Do you like your karakusa hot?
Or cool blue and white?
Your darumas bright?
Or modeled by the chef dressed in white?
Artist Lisa George of PaperGlueBamboo is having a sale this week of her new Spring 2012 line. For an extensive post about her modern take on the ancient craft of ikkanbari, take a look at Artist Spotlight…Lisa George and the Modern Art of Ikkanbari at PaperGlueBamboo. Her Tsukiji market shopping baskets would be great for toting stuff to the beach or having a summer picnic. Drop me a note at jacquelinewein[at]yahoo.com if you are interested in an invitation.
All this talk of baskets and ikkanbari has caused me to have an epiphany about a possible solution to the ceiling fan light at the beach house that I mentioned just the other day. Ceiling fans can be a necessary eyesore and I had been scouting ideas on improving them, finding posts over at Young House Love and Thrifty Decor Chick where they added a lampshade to give a fan light more style.
Those photos clicked in my memory with this photo from Kawagoe shrine sale last year in which a dealer had hung a basket upside down for eye level display. Even at the time it reminded me of a lampshade, but I didn’t put it all together.
Here’s another similar Japanese open-work basket, narrower and deeper than the one above, shown upside down to mimic a lampshade. It might just make a perfect lampshade for the ceiling fan, adding a bit of softening to the bright light and accessorizing the room. The basket has a great beachy feel too!
And if the open-work of the basket doesn’t camouflage the light bulbs well enough, we could always wrap it with a bit of washi paper ikkanbari style like this one…
George, are you listening?
Related Posts:
Artist Spotlight…Lisa George and the Modern Art of Ikkanbari at PaperGlueBamboo
Sweating the Details…A Round-Up of Brass Library Wall Sconces
Image credits: 1-4. Lisa George, 5. via Young House Love, 6-7. me, 8. via Lamps Plus
are we covering that delectable piece featured above your doorstep…..or should I say Please may I? looks delicious! what a find!
Oh lord, I love those open baskets! Find me one of those, and I think I’d be willing to give up my sconces.
How are you Jacqueline?
I am great Camille – crazy busy with the end of the school year, sayonara parties and trying to plan things at home in the US for summer. What about you?
Do you love the PaperGlue Bamboo baskets, or just the vintage Japanese bamboo ones? What do you want your to hold? Magazines on the floor? Or one that is more vertical like the one in the photo? Let me know – as you saw in that recent post, the whole sconce decision is still on the table!!!
I’m actually picturing one empty in my fireplace. Like the two open and vintage ones you showed. So pretty!
Hope things ease up for you a bit and can’t wait to see more pictures of the beach house!
Good work, it’s really very appreciating, specially the basket which is attached with the ceiling fan. It’s give a beautiful look to the fan.