Tag: Vintage
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Snoopy
The world knows him as Snoopy, the beloved beagle from Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. In the aviation community, he is better recognized as Snoopy the World War I Flying Ace, one of his most popular alter egos. Sitting atop his doghouse in a flying helmet, goggles, and colorful scarf blowing in the breeze,…
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Funny Face
“I’d swim the ocean wide just to have you by my side. Though you’re no Queen of Sheba, for worlds I’d not replace your sunny, funny face.” Debuted in 1957, the film Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn, was a parable for her ascending style and stardom. In the film, Jo Stockton, a downtown bohemian bookworm,…
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Best In Show
The American artist and art teacher Josef Albers once proclaimed that if you were to say “red” to 50 different people, there would be 50 different versions of the color. Names for color, in particular, evolve with language across cultures. For example, the word for pink once meant yellow in Dutch. While ochre meant “pale…
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The Kantha Gown
Kantha is more than one thousand years old, dating back to the pre-Vedic era in ancient India. Traditionally a utilitarian, functional craft, kantha has evolved into a unique way of portraying and celebrating life events. Today, the word kantha has come to describe the stitching style rather than the object itself. Beyond simple running stitches…
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The Peacock
The world’s most spectacular border ceremony takes place daily before dusk at Wagah, roughly halfway between Lahore in Pakistan and Amritsar in India. Large crowd gathers between the Indian Border Security Forces and the Pakistan Rangers to witness a spectacle of what could be appropriately coined “Peacocks at Sunset.” Using their body instead of weapon,…
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The Kantha Jacket
Kantha, meaning “patched cloth”, refers to both the traditional craft of making quilted blankets as well as the stitch itself. The craft is native to rural Eastern South Asia, particularly Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha, along the Bay of Bengal. Originally made from old, recycled saris, the traditional kantha…
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The Great Wave
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is Katsushika Hokusai’s first and most celebrated work in his collection of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It is of the Ukiyo-e genre, meaning “pictures of the floating world”, which flourished in 17th-to-19th-century Japan. The woodblock print depicts three elements: three boats weathering the stormy sea, the great wave, and…
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The Cook’s Apron
I wanted to design an apron for home cooks like me, those with penchants for random experiments in the kitchen. Which is to say that though I do not work in a restaurant, I spend lots of time cooking, from baking croissants, coagulating tofu out of soybeans, to fermenting ciders. Consequently, spending lots of time…
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