Vintage Couture Suits

 
 

1960's Pink Tailored Suit Price NZ $160 & 1980's Lolita Lempicka Tailored Suit, Size 40 Price NZ $260 Available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Lolita Lempicka
Fashion houses are often named after their founding designer, but Josiane Pividal went about it differently. In 1983 Josiane and her husband Joseph, an interior designer, created their label, "Lolita Lempicka", in homage to Nabokov's novel and to the painter Tamara de Lempicka. As the fashion house took off, the couple found it simpler to change their names to Lolita and Joseph-Marie Lempicka. Lolita / Josiane was born in Bordeaux in 1954. She first learned how to sew from her mother, a trouser-maker who worked from home. In the 1970s Lolita started redesigning second-hand clothes, managing to make them look new and original. In 1984 she and her husband opened their first boutique in Paris's Marais district, and it became an instant success. Although her designs are often inspired by the 1940s, they always strike a playful balance between the modern and the nostalgic. She became famous for her exquisitely tailored suits, infusing classical Parisian styles with fresh femininity.

"Reclaiming the Crown" North & South Magazine 2009

 

Vintage Travel Sarf Cushions Part 2

 
 
 

These cushions retail at NZ $55 each.

Price NZ $55 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

Vintage Travel Scarf Cushions

 
 
 
 

Price NZ $55 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

New Ski Posters

 
 
 
 

Here are four new vintage ski posters, included are two from the fabulous New Zealand Railway Studios.

In 1920 New Zealand Railways (NZR) established its own Railways Studios – the country’s first outdoor advertising studio. The studios produced posters, pamphlets, maps and pictorial postage stamps promoting NZR’s services. They also undertook work for dozens of government and business clients that advertised at stations, inside carriages and on trackside hoardings

Dutch Business Meet & Greet at Pug Design Store

 
 

Beste mensen,

Graag nodigen we jullie uit voor de volgende Dutch Business Meet & Greet op

woensdag 22 juli a.s. om 6 pm bij Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch. www.pugdesignstore.co.nz

Rudolf en Robyne vertellen ter plekke over hun business en daarna gaan we met elkaar naar de "kroeg" Pomeroys om verder te netwerken.
Neem je business cards mee!
Van harte welkom! Laat even weten of je komt.


NB: Mocht je de volgende netwerkavond gedeeltelijk willen invullen met info over je werk of een rondleiding o.i.d., mail ons svp. Graag!!

Hartelijke groeten,
Inge Reinders en Hugo Wijtmans

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Greg Yee at Pug Design Store June and July

 
 
 
 

Greg Yee
My work reflects the collective identity held in family and structure of community. It describes the support and restraint these can provide - the struggle for and against love, on a collective and individual level.
The imagery in my work is drawn from a personal and cultural exploration of my New Zealand Chinese upbringing.

Pug Framed Vintage Posters

 
 
 

Pablo (Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y) Picasso (1881 –1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Price NZ $250 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

Raymond Savignac, often just abbreviated to "Savignac", was a French graphic artist famous for his commercial posters. He was born on November 6, 1907 in Paris, and died on October 31, 2002 in Trouville-sur-Mer (Calvados), aged 94. His work is distinguished by a humorous simplicity. Self-taught, he started designing posters under the direction of Cassandre, but met with his greatest success with the poster for Monsavon soap, which featured the udders of a cow directly supplying the "milk soap" with milk. Another famous poster was called "La Guerre des boutons" (War of Buttons).A permanent display of his work may be found at the Montebello Museum in Trouville, where he spent his last years. There is also a beachfront walk dedicated to him. Many of his posters depicted the Norman seaside town, and these can be seen there.

Price NZ $240 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

In 1920 New Zealand Railways (NZR) established its own Railways Studios – the country’s first outdoor advertising studio. The studios produced posters, pamphlets, maps and pictorial postage stamps promoting NZR’s services. They also undertook work for dozens of government and business clients that advertised at stations, inside carriages and on trackside hoardings

Price NZ $240 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

Pug 1970's Vintage Cushions

 
 
 

Price NZ $55 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

Rudolf Boelee Mr GE Free

 
 
 

Price NZ $400 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

Born 1940 in the Netherlands, Rudolf Boelee immigrated to New Zealand in 1963 and has been painting and exhibiting for the past 35 years. Boelee draws the inspiration for his works from various sources including science fiction, magazines, popular culture images and film. Boelee often employs imagery that, while on one level is seemingly prosaic, an alternative meaning or political vision is often suggested or more obviously stated. "Over the last twelve years I have tried to make work that speaks on a personal and universal level. Looking backward and forward at the same time. Investigating New Zealand's recent history in relation to the present."

Screenprinting has become his media of choice as it allows Boelee to work within the realms of constructivism, pop art and design. The geometry, scale and use of colour in his works, as seen in his "NZR Cups", "Crown Lynn Modernist Vases", "Crown Lynn Swans" and "Mr. GE Free" means that they can enrich any environment as individual pieces or in Warhol-like groups.

Gerrit Rietveld and Lady Snowblood

 
 

Rudolf Boelee New Zealand Railway Cup Paintings

 
 
 
 

Price NZ $600 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

Rudolf Boelee
Born 1940 in the Netherlands, Rudolf Boelee immigrated to New Zealand in 1963 and has been painting and exhibiting for the past 35 years. Boelee draws the inspiration for his works from various sources including science fiction, magazines, popular culture images and film. Boelee often employs imagery that, while on one level is seemingly prosaic, an alternative meaning or political vision is often suggested or more obviously stated. "Over the last twelve years I have tried to make work that speaks on a personal and universal level. Looking backward and forward at the same time. Investigating New Zealand's recent history in relation to the present."

Screenprinting has become his media of choice as it allows Boelee to work within the realms of constructivism, pop art and design. The geometry, scale and use of colour in his works, as seen in his "NZR Cups", "Crown Lynn Modernist Vases", "Crown Lynn Swans" and "Mr. GE Free" means that they can enrich any environment as individual pieces or in Warhol-like groups.

Rudolf Boelee Chatham Island Black Robin and Crown Lynn Swan Paintings

 
 
 
 

Price NZ $450 and available from Pug Design Store, 228 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, New Zealand or from our online store.

Chatham Island black robin (Petroica traversi)
The conservation of this robin is an internationally renowned success story; from bleak days in the 1980s, two thriving populations now exist. This small robin has pure black plumage and a short, slender bill. The sexes are similar in appearance, although females tend to be smaller in size. It is a poor flyer and spends much of the time on or near the ground.
Range. Previously found throughout the Chatham Islands, 850 kilometres east of mainland New Zealand. Today, these birds are only found on two small islands within the group, Mangere and Rangatira (South East) Islands.

David Jenkin, the head of the Crown Lynn design department, copied the design for the swans from overseas, and from the late 1940s, swans were produced in various sizes and finishes. By the middle of the 1970s the demand for swan vases had been significantly reduced. Swans represented an old fashioned style and were rejected by young New Zealanders looking for new ideas in interior design. However the swans are undergoing a revival.