‘Private Party / Public Sale’ is a series of exhibition parties at the new mixed-retail space ASTA PUBBLICA featuring new designs, made locally from either re/used, re/cycled natural or local materials. To join us at the next one please email tiani [at] decodemedia.com.au.
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Sydney based bespoke accessories label Ginny & Jude will be exhibiting their Spring/Summer 09/10 collection, ‘Buttermilk Sky’, in Melbourne for a week in October 2009, revealing their unique range of head pieces to Melbournians ahead of October’s Melbourne Cup Carnival Season.
To present the collection Ginny & Jude designer and owner Rabia Lockwood will be on hand at North Fitzroy’s Asta Pubblica to fit Melbourne’s style conscious locals for
tailored couture headpieces previously only available to Sydney residents.
To launch this week-long residency, a cocktail party will be held at Asta Pubblica at 355 St Georges Road between 6-9pm on Friday October 2nd.
RSVP to ginnyandjudesevents@gmail.com
From Thursday October 1st to Thursday October 8th Rabia will be available for private consultations in-store. Booking for these consultations is imperative and to
avoid disappointment, booking ahead is recommended.
Contact ginnyandjudes@gmail.com to make your appointment.
A selection of pieces from the collection will be available to purchase exclusively from Asta Pubblica throughout October and November.
The signature range of headwear from Ginny & Jude Designs is created from unused hat trim produced in
Europe and Japan between 1900 and 1940. These museum quality antiques are painstakingly restored by hand before being re-imagined as the basis for each
creation. The limited supply of these trims and personal touch each piece receives ensures no two are ever identical. They are wearable art at its finest.
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The first party featured a double bill of new product collaborations:
> LACED BOOKS by Ross Gardam and Keith Melbourne
> SLIP TOGETHER shelves and tables from Emu Concepts and Ecoresonance/Good Human
Exhibition Party: Friday 29th May 6 – 9pm by invitation
Public Sale: Saturdays 10 – 4pm weekly
LACED BOOKS
LACED BOOKS a collaboration by Ross Gardam and Keith Melbourne
Objects of beauty with a sense of history, the millions of old books in circulation unfortunately have little or no application today. Whilst they are of a higher quality than todays mass-produced books, their content is often of little relevance,and they are generally found collecting dust in second hand stores or destined for landfill. Laced Books became an exploration of how to reinterpret these objects, giving them a second life. With the original content removed the books have become beautiful enclosures for a variety of modern day objects. From 9 to 5 Keith Melbourne & Ross Gardam are independent product designers engaged in commercial projects. Laced books was conceived as a collaborative hands-on project for fun, a creative exploration outside normal commercial limitations. The Laced Books project produced plenty of laughs and a limited edition run of 50 individually numbered copies.
SLIP TOGETHER
SLIP TOGETHER a collaboration by Emu Concepts and Ecoresonance/Good Human
The first two pieces of the SLIP TOGETHER range have come about through playful model making and prototyping sessions in a workshop studio at the very shared and sharable Irene Collective in Brunswick and helpful CNC machine piloted by Alex Earl at Monkey CNC in Collingwood following a brief from Asta Pubblica for ’shelves and tables’.