Photo by Matthew Sandager

John Derian has a rare talent for taking bits and pieces of vintage imagery and reimagining it as an enchanting object. His decoupage plates, platters, paperweights, coasters and bowls, which are on sale on Fab today, are rich with mystery and history, and all tell stories of their own. His interiors display a similar magic.

Photo by Matthew Sandager

His New York City shops are filled to the brim with his own designs along with vintage and antique imports, bed and table linens, stationery, plate-ware, vintage and new lighting, and an ever-changing assortment of one-of-a-kind curios, which all come together to create an otherworldly environment, kind of like stepping into a fairy-tale. We were curious about his inspirations and the way he sees the world, and were lucky enough to get a quick chat.

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Today we’re selling Christophe Gowans’ addictively witty art work, which features albums-reinterpreted-as-book-covers. AJ Kushner tunes in.

Christophe Gowans’ career as a graphic designer and art director implies a refined knowledge of how we respond to text and images in different contexts. His work in the recording industry designing album artwork suggests an appreciation for the power of music to stimulate visual responses in the brain. And his fascination with book covers as artifacts allows his brilliant series of Record Book Prints to make perfect sense. The project imagines bestselling pop and rock albums as popular novels, pulp magazines, and self-help titles from every decade of the last century.

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As we recently told you, Fab is coming to ICFF. We’re holding a competition to find, new, innovative, amazing designs for us to produce and sell. Wanna play? This is what you do:

Pre-register with your name and country to: designforus@fab.com

Bring your product ideas, portfolios, and prototypes to:  

The ICFF Theater

Jacob K Javits Convention Center (11th Ave at 38th Street) 

1 PM – 3 PM on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

Present them in front of our Design Jury. 

Bradford Shellhammer, Founder and Chief Design Officer, Fab

David Trubridge, Lighting Designer

Eames Demetrios, Director, Eames Office

Ben Watson, Executive Creative Director, Herman Miller

Harry Allen, Founder, Harry Allen Design

Lucy Swift Weber Youdovin, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

Dan Rubinstein, Editor in Chief, Surface

Jerry Helling, President, Bernhardt Design

Jill Singer, Co-Founder, Sight Unseen

Alan Heller, President and Founder, Heller Inc.

Your work should be of high quality and be a functional object made through handcrafted, high-tech and/or experimental processes.

Designers must be registered to attend the ICFF. 

No fee trade registration through May 14. Please register on www.icff.com 

Today we’re selling Harold Krisel’s bold and abstract art work. Taylor Quist tells the story behind this amazing artist.

Many artists strive for fame and fortune. A lucky few achieve it during their lifetime, some receive it posthumously, and most never do. Painter, printer, and architect Harold Krisel (1920 – 1995) took an entirely different tack. While studying architecture at the New Bauhaus in Chicago, this native New Yorker found himself drawn to the dynamic free-natured forms of the modernist and abstract art movements that were taking the art world by storm in the 1940s.

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