This week's guest blogger at design*sponge, Maria of port2port, has done an amazing job of collecting inexpensive but spectacular original artwork for sale online. Fair trade focuses on ensuring that those in the third world receive appropriate compensation for their work, but artists at home tend to put endless hours into pieces of work that they receive very little recompense for - while posters of work by dead artists continue to command fat fees. Shown here is Substrom's Apartment Block, for sale at the always-delightful Etsy, for only $30 USD. 20cm x 20cm. [GT]
Affordable art [via design*sponge]
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