Popular Second Life Furniture Brand *Art Dummy Closing its Doors Next Week

Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style

*Art Dummy, a beloved niche furniture and decor brand in Second Life, will be closing its doors next week. Designer Gala Charron announced the closure a few days ago on Flickr and on her blog, writing:

It is with deep regret that I am closing *Art Dummy! I've been struggling for a long time with "artist's block". In addition I've been grappling with a chaotic first life. The main store will close next Wednesday, October 15. I hope to return one day.

If you're unfamiliar with the brand, Gala's work with *Art Dummy is often easy to spot -- and well worth looking at...

*Art Dummy's style is very clean, very modern, and Gala's designs often blend unnatural contrasts and colors with textures like unfinished wood. *Art Dummy may be most well known for some of its rarer, more surreal pieces. Furniture with limbs and strange hybrid features that are interspersed with the mellow votive candles and repainted faux thrift store finds that populate the rest of her line.

It's good to hear that Gala's not done with SL, but even so you won't want to miss your chance to snap up her existing designs while they're still available. You can browse Gala Charron's work on Flickr or visit her shop in-world [SLURL] or on the SL Marketplace.

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Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart on Twitter, Iris Ophelia in Second Life) has been writing about virtual worlds and video games for nearly a decade, and has had her work featured on Paste, Kotaku, Jezebel and The Mary Sue.

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[Gala Charron]

Thank you so much, Iris. <3