home galleries have a way of looking so very sophisticated. like you’ve traveled the world more than a few times and these are just a few bits and bobs you picked up along the way. an artist you met in an italian cafe casually sketched you on a cocktail napkin and you just couldn’t resist having it framed and hanging in your salon. “oh that little oil? i picked it up at the paris flea”. know what i mean? it’s that effortless chic so many european homes seem to carry off with such finesse. me, i struggle a little bit with getting that collected artwork looking just a tad haphazard and laid back. goals, i guess. but if you can’t jet off to the continent just this second, you can start your own art collections by shopping them secondhand. i cruised around chairish looking for some great art and found some pieces i think could look like you’d been collecting for-ever. i think it’s perfectly fine to find artwork you love this way — you gotta start somewhere and until your next art sojourn check out my favorites on chairish — and just build from there. i’ll never tell.
a few of my favorites, clockwise, l to r: Embracing Pair Ink Drawing; Vintage Portrait of Mother Oil Painting; Mixed Media Art Los De Abajo; Study of a Young Woman Painting by Olga Lau; Abraham Walkowitz Isadora Duncan; Original Painting on Canvas by Meredith C. Bullock; Exhale Black & White Original Painting; and a Mid Century Fashion Advertisement Mock-Up.
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lonny magazine (above + below).
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Lovely art, specially those black and white stylized drawings! Always a good choice.
I have always fights with myself, should I put a lot of different art on a wall or one huge one.
I’m curious your thoughts on framing! I love the art cluster but frames can be SO expensive. Do you have ideas on easy and interesting ways to frame art and photos?
I’ve been using Framebridge.com which has done a really great job and you can send them your artwork, or collectibles to frame. It’s very affordable, too. I also look for vintage frames at the flea market – even if they have an ugly picture in them, the frames are often really nice. I’ve also used a wire curtain rod from Ikea – it comes with little clips and you can hang art from them:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60075295/
Oh and if you’re in L.A. my favorite framer is Frame Monster – so good and very affordable!
http://framemonster.net/
Definitely the wall art makes the interior designs so much more unique, and everything just looks amazing! xx
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