto, og så bliver det de mindre værker der kommer med fysisk på udstillingen.

Er meget nervøs for at sende, men måske bliver det nødvendigt.

Håber det går godt med jeres arbejder,

glæder mig til at se hvad I Sabine og Kristine har gang i.

Lad os skrives ved.

KH Louise

A lot of work with my quilt

2011-08-17T09:13:00.004+02:00

As usual I have started an desig/art project, which is a giant amount of work. Our needle is on constant work, to make my illustrations get alive on the quilt.

What a funny crazy present : Gold fish candy

2011-08-16T11:03:00.002+02:00

Looking at Our Man and glazes how it fit in....

2011-08-16T11:00:00.000+02:00

Baskets in clay

2011-08-10T14:38:00.000+02:00

urns or a kind of a pot or bag

2011-08-09T09:53:00.005+02:00

Louise an I invited a guest; Martine Myrup, for making some urns / pots / bags for our "man" for the show in London. I was soooo happy to open the packet I got all the way from Canada. Martine sewed these as patchwork by hand and she has a thing for this and this - I´m stunned and very proud to wellcome her.

Dead things with a strong spirit

2011-08-08T20:34:00.002+02:00

I have spent time in France this summer at my father’s place in Provence. It is such a magical place he has created there. He can, like on one else, see the beauty in old abandon things. He has a delicate sense for shapes and forms and likes to find things in nature and put them into new contexts. He is such a big source of inspiration to me.

Beautiful Mortality

2011-07-10T07:22:00.002+02:00

A crash and a new born basket

2011-07-10T07:11:00.000+02:00

Moving forward

2011-07-08T15:28:00.004+02:00

I am moving forward in my work with the quilt. Now I need the weekend to consider the next exact direction. I am in place I hate to be in right now, because I need to take a special next step, that decide pretty much how this qulit will end up.

Working on my quilt with first prize items.

2011-07-08T10:54:00.004+02:00

It is really great for me to move forward with my project for the design festival.

A tool a cup and a plate........

2011-07-07T13:25:00.000+02:00

Preparing " The Man "

2011-07-07T13:13:00.000+02:00

Nervous to open the kiln......

2011-07-07T12:47:00.001+02:00

Killing Baskets

2011-07-07T12:43:00.001+02:00

Now I have started to work too.

2011-07-06T15:25:00.002+02:00

Now I have started to work on my quilt too. And I am so excited about it. It is great finally to get started.

first knitting sample for the dress for the "man"

2011-07-06T11:29:00.003+02:00

Here the first knitting sample for the "new" man Louise and I are making.

The fabrics for the pattern for jacket

2011-06-30T13:34:00.001+02:00

I cutted the fabrics to see them instead of the paper as a pattern. I like it :)

PATTERNS - WORKING FURTHER ON

2011-06-29T13:51:00.007+02:00

Tried some other way to combine the pattern from the blanket with the new pattern I am going to sew on top

Brown and white

2011-06-27T10:48:00.000+02:00

WORKING ON A "JACKET"

2011-06-22T21:20:00.004+02:00

Started working on a jacket for a "new MAN".
Had to pick out textiles and look for a "pattern way" to sew them on... got inspired by the pattern from the "plates" but I have to work more on that... more to come

Tracy Emin

2011-06-22T14:40:00.004+02:00

Soon I will begin to do my own quilt/quilts. But just want to share this artist Tracy Emin and her quilts. I am a big admire of her work.

Beautiful Mortality. Lunch with my good friend Knud

2011-06-21T12:50:00.002+02:00

Knud is the name of a decoration on the Royal Copenhagen porcelain.

The decoration is very beautiful but taking out of the production, because it is not famous anymore. Knud is dead but still alive here with me. Who say that it is good to be famous, not me !

Stilleben

2011-06-17T15:07:00.003+02:00

Meyer-Lavigne are inspired by still life – modern and old. Soon we will go here.

Nature Morte

2011-06-16T15:23:00.004+02:00

Beautiful dead nature.

Nature Morte avec un crâne. Nature Morte au coton tige. Nature Morte avec oiseux morts et cerises. Nature Morte au pain, prunes et pichet.

Beautiful Mortality

2011-06-16T09:05:00.001+02:00

GLAZING

2011-06-15T13:34:00.002+02:00

Process of glasing...

must say that for me, RATZER, it was so exciting to work together with Louise in another field - clay - more of this :o

PATTERN

2011-06-15T12:17:00.005+02:00

The triangle from the blanket is the inspiration for our pattern on our objects.

We are working on a new "man" for the show in London at tent.

This is the very first samples for a service he have to carry... more to come.

OBJECTS TAKES FORM

2011-06-15T11:30:00.006+02:00

working on objects in danish clay - paraphrase of plate, cup and tool

beautiful mortality

2011-06-14T14:25:00.002+02:00

GAARMANN and I, RATZER, meet up at her place to start our work for the show at tent in september.

more to come...

the smooth face

2011-06-07T21:32:00.002+02:00

Apples can now be enjoyed.....

2011-06-01T16:27:00.003+02:00

Inspiration Charline von Heyl

2011-05-31T12:32:00.002+02:00

I want to share Charline von Heyl beautiful B/W collage/Paper and Tush. Hear what she says about her work.

Statens Museum for Kunst - J&K Performance

2011-05-27T18:48:00.004+02:00

I met these ladies while I was having a stay at The Danish Workshop of Art They are called J&K and they are doing some fun crazy stuff, and this weekend they are doing preformance on The National Gallery of Denmark take a look at this link and read more details. I will go and see them.

Fresh flowers in the mirror

2011-05-27T11:05:00.001+02:00

A wonderful walk

2011-05-26T09:52:00.004+02:00

I walked around the cemetery Assistens kirkegården with a priest from New York. Such a beautiful moment. Intense talk about life and death and beautiful surroundings. I wish I could allow myself to do that more often.

Trace from the clay that was not used

2011-05-24T21:57:00.002+02:00

The Icon design trail

2011-05-23T17:34:00.002+02:00

I am working on getting us into this guide.

Beautiful Mortality

2011-05-19T08:49:00.000+02:00

Faces

2011-05-17T11:12:00.003+02:00

I like this picture because he has several faces. A mask, a facade, a shield, a shelter – a holster for something else. His soul perhabs? Who is behind this face? What does his real face look like?

At stille træskoene....

2011-05-13T20:34:00.001+02:00

Beautiful Mortality

2011-05-10T15:03:00.002+02:00

Today we had a great meeting at Underwerket studio about our show to London Design Festival 2011, some new things were decided and a good plan was made.

ICON Contact , anyone ?

2011-05-09T09:29:00.001+02:00

partner

2011-04-29T09:19:00.005+02:00

We now became a partner at the London Design Festival

London date

2011-04-28T08:51:00.002+02:00

Hello Girls.

Hope you all have had a nice easter holiday.

I have a date with Anna in London the 13 of May.

Looking forward to find a cool location.

All the best from Louise

ORIGAMI PAPER BAGS

2011-04-18T10:24:00.001+02:00

I just can´t get thise out of my head, these are beautiful and very inspirering for me.

Brown Paper bag origami

2011-04-18T07:40:00.006+02:00

Here is another way to use a bag, - this is a brown paper bag. It is a product you can buy on Magdalena Czarnecki

Experiment in Brown

2011-04-16T20:47:00.001+02:00

Now its time to testing testing testing

2011-04-16T20:11:00.001+02:00

Some inspiration

2011-04-15T10:13:00.002+02:00

This is mostly some inspiration for our patchwork Tina, take a look at this bedspread. I just love the patchwork on this picture. I actually also love this guys photos, he is called Backyard Bill and he takes photos of some interesting people i think.

BROWN

2011-04-15T09:16:00.000+02:00

On the meeting we decided to work with the color brown, I made this flowers some while ago, I think it could grow there...

A good meeting

2011-04-12T13:52:00.003+02:00

Hey ladies...thank you all for a good meeting!!

Anne Sofie Meldgaard

2011-04-11T10:41:00.003+02:00

Love the work of this woman. Nature in a colorful and wild way.

Thank you to "Finurlig" for the link.

See You Tuesday

2011-04-10T22:30:00.002+02:00

We want to exhibit in this area

2011-04-06T21:44:00.000+02:00

JazzTomato

2011-03-27T11:21:00.000+02:00

Mail fra en sød dansk kvinde bosat i London

2011-03-21T20:39:00.002+01:00

Hej louise

Det lyder spændende at I vil prøve at være med på london design festival !

Desværre har jeg ikke kendskab til lokaler m.m. , men i London vartager egendomsmælger en langt større rolle vedr div. korte og lange udlejning m.m. Så hvis jeg var dig vil jeg kontakte en af de lokal egendomsmælger, og om ikke andet kan de måske sige hvordan du gør !
Du kan også prøve at søge på nettet, da der er rigtig meget til udlejning i hele london.
Men du skal vide at dette område er ret dyrt, så måske skulle du gå sammen med nogle andre, prøv at skrive til dem der står bag festivalen, der må være andre som dig !

Håber I finder vejen frem.

Masser af hilsner

Mette

Proposal for next meeting

2011-03-21T19:25:00.002+01:00

Hi Girls. I am coming to Copenhagen this thursday and friday (24-25 march), are we going to meet. I will be in a meeting at Charlottenborg thursday from 16 to 19.

New York - on friday

2011-03-15T16:42:00.006+01:00

On friday I am going to New York, just for a week to do some work on a very cool hotel. But I will off cause also have time to do something else, and I love The New Museum. The current shows will be Lynda Benglis and George Condo. If any of you have any suggestions of what to see or do feel free to leave a comment.

Knitting fun

2011-03-15T16:34:00.005+01:00

Just found these fun knitting masks and wanted to share this with you. Just some fun stuff.

because he like to look at it - by Eve Ensler

2011-03-14T09:54:00.001+01:00

a comment to the post on the 8th of march - international Woman´s Day and the KUSSOMAT

Eve Ensler of "Vagina Monologues" in "America the Beautiful"

2011-03-10T22:10:00.003+01:00

I cant stop thinking about this woman Eve Engsler after the post on International woman´s day.
See some of her vagina monologs - they are entertaiment and good.

Before I die...

2011-03-10T17:44:00.003+01:00

This piece is by public installation artist Candy Chang who explains the concept behind it..

"I turned the side of an abandoned house in my neighborhood into a giant chalkboard where residents can fill in the blank and remember what is important to them in life. It’s also about turning a neglected space into a constructive one where we can learn the hopes and aspirations of the people around us. It turns out this entire process has been a great lesson, experience, and project in itself ".

What would you write?

Found it via this blog.

2011-03-09T21:25:00.003+01:00

Look at this colorful picture it is taken by Todd Selby. It has a very good energi, which I really like.

International Woman´s Day

2011-03-08T11:09:00.007+01:00

Pardon our French – but this is a Pussomat – where you can get your lower part photographed. All the pictures will be a part of an online exhibition.

Women stand together!