Time to drool over House Industries again...

Every time an email shows up in my inbox from House Industries, I can expect I am going to be wanting most of what is contained. This week's email is no exception, they are featuring their new Holiday Objects and of course, I want way too many things. (Hint hint, Christmas is coming up - I am making it easy for you, buy me pretty much ANYTHING from House and I will be happy.)

Check out all of House's wares on their website and if you are in NYC today, you'd be stupid not to hit up their one day Pop-Up Shop at the Type Directors Club to touch and feel both old and new Housewares in person:

House Industries Pop-Up Shop
November 19th from 11:30am-6pm
Type Directors Club
347 West 36 Street, Suite 603
New York, New York
212-633-8943

Our pals Allison and Craig from Strawberryluna, got me the Ampersand Cutting Board for my birthday last month and it rules my face!! I have it on display in our kitchen and it makes me happy every single morning. (thanks again guys)

More Alexander Girard Goodies

On more than one occasion, I have posted goodies from one of my all time favorites, Alexander Girard. Here are a few more, all from House Industries.

::Is it wrong I want to have a child just so I can feel justified in buying these, or worse, should I just be that person that buys these for the kid I might wanna have maybe someday::

Puzzle

Based on a Girard carpet design found in the project archive of Saarinen’s Miller House in Columbus, Indiana. The design was never used in the landmark home, but we couldn’t let this folksy menagerie sit in the archive without letting it see the light of day. Made in the USA from replenishable basswood and printed with child-safe non-toxic inks.

Memory Game

Girard’s folk aesthetic abounds in this cornucopia of illustrative delights. He originally created these images for his environmental enrichment panels that he designed to spice up Herman Miller’s Action Office plan. Each game comes with 72 pieces and a limited-edition wooden box. Made in the USA out of replenishable basswood and printed with child-safe non-toxic inks.



Marilyn Neuhart Dolls

Alexander Girard was so smitten with Marilyn Neuhart’s dolls that he asked her to make 100 for the 1961 opening of his Textile & Objects store. Since they were the catalyst for his creative partnership with the Neuharts, we asked Marilyn to create four new designs. Made in the USA with Mexican cotton from the same family-owned mill that she used for her originals.

New House Textiles and an Ampersand Cutting Board

If anyone is at a loss for what to get me this Christmas, these are all VERY great options :)
How great is all this stuff?

Oh, and the over sized Ampersands - STILL the shit!! But even cooler.... an Ampersand cutting board. Holy crap this will put our kitchen over the edge!! I need one of these, badly!!

Who doesn't need a 6ft ampersand?

Ok nerds, time to geek out....photos from the opening reception of House Industries Letters & Ligatures Show at Subliminal Gallery in LA. What is it about HUGE type (especially ampersands) that just makes me so excited and happy? See more photos here.







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Photos via Hous courtesy of Coach Camera Supply, Huntington Beach, CA.

House Industries: Letters & Ligatures Show

For those of you in Los Angeles, Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Gallery is hosting an exhibition of House Industries work, one of my all time personal favorites.

From Subliminal Gallery’s website:

For Letters and Ligatures, House Industries conveys a single, yet complex philosophy: visual nomenclature fuels language, facilitates communication, and forms the basis of a civilized society. The written language strings together letters, words, and sentences, conveying the innermost thoughts and ideas that human beings communicate to the outside world. It is tied to our primitive nature, governing our individual choices and observations, our collective socio-anthropologic history. At House Industries, the dedicated collective of artists figure if these symbols of syntax hold such an authority, “they might as well look good.”

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, November 8
8 p.m. – 11 p.m.

EXHIBITION DATES
November 8th - December 5th

SUBLIMINAL GALLERY
1331 W. Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
P. 213.213.0078

For more details visit the Subliminal Projects Gallery website.

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Ampersand Mania

Some awesome new Ampersand swag courtesy of one of my absolute favorite companies, House Industries. The Cast Iron Ampersands are available in solid iron and aluminum, and each sculpture is individually sand cast, hand selected by a qualified House Industries staff member and assigned a unique number. These would make rad bookends, paperweights, or a stylish weapon.

If they are out of your price range, you can still experience a healthy karmic resonance of a carefully-drawn Studio Lettering glyph as it radiates warmth through your entire creative psyche. Ampersand tees for men, women and the kids or of course the obligatory mouse pad.

Go to House Industries online store here

Alexander Girard Alphabet Blocks

So I have been obsessed and wanting these since I got the email from House Industries a few months ago. I was trying to think of the perfect kid to buy these for this Christmas, then I realized I knew one, ME!!! I need these ASAP!