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Significant Objects Meme (14)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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The crafty blog Tigerlily Tinkering explains how to make a chuppah — the canopy under which a Jewish bride and groom stand (or, as in the photo above, sit) during their wedding ceremony — that displays significant objects between sheets of silk. *** Fourteenth in an occasional series.

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Significant Objects Meme (13)

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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“The Curious World of Patent Models” is a traveling show organized by the Rothschild Patent Model Museum. On display at the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena through Aug. 15, 2010. Via Core 77. Thirteenth in an occasional series.

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Significant Objects Meme (12)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Andrea Magnani and Giovanni Delvecchio of the Italian design collective Resign claim theirs is a methodology “for all the designers who believe in magic and symbolic value of things.” Via Cool Hunting Twelfth in an occasional series.

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Significant Objects Meme (11)

Saturday, June 5, 2010

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The Index — a storefront gallery in Brooklyn — is a collection of materials and objects whose purposes, characters, and origins are fascinating to curator Jonathan Roquemaure. As Cool Hunting recently explained: While each object’s uncommon looks are compelling enough on first blush, the history behind their materials and past utility often requires a little digging. Reflecting [...]

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Significant Objects Meme (10)

Saturday, May 1, 2010

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Here’s an everyday, apparently unexceptional object with a meaningful story; this advertisement was found in the current issue of Real Simple. Speaking of memes, the curators of Significant Objects are both at ROFLCon today.

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Significant Objects Meme (9)

Sunday, April 25, 2010

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In today’s New York Times Sunday Book Review, the psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer reviews Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things (Houghton Mifflin), by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. His conclusion: To those who need to understand hoarders, perhaps in their own family, “Stuff” offers perspective. For general readers, it is likely to provide [...]

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Significant Objects meme (8)

Saturday, April 10, 2010

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Chen Karlsson is a Scandinavian-Asian homeware company. This post was on the blog Junkculture yesterday.

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Significant Objects Meme (7)

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

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From the MediaBistro blog Unbeige, on April 5: Here’s the Saved by Droog site.

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Significant Objects Meme (6)

Monday, March 29, 2010

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Tila Tequila’s garage sale — very telling. Here’s a person who obviously has never invested any object with narrative significance.

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Significant Objects Meme (5)

Friday, March 26, 2010

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Check out this New York Magazine slideshow titled “A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things.” This sort of thing is the flip side of the Significant Objects Meme! From now on, instead of “More Cowbell,” I want hipsters to demand “More Significance!” (Instead of Will Ferrell’s bearded mug on the tee-shirt, you can use [...]

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Significant Objects Meme (4)

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Obsessive Consumption: What Did you Buy Today? (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), by Kate Bingaman-Burt, represents a selection of three years’ worth of the author’s annotated drawings of her purchases — including wedding bands, beer, a dog, and, of course, drawing supplies. Full disclosure: Princeton Architectural Press also published my 2007 book, Taking Things Seriously. Fast Company’s [...]

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Significant Objects Meme (3)

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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*** READ MORE about the Significant Objects Meme.

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