High style meets youthful stick figure drawings and sweet fauna sketches in the gentle motifs that Shelly Klein imbues in her sustainable wall hangings and pillows. The artist teams with her mother, Mary, a contract furniture veteran, to produce the collection for their K Studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
While the sketches such as "Crying" and "Heart on his Sleeve" are as childlike as Madonna’s English Roses (some of the characters imagined are bunnies in Peter Pan collar smocks), the sophisticated emotion of the line plays through. The pillows, featuring black embroidery images on natural color hemp ($152), create a modern aesthetic when tossed on a bed or sofa. Klein’s most popular pillows are large round or square faces with white stitching on black fabric (around $98).
Images: K Studio Home, Design Public