Exhibitions

Apart from the menacing security guard coming for me as I took this shot, I’m happy with this image of  “Cama” by Los Carpinteros (the flyover bed). All the official photos are from above which is very different from the way it is experienced in the show. The exhibition itself takes interior design as a point of […]

Is it because we are in a period of flux and uncertainty with boundaries evolving  in our lives? Whatever is happening, there is an awful lot of diverse mapping imagery at the moment. Firstly discussion on the many varied roles of maps in a historical context: accuracy came  far behind expressions of power, glory, wealth and plain old PR. Commissioning maps has […]

Horrocks Fashion Exhibition

Last Week’s Hampton Court Flower Show was a delight although many of the flowers in the Rose Pavilion were visibly wilting in the intense heat. The freshest cut flowers on display were  from Charlie Ryrie on the Real Cut Flower Garden stand. This was full of  lovely garden flowers displayed in vintage containers which looked very happy even […]

It’s been a busy few weeks for the new graduates with individual Degree shows still taking place in addition to the big combined ones here in London. Part 2 of New Designers includes furniture, automotive and product design, illustration and spatial design. Here are a very few items; as ever there are many more talented designers but […]

Now closed, this was the surprise hit of the V & A’s spring season. It must be the revival of interest in making and re-use to produce something both functional and unique that brought in the crowds. We are used to seeing American quilts but these European ones opened up a whole new discourse. The […]