{"id":7823,"date":"2009-11-13T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T17:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2010-01-30T01:49:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T09:49:28","slug":"futurist-purse-by-balla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/7823","title":{"rendered":"New Wave Futurist bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BallaPurse1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giacomo_Balla\" target=\"_blank\">Giacomo Balla<\/a> (1871-1958) was one of the original <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Futurism_%28art%29\" target=\"_blank\">Futurists.<\/a> Above is his 1916 design for a Futurist handbag. And in 1986, Italian accessories manufacturer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borbonese.com\" target=\"_blank\">Borbonese<\/a> actually interpreted\/built the purse out of seude and bakelite (below).<\/p>\n<p>Both will be on display as part of the exhibition <em>Futurismi Futuristi,<\/em> which opens December 15th, 2009 in Turin, Italy. Details (translated) <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&#038;sl=it&#038;tl=en&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfilate.it%2Fmoda%2Farticolo.cfm%3Fid_articolo%3D19370\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BallaPurse2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.italianfuturism.org\/2009\/11\/balla-and-the-futurist-purse-of-borbonese\/\">ItalianFuturism.org<\/a>; purse images via sfilate.it<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"New Wave Futurist bag\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/7823\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) was one of the original Futurists. Above is his 1916 design for a Futurist handbag. And in 1986, Italian accessories manufacturer Borbonese actually interpreted\/built the purse out of seude and bakelite (below). Both will be on display as part of the exhibition Futurismi Futuristi, which opens December 15th, 2009 in Turin, Italy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,54,108],"tags":[110,121],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-design-history","category-fashion","tag-art-deco","tag-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12007,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}