Do You Know The Maker ?

May 24, 2012

A few weeks back I grabbed this beautiful decoupaged chair image (and what I thought was it's link) and for some reason the two lost each other. Does anyone know the maker? I know it's a collective out of South Africa (I believe I found it via a South African magazine - but my search has come up empty handed). I'd love to hear from you if you know (they make some beautiful pieces). In the meantime - this image actually inspired me to look into decoupage myself - it's been years since I've done anything like it and have totally forgotten how. I did a post on it (a how-to link, along with inspiration) over at Babble today. Click here if you're interested.

Update: (Thanks to reader Mariana - we now know. It's Amanda du Plessis and Elizabeth Pulles of Evolution). Thanks Mariana!

Jan Halvarson

9 comments:

Vintage Home said...: sorry I don't ...but that is wonderful..!
Yikes all those wonderful little school house chairs are going to be getting very hip makeovers...and I know Kevi @ Twig @ the Scout Market has this very chair to sell this weekend....!
Thanks so much for highlighting the sale over here...great big shout out!
Rachel & Lily are amazing & it is a privilege to be in their Markets!!; 5:49 am, May 24, 2012
Anonymous said...: Sorry don't know the maker either, but I would love to own it! Maybe you could make some yourself.; 6:21 am, May 24, 2012
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used tineye.com with no luck; 6:40 am, May 24, 2012
Jan Halvarson said...: Thanks so far -; 8:05 am, May 24, 2012
ringo's girl said...: Hey! that looks an awful lot like the work or Leslie Oschmann...she's not out of South Africa, though...so, it could be someone else. Leslie is a mixed media artist, she creates collages on old chairs and bags and tables...you name it...her company/shop "swarm" is located in Amsterdam (her chairs were featured on man shops globe in 2010, I believe) and you can view her works here:
http://swarmhome.com/index.html
or you can watch a little bio of her here (you have to scroll down to hollan/belgium episode):
http://www.sundancechannel.com/man-shops-globe/one-of-a-kind/
and if these links don't work, contact me on my blog and I'll email you ;o) hope this helps...even if SHE'S not the artist behind this chair, her work is inspiring.; 9:07 am, May 24, 2012
mariana said...: It's by South Africa-based artists Amanda du Plessis and Elizabeth Pulles similar pieces by them are being currently sold at Anthropologie; 10:12 am, May 24, 2012
Jan Halvarson said...: ringo's girl - thanks - i am familiar with swarm -; 12:28 pm, May 24, 2012
Jan Halvarson said...: mariana - there you go - thanks - http://www.houseandleisure.co.za/item-of-the-day-evolution-chairs/; 12:28 pm, May 24, 2012
Stel said...: Saw another similar chair in new edition of Ideas magazine (www.ideasmag.co.za) ...Evolution Chairs, sold at Poetry shops. Might be the same as mentioned above?; 6:42 am, September 21, 2012