Message in a bottle...

I have to fight my hoarding tendencies.

Some things I find slightly easier to get rid of than others. However, I always struggle with empty perfume bottles. I just never want to bin them. It always seems such an unglamorous and grubby end to a lovely friendship.

I came across an empty bottle of Joy in my mum’s room and it reminded me of the Seth Bogart ceramic version.

Seth Bogart is a busy boy. The frontman of San Francisco-based band Hunx & His Punx, he is also a prodigious artist, producing paintings, drawings and ceramics; a video director; a photographer and a fashion designer. He has collaborated with Yves Saint Laurent and has his own store, Wacky Wacko, for which he also designs installations.

His ceramics work is an exuberant cataloguing of salon life, depicting “designer” perfumes, hairspray, pastel hairdryers, curling tongs and well-sculpted cans of Diet Coke. All facets of his work carry a consistent DIY look that distorts Hollywood Glamour. You can perfectly imagine Divine and John Waters fitting right in at one of his salons…

All this fun comes at a price. A ceramic bottle of No 5 will cost you in excess of $500.

Queen Marie

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