Olivo Barbieri is an Italian photographer, best known for his work with tilt-shift photography. These are photographs of real landscapes, not models. amazing.

You all remember the lovely stuff from L’Affiche Moderne, I’m sure, from the other day’s post… well, from now til the 30th they have a 25% off EVERYTHING sale, so if you were at all intrigued by any of the art, now is an ideal time to order

Artist Jenn Ski has some retro-modern artwork for sale (etsy store is here). She also has a pretty rad blog that includes some equally rad etsy finds such as retro kitchen cannisters.

I also discovered Tupp-a-lamps and ted lights via her blog (check it out here). Great artists have great taste, let it be known.

Mélanie kindly sent along some information about the new French e-shop L’Affiche Moderne. They’ve recently opened up the English version of their website, thereby opening my heart to the lovely selection of limited edition art prints they have to offer.

Some of my favorite pieces are by Mathilde Aubier (visit her website here) and you can see these below.

Other artists include, but are certainly not limited to Franck Juery, Marc Loyon, and Julien Pacaud.

Shaz Madani has created these beautiful portfolio pieces for Arctic Paper. Unfortunately, they’re not something you can buy and put on your wall, -sob- so we’ll have to go the next best thing and ogle them here. Lets just hope our drool doesn’t short out the laptop (again).

I picked this book up at page one, a bookstore/publishing company not unlike Taschen (except maybe better) in Singapore’s VivoCity last month. You can see a couple more pages on my flickr account here.

I’m enamored with Elsa Mora’s paper sculptures and cut-outs. The idea that a piece of art can be made by carefully taking away from the canvas instead of adding to it, drawing on it, or painting on it is captivating to me… the art of meticulous deduction, I guess. Very inspiring stuff.

Elsa’a etsy - etsy/elsita
and her website - typepad/elsita
and her flickr - flickr/planetelsita

1. artist unknown, 2. Spirograph Fabric, 3. Spirograph 02, 4. spirograph1, 5. spirograph sketch 2

How about a really BIG pop-up book? This is a spread from Space Book, designed by Jin-Hui Kim. I like everything about this concept, the possibilities for photo shoots, film sets, and playhouses are endless. (via yankodesign, more pictures over there if you fancy a gander)

Candy-colored and folklore-inspired, these screenprints by Sanna Annukka are charming and cheerful. Love.

Photo credits: 1. brain, 2. I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky and the blood coursing through the moon, 3. The Family Physician 1950’s, 4. the body in action, 5. Anatomy for Interior Designers

Kristina Collantes: art is in her blood. From her “Human Hands” collection, two selections below.

I wrote about Alena several months ago (view that post here) so I was pleased to see her new work at urbanoutfitters.com. The triptych of prints is available for $40 for a limited time only.

Also found out today that you can order fabric swatches for furniture online free-of-charge from Urban Outfitters or its sister site and company, Anthropologie. Pretty cool. I love getting packages in the mail, especially when they’re free.

Vanity Fair featured the Palazzo Chupi in the March 2008 edition. The Palazzo Chupi is the Pompeii-red building Julian Schnabel (artist, director, designer) perched on top of a 20th-century factory in Greenwich Village. And Schnabel, of course, is the Renaissance man responsible for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Photos by Robert Polidori, courtesy of Vanity Fair. See more here or here or here (if you can afford it, it is currently on the market…)

Photo key. 1. Momoko’s woes 4, 2. time for toast, 3. british textiles stamp - andrew foster, 4. my so-called scarf, 5. Where’s my spoon?, 6. p_100212774, 7. Untitled, 8. Mara

Windowdressing by Stockholm based prop stylist Sofia Ronthén. Her vignettes remind me of little dollhouses. See the entire set here.