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Street artists and world traveler ABOVE has teamed up with Italian screen printing company, STUDIOCROMIE to produce a new set of prints, titled MOBILE series. Above (no pun intended) are the images of the available four lettered prints. Limited to a run of 100, with a one per customer limit, I am sure every art geek will snatch these up and then sell them on eBay. All prints are signed by ABOVE and are approximately 13″ x 19″. The prints are sold individually for about $238- or as a set of three for $477-.

Sex sells, even when it comes to retro furnishings. And why not, if you are putting an emphasis on the 60’s vibe, throw in some psychedelics and free love maaann. If you find yourself in the Singapore area, stop in Lorgan’s and deck out your house in some vintage chic.

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I was not one of the many fools camped out in front of IKEA anticipating their grand opening this morning. I am saving myself for the opening of the IKEA ‘Annex’. I imagine it will be a lot less crowded and won’t reek of herring. Located just up the street from the new IKEA in Red Hook, Curbed reports:

The, uh, Annex is a building that’s been abandoned for a long time surrounded by a picturesque school bus parking lot. One of Curbed’s many special Red Hook operatives today encountered the sign’s creator at Baked. Our correspondent reports: “The guy who painted this genius sign says he’s going to set up a table and chairs and, ‘I might buy some stuff at Ikea to resell.’” Pre-assembled Billy Bookcases, maybe, to sell to very confused first-time Red Hook visitors.

Source: [Curbed]

Sometimes I feel like I am truly alone (and not just because I have no friends), but because I feel as if I am the only one left who hasn’t gotten brain washed by advertising into the shopping instead of thinking lifestyle. By now you probably know that IKEA is opening a new build it yourself box store for their Swedish furniture in Brooklyn. I am sure IKEA has some nice stuff, even though I can’t recall ever going to any of their stores. When I am in the office I do sit on a chair from the Swedish supplier, and it serves its purpose well enough. However, in regards to IKEA opening a new location, even if it is their first in NYC, how can I say this, I just don’t care. I am only posting about their box style store now because I find it quite amusing that, following in the example set by Barnes and Noble, who hire coppa’s from the NYPD to patrol their stores for potential shop lifters, IKEA has hired 17 NYC flat foots to regulate the traffic around their new store. Is this really necessary? Are so many people flooding this location that traffic enforcers from the NYPD are needed? Sadly, YES is the answer to my question. While that will dumbfound me forever (or until I get drunk the next time), I tip my Miami ‘Canes Starter cap to IKEA for getting every BillyBurg hipster and Park Slope stroller mama dreaming of stampeding to their store when it opens its doors on June 18th.

(Not to mention that they seem to really be concerned about not destroying the neighborhood, even hiring many of Red Hooks unemployed locals to positions in the store. - But I do reserve the right to trash IKEA in the future if they let me down or I find out about any shenanigans).

Read the Brooklyn Paper article on IKEA employing the PO-9 after the jump.

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I’d assume every person who has kids would want them to have a nice safe play area to enjoy the beautiful outside world with. This was the case of a kind Mom and Dad near Anchorage Alaska, who decided to build a great play area, complete with plastic play set and smooth stones to prevent any boo-boo’s, in their yard for their two spawns. How sweet! I just hope the kids were taught to share, because they appear to have a few playmates that want to use the slide and swings too!

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There is something very Alice in Wonderland about the products available from Dust Furniture, of course the name makes me think that there is something very very Alice in Wonderland about the products (yea, you know what I’m talking about). Since my mind is, as my Mother tells me “in the gutter”, I’ll let Dust Furniture do the talking…

Dust Furniture is a collection of studio furniture from craft artist Vincent Thomas Leman. Vincent has built one-of-a-kind pieces for years, but released this line to accommodate the demand for reproducible versions of his work. To learn more about Vincent or the furniture itself, please click on the links below.

A key part of Vincent’s creation process is the integration of function into the form. He strives to create furniture that is functional to the degree that it may be successfully integrated into daily life, yet–equally important–provides a spark to brighten the routine of daily life. He finds joy in discovering new ways to mix art and life, and to make it accessible.

Vincent’s work has been described as ‘abstract traditional furniture.’ Each piece is essentially a traditional piece of furniture that is stretched, curved, stacked and stepped to fit his design intentions. While wood is the material employed to make his furniture, Vincent considers his actual medium to be ‘traditional furniture.’ The classical root of each piece helps maintain its identity as furniture and keeps the work familiar and approachable despite the unusual shapes.

All of Dust’s furniture is skillfully handcrafted by Vincent and Jessie Leman in their studio in Valparaiso, Indiana.