This has to be one of the most beautiful benches I’ve seen. James Carroll works under the name of Stickman, specialising in using materials discarded by others. It’s the purity of this piece with its chiseled surface and inserts that got me. Show me a good wooden stool and I go weak at the knees; […]
Things to sit on by Irish furniture makers at Tent, London
Inside the Café Royal Hotel
As you know, I sometimes visit hotels, mainly in London, so here’s another one seen recently.The Café Royal, originally founded in the mid-19th century by Frenchman Daniel Nicholas Thévenon (who anglicised his name to Daniel Nicols), reopened last year after almost four years of restoration. The “N” monogrammes found throughout the original building are apparently in honour of […]
Korean Craft at Tent during the London Design Festival
You know how sometimes you just want peace and quiet? Well, I found it here in this exhibition of Korean work, Constancy & Change, at Tent. It’s a touring exhibition, having first been at La Triennale di Milano and now on its way to Hangzhou in China before ending in Seoul. The images here include […]
Beers Contemporary
I’d been meaning to visit Beers Contemporary for a while now and finally popped in on a Saturday afternoon, initially to see Michael Mapes‘ work as I’d seen images of it before. I was intrigued by his deconstruction of a portrait and the way he reconstitutes the image. There was poignancy in the debris from elements […]
Lego’s celebration of The London Design Festival and Open House
For all young architects, designers, engineers and makers I had to stop when I saw this on popping into John Lewis Oxford Street for something totally unrelated. Click on the names for more on both the London Design Festival and Open House, taking place this weekend. Were there any buildings you didn’t recognise?
Olafur Eliasson’s response to JMW Turner at Tate Britain
From 10th September Tate Britain is showing the EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free, with extraordinary paintings created during the latter part of the artist’s life. Olafur Eliasson, best known here for his Weather Project installation at Tate Modern in 2003, has created a series of colour experiments based on analysis of seven […]