CED Blog
Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose
People have jewelry they don’t wear. It’s not their style anymore, they inherited it, it was a well intentioned gift. Enter CED, here to reuse, recycle, repurpose.
DVF and Coco Chanel: Fierce Women
“Women have always been the strong ones of the world.” — Coco Chanel I recently read an article on Vogue.com entitled, “8 Things We Learned from Diane von Furstenberg’s Talk with the Ghost of Coco Chanel.” It grabbed my attention because, aside from being two of the most iconic names in fashion, DVF and Coco
Oodles of Opals
As you may have seen, I recently designed a custom piece using a recycled boulder opal. That got me curious about varying types of opals.
Inspiration from Diavolo Architecture in Motion
“Diavolo Architecture in Motion is a fusion of many different movement vocabularies such as everyday movement, ballet, contemporary, acrobatics, gymnastics, martial arts, and hip-hop. What we do on stage is like a live abstract painting.”
2015 Milan World Fair
2015 Milan World Fair This year’s World’s Fair, or Expo 2015, kicked off on May 1, 2015 in Milan with the theme, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. Since their inception in 1851, the nature of world expositions has evolved. Three eras can be distinguished: the era of industrialization, the era of cultural exchange, and the
The Power of Contrast
In 1943, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, known locally as Gedächtniskirche, was almost completely destroyed during an air raid. Rather than demolishing what was left, they turned the ruins into a beautiful memorial of peace and reconciliation. Part of the beauty is due to…
Staatliches Bauhaus
From 1919-1933 Bauhaus was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and fine arts. Not popsicle
sticks and pipe cleaners, but trades, skills, crafts. Although it took years before the school started its
architecture program, Bauhaus literally translates into…
Martha Graham – The Power of Dance
A strong woman moving the field of dance forward into a more expressionistic era and one of the leaders creating the modern dance movement as we know it today. Her influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso
Robyn and Quito, a Commitment of Best Friends
My commitment was to my best friend, eating partner, hiking buddy, and wife and life companion, Robyn.
