This week's blog focuses on the fascinating exhibition “To Market to Market”, produced  by the prestigious Maddox Arts gallery, and featuring one of its resident  artists, Julian Wild. “To Market to Market“, opened last week in Bishop’s Square, Spitalfields, in theexciting East End of London. On this occasion, Julian Wild presents stunning outdoor steel sculptures - some of  of which are painted- that fit so perfectly with the appearance of the surrounding area. Accompanying these magnificent sculptures is a display of smaller pieces mostly prototypes for larger works.

The diversity of forms apparent in these sculptures, highlights the endless creativity of this young artist, as well as his constant struggle for self improvement and the creation of new challenges. The wide variety of shapes and forms offers the impression that the artist has a lot to share with the world. For those who attended the private viewing last week, it is apparent that Wild's sculptures not only amaze us, but simultaneously prove to provoke and challenge us. The weightless appearance of some of the works truly intrigues the viewer.

Moreover, the meticulous positioning of these sculptures allows the viewer to freely walk around the works, and admire them from numerous different angles. Such a process seems imperative, since the appreciation of Wild's sculptures grows and evolves with each newfound perspective.

This outdoor exhibition runs from May 2012 to May 2013 in Bishops Square, Spitafields, London E1. You can find more information about Julian Wild at the Maddox Arts Gallery website www.maddoxarts.com 

This weeks blog was written by our London curator, Manuel Sanmartin.  

Lately it seems like everywhere we turn we see our name mentioned in blogs and on design websites! If you haven’t seen them yet this is the blog for you! This week we recap some of the great and inspiring places we have been mentioned.

Cultivate.com is an amazing website that boasts online resources for kitchen inspiration and design. Their 'Get Inspired' tab features projects by architects, designers, manufacturers, and craftsmen across the country. They aim to make planning an ideal space easy, by giving you the tools to discover your own point of view, via informative articles, inspiring photos, and helpful tips by our team of experts. They saw our booth at Architectural Digest Home Show and mentioned us in an article recapping the event. To see what they wrote visit, http://www.cultivate.com/articles/top-15-finds-2012-architectural-digest-show!

Artsobserver.com “is about all things aesthetic. Each daily brief and observation is original content written and photographed by Arts Observer.
Visual arts are documented here, as well as architecture, interior design and graphic design. There is also a nod to fashion and style.” They mentioned us not once but twice! To read the articles please visit, http://www.artsobserver.com/2012/03/26/distinctive-chandeliers-featured-at-architectural-digest-home-design-show/ and http://www.artsobserver.com/2012/03/24/architectural-digest-home-show-features-artisan-crafted-furniture-and-accessories/ .

Another place where you can read about Koo is on the New England Home Magazine’s Blog! “New England Home is the premier regional architecture and interior design magazine in the northeastern U.S. They cover all aspects of the New England residential design world for a knowledgeable and discriminating audience, from the hottest new talent to the most beautiful spaces to the fine art and accessories that provide a finishing touch.”  They covered us at Architectural Digest Home Show this past March. We are so honored to be mentioned in their blog. To read the article visit, http://blog.nehomemag.com/2012/04/editors-miscellany-new-england-in-new-york/ .

We are so exited to be mentioned by some of the web's best places for art and design information, and for that we thank them! 

To read more of our blogs go to the Buzz section ok Koodemonde.com! Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest! 

This week we look at whats happening over the other side of the pond, hosts of the 2012 olympic games, Royalty and Earl grey tea... LONDON. The never disappointing LAZARIDES Gallery, opens the “10,000 Years from Now” exhibition, showcasing works by artist Ian Francis.

There is one word that is left in everyones mind when seeing this exhibition: IMPRESSIVE. Ian Francis’s latest work at Lazarides, leaves the viewer contemplating a new world of confusion, adventure, perversion and beauty all mixed within a collection of multilayer mixmedia paintings that owns its roots to a current human world that breaths in an “online” society.  

To contemplate the extravagancy of details in Ian Francis paintings makes you feel a certain awareness. A concealed mystery wanting to be rediscovered. Its there to be found so take your time and enjoy because you will admire each painting for longer than you expect. Colour and shapes cautivates the artsist in a very particular way to create abstract scenarios. There is a sense of catastrophic charm in them but when mixing with beautifully detailed human forms, the artist reaches a next level of connection difficult to overlook.

"10,000 Years From Now" runs from the 27th of April until the 24th of May so it you find yourself in the London area Lazarides gallery has to be unmissable.

Triple Edwards is one of the most interesting artists we have seen in a while. He finds inspiration and even materials on the streets around him. "By re-imagining these “canvases” for artwork, I challenge the perception of need vs. want around the green topic of recyclability. It is a gift to see the beauty in the everyday, to realize the potential in the unwanted, and to be able to appreciate the imperfect", says Triple Edwards. 

"Words" was created in a time in his life when he "questioned the power of words and what it means for a person to give their word.  this piece was meant for either indoor or outdoor use and only gets better as it weathers."

"Think Tank" is a unique piece! It is an actual fish tank with unusual angled glass sides. The tank was found on the street and it was a muct have once Triple laid eyes on it. To his surprise it actually held water! This sparked many ideas and he decided to collect spheres of different shapes, sizes, colors and material. He used the angled glass planes in relation to sphere size until the piece started to become an abstract interpretation of my artistic thought processes.

Triple says, ", I discovered many subconscious literal and figurative interpretations for myself within this piece (i.e. the mind’s eye, a jewel of an idea, a bubbling up of thoughts, passion, blockage, fractured…etc).  I believe that any individual viewer will come up with their own interpretation because this piece is as unique as each viewer’s own thought processes." 

Paul Robinson makes painting of trees and landscapes and mixes them up with the decorative patterns of wallpaper. Stripes, bright blocks of colour, furnishing fabric motifs, exist in a naturalistic landscape or join together to make up that landscape. The complexity of Robinson's imagery and overlaying of pattern has been informed by the work of Robert Rauschenberg.

The artist's flat elegant shapes come from looking at Japanese wood block printing and Robinson acknowledges a long graphic tradition of describing the world by painting flatly.In the process of making his paintings Robinson paints over parts of the established image or they are wiped out or washed away to create a change in focus. Silk-screen printing and painting from projection make a dense detailed surface that breaks down and unpeels in front of our eyes to reveal a decaying world.

Based in London Graham Carrick produces eye popping complex art works that are striking and diverse. The subject matter and production styles create a completely fresh and unique vision. The results of this build to a body of work that is electric in both manufacture and appearance.

Mercurial and eclectic, the paintings of Graham Carrick can be intense in subject, light in spirit and always ultimately intriguing. Depicted in lavish colour, the works are bold and can be hard-hitting in content . Viewers of Graham Carrick's paintings are confronted by images that seem familiar but sometimes difficult to place, like a half remembered dream.There is a hint of the journey you are to be taken on but the destination is left for the viewer to decide. Their own experiences and interoperation complete the story.

These three unique artists add beautiful and thought provoking pieces to the Koo site, and for that we thank them!

To learn more about Triple Edwards, Paul Robinson, and Graham Carrick, visit their pages in the Designers/Atrists section!

Ms. Oliver prides her self on finding new and unique pieces that fit with her client’s personalities and lifestyle. She believes that the design process is all about collaborating with the clients and giving them just what they want. By doing business that way she has made countless friends.  One of those friends is our wonderful exhibitor Jia Moderne. Ms. Oliver was their very first client! She bought a 19th Century Official's Hat Chair to put in one of her clients homes.

Christina Oliver is the recipient of many awards. In the past few years alone she has won The ASID 
New England’s 2012 Design Excellence Award in February 2012, ASID New England Chapter’s Design Competition Award in September 2011, received the Boston Architectural College 2010 Alumni in Practice Award for Interior Design in March of 2011, and many more.

Ms. Oliver holds a special place in our heart because we here at Koo have the same out look on design as she does. We feel that it is the unique pieces that are integrated with a client’s overall style is what makes for amazing spaces. Our site holds many of these interesting and one of a kind pieces that can be integrated seamlessly into any home.

Christina Oliver is an inspiration to us as designers, and reminds us of just how lucky we are to have so many wonderful and interesting exhibitors, and for that we thank her.

If you would like to know more about Ms. Oliver’s work visit http://www.oliverinteriors.com. You can also read an article about her featured in this month’s New England Home Magazine Blog., http://blog.nehomemag.com/2012/04/designer-snapshot-pass-it-down/ .

Emily Sian Wilcox is a Photographer and Printmaker based in London. Originally from Belfast, in the North of Ireland, her work explores themes of landscape and memory, with particular reference to location.

In her collection at Koo, you will find mystical and magical portraits of trees. Ms. Wilcox is the recipient of an Arts Council Travel Grant to study the visual arts in Iceland, she spent two years working in the arts in the USA as studio production assistant for celebrity Photographer Michael O’Neill in New York City and one year at the well respected Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

Renata Fernandez was born in Caracas, Venezuela, of Spanish parents who emigrated to Venezuela in the 1960s. Fernandez always knew she would be a visual artist, but not having any other artist in the family, somehow made her take what she calls a long journey towards art.

Her collection includes a series of fun and colorful pastel drawings. They will add a unique pop of color to any wall! 

Song Tao was born in Shanghai in 1969. He studied Graphic Design and Drawing at the Central Academy of Art and Design, and later went to France and obtained an MFA from the Institute of Plastic Arts at University of Paris in 1993.

Song Tao's O-Gallery gathered leading domestic and international brands and set up a stage to exchange design ideas. His design work features wood and acrylic materials with an intention to rediscover the traditional Chinese culture and to show the life force of traditional plastic arts to the world.

All of the featured exhibitors in this weeks blog inspire in a variety of different ways, and for that we thank them!

If you loved what you have seen on the blog today to check out the rest of their work in the "Designers/Atrists" section. Be sure to stay updated with Koo on Facebook, Twitter, and even Pinterest! 

This beautiful pendant light would add class to any room! It's elegant yet modern shape paired with touches of gold leaf are the perfect combination of new and old. 

The JOYCE Candle Holders are made of cross sectioned wood with deep cracks filled with a super bright white filling.

PELLE is known for taking something average and adding a uniqe pop of color or texture. These candle holders are the perfect examples of a PELLE product! 

The TOD Candle Holders are decorative wood candle holder with 24k gold leafed grain pattern.

We are so proud to have such a talented couple on Koo de Monde. They take the average and make it extravagant, and for that we thank them! 

To learn more about Pelle go to our Designer/Atrists tab. Don't forget to "Like" us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (@koodemonde)! 

"One of the best thing that happened at the show was the friendships that we all created. The exhibitors were  helping each other out during the set up of the booth.  They formed freindships quickly. To help, they would talk about each other's pieces to the public...it was definitely something that doesn't happen frequently with artists and designers." - Georgia Cambiati, Head of Marketing

To anyone and everyone that helped with the booth or even just stopped by, we thank you!

Let us know if you saw our booth, #133, via Twitter or Facebook! 

International Artist and Designer Nick Davis produces bronze furniture and sculpture in his studio-foundry based in the UK.

Early in his career Nick worked in some of London's finest art foundries where he worked as both founder and sculpture technician with many leading Artists including Maggie Hambling, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Mark Quinn. Nick will be showing some of his works with us in our booth (#133) and will be back in NYC for the ICFF show in May. 

PELLE are Korean-American designer Jean Pelle and German designer Oliver Pelle who met and studied at the Yale School of Architecture.

From their studio in Red Hook Brooklyn they create lighting, furniture, interiors and architecture. Their inspiration comes from observing and re-imagining the possibilities of objects and spaces around them. Ultimately, their work is about a search for a unique beauty that is within the materials and forms they find in their process.

Simonne Duval works her magic with any interior she gets her hands on.

Her design sense and style were gained through working in the interiors field for over forty years. Classic Imports gets most of its products from Spain. No where can you get furnishings better than in Spain, where centuries of craftsmanship have created generations of furniture and lighting designers who base their quality on age old techniques to produce some of the best of what contemporary Europe has to offer.

Born 1969 in Milan, Italy.He worked as a project assistant from 1989 until 1994. Afterwards he began his architecture design thesis arrangement and graduated in architecture design at Politecnico di Milano in 1994. A year later he joined the army and served for one full year after which he became an architecture design consultant. He worked as a consultant and then he moved on to become an exhibition space design author.

Marco launched his own personal firm in the year 2000 and a few years later he created his own studio. Since then he continued as an interior design contract manager and continued to be a design author for products, such as, Fusillo, Gala, and While armchair. Marco is the recipient of the Red Dot Design Award for his wonderful works.

Born in Cuenca, Ecuador, Angel Naula has spent nearly his entire life designing and fabricating custom furniture, apprenticing in his family’s own workshop until the age of six and building his first piece of furniture when he was just 13. Upon immigrating to the United States, Angel carried on the integrity, mastery, and craftsmanship instilled by his father, his grandfather, and the generations of furniture makers before them.

In 2002, Angel opened Naula Workshop and has since collaborated with such acclaimed interior designers and architects as Robin Wilson, Jamie Drake, Kelly Behun, Philip Gorrivan, and Mark Zeff. He has completed high-profile residential projects for Robert Kennedy Jr., Lenny Kravitz, Hugh Jackman, Norah Jones, and Rupert Murdoch, as well as commerical projects for Mandarin Oriental NY, LaGuardia Airport, and various celebrated restaurants. His work has also been featured in such notable venues as Esquire SoHo, Pulse Contemporary Art, Maison de Luxe Beverly Hills, and the Hampton Designer Showhouse. 

Our exhibitors are an amazing group of artists and designers, we are so honored to know them and thank them for all of their hard work!
We sincerely hope to see you this weekend at the Architectural Digest Home Show. Remember to let us know if you'll be there via twitter or Facebook.

Laurie Goddard is one of the finest contemporary artists we know. Her work is colorful and lets your imagination play within the boarders of the canvas. She uses mixed media to create such stunning works. She works with acrylic, semi-precious leaf and encaustic on panel or paper.

Her work is shown world wide, and even included in a permanent collection in our own back yard at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Ma.

The three men at Cerno make design look easy. Their flawless execution of lamps, chairs and tables is breath taking. They have a modern style with a classic twist. Their pieces are very precise and clean cut yet most of the finishes they choose are very classic wood tones.

The word Cerno, is a Latin verb meaning: to resolve, distinguish, decide, sift, determine, to perceive. With every design, you can see that they have resolved every possible problem and come up with flawless designs.

Jia Moderne's mix of both contemporary and ancient Asain art is a unique find. The store hosts antique vessels used by people in the Han Dynasty, (206 B.C- 220 A.D.) next to contemporary paintings by artists who are working as you read this.

Jia Moderne's goal is to be simple, elegant, and authentic. They follow the principles of balance within Asian cultures, Jia Moderne serves as a resource to the design professional for hand selected ancient and handcrafted contemporary pieces for the residential and corporate spaces.

Green T. House is dedicated to preserving the ancient spirit of tea. Owner JinR continually travels the world in search of inspiration and returns always to her Beijing birthplace to blend her learnings with her old world aesthetics and continues to create such spaces as GREEN T. HOUSE Living and her award winning Bath House Residence, along with her line of inspired designer home wares, high-end furniture pieces and original musical recordings.

Her dream is to share with the world her contemporary tea spirit and its underlying unity and serenity.

One of her pieces was recently shown in Elle Decore Magazine on page 98!

Our exhibitors are an amazing group of artists and designers, we are so honored to know them and thank them for all of their hard work! 

We sincerely hope to see you at the Architectural Digest Home Show. Remember to let us know if you'll be there via twitter or Facebook.