Our ripple bowl collection will be featured this week (beginning 1/11/12) by Wendy Goodman in New York Magazine's Design Hunting Deal of the Week...to get an exclusive 20% discount sign up for the newsletter here.
Urban Oasis ... in category: Events, Home Goods, Press, Sales Tomorrow is the 2nd annual N3 "Not Your Usual Block Party" block party (N. 3rd St. between Berry + Wythe in Williamsburg) and, along with a ton of other fantastic stuff to do, we are having a sale...
...a really big, once-a-year-only store-wide 20% off everything sale!
The lovely Anne McClain and MCMC Fragrances, which we are proud to carry at Task, as featured on The Makers Project...
All photos taken by Brooklyn-based photographer Jen Causey...to see more of her work click here.
MCMC Fragrances ... in category: Apothecary, Fashion Brooklyn-based designer Mary Meyer is best known for her wearable silhouettes and her tribal-esque prints...
"Box" print tees in black + white
Mary Meyer
Mary Meyer ... in category: Fashion 
Marika Contompasis is an accomplished artist who has exhibited at the Smithsonian, MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Charles Contompasis has a passion for textiles and printing techniques. Together this brother and sister team produce the innovative work of Marika Charles. Made with the finest natural fibers, each piece is hand-dyed and unique.
Marika Charles bloom tanks in 3 colors @ $78
Marika Charles ... in category: Fashion 
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Raised on a houseboat in Sausalito, California by her artist parents, Annie Costello Brown’s upbringing was untraditional. Her father is a musician, while her mother, trained in metalsmithing, crafted jewelry when Costello was young. At the old Marin City Flea Market she learned to hunt for treasures, take them home, take them apart and put them back together in her own way. "From then on, I was always working for jewelry designers as after school jobs or, as I got older, across the ocean in Bali and then here in downtown L.A."
After graduation from the San Francisco Art Institute she settled in Los Angeles where she spent several years honing her leatherworking skills working for accessories company Billykirk. “My plan was to be an artist, literally a painter, and I still consider myself an artist,” Costello noted. When Billykirk moved operations to New York, Costello Brown said she knew it was time to strike out on her own. Her aesthetic, she says, has refined over time, though her drive has always been to make pieces that she personally loves.
Costello Brown designs and makes the collection out of her Echo Park home, where four to five craftswomen assist with production. Dark and wonderfully complex, her pieces have a lucky-talisman feel, as though they were handcrafted out of found elements for specific purposes. They're the kind of accessories that get noticed without screaming at the top of their lungs. “I like bold, but not in a crazy way,” she says. “I’m not a conceptual thinker...I like to think with my hands.”
She draws her inspiration from arts and crafts from the sixties and seventies, couture high craft, ancient and ethnic jewelry, and fashions from the New Age disco era. "I’m also very interested in textiles and traditional handicrafts from all around the globe. I like to play around with hard vs. soft, masculine vs. feminine, ancient vs. contemporary and human vs. alien."
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Annie Costello Brown ... in category: Fashion 
