Share According to an article in the Huffington Post, the most brilliant use of the pop-up concept is taking place in downtown Oakland. It is called Popuphood and involves giving six new retail shops in five previously vacant storefronts six months of free rent. The goal: to revitalize the neighborhood
Share Design Indulgences is a website whose tagline is “indulging you with all things fab in event planning and interior design.” In a blog post earlier this year they did feature on Decorating with Mannequins.. feminine indulgences. The article featured unique ways women use mannequin dress forms as decorative objects in their home.
Share Trent Nahas is an artist based in the SF Bay area who creates amazing sculptures using distressed mannequins. He came to our warehouse in Oakland to purchase some mannequin parts from our boneyard and he brought in samples of his work to give me an idea of what type of
Share While I think this mannequin looks a bit like a drag queen, she represents a novelty in mannequins. She is called a WOOPIE – which stands for Wealthy Older Person. This was a line of mannequins that was manufactured awhile back by Adel Rootstein for retailers with a mature
Share If you have a mannequin that needs repairing or refinishing, Mannequin Recovery, is the company that Mannequin Madness recommends. Here are 5 reasons why we refer our customers to there: 1) Nancy Panlener, is the owner of the company and she over 30+ years of experience. She is just
Share There is a saying “you can kill more flies with honey than with vinegar” and while I try to abide by this whenever I am confronted with something unpleasant, I can’t say I am always successful. Sometimes you just can’t be sweet when you are angry. But if you
Share Some of the most amazing mannequin art is done by New Zealand Artist Sue Lund. If you want to see how she creates pieces like in the photographs above, there is a YouTube video that shows it from start to finish. You would think that she paints in a
Share It is rare to find mannequins with glass eyes anymore. That used to be the norm for high-end mannequins manufactured before 1980′s. So when we recycled over 100 vintage realistic Rootstein mannequins from a museum we were thrilled to find that most of them had glass eyes. Unfortunately the
Share Disaster preparedness drills are a lot more realistic ( and scary) when distressed mannequins and mannequin parts are used to simulate the fallout from an emergency. We sell a lot of items from our mannequin boneyard, just for this purpose. But the City of Chicago used mannequins in a different way
Share We came across an article written by a mannequin company in Australia with tips on repairing a mannequin. We thought we would pass it along to all the do-it-yourself people out there who have a broken mannequin. After you read the article and you find that is sounds a bit daunting, we have
