IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY PARTY!

Please save the date!

Friday, September 5th from 5pm-9pm

We hope that you can make it! No RSVP necessary :)

WHEN: On Friday, September 5th from 5pm-9pm

WHAT: Celebrate the Opening Reception of the installation “Into the Woods”, a faux bois forest-scape bringing the outdoors inside. Help us open up the visiting trunk show of jewelry from Erica Molinari, and peruse over 250 unique charms that are visiting for the weekend.

WHERE: Gold Bug / 38 E Holly Street, Pasadena

* Come dressed to impress, the bubbly will be served!

FAUX BOIS FOREST

Featuring the work of artist Shessie Bon, the immersive faux bois installation "Into the Woods" which will open on this evening promises to transport its onlookers to the deep forest, where peaceful creatures abound and living beings are at one with nature.

Shessie Bon is a contemporary artists that experiments with paper-mâché and encaustic painting. She lives in the woods and draws inspiration from her surroundings.

ERICA MOLINARI TRUNK SHOW

Featured that evening, a visiting collection of jewelry by Erica Molinari edited to focus on charms and tokens. Beginning on this evening, and running through the weekend, hundreds of charms in an array of different sizes and materials will be available as part of the Trunk Show. Tokens adorned with images of animals and trees, skulls and crosses, lucky symbols and poetry, created to spark personal memories and to be worn and cherished for years to come. Erica Molinari is a contemporary designer based in New York making fine jewelry inspired by Gothic, Medieval and Victorian styles. Her collections of gold, silver and painted enamel pieces are unique and intended to be worn every day.

FAUX BOIS

Faux bois, meaning "false wood" in French, is the artistic imitation of wood grain and texture in other materials, mainly concrete. It's an art form that originated in the Renaissance and became popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in garden and park design. Faux bois pieces can be found in furniture, architectural elements, and decorative items, and are known for their rustic and natural appearance. Historically speaking, it is important because of its connection to the development of metal-reinforced concrete, a technique first invented by a gardener named Joseph Monier in 1867.

THE FOREST REVERIE

by Edgar Allan Poe

’Tis said that when / The hands of men / Tamed this primeval wood, / And hoary trees with groans of wo, / Like warriors by an unknown foe, / Were in their strength subdued, / The virgin Earth Gave instant birth / To springs that ne’er did flow / That in the sun Did rivulets run, / And all around rare flowers did blow / The wild rose pale / Perfumed the gale, / And the queenly lily down the dale / (Whom the sun and the dew / And the winds did woo), / With the gourd and the grape luxuriant grew. / So when in tears / The love of years / Is wasted like the snow,  / And the fine fibrils of its life  / By the rude wrong of instant strife / Are broken at a blow / Within the heart / Do springs upstart / Of which it doth now know, / And strange, sweet dreams,/  / Like silent streams That from new fountains overflow, /  With the earlier tide / Of rivers glide / Deep in the heart whose hope has died / Quenching the fires its ashes hide, / Its ashes, whence will spring and grow / Sweet flowers, ere long, / The rare and radiant flowers of song! /

We hope to see you on the 5th!