Pampshade

Yukiko Morita – Pampshade
a handmade product made from real bread.

Yukiko Morita is an artist from Japan and she states on her website: “I love bread, Bread are cute, I’d like to take a long look at it… Bread is always inspiring me.

Pampshade poster

Pampshade -croissant
Pampshade -croissant

These unique lamps made from tasty bread will light you warmly. Pampshade is durable, because of special treatment and resin coating.

Check her website and her global online shop.

Mermaid Toast

Adeline Waugh – “Mermaid” and “Unicorn” toast

Going by names such as “Mermaid” and “Unicorn” toast, these colorful treats are just as healthy for you as they’re beautiful. Made by food blogger Adeline Waugh, the vivid colors of pink, purple, and blue are created from good-for-you ingredients like beet juice, turmeric, spirulina, and blueberry powder.

mermaid toast
Mermaid toast
unicorn toast
Unicorn toast

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I’m obsessed with bread

Isabelle Frances McGuire – There is always someone working harder than you. I am that someone
Dead dough, shrink plastic, June bug. 2017.

McGuire prints “There will always be someone working harder than you” in small text, jammed into a frame made out of thin loaves of bread. The message seems to allude to capitalist culture’s relentless demand to always work harder, but at the bottom of the frame is a line written in the same font, “I am that someone,” an indication that McGuire’s frustrations are directed as much inward as at the culture in general.

Isabelle Frances McGuire, There Is Always Someone Working Harder Than You. I Am That Someone, 2017

“I’m obsessed with bread, but the part of bread that I’m obsessed with is the science behind it: how yeast and bacteria can assist our lives,” McGuire says. “I use bread and yeast and sugar on the glass so that it will transform the piece into something else.”

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Grocery List Sketched by Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti – Grocery List
March 18, 1518

Owned by the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence, Italy, this 500-year-old list was written and illustrated by the sculptor/painter/poet/personality on the back of a letter. Michelangelo’s servant was likely illiterate, so Michelangelo sketched out what he wanted to eat.

In March 1518, Michelangelo feasted on fish and bread

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Memories of our ancestors

Christos Foukara

These three bodies of works are testimony to Foukaras’ conscious effort to keep the traditional image of Cyprus and the people who lived in past times vibrant in our memory.

Memories of our ancestors

Foukaras, from Kissonerga, studied art at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow (1970–1976). After his studies he moved to Athens where he worked and exhibited a series of works inspired by the events of 1974. From 1979 until 2004, he worked as an art teacher in secondary schools.

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My wife the Queen

Prince Philip – The Queen at Breakfast
Windsor Castle – 1965

The Duke of Edinburgh is known for his appreciation of fine art, but less well known is his own talent for applying oils to canvas.

The Queen is shown at her breakfast table reading (one hopes) The Daily Mail  The Queen is shown at her breakfast table

The table is covered with a crisp white tablecloth, the plates, cups and saucers are white china, and there is a whole loaf of fresh bread with a jar of what appears to be marmalade, the spoon standing poised for use inside.

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