{"id":6080,"date":"2008-07-03T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T08:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2011-06-17T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T18:35:23","slug":"sbjrn-ice-bear-rug-by-sruli-recht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/sbjrn-ice-bear-rug-by-sruli-recht\/","title":{"rendered":"&Iacute;sbj&uuml;rn \/ Ice Bear Rug by Sruli Recht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same designer who brought us the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/2008\/06\/cutting_table_no_1_by_sruli_re.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Cutting Table No. 1<\/a> has now released this special edition of 10 &Iacute;sbj&uuml;rn \/ Ice Bear Rugs. Playing with the ubiquitous animal skin rug idea, there&#8217;s part play and part serious commentary on luxury goods. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The &Iacute;sbj&uuml;rn \/ Ice Bear is made from 15 Icelandic sheepskins cut up and sewn to resemble the old butchers diagrammatic posters that visually informed you of which part of the animal&#8217;s carcass you were buying to eat.<br \/>\nSimilarly when you look inside a fur jacked and between the lining, the first thing you notice is this luxurious high priced garment is made up of hundreds of tiny scraps of skin sewn together. Though it looks like one pelt on the outside, a fur garment is made of scrap and waste.<br \/>\nThis here product plays with this exact idea of waste products sold as luxury products modules of death \/ component of flesh \/ diet of consumerism \/ objectification of life And of course branding the concept of like and animals into consumers resource, where the teddy bear appearance wipes it all away with the characterization and naive comical portrayal of a polar-bear rug, the decorative paragon of man over beast.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an edition of 10.<br \/>\n3 meters, full size.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same designer who brought us the Cutting Table No. 1 has now released this special edition of 10 &Iacute;sbj&uuml;rn \/ Ice Bear Rugs. Playing with the ubiquitous animal skin rug idea, there&#8217;s part play and part serious commentary on luxury goods.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,179],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}