Collections

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Whatever you collect, what good is it stashed in a drawer or hidden away in a box? If you want to know how to display collections, we've got 15 ideas.

According to Martha Stewart Living alums Fritz Karch and Rebecca Robertson, collectors can be neatly divided into 15 personalities. In their new book, they

Green bottles and containers Oil, Alcohol and Drugs I ran across these intriguing photos on The Etsy Blog yesterday. They're the work of Barry Rosenthal, a photographer out of New York, who creates collage photographs of found items. From his website: The Found in Nature series is created using plastic objects, garbage, plastic waste and detritus found on beaches polluting our water and land. You probably know by now, I'm always game for plucking interesting items from around the high tide…

Emily Blincoe, a photographer from Austin, Texas, creates beautiful, colorful and soothing photos of everyday objects by arranging them into neat and orderly collections based on size, shape and color. The simple and beautiful patterns in her images are profoundly calming!

I had such a great opportunity today. idotasia let me have access to the "beetle collection" in the Karlsruhe museum of natural history Camera Sony DSLR-A900 Exposure 0.005 sec (1/200) Aperture f/13.0 Focal Length 50 mm ISO Speed 200 www.smnk.de/

Things I collect over the summer: driftwood, seashells, sea glass, heart-shaped rocks, Eastern Shore

The collecting of anonymous objects — and the subsequent use of those objects in creating a perfectly styled interior — has become such a staple of modern life that it’s hard to remember a time when not everyone loaded up their vans twice a year at places like Brimfield. But Franco Clivio, a former industrial designer and a lecturer at Zurich’s Schule für Gestaltung, has been amassing such objects for more than four decades. His collection — which numbers into the thousands — is on view…

They look so pretty sitting in their jars, *plus* it makes it easier to find what you need: you won't have to sift through a gargantuan pile wondering, "Now is this navy, or black?"

We are back from the summer break and this is already the fourth edition with dear fellow bloggers based in Germany and Sweden this time. I really love it when the images are popping in, every email is a true joy! For all of you who are reading this series for the first time, it […]