The Pacific Design Center, a collection of home décor showrooms on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, always keeps the lobby interesting with new art installations. Between photo exhibitions, furniture pieces upholstered in the same fabric as matching summer dresses, or even the recent giant toppled head of Venus, we always try to walk through the building when we are in the neighborhood.

Right now you can see a “yarn bombing” installation by Olek, featuring a full bedroom – four poster bed, picture frames, television and all – covered in pink, green and purple knitting. Operating a small faction of the street art movement that is sometimes called “grandma graffiti”, artists like Olek are known for taking ordinary, everyday objects, including statues, bicycles, people, or even the Wall Street bull, and covering them in creative crochet.

OLEK AND THE CHARGING BULL ON WALL STREET from olek on Vimeo.

See more images in this slideshow from the New York Times.

Does this count as graffiti? We loved this street art concept by Juliana Santacruz Herrera, who decided to brighten up potholes and cracks in the streets of Paris with colorful yarns. Hard to go wrong when you make the city prettier and solve a public nuisance at the same time! You can see more pictures in this post from Freshome.com.

If you’ve felt the potholes on Wilshire Boulevard anytime recently, you would agree LA could really use an artist like this right now. The only challenge would be installing them quickly enough not to get hit! The artist also put a fun time-lapse video of the installation on her Flickr page.