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An Adirondack chair features an eroded found-object arm (which took four years to find) cast in bronze. A hand-forged iron buoy light is attached to a chain. These are some of the pieces in designer Jane Hallworth’s first line of furniture, American Gothic, which launched at Blackman Cruz earlier this year. Hallworth welcomes clients (Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams) to her “office, gallery, think tank and workshop,” tucked away in the La Cienega Design Quarter. Adds Hallworth, “People usually have to catch their breath a little bit when they walk in.” 767 ½ N. La Cienega Blvd., L.A., 310-855-1152; hallworth.us.
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Hallworth Design, in the La Cienega Design Quarter.
Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell have teamed up with Tommy Hilfiger for a good cause. Proceeds from this Italian pebbled leather satchel in cherry and midnight blue support Breast Health International. $299; tommy.com.
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Jen Garrido
One NorCal artist expresses herself through multiple media...and personalities
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rom her light-filled studio in San Francisco, artist Jen Garrido produces a wide range of projects: fine art paintings and watercolors (some of which are for sale at Anthropologie), textiles, wedding invitations, notebooks and pillows. She has even collaborated with husband Josh Duthie of Chairtastic and the Woodshop collective on a beach lounger. Garrido operates under the alter ego Jenny Pennywood for her graphic design and illustrative work—in order to distinguish her fine art career—but the inspiration for both personas is the same: “Color, pattern, line quality, shape, form, composition, movement, gesture, texture and the physicality of the materials,” she says. This spring, the artist will debut a line of kids backpacks and sleeping bags for San Francisco’s Shelter Co. She is also opening an online shop (jenniferjenny jenjen.bigcartel.com) where she will sell original works on paper. jennypennywood.com; jengarrido.com. Custom notepad created as a wedding favor. Shelter Co. sleeping bag. Digitally printed, handsewn pillows.
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GARRIDO PORTRAIT: LAUREN SMITH. JENNY PENNYWOOD SLEEPING BAG: SARAH PEET PHOTOGRAPHY
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