This is one splendid thing. Agustina Woodgate’s rugs are made from old teddy bears and incorporate thoughts around the rich culture a carpet can contain that goes well beyond that of a practical item in the home. She puts it so well herself on her website:

The process starts with the departure of the loving life Teddy Bears have when they are in the hands of their owners.The rugs not only reference the personal histories of the toy’s owners, but investigate the rug as an object organizing and displaying memories and lineages. In Eastern Cultures, the oriental rug centralizes the living space in pattern, operating beyond utility to depict the spiritual and mental world in woven form. Woodgate is particularly drawn to the specific meanings in the arrangement of rug designs, and how different histories of the rug represent stories of the past and ways of tracing archetypes in physical and material forms.

Jewellery brand of namesake Anna Tascha Larsson. Visit the website here.

Icelandic based designer Sruli Recht sells a motley range of products ranging from a typeface to a three meter long knitted coat to a scarf dyed in blood, all beautifully bound together by an aura of another time and place and the art of handicraft. To get a highly recommended glimpse of Sruli Recht’s designs visit the website here.

Memory gift wrap -or/and a Merry Christmas idea- via COS. Check out the THINGS section & the collections by the same time, if you did not already do it.

Tired of having your food stolen by coworkers or rommates? So, why not pretend your sandwich just went horribly mouldy? The “Anti-Theft Lunch Bags” and other clever ideas on thinkofthe.com

DoBeDo is an online platform, created in 2007, to give exposure to independent artists and show and sell their work.

Marloestenbhömer were featured here on the blog a while back and are now launching their first commercially available shoe ‘Beigefoldedshoe’ after two years of development. Constructed from one piece of leather and incorporating a stainless steel heel the item is as much an object of art and a piece of design as it is a shoe – a characteristic of all of ten Bhömer’s designs. ‘Beigefoldedshoe’ is available in their online shop for £2,250.

For more information visit their website.

You can find more of Dutch artist, Matrijs van Merg, on the MKgalerie  web site.

Photographer Paolo Ventura captures his miniature characters lulling us into the wonderful mood of his stories. 

Paolo Ventura’s “Winter Stories” will be exhibited at Fotomuseum Den Haag (NL) until August 30.

Interior products by Bauke Knottnerus. From the “Phat Knits” serie.