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Tables Embedded with up to 5,800 Nails
Sandback furniture out of New Hampshire has a new line of baked red oak tables embedded with various floral and geometric patterns created with up to 5,800 nails. (via design milk)
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Nail Packaging
I love this clever nail packaging by design student Pier-Philippe Rioux who proposed this as part of a class assignment. The nails are situated to create the numerals depicting their individual...
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Thread and Nail Portraits
Design duo Pamela Campagna and husband Thomas Scheiderbauer of L-able created these two intricate thread portraits using old family photographs. Each piece took nearly a month, beginning with the...
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New Portraits by Kumi Yamashita Made with Nails, Thread, and Denim
Two new portraits this morning from one of my favorite artists Kumi Yamashita (previously). The first one is part of her Constellation series titled Mana #2. The portrait is made from a single...
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Only Nails, Always Different: Artist John Bisbee’s Life of Sculpting with Nails
While in college, artist John Bisbee was scavaging in an abandoned house looking for items to incorporate into a series of found-object sculptures when he kicked over a bucket of old rusty nails. To...
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New Nail Sculptures by John Bisbee That Twist Across Floors and Walls
John Bisbee (previously) has worked with nails as a sculptural medium since he accidentally toppled a bucket of them years ago and was astonished to see how they remained intact, rusted and fused into...
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Figurative Found Wood Sculptures Pierced with Hundreds of Nails by Jaime Molina
Artist Jaime Molina works in 2, 2.5, and 3 dimensions, translating his aesthetic from large-scale paintings to sculptures, while also producing pieces that exist somewhere in-between. In this...
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Mysterious Wooden Characters Adorned with Leaves and Nails by Jaime Molina
Heads facing downward, eyes closed, the figures inhabiting the world of painter and sculptor Jaime Molina (previously) seem to be in a state of deep contemplation or sorrow. Or maybe they’re just...
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Writhing Organic Sculptures Formed from Nails by John Bisbee
Viper, Welded Spikes, “Out of the Garden.” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Dimensions Variable, 2016. Photo: Nick Benfey. Over the past three decades, artist John Bisbee (previously) has dedicated...
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Thread and Nail Portraits
Design duo Pamela Campagna and husband Thomas Scheiderbauer of L-able created these two intricate thread portraits using old family photographs. Each piece took nearly a month, beginning with the...
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New Portraits by Kumi Yamashita Made with Nails, Thread, and Denim
Two new portraits this morning from one of my favorite artists Kumi Yamashita (previously). The first one is part of her Constellation series titled Mana #2. The portrait is made from a single...
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Only Nails, Always Different: Artist John Bisbee’s Life of Sculpting with Nails
While in college, artist John Bisbee was scavaging in an abandoned house looking for items to incorporate into a series of found-object sculptures when he kicked over a bucket of old rusty nails. To...
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New Nail Sculptures by John Bisbee That Twist Across Floors and Walls
John Bisbee (previously) has worked with nails as a sculptural medium since he accidentally toppled a bucket of them years ago and was astonished to see how they remained intact, rusted and fused into...
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Figurative Found Wood Sculptures Pierced with Hundreds of Nails by Jaime Molina
Artist Jaime Molina works in 2, 2.5, and 3 dimensions, translating his aesthetic from large-scale paintings to sculptures, while also producing pieces that exist somewhere in-between. In this...
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Mysterious Wooden Characters Adorned with Leaves and Nails by Jaime Molina
Heads facing downward, eyes closed, the figures inhabiting the world of painter and sculptor Jaime Molina (previously) seem to be in a state of deep contemplation or sorrow. Or maybe they’re just...
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Writhing Organic Sculptures Formed from Nails by John Bisbee
Viper, Welded Spikes, “Out of the Garden.” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Dimensions Variable, 2016. Photo: Nick Benfey. Over the past three decades, artist John Bisbee (previously) has dedicated...
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Carved Wood Sculptures by Phil Young Appear to Stretch, Twist, and Tear...
“Grasp” Artist Phil Young twists the commonly-held perception of wood as a stiff material in his mind-bending sculptures made of polished wood and metal. Each artwork focuses on a single piece of wood...
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Textile Artists File Their Nails in Tiny Grooves for Traditional Japanese...
Image courtesy of Kiyohara Seiji Along with a comb and shuttle, textile artists crafting “tsumekaki hon tsuzure ori,” the intricate and durable brocades that are part of Japanese traditions, employ the...
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Dense Fields of Colored String Comprise Expressive Portraits by Artist Joshua...
All images © Joshua Adokuru, shared with permission Blending sturdy metal with the soft warmth of wool, Joshua Adokuru winds vibrant fibers around precisely placed nails that anchor his expressive and...
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Nails Puncture Inscrutable Characters Carved in Wood by Artist Jaime Molina
All images © Jaime Molina, courtesy of Paradigm Gallery, shared with permission Mysterious and enigmatic, the wooden figures that occupy Jaime Molina’s imagined world appear to be in perpetual states...
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