Electric Objects’ Pop-Up Shop, SoHo

Getting hands-on with a frame that opens a window into digital art

Anyone who strolls galleries each Thursday or participates in the art fair circuit, is well aware of digital art’s expanding presence. As for how many people actually envision digital pieces in their home, that’s a different story. When one sees GIF art on an LCD screen or a looping experimental film, presentation becomes a fundamental question: are you buying the work within, or the work …

Fundamental Berlin’s Not-So-Ordinary Frames

Playing with shapes and patterned grids to bring glamour to even small passport photos

“The inspiration was fishnet tights!” Steve Molloy, co-founder of The Fundamental Group, tells CH about the brand’s unique grid frames. “It was about how sometimes a thing becomes more interesting when it has been slightly obscured. Sort of like a real-life Instagram filter. It’s that simple really.” The Berlin-based architecture studio translates their design skills and passion for mathematics on a much smaller scale with …

Holiday Gift Guide 2015: Pins and Patches

From art to sports to films and in-between, all your denim jacket decorating needs are covered

While during the ’70s and ’80s it wasn’t strange to see somebody repping their favorite band on their lapel or sporting bright yellow smiley faces patches on their knees, the fad dwindled. But over the past few years enamel pins and embroidered patches have come back into favor in a big way. From emoji to celebrity faces and song lyrics, tropical dreams and sad vibes …