Dba MOLLY BLOOM

Dba MOLLY BLOOM Molly Bloom is a lifestyle brand with jumpsuits, art, food and the home at its core.

I SPY: A productive, messy and transformative 2023. đŸ…đŸŠđŸ‹đŸŒ±đŸ« As you curate your “menu” for 2024, consider the creation proc...
12/30/2023

I SPY: A productive, messy and transformative 2023.
đŸ…đŸŠđŸ‹đŸŒ±đŸ«

As you curate your “menu” for 2024, consider the creation process is half the fun. A “menu” is the first encounter and promise of what’s to come, triggers anticipation, and leads to excitement and satiation.

Let’s cook. đŸ„‚
-MB

I arrived home from The Art Gallery of Ontario inspired, as usual, almost a year ago today. I started illustrating a ver...
12/02/2023

I arrived home from The Art Gallery of Ontario inspired, as usual, almost a year ago today. I started illustrating a version of an old food advertisement with oil crayons in orangey-red, cobalt and forest green. I played with typography and graphic elements that spoke to my love of 1960’s Ogilvy-era design. There was a textile design developing before my eyes. I manipulated the illustrated paper with some bright red masking tape to form a bean bag chair, and there that little mock-up sat for weeks. I wasn’t ready for it yet.

Then it hit me: The art was guiding creation. The food was fueling the art.

I dipped into the recipe box my mother hand-painted for me one year as a gift, and took out my favorite recipe for hummus. Hummus is the foundation of mezze (for the Lebanese side of my family, this means small dishes of meats, salads, dips and desserts) so it only felt right to begin my “illustrated recipe” journey with none other than, you guessed it, hummus.

Over the span of the next 6 months, I would work alongside my amazing partner in India, discussing my absurdly tedious tech-pack through virtual meetings, and one particularly long revision meeting in Brooklyn, to land on the perfect finished bag, now available to you today for preorder!

Puebco’s Accordian Market Basket is equal parts functional as it is strikingly cool looking. Its steel frame, bright yel...
11/13/2023

Puebco’s Accordian Market Basket is equal parts functional as it is strikingly cool looking. Its steel frame, bright yellow rubber comfort handles, heavyweight canvas body and sprayed stenciled branded front makes us want to stop and smell the tomatoes at some street market or have a 45 minute conversation with some French guy hawking bouquets out of a mini truck. Vive le market basket.

created the perfect cylindrical borosilicate glass Salt & Pepper Shaker Set. Measuring 3.5” tall and 1.5” in diameter, ...
11/13/2023

created the perfect cylindrical borosilicate glass Salt & Pepper Shaker Set. Measuring 3.5” tall and 1.5” in diameter, these unassuming shakers are an easy staple fit for any kitchen.

*So that you don’t have to google “borosilicate”, this means these shakers are highly resistant to any kind of thermal shock so we’ll be covering our bodies in borosilicate here in Buffalo until at least May, thank you.

In the past, lovers used to convey their feelings to each other via handkerchief, and its color mattered. For example, r...
11/11/2023

In the past, lovers used to convey their feelings to each other via handkerchief, and its color mattered. For example, red was used for love and passion. Others believed a gifted “hanky” was taboo and meant tears were sure to come. Ignore that last part though.

Wear your Hand-Dyed “Ready For Seconds” Bandana around your neck, tie it around your bag, rock a two-point fold as your ...
11/11/2023

Wear your Hand-Dyed “Ready For Seconds” Bandana around your neck, tie it around your bag, rock a two-point fold as your next favorite pocket square, or dress up your next dinner party place-setting with these as napkins (dm for a discount on an order of 4+). Made in Philadelphia by 🩞

Introducing The Hand-Dyed “Ready For Seconds” Bandana in Cobalt. In the lost art of table etiquette, arranging one’s for...
11/11/2023

Introducing The Hand-Dyed “Ready For Seconds” Bandana in Cobalt. In the lost art of table etiquette, arranging one’s fork and knife on your “clean plate” in a plus-sign formation signifies to your waiter that you are “ready for seconds.” The “Ready For Seconds” symbol and phrase resonated with us - not only because there is always room for a second helping of something delicious, but because we’re ready to take on what life throws at us even if things don’t go as planned the first time around. There is always something sweet to enjoy after we finish a meal, a race, a project, so the childhood bargaining chip “Clean Plate Club” only felt right to include in this Low-Country Boil-inspired bandana design.

At this point, I was well into an “extracurricular” project back home. I was painting the tabletop of a found pop-up ele...
11/08/2023

At this point, I was well into an “extracurricular” project back home. I was painting the tabletop of a found pop-up elementary school lunch table. It was a marketplace find and its 12 built-in seats would be perfect for my next willow tree-shaded dinner party. The theme for the painted tabletop surrounded my love of hosting, and specifically the spectacle of a Low-Country boil meal. Cobalt renderings of shellfish, lemons and fish offal were already painted before I left for France, but I hit a block with what to do next. It wasn’t until studying the pages of “La Cuisine Est Un Jeu” that I knew I wanted to layer nostalgic recipes and renderings of table etiquette do’s, and to let go of the need of perfectionism in my hand. I worked these illustrations into varying applications like sgraffito ceramics, sewing, painting, charcoals, and oil pastel. I was playing again in a way I hadn’t in 15+ years. In a way, I needed to self-correct and remove any rules I was holding myself to, and what better way to self correct than in loose, red “ink.”

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