Prickly garlands, Medusa-inspired ornaments, a stack of crumbling concrete presents, and a crèche that's erupting into flames: this isn't your typical Christmas party fare. This year, OC asked seven young artists––Misha Kahn, Emily Thompson, Katie Stout, Anne Libby, Cynthia Talmadge, and Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta of Eckhaus Latta––to craft their versions of traditional decor. The result was a party as surreal as it is was festive, held in the home of interior designer Adam Charlap Hyman, who organized the event. While we left the artists to pursue their own creative whims, the final products were oddly coherent. On a recent snowy Saturday in Carroll Gardens, peering into the windows of a brownstone you would have seen a bizarre and seductive Narnia, where even the most static objects seemed alive or somehow in motion...
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Stockings by designers Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta of ECKHAUS LATTA: "We chose colors from the plastic yarn that we used in our first collection. The result was very free-form and ended up being a bit like stockings you would wear with a wedge shoe. Also, they're meant to be empty. These are stockings for the bad kids in the family."![]()
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Flowers by EMILY THOMPSON, sculptor and florist: "I wanted to do something with a really spare and Victorian feel, using this slightly dastardly material, wild smilax. It has quarter-inch thorns, which makes it sinister and romantic. And the ribbons look like a bird flew through a bramble. I came from a sculpture background, which makes me interested in building things with psychological, historical, and intellectual depth."
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Photography by André Herrero
Stockings by designers Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta of ECKHAUS LATTA: "We chose colors from the plastic yarn that we used in our first collection. The result was very free-form and ended up being a bit like stockings you would wear with a wedge shoe. Also, they're meant to be empty. These are stockings for the bad kids in the family."
Flowers by EMILY THOMPSON, sculptor and florist: "I wanted to do something with a really spare and Victorian feel, using this slightly dastardly material, wild smilax. It has quarter-inch thorns, which makes it sinister and romantic. And the ribbons look like a bird flew through a bramble. I came from a sculpture background, which makes me interested in building things with psychological, historical, and intellectual depth."
