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For the Artist Jessy Slim, Home Is Reflected in a Bag of Chickpeas

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This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. In 2019, Jessy Slim, a Lebanese American designer, had just started a graduate architecture program at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., when protests erupted in her birthplace, Beirut. That October, thousands…

Danish Paper Artist Specializes in Large Paper Flowers

admin2 months ago010 mins

The white walls and ceiling of Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen’s atelier were bursting one day last summer with huge, handmade paper flowers, all created to resemble ranunculuses, roses, marigolds, thistles, air plants and passion flowers. But she dismissed a visitor’s amazement, saying, “Every child in Denmark gets into paper cutting when they can operate a pair…