Spillows

Soft Spills! Our newest creations, combining our love of soft sculpture, fake food, the 60's, the 70's, Monster Vitamins, Freakies, and our son, with a little hat tip to the stripes of Ettore Sottsass and the scale of Claes Oldenburg. We've been wanting to make something like this for a while, ever since the Golden Drip from our book, where the spill was used more as furnishing. But going forward, we thought this is more of what we really love- object design. And when you put a face on it, work becomes much more fun. 

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Al Jaffee's Architectural Triumph

From Mad magazine, January 1974. As with Al Jaffee's "If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys", this is one of his genius spreads that I saw in my formative years and always think about when some new project comes along. It was reprinted in a Mad Special in 1980, but other than that I don't think it's anywhere, and it's too awesome not to share.

related: 

http://warymeyers.blogspot.com/2010/12/wary-meyers-plastic-crumpled-paper-ball.html

http://warymeyers.blogspot.com/2010/12/pen-ink.html

http://warymeyers.blogspot.com/2011/02/wary-meyers-installations.html

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B

A small scale prototype floor design (of the letter "B") for a restaurant interior, 2002.
The miniature version was made to see that it would look good in the large scale. It did, but unfortunately there was a flood a week after we finished and it had to all be pulled up and replaced with carpeting. However the little version got some walls and a mantle and lived on as a room for Linda's doll.

Below, the design in the restaurant's hall, before polyurethaning (when the wood became richer looking, like above)

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wary meyers plastic crumpled paper ball

Another of our installation projects for the old Baxter Library building/ Via Ad agency. This is our giant crumpled, ripped-from-a-spiral-notebook style polymer "paper" ball. (It's hard, formed plastic, not paper).

Seen here being blowtorched into shape with our fabricators Jeff and Bill. 

Currently suspended above the conference table at the ad agency, representing the creative process.

Smaller crumpled balls are in the works......

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Pen & Ink

Our fiberglass and steel sculpture for the entrance of the old Baxter Library building in Portland, Maine. Part of a series of writing/books/pen/ink-themed installations we've designed and made for the building, newly occupied by the Via Ad Agency.
 more photos soon!

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Wary Meyers Painting Pillows

Off the wall and onto the sofa! Our latest project is a collection of hand-painted (by me) and sewn (by Linda) down-and-feather-filled painting pillows. The first collection is all Abstract Expressionist, inspired by the works of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Approximately 18" square, the acrylic paint is thick in parts (like the actual paintings) and nicely pliable. $145 each.

Click here for the entire gallery and order information.

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just initial your OK

perfect.

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Knitted Landscapes

Two fantastic projects- the picture sweater and landscape rug- from the 1978 British book

The Needleworker's Constant Companion.

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Giant (airquote) shrimp (/airquote)

Claes Oldenburg in his studio, 1965.

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Welcome to the Dollhouse

Sunday Linda and I went to a yard sale which was pretty much a small collection of things we didn't have much interest in. However, plunked in the middle of the driveway was a ramshackle wood paneling dollhouse that at least looked older than everything else. Upon closer inspection it turned out to be a groovy little oddity completely out of place and literally out of time. The woman told us her father made it for her back in the 70's, and now her own kids are grown and nobody wants it.  She said her daughter was going to use it in her police work to recreate crime scenes, but then changed her mind. We also passed on it, although we did appreciate the use of surplus materials, the Deborah Bowness-esque taped-on-the-wall furnishings, the inside-out paneling, and the upstairs-downstairs country kitsch theme. But its main appeal was its madcap curtains soul.

I felt a kindred spirit in the father, as I made pretty much the same

 thing (although just a studio apt.) for Linda a few years ago:

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