Casart® Coverings
Casart Coverings are original hand-painted, custom-printed, designer, removable and reusable wallcoverings. Artists inspired and created.
Unexpected and Personal Design
“Unexpected” and “personal” ideas are leading the design trend for 2009, particularly in this down economy. Here’s the story on the What’s new at Home blog. If the ideas are to personalize the space, create something unexpected and to keep it simple, then casart™ definitely fits the bill, as written up here recently on The Design Style Guide Blog. Here’s one of our photos below. That’s our lime colorwash casart™ on the wall. Be sure to visit our new video on YouTube showing its installation. Please vote for us! We have just entered the StartUp Nation, Leading Moms in Business Competition. The top 200 ranked businesses will get marketing exposure…
Spring Arts Preview
The Washington Post just published their Spring Arts Preview Guide. There is so much to see and enjoy but here are the ones I think are most interesting: • Pride of Place: Dutch Citycsapes of the Golden Age, National Gallery of Art, through May 3. • Bookends: Book as Art, Torpedo Factory, through Feb 22. • Detour: Architecture and Design Along 18 National Tourist Routes in Norway, National Building Museum, through Oct 10. • On the Origin of Species (After Darwin) — celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, National Academy of Sciences, through April 23. As a postscript, this is a fascinating article about happenstance, a purchase of a…
Women in Art
This is a great video that’s been circulating the Internet for some time, by Philip Scott, but I’d like to post it here for inspiration: I love how this video progresses through Art History, which looks like Byzantine to Post Modern periods. I only wish there was a documentation/catalog of all the artists and artwork. Most are recognizable and familiar but some are not. I think its creation is artistic in itself. It’s inspiring to me because I draw a lot of strength from my mother and sister, who are my new business partners. I couldn’t have started casart coverings without them, and I’m eternally grateful. We are a female,…
