The wild coast of Bohemia

Totally fired up tonight by an exhibition on Biedermeier - we rushed when we realised it's due to finish today. It was a thoroughly nice experience and we were given free posters by a very friendly man at the door as they had some left over. Nice.

Anyway, I came away with lots of thoughts about bags I want to do next year. Nowadays it seems that a new bag shape (pattern, samples, fabrics etc etc) takes at least six months to develop - so it's not too early to be thinking about next summer. I do love doing this work - fabric has always been one of my very favourite things and I always miss it when I am doing pure "flat" graphics - texture is important to me.

For now, here are some very typical Biedermeier chairs. I love the way they used wood, though I'm less certain about how these would actually be to sit on. Also a bag that I wouldn't actually have thought of as Biedermeier, though it is from that period. Absolutely gorgeous though, however you describe the style.

This photo is by Alex. Modelled by Aida, hair and make-up by Eva (whose surname I need to find and post - eek) Eva is now about to begin work for Mac in Prague, so if you get a chance to go to the Mac shop ask her to do a make-over for you, she's fantastic and LOADS of fun - and speaks perfect English as she lived in England for years.


Aida looks beautiful in these photos - I hope the bags do too!
This photo is by Alex. Soon I'll post the images by the photographer we've been working with - Simon Chang.

Okay, okay, so here at last (we listen but everything takes so long) is a simple, rugged little eco tote to use instead of a plastic bag. It is $11.50 which is possibly crazy considering it's got an astonishingly detailed print on it. Then again, I have to encourage people to save the planet (oh and to be honest it's only a very ordinary little tote - though quite nice quality - but the print makes it a bit special).

I think this can be guaranteed to turn heads when you go shopping - it certainly made our greengrocer smile! By the way, it's the image only, it does not have the card title on it. I thought that might be less specific somehow. But the image is beautiful - Alex does all of these as though he was doing a fine art print.

We only have a very few - in this print, Strength and The World. I will print more asap (maybe next week) and also list the other images. This is SUCH fun!


On Etsy here (and at baba-store as soon as I can manage) http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6998349






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