August 14, 2007
 Paper Chaser
Finding art to adorn a child's room can be even more perplexing than crib shopping. Anything you have framed needs to relate to and stimulate your tots, while ideally also working with your grown-up decorating style.
If that style tends toward the mid-century modern, look no further than Petit Collage. Lorena Siminovich, a San Francisco-based artist and children's book writer/illustrator, crafts modern collages that will stand up to your children's changing interests, and to your own standards for design. Each one incorporates different recycled and vintage papers that she comes across during her travels – a snippet of sheet music, a Japanese architectural drawing from the 1950s, a page from an antique book, a map from a school in Costa Rica. These are cut and arranged into whimsical shapes, then affixed onto sturdy maple plywood. Inspired by vintage illustration, it's serious art, but with whimsical motifs like mushrooms, chicks, trees, birds and monkeys, it's also seriously kid-friendly.
Every collage design is part of a numbered series of 50, and each uses slightly different colors and paper, so the art is guaranteed to be just as unique as your offspring. And at about $140 each, Petit collages also make for great kiddie gifts for the other loved ones in your life.
The best part: no framing required.
Available online at petitcollage.com.
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