sew watless

Metamorphic Crystal Structures

2012-01-17T06:23:00.001-08:00

Champfest The Big One

2011-11-30T14:01:00.000-08:00

Champfest Issue 004 (Dill Cover) is now available to read at the 1948 Bookspace.

The East London sportswear branch of Nike has it's very own book space and they have a great selection of magazines,
This Buff Issue of Chap is also avilible in
many more cool spots

And this is just London

Plus best of all featuring Sew Wat

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The First Show

2011-10-07T00:50:00.001-07:00

Saki and Bitches First Show Was Great

http://sakiandb.blogspot.com/

Bikes & Fashion

2011-09-11T22:48:00.001-07:00

Dont know how many hours i spend looking at my bikes...

Pigeon Hole

2011-09-02T14:09:00.001-07:00

SAKI&Bitches First show "Tokyo Lady Chatterley"

2011-08-30T13:52:00.000-07:00

TOKYO LADY CHATTERLEY

“Curvy Bitches inspired by 1970’s Japanese porn movies painted on glass cabinets salvaged from the British Museum”

Art Exhibition by SAKI at Silwex House, London, EC1 6SN
Exhibition dates: 30th Sept–7th Oct, 2011; Opening Night: 6pm, Friday 30th September, 2011

For further info contact: Matthew Mcfarlane; Tel: 07 400 969 196; Email: sakiandb@gmail.com link to facebook page URL: http://tiny.cc/tzbfw

SAKI, a Tokyoite turned London artist, makes her solo debut with a show that takes its title and inspiration from romantic Japanese porn films of the 1970’s. Featuring voluptuous, “curvy bitches” on glass frames salvaged from the British Museum, her work fuses Japanese erotica with a whiff of Victorian curiosity cabinets.
SAKI says: “I am inspired by a series of Japanese pornography films known as “pinku eiga” or “Romantic Porn”. They are not just erotic films; they also have crazy but good story lines. Each film has a crazy title and stars an iconic glamorous woman. My show's title Tokyo Lady Chatterley is taken from one of the film’s titles*, and each painting’s title references one of the films.” (*Exact title: Lady Chatterley in Tokyo.)
Pink pornography – financial pressures on the Japanese film industry in the 60’s and 70’s led otherwise ‘respectable’ film studios to venture into low-budget pornographic films. Shot in the space of a week, each film was around an hour long and contained about 4-6 sex scenes. Japanese censorship laws that forbade showing genitals and other explicit acts meant that directors obscured sex scenes using artfully placed objects or techniques such as ‘fogging’. This led to the creation of a ‘romantic’ genre of soft-porn films and an aesthetic quite unlike the more direct depictions in Western pornography; consequently the films sometimes enjoyed a broader audience.
"I like painting these sexy, curvy women simply because I love these shapes from 50’s pin-up girls, Playboy Playmates and calling cards in public telephone boxes. I am passionate when it comes to drawing women and their body shape,” says SAKI.
Erotica enjoys a long tradition in both SAKI’s native Japan and her adopted Britain; from saucy Victorian playing cards to erotic woodcuts by Floating World artists such as Hokusai’s The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife depicting a woman being pleasured by multiple octopi. (Hokusai is better known for his series One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji). Modern incarnations of erotica range from phone sex calling cards in London’s red telephone boxes to otaku-friendly maid cafes in Tokyo’s Akihabara district.
SAKI’s Tokyo Lady Chatterley imagery owes more to the aesthetic of street art, manga and Charlie’s Angels, but the effect is more or less the same. The combination of these shamelessly sexy broads painted on sturdy museum cabinet glass salvaged from one of Britain’s cultural icons is akin to encountering the archetypal stern librarian who removes her glasses, shakes down her hair and begins unbuttoning her blouse... But if the Victorian curiosity cabinet enabled viewers to disguise their voyeurism as self-edifying ‘scientific interest’, SAKI’s unabashedly sexy paintings and drawings simply ask us to watch, admire – and enjoy!
EXHIBITION DATES & LOCATION for TOKYO LADY CHATTTERLEY:
Exhibition dates: Friday 30th Sept–7th Oct, 2011. Opening Night: 6pm, Friday 30th September, 2011
Address: Silwex House, Quaker St, Tower Hamlets, London EC1 6SN
Closest Tube: Shoreditch High St; Liverpool St.
ABOUT SAKI
SAKI has a background in the fashion industry, having worked as a make-up artist for seven years in Tokyo, New York and London before switching from faces to canvas. “I wasn’t satisfied with my career so I started to paint.”
SAKI, who is also a fixture on the London cycling scene, has participated in group art shows including JOYRIDE for the Bicycle Film Festival London 2010 (with fashion designer Sewwat). And collaborated with designer Benedict Radcliffe for the Paloma Faith bicycle; created for W Hotel London’s WOW BIKES, in partnership with Elton John AIDS Foundation. She was recently featured in the Webby Honouree video series Freewheelers about satorialist cyclists in London.
She painted Tokyo Lady Chatterley series on glass because, “the colours will stay vivid forever. This suits my style of painting: bright colours with bold black lines.”
SAKI moved to London to pursue her career two years ago, this is her first solo show. SAKI’s portfolio can be seen on her website SAKI & Bitches: http://sakiandb.portfoliobox.net/

FURTHER INFORMATION

For information or additional images contact Matthew Mcfarlane.

Tel: 07 400 969 196 Email: sakiandb@gmail.com

SAKI’sWebsite: SAKI & Bitches http://sakiandb.portfoliobox.net/ link to facebook page URL: http://tiny.cc/tzbfw

Image Attribution: Please feel free to publish attached images for publicity purposes. Please attribute the images to SAKI – and include painting title if possible. Thank you! :-)

WOW! Six One-Off Bikes Created For W Hotel

2011-08-25T11:31:00.000-07:00

BIG UP Benedict Radcliffe

For the bring in on the "WOW Bikes"

The bikes have been designed for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and the auction is currently online on W Hotel’s Facebook page, with bids being accepted from now until 29 October.

B Radcliffe's W New York bike

Saki's Painting for the hat box on Paloma Faith bike

And I upholstered the Patrick Cox mobile bar complete with BOOM BOX

For more info on the rest Google "WOW Bikes"

Saki & Bitches

2011-08-24T14:48:00.001-07:00

Setting Up Some Screens

2011-08-05T02:42:00.000-07:00

Upstairs

2011-08-04T11:50:00.000-07:00

Saki & Bitches First Show In September

2011-06-28T09:34:00.000-07:00

Long time no blog

2011-06-14T04:34:00.000-07:00

Its been a super busy start to the year.
the chairs are on the back burner for a while or at least till something
hot like a love chair or a real nice big Belmont barber chair comes up for grabs.

Went to Berlin with my little sis in February for a weekend then of to Japan for a month. But had to come home a bit early because of the earthquakes I still cant believe how organized the Japanese are and how the very next day people are trying to get back in to work.

If we get a bit of snow or a bit to much sun .our system just folds

God forbid if something on half this scale happed here in the UK Madness would break out. I would be with the looters I know some good spots

Any way back now busy as hell moved to the summer pad with Saki so she can paint in better light..with a view to kill for. more info on saki and bitches first show soooon.... until then keep an eye out for her Bitches

Big up to Japan and there people

No Puff Just Quilted Please

2011-01-31T10:39:00.000-08:00

Health & Safety
When makeing quilted anything.
Dont cut open down cushions at home with out a hoover.
Ive cut fur coats with out haveing a hoover and its nothing compared
to goose feather

Dont Bite

2011-01-19T18:01:00.000-08:00

The Light

2011-01-08T03:24:00.000-08:00

Hanovia has been manufacturing UV lamps since 1924 This old heat lamp realy was a labour of love.Circa 1950 or 60s

2011-01-08T01:43:00.000-08:00

love a good index

2010-12-26T16:02:00.000-08:00

Leather Chest & Back Hawaii Cotton Fabric

2010-12-24T09:55:00.000-08:00

Little Ones

2010-12-23T01:47:00.000-08:00

Chester Shirt no. 3

2010-12-22T16:27:00.001-08:00

Chester Shirt no. 3

2010-12-22T16:09:00.000-08:00

Saki&B waist ting pictures soon as

2010-12-21T07:59:00.000-08:00

Its A waist ting
All waist tings are made from off cuts. leather fur etc

B4 The Snow

2010-12-21T07:37:00.000-08:00

JUST POSTING STUFF IVE BEEN DOING.. NOT BLOGING FROM LAST 180 ODD DAYS

parker knoll reupholstered in soft coconut brown leather

2010-11-19T01:32:00.000-08:00

Oak Index Unit

2010-11-12T05:34:00.000-08:00

18 DEEP 51&HALF WIDE 45 HIGH ALL IN INCHES

Arkana 103 Fibreglass Chairs

2010-09-10T05:52:00.000-07:00

If It Aint Broke,,,

2010-09-02T15:04:00.000-07:00

Its Back Short Our Long Sleeve Shirt

Belmont Apollo 1

2010-08-26T23:38:00.001-07:00

Sew Much Leather

2010-08-26T15:43:00.000-07:00

If you would like any thing made from any leather or fabric contact me

Bum Bum Belt Bag

2010-08-26T14:38:00.000-07:00

Native American Belt Bag

2010-08-26T13:55:00.000-07:00

This is what my bag used to look like back in may.
Its still in one piece its just thilfy from the bike
size holds two cans of beer

Bof Mash Multicolured Camel Skull

2010-08-10T13:18:00.001-07:00

It is true I have dun a blog for me & the Bof Head

http://bofandmash.blogspot.com/

Some fabrics

2010-07-30T13:46:00.000-07:00

Bum Bum Bag

2010-07-28T10:18:00.000-07:00

Your pockets are just not doing it for you some times.
Sew get your self a custom bag. will post pics of fabric real soon
The Bitch Patch is hand drawn on leather by SAKI&BITCHES

Camel Skull (Camelus dromedarius)

2010-06-23T04:01:00.000-07:00

Bone collectors Day Out
Ill be taking my big head
to Spitalfields Market this Thursday and every following Thursday

Giant Playmobil Viking

2010-03-04T23:12:00.000-08:00

Book Chair Club

2010-02-13T04:21:00.000-08:00

Industrial Chic Hospital Trolley

2010-02-05T08:37:00.000-08:00

Takara Early 1950s

2010-02-05T07:49:00.000-08:00

Red&Black

2010-01-20T07:24:00.000-08:00

Cards&Stickers

2009-12-07T04:56:00.000-08:00

1970's Belmont Barber Chair

2009-11-30T07:08:00.000-08:00

The Jetsons Dainty Book Chair

2009-11-30T06:11:00.000-08:00

Cashmere Chair

2009-11-30T06:06:00.001-08:00

Victorian Nursing Chair

2009-11-27T16:33:00.000-08:00

2009-11-23T05:01:00.000-08:00

Save The Chairs

2009-11-18T04:47:00.000-08:00

Sew Watless is a freethinking, one-man band who specialises in re-making and re-homing found objects.

So often people leave, once loved items out on the streets, waiting for the local council to pick up and ultimately dispose of them.

There is something hauntingly beautiful about dishevelled furniture, left to waste, yet with so much more to give.
Sew Watless takes it upon itself to not only restore, but also reinvent, modernize and collaborate with items of craftsmanship and beauty.
With pattern cutting, carpentry and upholstery skills every piece is deconstructed then reconstructed in a different guise.

All items saved from the ill fated tip are Sew Wat’ed back into life.
Taking inspiration from eras past, from skills now left to ruin, from the art of attention to detail so overlooked in this fast mass produced age, Sew Watless aims to create a sense of whimsy in his work by mixing textures, details, materials and historical reference with pure passion and enthusiasm.

Whether it was once a Victorian Chesterfield, an Art Deco lounge chair or a 1950s Love Seat, Sew Watless manages to transform it, restore it, make-do-and-mend it into something captivating…mixing vintage jacquard fabrics with modern screen prints, distressed leathers with salvaged cashmere, carved wooden buttons with bakelite ones, which ever way he works its safe to say that Sew Watless manages to catapult it, with pure uniqueness, into a world of its own.

2009-11-05T14:12:00.000-08:00