METROLAND (ART MURMER)
ART BEAT
20TH-CENTURY INSPIRATION
When artist Tommy Watkins was approached to do a “beautification” of the inside entrance to Lark Street coffee-shop mainstay the Daily Grind, he looked back to the first decades of the last century and the art nouveau movement: “Around the very earliest years in the 1900s, an Italian artist named Leonetto Cappiello was becoming very popular….He did a lot of commercial posters for some absinthe and chocolate companies,” Watkins explained in an e-mail. You’ve probably seen examples of Cappiello’s work-it’s distinctive. Watkins decided that the spirit of that era fit the mood of the shop. Watkins is still working on the project: why not stop by the daily Grind and take a look?
Photo Credit: Alicia Solsman
Classic inspiration, new design: Watkins with his work at the Daily Grind.