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Foodie Friday: BurgerFi

I don’t really cover food. I mean, on how many categories can a person stay current? I do however happily report on restaurant design. In addition, I get a lot of invites to restaurant openings in Boston, some of which I accept, and it’d be nice to have a place to feature them. And let’s face it, if you follow my Instagram feed, you know I snap food and drink pics when I go out. So, here we go. Since I’m in Delray Beach this week, I’ll start with BurgerFi.

I hadn’t heard of the BurgerFi chain before visiting here a year ago, but now I’m hooked. (As are my kids, because we let them get soda from the very cool machines; normally soda is strictly a twice a year treat.) I don’t know what the other BurgerFis are like, but this one is cool. Sure, that it’s across the street from the beach and within walking distance of our condo doesn’t hurt. But the design of the space is excellent. (The all natural Angus burgers are good, though they won’t do rare, and they skimp on the bleu cheese. The buns are perfectly toasted and buttered, but they’ll wrap your meat in lettuce if you prefer; the hot dogs are delicious; the onion rings are yummy; you can get vinegar on the fries. And the custard. OMG. Plus, they sell craft beer & wine.) But enough with the food. Here are the interiors.

Get the Look: 22 Pieces of (Really Great) 3D-Printed Jewelry

I’ve been working on a number of stories about or relating in some way to jewelry, and pieces created with 3D printing technology is a repeated theme. Probably the most well-known, certainly in Boston, is Nervous System. (You can peek into their office here). Another I really like (especially their “diamond” rings), is a new line out of Italy, MYBF, which I discovered when I wrote about the design shop Maison 203 (look inside here).

There are many more out there. And there seems to be some tension in the design world between metalworkers who have honed their skills for many years, and those who pop out jewelry using the new #D printing technology. Recently, an established Boston jewelry maker said to me, “3D jewelry can work as a thing, but it can be a terrible failure. Some people thinks it makes them a designer. I rarely see work that sees as nice as handmade.”

In some respects, as in any industry, its true. I’ve see plenty of (sorry to say) ugly, clown-like creations. However, there are many that are well-designed. True, they’re not handmade. But they also don’t have the handmade price. There’s room for both, I think. Here are 22 pieces that work.

S H O P P I N G

1 Bamboo Pendant Necklace by Meshu (3D printed bamboo), $68 at Meshu.

2 Soliton Pendant by Bathsheba (3D printed metal with gold plated matte finish), $34.14 at Shapeways.

3 Vessel Pendant by Nervous System (3D printed nylon with UV protective coating hung from sterling silver chain), $40 at Room 68.

4 Spinal Cuff by Fathom and Form (3D printed stainless steel), $270 at Shapeways.

5 Cat Skull Ring by The Rogue And The Wolf (3D printed in stainless steel, bronze infused, gold plated), $60 at TheRogueAndTheWolf, Etsy.

6 Convolution Steel Bangle by Nervous System (3D printed stainless steel, infused with bronze), $400 at Nervous System.

7 Shift Rings by Silva/Bradshaw (3D printed nylon), $27 each at Silva/Bradshaw.

8 Gold Shark Fin Ring (3D printed in stainless steel, bronze infused, gold plated), $55 at TheRogueAndTheWolf, Etsy.

9 Geo Raw Faceted Ring by Timothy James (3D printed and cast in gold-plated stainless steel), $95 at Butterscotch of Brooklyn, Etsy.

10 Spiky ring by 3DPrintImagination (3D printed stainless steel with gold plate), $53 at 3DPrintImagination, Etsy.

11 MYBF Modern Geometric Necklace by Orlando Fernandez Flores for Maison 203 (3D printed nylon) 98€, at Maison 203.

12 Stratigraphia Collection Peaque Necklace by Hot Pop Factory (3D-printed polymer pendant on bronze-plated stainless steel chain), $59 at Hot Pop Factory.

13 DNA Teardrop Pendant by GADesign (3D printed metal with gold plated matte finish), $84.80 at Shapeways.

14 Constructionist Bracelet by MCode (3D printed metal with gold plated matte finish), $152.67 at Shapeways.

15 MegaBlingBling 2009 in silver, gold plated or stainless steel by Mendel Heit, from $77 at Shapeways.

16 Prosoma Necklace by Kimberly Ovitz (3D printed stainless steel), $495 at Shapeways.

17 Jointed Jewels Cut Beauty Necklace by Alissia Melka-Teichroew for byAMT Studio (3D printed nylon) at ByAMT.

18 3-Stocks-Bracelet by Paul Baut (3D printed metal in coral red polished finish), $12.18 at Shapeways.

19 MYBF Diamond Emerald Ring by Orlando Fernandez Flores for Maison 203 (3D printed nylon), 25€ at Maison 203.

20 Sterling Silver Circle Ring by Melanie Lynn Design (printed into wax with a 3D printer; waxes then cast and finished), special order at Melanielynndesign, Etsy.

21 Metal Logo Cufflinks by Shapeways (3D printed in glossy silver), $154.90 at Shapeways.

22 Sparkling Colier2 by Dario Scapitta Design (3D printed in black nylon), $63.36 at Shapeways.

Fine Print: Irving Harper Works in Paper

Irving Harper: Works in Paper (Skira Rizzoli, $45) is a monograph that showcases the designer’s never exhibited fantastical paper sculptures. Harper, who is 95-years-old, worked in George Nelson’s studio for 17 years in the 1950s and 1960s. It was he who designed the Marshmallow sofa and the Ball clock, as well as the Herman Miller logo. He began constructing his uniquties in his Westchester County home back in 1963, “to relieve stress.” He stopped about 10 years ago, because he ran out of space to display them; ore than three hundred works fill his house and barn.

The pieces, which include people, animals, and abstracts, are made “mostly out of paperboard, but also balsa wood, beads, straws, toothpicks, pinecones, telephone wire, twigs, dolls’ limbs and glass eyeballs, Mylar sheets, Styrofoam lumps, and pieces of the ceramic clocks.

Construction paper, ping pong balls, on wood base

Painted construction paper, found wooden spindles, on wood base

Construction paper

Painted corrugated cardboard, painted ping pong balls, twigs

Paperboard

Construction paper, mat board, hat pins, glass doll eyes

Paperboard, toothpicks, clock parts, pearls, plastic eyes

ARTmonday: Anastasia Cazabon

I don’t remember where I first saw a photo by Anastasia Cazabon. I would say Pinterest, but she’s actually local; she lives in Cambridge and attended Massachusetts College of Art and New England School of Photography, so maybe I found her some other way. In any case, I’ve posted 20 of her works here; a mix of recent photographs and images from years past. As you can see, if you follow my ARTmonday posts, they’re just the sort of subject matter I love—girls, kinda blurry, cropped figures, slightly odd, a bit of a story.

According to Guildless Milwaukee, who also featured her work, Anastasia Cazabon is the youngest of three sisters. (Now the images start to make sense!) When she was just five, her two sisters went off to college, and Cazabon began making up a world of imaginary friends and adventures. She says, “My images are recreations of my childhood fantasies. Some are exaggerated and some are completely made up, but all are based on the feelings I had as a child. These are private moments in a young girls life, memories that usually fade over time.” Her most recent work explores the relationships between adolescent females, like rivalry, competition, loyalty, and love. She hopes the viewer is able to relate to the images and create their own narratives.

Sunday Bouquet: Green Stems in Mid-Century Pottery

KML Design
Katrine Martensen-Larsen

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