{"id":579,"date":"2005-04-01T10:39:38","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2005-04-01T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T08:41:02","slug":"funky-functional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/01\/funky-functional\/","title":{"rendered":"funky functional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/pool_rings.jpg?w=850\" alt='pool ball rings' \/><\/p>\n<p>A new show opened at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.art.co.za\/gordart.htm\">gordart<\/a> Wednesday night, and I don&#8217;t what it&#8217;s called, but it&#8217;s something like &#8220;funky functional&#8221;. Tables, shirts, jewelry, plates, desks, lamps, etc, made by fashion designers and artists alike. My favorite are these pool ball rings by Louis Minnaar &#8211; totally hot, and very affordable (R154 each).<\/p>\n<p>I bought three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new show opened at gordart Wednesday night, and I don&#8217;t what it&#8217;s called, but it&#8217;s something like &#8220;funky functional&#8221;. Tables, shirts, jewelry, plates, desks, lamps, etc, made by fashion designers and artists alike. My favorite are these pool ball rings by Louis Minnaar &#8211; totally hot, and very affordable (R154 each). I bought three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-9l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1578,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/ten-cubed\/","url_meta":{"origin":579,"position":0},"title":"ten cubed","author":"nathaniel","date":"21 January 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm involved, via Haydn Shaugnessy (my Irish gallery) in a funky new project, where he's hired a 'Real World' architect to build an astonishingly beautiful gallery out at sea in Second Life: Ten Cubed (pictured). 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