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Midsummer Night’s Wedding: The Dress, Part I
As Summer winds down giving way to a warm golden Autumn light, it’s fun and comforting to relive the experiences of the past months through photos and other souvenirs. This Summer has been particularly exciting for us, as Jacopo and … Continue reading
Midsummer Night’s Wedding – The Invitation
Today we start a series of posts dedicated to the various aspects of what it takes to create and organize a BiniChic wedding. Jacopo and I will be getting married this summer in Tuscany (where he’s from), and thought you … Continue reading
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Bringing Nature Inside – Part II
Authentically BiniChic, Susan Unger’s home and fashion creations have embellished many homes and dressed countless women around the world. A few months ago, we shared with you the beginnings of her career on the island of Menorca (if you’d like … Continue reading
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Tagged artisan, design, fashion, history, home, inspiration, Mediterranean, Menorca, New York, Susan Unger, textile
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Weaving Waves
Their timeless design, the fresh Mediterranean colors, the quality of the materials and the centuries of tradition make the roba de llengües fabric very captivating. An ancient Mallorcan craft, very few still produce this Mediterranean version of the ikat. Traditional … Continue reading
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When Art Dances with Music
BiniChic recently went on an stimulating trip to the past, where we revisited the ground-breaking costumes, backgrounds and art made for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. It was a fortuitous coincidence that we had been recently working on a new edition … Continue reading
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Tagged art, ballet, design, fashion, history, inspiration, product, textile
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Of Light and Shadows
Plunging her hands into the cold water, holding a mold and deckle, patiently sifting the fiber onto the screen, a pure sheet of cotton paper is born. The ancient tradition of paper-making is a disappearing art, yet Núria Gavin carefully … Continue reading
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Poetic Art
Marcel Villier is a poet from the Japanese school, who instead of writing haikus makes watercolors. An adopted Minorcan — he likes to say he discovered it the same way Columbus discovered the Americas: by chance — Marcel has been … Continue reading
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Tagged art, history, inspiration, landscape, Menorca, sculpture, wabi sabi, watercolor
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Primary Color
Red is the color of primal energy. It is the color of passion, love, beauty and of strength, motivation and physical drive. Red warns us, catches our attention, raises the blood pressure and quickens the heartbeat. Texts from antiquity tell … Continue reading
Shades of Blue
Color is the way we express and feel. It is a designer’s vehicle for creating mood and emotion. It is one of the most important items in our tool box. Curiosity got the best of us, and we wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged design, fashion, history, home, inspiration, product, Susan Unger, textile
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