Fun at the Fog Fair

If you live in the Bay Area, you can go today through Sunday to see the Fog Design & Art Show at Fort Mason. It is a blast, is unique in our area (modern art and furnishings show), and benefits SFMOMA so a good cause. I love the combo of furnishings with art, of course, since that's how we live life.

There is a lot of emphasis on "blobby-organic" form, not much color (though I was drawn to the colorful items, no surprise).
Loads of metal.
And a huge dose of humor. Thank goodness.
Many items I truly lusted after, there are some really fabulous pieces.

My photo disclaimer: some of my favorites just don't photograph well, like the oh so cool lucite table with items frozen in it by Ted Noten. AND I did take over 100 pictures, which I painfully narrow down so you don't spend all day waiting for the load.
Sigh. So much beauty, so little bandwidth...

Here are a few of the wonders at the Fog Fair:

I do adore Joseph Walsh wood furniture from Todd Merrill

One of my gaga favorites, the lucite purse with stuff in it, by Ted Noten. 

Such a delicious rug hanging over organic metal bench, what a vignette!

Another of my really lustful favorites. A gorgeous fire screen is a room essential. by David Wiseman.

Lamps from another universe. Adore the color.

Smashed slinky sculpture for the wall. I think it's actually called that....

I kinda drooled over these metal tables. By Stefan Bishop.

Even the shadow of this chair is dazzling.

Oh so cool, a collage made of little stuff, in lucite layers to create 3-D figure. by Dustin Yellin.

Some of the many organic-blob man made forms.

Sexy fluid curvaceous sculpture.

Such a cool technique, "Pictage." Artist makes zillions of little tears in photo's paper. Paul Anthony Smith.

Huge favorite of mine, Sebastion Errazuriz's Samurai Cabinet. Each of those arms pivots.

Errazuriz's fabulous "Piano Keys" shelves. Fold each key up or down. Fun AND practical.

I'm glad to see more humor this year, maybe buyers & dealers are learning to laugh again...

How wild, a riff on traditional Venetian Mirror in BLACK

Detail of Venetian Mirror

Great use of those old photos, make them into a collage.

I do adore light fixtures by Nimah Barry. Also through Todd Merrill.

Bucking the blob-organic look, very geometric jewelry.

Some art to get wrapped up in...