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More PIllows @ Gary Gibson

June 30th, 2011

Daniel Pontius

Pontius Design Pillows @ Gary Gibson

June 28th, 2011

Daniel Pontius

Gary Gibson Showroom
Our Undine Pillow

Detail of the hand embroidery.

Pontius Design one of a kind pillows can now be found at Gary Gibson  on Beverly in Los Angeles.  The above pillow was made by me out of a late 19th c European homespun linen and embroidered with vintage cotton thread.

The quote is from my favorite Edith Wharton novel, Custom of the Country. Wharton describes her main character Undine as being fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative…

She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.

Vintage Print Pillows

June 14th, 2011

Daniel Pontius

OMG so cute.

Vintage Indian Panel

June 13th, 2011

Daniel Pontius

Not sure what this is. Maybe it’s from the Banjara, a nomadic tribe, in India. I just made it into an 18 x 18 pillow with Indian Raw Silk.

More Kuba Pillows

June 6th, 2011

Daniel Pontius

These fragments had been hanging out for a couple years so I made some patchwork pillows.  

@ Pat McGann

Broke my camera and these are from my droid.

Kuba Pillows

June 2nd, 2011

Daniel Pontius

Indian raw silk border

Vintage Kuba cloth with raw silk border and linen back. These were done for Pat McGann Gallery and went out of the shop as soon as they came in.