I’m happy to share a brand new custom line through Brevity: the Signature necklace – a custom necklace that is as personal as it gets.

Your signature is unique – it is a symbol of your identity and is the mark that you use to represent yourself to the world. It is one of the most personal things about a person – the distillation of a one-of-a-kind personality into a mark that was developed over the course of a life. Whether you choose to wear your own John Hancock or honor a loved one by wearing theirs, our Signature necklace is as personal as it gets.

The Signature necklace is available in stainless steel (on sterling silver chain) for $195, in silver dipped (on sterling silver chain) for $225, and in gold dipped (on gold-filled chain) for $295. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.

To celebrate the launch, we’re giving away a Signature necklace! Find out the details here and enter to win on our Facebook page.

The Pile Candle Holders Beatriz Nuño are a simple product made from wooden off cuts. It’s a great way to repurpose waste, and the rings are stackable so you can create your own look. Fun!

We are so very excited to announce the launch of a collaboration with one of our favorite shops - Poketo! We partnered up with Poketo to create a series of City Wallets by four Working Proof artists: Emily Dumas, Dan Funderburgh, James Gulliver Hancock, and Linda Kim. Bearing the iconic images of each city as seen through the eyes of each artist, the wallets are defined by bright prints and colors that capture the spirit and fun of exploration.

Each wallet is made of durable vinyl (double layer for extra strength). Contains 3 slots for credit cards, a bill slot, and a change purse. The wallet is 8.5″ x 3.75″ open, but folds perfectly to fit in your pocket (4.25″ x 3.75″). The wallet ships flat but once you fold it, stays folded. All wallets come with a matching pin and bio card of the artist.

The Working Proof will donate 10% of each wallet sold to 826 National. We love what they do as an organization to encourage creativity and to make writing and learning fun for kids. Poketo will be donating 10% of proceeds from the City wallet sales to their local 826 chapter, 826LA from March 11th through June 1st.

THE WALLETS:
Florence, by Linda Kim.

Linda Kim was born and raised in Los Angeles  where she currently lives and designs all day. She’s inspired by everyday curiosities, mystery, the universe, the ocean, and people.

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Los Angeles, by James Gulliver Hancock.

James Gulliver Hancock is obsessed with cities and drawing. That combination has seen him attempt to draw all the buildings in New York, all the rain in London, and all the cars in Los Angeles. He lived in Los Angeles and learned its circulation of concrete veins – 101 to the 110 to the 10 right?

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Front detail.

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Cairo, by Dan Funderburgh.

Dan Funderburgh is a Brooklyn-based illustrator, artist, and wallpaper designer whose work is rooted in the world of decorative arts. Dan’s art and wallpaper can be seen in print and on textiles, on the walls of boutique hotels, and in the collections of galleries and museums around the world.

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Brooklyn, by Emily Dumas.

Emily Dumas’ products feature her illustrations and patterns. Her studio, Flowers in May, specializes in uniquely handmade art prints, paper goods, invitations and miscellaneous housewares.

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The Spike Chair by Alexander Lervik is really intriguing – I love how different and how beautifully sculptural it is. I’d definitely be curious to see how comfortable it actually is, but it looks great.

The Spike chair is unique in shape. The seat and seat back are fashioned from a number of rods, like a bed of nails, which collectively mimic the curve of a body. The base of the chair is made of tubular steel, welded together with a three-millimetre steel base plate. The upper section is made of turned ash components.

Alexander Lervik gained inspiration for his new chair during a trip to the Philippines.”One day it poured with rain. Raining stair rods, as they say, and that’s exactly how it was. The shafts of rain resembled slanted lines and in that rain I suddenly saw the outlines of Spike in front of me,” says Alexander.

He had long intended creating a follow-up to Red Chair (2005) when the image of Spike suggested itself in the rain on the Philippines. Spike, like its predecessor, will only be sold in a limited edition. It is not suited to mass production due to its unique shape, but, as with Red Chair, should be seen as an artistic object for those interested in design.

To make the chair ergonomic it was necessary for the rods to be produced in a number of different shapes. The 60 rods vary in length, with 30 different sizes in total.

“I wanted to create a sculptural chair with a strong graphic identity. It was a challenge to make Spike comfortable despite its distinctive appearance,” says Alexander.

Spike is to be sold in a limited edition of ten via Gallerie Pascale.

The Ane Stool by Troy Backhouse reminds me of a dinosaur skeleton. So pretty.

Ane stool is a solid timber stool with a powder coated steel frame. The seat is formed through the unique use of multiple pieces of one shape of wood positioned and cut in a dynamic way. The simple placement of three geometric circles allows the Ane timber stool to be cut in a way to give the appearance of a complex furniture piece.

I’m in love with this abstract BKLYN cuff by Boris Goynatsky. So gorgeous and subtle!

I love the simplicity of this 2 x 4 lamp by Alexandra Burr, and how it appears to be floating in the air (it’s actually suspended by mono filament).

The Ka Lamp is a beautiful family of lamps by Daniel García and Maria Jose Vargas of Woodendot The collection is composed of XL, M, and S lamps: an ambient, reading and table lamp.

Love these beautiful drawings by P. Williams, which are on display at Room104 gallery in Seattle.

Sitting in my studio among the rubble and the wreckage of this near complete work, reflecting on the process and the product, I’m left to wonder if there is a strange beauty in these tense moments that our lives are made of, in the grotesque and the fantastic, in the fractions of time preceding following and punctuating. While I find beauty in the grotesque and art in the mundane, sometimes I have to wonder if what’s on the easel is any better than what is in the trash. I make art that I want to see, I build things that I want to experience, trying to capture some sort of vague intangible moment of transformation, where something familiar like cardboard is seen anew, where the common becomes the extraordinary. I strive to make work ripe with wonder and ambivalence at forces beyond us. Maybe this work is about my relationship with Seattle, a longing punctuated with short visits only through the portal of commercial aviation, or perhaps it’s a dialogue about the non-space, and non existence experienced while traveling, surrendering comfort, control and space in exchange for mere transport. Or maybe it’s more an unconscious attempt to reconcile the anxiety of travel compounded with the passenger plane as our new symbol of national martyrdom. Or maybe it’s all just a cluster f*ck.

The art collective CYRCLE’s ORGANIZED CHAOS! show, which opened at the Joan Scheckel Filmmaking Lab at the end of November, is now on view at the CHURCH boutique. It looks really great – if you’re in LA, you should definitely check it out!

Relying on the metaphor between the bee and the flower to simulate the relationship between art and society, CYRCLE artists Davey and Rabi, along with architect Hunter Leggitt and fabricator Mike Russek, built out a hive-like architecture to house the many pieces of interactive, functional, and fine art, from a spinning totem to CUBIX pieces, to lenticular sculptures, to lighting and jewelry. Patrons were welcomed into the space and encouraged to initiate order within the chaos of the human movement within the show, therefore creating a type of performance art within the actual pieces themselves.