Archive for June, 2012
SHOP: FOLKLORE OPENS SHOP IN ISLINGTON « LONDON DESIGN GUIDE. I like the look of this new shop in Islington. http://alexdonald.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/folklore/ Related articles Folklore (internationalvisual.wordpress.com) http://rincarnation.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/folklore-better-living-by-design/
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Tags: Arsenal F.C., Emirates Stadium, England, folklore, Islington, Islington London Borough Council, london, North London, shop, Upper Street
Virginia and Leonard Woolf bought their house in Sussex, Monk’s House in Rodmell, in 1919, for £700. Two years later, she had a small writing room in the garden constructed out of a wooden toolshed below a loft. It had big windows and a view of the Downs across to Mount Caburn. She wrote there […]
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Tags: Dalloway, Downs, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Mount Caburn, Mrs Dalloway, Rodmell, Virginia Woolf, Woolf, Years
Welcome to the official BILL VIOLA website. An article from the Guardian 19/ March/ 2002 by Mark Kidel The last week in November of last year: Robbie Knott, Hollywood’s top flood-and-rain man, supplier of downpours and deluges to the film industry, is checking the last details of a complex system of tanks and pumps from […]
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Tags: Ashmolean Museum, Berlin, bill viola, Deutsche Guggenheim, Forth, Peter Sellars, Scrovegni Chapel, Viola
Mary Watts Chapel, Compton
Home – Watts Chapel. ‘It is no exaggeration to say that the Watts Cemetery Chapel is one of the most beautiful, one of the most extraordinary, original, marvellous and magical buildings in the whole of the British Isles!’- Lucinda Lambton Designed and built by Mary Watts, the Chapel is a unique fusion of art nouveau, […]
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Tags: art, compton, Farnham, George Frederic Watts, Home Arts and Industries Association, Mary, Mary Fraser Tytler, Spirit of Truth, surrey, The Art Fund, Watts, Watts Gallery, Watts Gallery website, Watts Mortuary Chapel
Cornelia Hesse Honegger: Contemporary. I first came across this work in the Pitt Rivers and Natural History Museum in Oxford in 1997. I’m going through old scrapbooks at the moment and was reminded of them. I liked the repetitive nature, natural history illustration / fine art, multiple, deformities within the natural world, the impact of […]
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Tags: Hesse, Museum, Natural History, Natural History Museum, oxford, Pitt Rivers, Pitt Rivers Museum, United States
S.E.H Kelly — Clothes made in England and the British Isles. In my occasional series of posts featuring the best of British Design, I’ve come upon S.E.H Kelly a design duo based in London who source all of their lovely fabrics from across the British Isles, from mills in Bradford to wool from the Scottish […]
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Tate’s latest exhibition brings together three men separated by eras. We spoke to exhibition curator Jeremy Lewison to see what unites them… It seems year on year, as summer time comes around, it is to the pleasure of art lovers and beyond that we welcome another name from the A-list to the Albert Dock. In […]
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Tags: Albert Dock, Claude Monet, Cy Twombly, J. M. W. Turner, Painting, Tate, Tate Liverpool, Turner
Jeanette Orrell: Delineated | Reviews | Interface | a-n. Jeanette’s exhibition 2008
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Steffan Jones-Hughes 