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A Beautiful Mess Podcast

#227: Collecting Art

A Beautiful Mess Podcast

Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today we are doing a deep dive into collecting art. Everything from where we purchase art, framing and how to decide what art pieces will work for your space.

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0:00.0

Here are listening to the Beautiful Mess Podcast, your cozy comfort listen and today we are going to do a deep dive into collecting art.

0:11.6

Everything from where we purchase it, how to decide what

0:14.6

pieces will work for your space, framing, anything else about collecting art.

0:19.7

Yay! Yeah, I am so into this. This has definitely been my like art collecting year, so it has been like so fun. So first of all, I just want to like promise up front we're going to do like a good

0:33.8

link and show note situation this week so we will link to all of the artist that we

0:39.7

mentioned and all of the places that we buy are I'll just like it'll just be like a nice little link section if you're into shopping for art definitely go there and you don't have to try to remember anything

0:49.4

Yeah, if you're out jogging or you're driving your car, don't try to write anything down.

0:53.2

It'll be in the shutouts.

0:55.2

Oh, I just imagined like the most horrible rack of trying to write down an art scene.

1:00.2

Like, how to write down this and see names?

1:01.8

No, don't, don't, don't, fine. We'll link it. Yeah. So in this episode we're going to cover just like the basics of starting

1:09.8

your own art collection in your home. And to begin with I just want to acknowledge that like

1:15.8

collecting any kind of art for your home is so exciting and magical so when we started off in

1:21.7

our 20s the things I would mainly collect or decorate with were photos that we took ourselves,

1:28.0

which is just like, I think it's a sentimental way to decorate and it's also really budget friendly and then

1:34.0

prints mostly from ETSI and then the other thing would be like thrifted art and

1:39.9

vintage art that was found for a bargain and there is lots of bargain art in the world. So we'll talk about all of that. This past year I've been in an era where I started to collect some original art from some of my favorite artist and some pieces like, I don't know, kind of like the sort of stuff you would want to pass down to your kids or like you need to like write it on your insurance like that kind of situation and it has been like really

2:07.2

magical special and it was it's kind of a dream come true honestly because I love art and you know having a chance to like collect a few

2:15.2

pieces from favorite artist is a very magical experience so I want to talk all

2:21.6

about that and so yeah no matter where you are in life hopefully you'll learn stuff in this episode about

2:27.0

Decorating your home with art because I honestly think any apartment, even a bedroom is better with pieces of art that

2:36.6

means something to you.

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