The Steampunk Home

I believe that Steampunk is more than just brass and watchparts. It's finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetic pleasing yet still punkish way. It's living a life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future. It's taking the detritus of our modern technological society and remaking it into useful things. Join me as I search for items for my house that combine the scientific romanticism of the Victorians with our real present and imagined future.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Thieving Magpie -- Cabinets from Found Objects

Corvine's Calling

Roger Wood of Klockwerks sent out links to his favorite artists. I was taken by these cabinets by Richard Dunbrack of The Thieving Magpie. Each piece's description includes the original parts "provenance", i.e. "early eel spear" "Victorian house fragments" or "iron gate fragments"

The Midnight Pantry

They remind me of something you'd find in the Weasley's house in Harry Potter -- mundane artifacts turned into something fantastic.

2 comments:

UnknownMarch 2, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Very goot Post ... Great creativity
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Antique TelephonesNovember 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM
As you say verey Harry Potter, I like them :-)
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