Thursday, January 14, 2016

Home From the Hardware Store


 
We stumbled upon a gem of a book that is right up our alley: “Home from the Hardware Store” by Stephen Antonson and Kathleen Hackett.

The cover features bolts of different sizes, screwed and stacked together to make rustic, but also beautiful candlestick holders. Who would have thought? I certainly wouldn’t have, and I spend more time in hardware stores than most. I also possess a good eye for design, but that isn’t enough to have come up with these original and inspired ideas. 
 
The creativity inside covers ground ranging from practical to whimsical to inspiring. What I like most is the combination of items we regularly see in the context of hardware - useful things, meant for a certain purpose - seen from a different point of view; stretched and modified into something of beauty and sometimes usefulness, but not in the way we expect. I love how this stretches my own thinking of what is expected and what is possible and how the one often keeps us from discovering the other.

 Note: All images taken from "Home from the Hardware Store" © Lesley Unruh


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