In preparation for Crafts in Chelsea tomorrow, Emilia has been hard at work creating smalls like a little Italian elf.  Here are some one of kind functional art pieces she’s made. Click on each image for more info.

My favorite tray is above because I’m digging the blue circles. The tray or table “thing” is an old door panel with paint and resin, framed in polyurethaned plaster lath with antique drawer pulls for carrying.  No, it’s not dishwasher safe.  You can use it, but we suggest that you use it gently as you can’t really soak the lath part in water. The resin will take anything but extreme heat.

Here’s another door tray. This one is great because the original chippy paint remains as part of the design.

Same idea with this wall hook.  This was made from a thicker part of the door.  The trays are lighter panels.

You can’t see the numbers on these antique nails in this image, but the nails are marked with “31” and “29”.  Apparently they were used for telephone poles or something like that back in the day. Again, this piece was made from door and lath.  There was stenciling and plastering to create the raised design.

You won’t see these pieces at the shop this weekend.  Gotta come to Chelsea to check them out!