Now when we know that less in one month we will leave Armenia we want to explore the country as much as we can. Last weekend was a long one, and initially we were planning to to go to the countryside, but since the weather gave as a really nasty surprise, we had to stay…
Beginning of the year is usually the time when everyone is talking about future trends. Though I already made my predictions for 2014, I want to talk in deeper details about one design move, which I personally love very much: animal accents. They were used in interior decorating for many centuries but in the last…
First of all, why do we need art at home? In a nutshell, it doesn’t have any practical purpose which has furniture, lighting or curtains. One of the reasons is that art has a very powerful emotional impact on us as it concentrates thoughts, aspirations, feelings and fears of a person who created it. In…
It’s been months since I last posted in my history of styles column and I really hope you will enjoy today’s time travel to the beautiful and luxurious era of Baroque. As many other cultural movements it appeared first in Italy and then started to spread throughout Europe acquiring in each country its distinctive features….
Today I invite you to join me for the second journey to the wonderful world of pottery-making. I am so excited to announce that I have a new arrival to my boutique – several amazing handmade ceramic art vessels, and in this post, I will reveal some secrets about how they were made. Let’s have…
Displaying art is an art itself. Doesn’t matter what it is – an art vessel, painting or beautiful photography the main task of a designer is to draw attention to it and present it in the most favourable light. In this article I will mainly focus on photography as creating beautiful vignettes and displaying art…
After seven months of weaving, eight months of waiting our carpet, which my husband and I ordered for our living room, finally arrived! Made of finest Merino yarn, this carpet has remarkable density of 60 to 60 knots per 10 square centimetres. This can be achieved only by using very thin and high quality woollen…
One of the things I am lately obsessed with is faux taxidermy. No wonder, as animal trend is at its peak of popularity now and there are so many beautiful and attractive home decor objects on the market, which depict animals (sometimes in very extraordinary and quirky way). What I like most is that these…
When buying handmade items I always wonder how they were made, want to see the person who created them and find out all the secrets and tricks of the process. As you might know in my boutique I sell only handcrafted home decor objects. One of my most favorite pieces is the ceramic lantern “Stars and Moon” and today…
All ancient arts and crafts evoke very complex feelings inside me: it is a mixture of delight, admiration and tremulous veneration. Batik is one of them, as this technique of dying fabric appeared several thousands years ago. Not only this fact, but also its natural beauty, high artistic value and alluring imperfection of lines always…
Visiting several days ago Museum of Contemporary Art in Yerevan I was fascinated by original sculptures of famous Armenian ceramicist Nina Khemchyan, who has been living and working in Paris since 1993. All her sculpts are made in simple spherical form: the shape of the Earth and all other planets. Perhaps this might be the…
Why do we fear things we don’t understand? Is it the self-preservation, desire to stay in our comfort zone or simple ignorance? Whatever it is but the fear of everything unexplainable, unusual and undefined accompanied mankind through its history. Today modern medicine seems to have read the riddle of albinism: it is just a little generic deviation. Nevertheless,…