ted Meuhling

while at the NY gift fair, I stopped by design mecca Moss, and spotted these amazing ceramic candlesticks by designer Ted Muehling. Now being that they were at Moss, i will not even bother mentioning the price. but if you simply MUST have it (and your secret is safe with us) you can get them here- otherwise, lets all stand in awe of the beauty.... (oooooh... ahh.....)

Woodbear 2

Looks like Woodbear's brother. Actually, it's not officially a woodbear, but close enough for me! Part of a set also from kidrobot.com.

Woodbear

Woodbear was first introduced to me from the guys at designobject.com. Only a woodgrain bear could pull off being cute, evil and cool all at the same time. Look at those fists and piercing eyes. I got mine about 4 years ago and it seems they are still available from kidrobot.com.

J.milo "knotty" rugs

Fellow woodnut Enrique tipped us on these great rugs from J.Milo
they call them "knotty" rugs- we love that name. (k)not that we're biased or anything.
they are hand knotted 100% New Zealand wood-
designed by Jessica Miller. more info here

concrete planters

these planters are made of concrete and are very Anthropologie-esque to me- but i see them more as sculpture, and think they look amazing without anything in them.. (i seem to say that with all the faux bois planters...) i could see it really looking great on top of someone's large outdoor table... or by a nice fireplace... found them here..

flask

i guess for those moments you need a little "hit".... this metal woodgrain flask will serve nicely... it actually would look great in some bachelor bar set up... do i need one? available here

ella doran

Em got me these coasters a few years ago- and i love them to death- they are by designer ella doran, and produced by Jason products- they don't seem to be on the Jason website, but if you go to ella's personal website- they are there and there also is matching placemats and tray!

bark buttons

i saw on Poppytalk, a link to these button badges by designer swissmiss, available here- she has a bunch, but obviously my favs are one called "wood" and another called "bark"- i don't know if i'd actually wear them, but they sure are purrrty...

PLANK

went to the CA gift show today and spotted these fun Yoga mats, from a company called PLANK- they feature a photoreal print screened on the this foam/rubber type material-
i love the little detail of the crumpled muffin/cupcake wrapper on the bottom corner- you can buy it here

egg press greeting cards

egg press cards are always the right combo of simple, smart, timeless and fun. i want to know who thought of adding just the right touch of woodgrain on fruit, plus (and this is my only time ever seeing this) grain on the entire envelope. bravo. to top it off, it's even more beautiful because it is letterpressed. they say: "friend of mine", "you're a peach", and "delicious". apparently still available in select shops. hurry! their website is www.eggpress.com

xbox360 faceplate

of course we knew this would happen- as we mentioned in a previous post, we knew it was only a matter of time before someone wised up and created one- and delighted we are!- although i do not personally own an xbox360, if i did, i would for sure get one of these woodgrain faceplates- available here-

FOAMIES!

so more wood foam news! although not nearly as cool as the ones Em has that i found in japan,
these are available widely at craftstores (i found them at my local Michaels craft store- didn't see them online though...)- they're called Foamies- i guess they come in two sizes- 9x12 and a bigger one (not sure the acutal size) and they are by a company called Darice- and they're only 79¢ each! the woodgrain pattern (they call it "wood look" ) is a bit more obvious and contrasty, but they're super easy to cut out with, since they're really thin, and i'm not sure what i'm going to do with them yet.. but the possibilites are endless... stay tuned....
you can purchase the Foamie Sheet(ON SALE) at Amazon!

Hannspree wood tv

Hannspree has a "wood" tv that cracks me up- the shape is a little more "jetsons" or actually maybe kinda more Flintstones?.. but i like the two tone action- could see this looking really great in a kids room... also like the fact that they designed the back with a floral motif.. the back of electronics are usually so under appreciated...

to die for treestump

ok, i'm alive, but i died a little from cuteness overload- just saw these incredibly adorable tree stumps that Heidi Kenney made over at MyPaperCrane.com- read more here-

roos vase- marre moerel

fellow woodnut, Enrique, tipped us off on these modern white branch/tree vases by Marre Moerel, that he saw in Dwell magazine- these are from her "roos" collection and are earthenware ceramic- She doesn't have a distributor in the US yet, but you can order them directly from her website. i love the embossed floral pattern detail in the limited edition one-

japan...

Leave it to Japan to make woodgrain tape and foam. Jon actually got these for me eons ago when he visited Japan. It's from the craft section of the must visit when in Japan - Tokyu Hands. I have not used the tape - nothing quite worthy of that honor yet or may even ever... and the foam, well I use the small square one as a coaster on my desk :)Little did you know, Jon that we would still be loco about it.

Mini Vinyl Binder

Don't you just love it when you find stuff in your parent's house that you actually like, they want to throw out and you get for free! Since my in-laws don't really want "things" for Christmas anymore, we offered to help them clean. After two weekends, 30 years of dust, and four trips to Goodwill, our mission is accomplished. In the process we found lost wedding pictures and a few woodgrain treasures. I owe one more photos of the metal woodgrain shelf, but here is the cutest mini wood paneled vinyl (love that!) binder with mini paper and everything!

Eames Paper Promotional

This little promotional is classic Eames. They too were all about woodgrain. Mostly the real thing though. The Eames Office along with Neenah Paper put out this dvd and paper sampler to promote the new line of "Eames Papers." The dvd was pretty cool and contains the short film Ray and Charles Eames did in 1972 called Design Q&A, Symmetry, and The Solar Do-Nothing Machine. The papers, which are mostly slightly muted primary colors with wonderful textures, are so adult kid - again totally in Eames form.

console table

Crate and Barrel have this organic console table that looks like wood, but is actually concrete and metal- normally,I'd overlook this sort of thing as more country home-y, but juxtaposed in a totally modern setting, as shown by Crate and Barrel, it adds unexpected warmth, quirkiness, and personality-

hot/cold paper cups

Leave it to our favorite Target to have these great hot/cold paper cups- they aren't available online, but you can find them at any Target store and they will be in the party decor section. They had a co-ordinating paper plate, but it had some unnecessary ugly designs on the inside, that kinda killed it- so i'm going to just stick with the cups. pack of 10 for only $1.99!s

more wood shirts

the button down shirt is an It's(k)notWood archive piece, from several years ago. It was made by Freshjive, part of their Optical Signature Series of prints. (sorry, i didn't iron it before i shot it) Recently, our fellow woodnut Enrique (thanks Enrique!) shared with us this link to a new series of t-shirts from Stussy, one of which shares a similar colorstory.
i love the light wood and pop yellow combination/juxtaposition. more info on the Stussy tees here-

woodbunny tee

i got this t-shirt a couple months ago from DigitalGravel.com- its by a company called Good, they have a little dinosaur as their logo on the inner label- i can't find much info about them though (if anyone knows if they have a website- please share!) and apparently Digital Gravel doesn't have much product from them at this time, except some women's stuff... but anyways, i love this shirt.

anthropologie walls

perusing through the current anthropologie catalog, noticed in the background of a few of the rooms in the photographs, that they have this woodgrain wall treatment in seafoam. can't tell if its a paint technique or a wallpaper-ish treatment- on their website, you can zoom in on the photos, and it definitely looks like its printed, as a repeat patten is present- but it looks like it might have a texture to it... would love to know where to get that- it's quite lovely.

archive: tray & pitcher

tea at my house means serving it from my tray and thermos pitcher found about 5 years ago in san fran's chinatown. i have often seen these trays at small hole in the restaurants in chinatowns all over the nation used to organized the soy sauce and hot oil and have even seen it at a chinese friend's grandma's house - you know i was sessing out granny's goods... bad, bad! top it all off with the super cute, only in asia could you get away with it, bunny logo. lovely.

Homage: back in da day

we're creating two sets of new "tags" for future posts, one is "homage", which will consist of things that we find in vintage books, or things that are no longer in production, items from the old skool- and we're also going to be posting things with "archive", which will be things from our personal collections that aren't necessarily currently available- anyways, the first thing i wanted to post for Homage- are these great things found in this book compiled by Wayne Hemingway-
entitled Cocktail Shakers, Lava Lamps, and Tupperware: A Celebration of Lifestyle Design from the Last Half of the 20th Century- I soooo want this trashcan- and how funny are these wall and ceiling panels- i can picture them in some new swanky club, or new boutique hotel, mixed with modernist minimal furniture.

metal bark

i randomly received a catalog in the mail from a company called Gumps, which is a store based in San Francisco- i found these metal vases cast from real birch trees, yet are in copper and aluminium. these could be quite stunning juxtaposed in a modern setting. i think i'd probably display them as is, without anything in them.

Bark Plates

White in nature again. Thanks Enrique. These are from CB2.

nature in white

First, I have to give props to design*sponge who posted the glazed ceramic branch lamp from Anthropologie AND the urn from koo de kir . Love them both.

Second, I must mention the talented artist David Wiseman for clarifying that what we all find so beautiful and timeless in nature are really the subltelies. His work (the branches winding through the ceiling) is stunning and like the other pieces, take away the dirt and help us to focus on the form itself.

wallpaper

as seen in Elle Decor, Alpha Workshops has this woodgrain wallpaper called "oh so faux" (left)- Alpha Workshops is a non-profit collective of NY artisans who are HIV positive. They come in several colors.

In other paper news, i wanted to share the wrapping paper our friend Gary at Refabclinic handmade using construction paper and a woodgraining tool. He used them to wrap gifts this christmas holiday (see below).

goggles

although i am not a snowboarder, i could definitely do this look, if i had these nifty goggles by Anon, or these Smith Prodigy ones found here.

ipod case!

Enrique sent us another tip on the "Rose Would" ipod skin at MacSkinz.com
"simulated Rosewood for the "naturalist" in you"- thanks enrique! i need one right now!

hussein chalayan

okay, so this is not faux, but i had to post it in reference to my comment to the previous skirt. its from hussein chalayan 's 2000 collection where "a model came onto the stage wearing what appeared to be a hoop skirt made of overlapping bands of bent wood. The model then stepped out of the skirt, which collapsed into a modernist coffee table with a circular hole in the center." brilliant. designer hussein chalayan has his new book out.

isaac mizrahi skirt

fellow It's(k)notwood reader Enrique tipped us off on this new woodgrain print skirt by Isaac Mizrahi for Target - i think its hillarious and could look great with the right accessories, although i think Em got a little scared of it. anyways- thanks Enrique!

method wood cleaning products

the packaging for these wood cleaning products by Method is so great. i'm glad they didn't get too karim-rashid kooky on the bottles and i love that they kept the spray bottle translucent. i think my favorite is the wood wipes bottle.

fast food heaven

leave it to the fast food/restuarant industry to keep it real and old skool with these metal laminate dispensers- LOVE the mandatory translucent smoked brown plexi accents- saw this napkin dispenser at micky D's today (no, i didn't eat there.. but it sure smelled goood)- but found this place has the classic straw dispenser.
Taken out of context, these pieces could look so amazing and ultra modern in the right kitchen or breakfast nook!- makes me want to check out what's new at my local Smart&Final...

"fertile garden" breakfast set

on Apartment Therapy (Los angeles), these plates from Moss-
kinda similar to the ones we posted before from Martha, but a bit more fancy, and , well.. more expensive... but still pretty....

ceramic bowls

spotted these at the ceramics shop near mitsuwa market on alameda in los angeles this past weekend. they were front and center and on sale at this little shop (it's the only ceramics shop near in the plaza, can't miss it.) looks like they're catching up to the faux wood trend too. how pretty would they look with rice, veggies and pink chopsticks!

ipod blaster

here's a "ipod blaster" we found on fred flare but made by a company called Lifepod. honestly, looking at this item in particular seems so bizzaar, a little bit foreign because it's so nature meeting technology - urban nature, which applies to all the faux woodgrain we are posting, but this one is beyond hybrid and instead is tribrid(?) - modern ipod, old school ghettoblaster and then fake woodgrain - wowzers! jon and i talk about this a lot... in any case, it's pretty fresh... your ipod sits protected in the middle while you blast your tunes. love the handle.

BURN candles

passing through Barneys Co-Op, i came across these wonderfully packaged candles and lotions-
called BURN- i love the different colors and each scent has a different woodgrain pattern- also love the lotion and soaps too- i'm still trying to find a website for them, but i found their full range available online at beautyhabit.com

target electronics shelf displays

so went to Target recently (ok, so i'm always there) and wanted to show the brilliant electronics shelf display graphics they have going on there- i love how they used woodgrain for electronics, as opposed to using obvious and cliche hi-techy futuristic graphics- jon