The Bold Table

Get Your Fingers Ready!: Costa Rican born jewelry designer Catalina Brenes creates dizzying jewelry fabricated from an assortment of materials ranging from precious metals and stones to resin encasing flecks of gold and even flowers.  I met Catalina at a jewelry show and fell in love with just about every piece on her table.  Alas, I only walked away with one. The ring in question is a staggeringly tall pyrite cube with polished and blackened silver that sits regally on my middle finger.  I get stopped mid sentence frequently as people ask to ogle it more closely.  Although her website is noted below, her e-commerce site is under construction. Sigh.  I greedily await it’s completion.

Left Ring: Morfosi Series, 2011 made of silver, quartz and rhodochrosite.

Right Ring: 2010 made of silver, quartz, onyx and turquoise. Green with Envy.

Via: Contemporarty.com and bijoucontemporain.unblog.fr
Source: Catalina Brenes.com

Stone Free:  The Forest Green Volcanic Glaze Round Chalice 3-537 by ceramicist Josh Herman.  His work evokes both Mid-Century Modern design and the free feeling of “organicity”.  A passion for clay thrown outta San Diego, California.

source: joshherman.com

Mesmerizing Marble:  Fashion Houses Dries Van Noten and Bottega Veneta were all over the marbleized looking textiles this Fall/Winter 2011/2012. An incredibly theatrical and yet sophisticated look that took no prisoners in the hands of these two designers.

First up: Dries Van Noten’s black and white ensemble mixes prints and textures.  A marbleized print tweed jacket made even more opulent with a fur collar.

Via: vogue.it

Seeing Red:  Bottega Veneta’s Fall/Winter 2011 collection features impeccable tailoring (of course), slim lines and a whole host of bold reds, browns and yellows including jaspers, corniola, rust, garnet and resina.  Those color choices were not lost on the famous BV woven leather handbags either.

Via: forum.purseblog.com

Yabba Dabba Doo Chair: Cool furniture Fred Flinstone would be proud to lounge in by Vieyrah Designs.  Called the “Urban-Chaotic Respite Lounge Chair”, it is hand crafted in sunny San Diego, California. This high-concept contemporary piece is made using a metal structure covered in metal sheet and coated with a bright white Dupont car paint. In this chair you might never leave your cave.

via: yankodesign.com