Icon Magazine took over this beautiful building as the House of Culture for Clerkenwell Design Week. The Old Sessions House is set to be redeveloped: either into offices or a member’s club. The photos below show how it looked during the week. Companies displaying collections included Pinch and Timorous Beasties. Planting below by Indoor Garden […]
The House of Culture at the Old Sessions House – Clerkenwell Design Week
Bert & May’s barge at Clerkenwell Design Week
Designed by Laura Fulmine with the flooring and tile company Bert & May, I came across this without forewarning in a quiet yard. One of Bert & May’s directors, Lee Thornley, told me he’s looking forward to living in it once it’s back in the water in East London. Galley kitchen between living area and bedroom. The […]
Exhibition by NOHO Artists at Seven Dials Club in Covent Garden
Seven Dials Club is opposite the Donmar Warehouse – you can’t get much more central than that in London. The artists who met at The Other Art Fair have formed an informal group and this, their first London show together in association with online gallery Balthazart, has taken the concept of a conversation. One person sent an image to another […]
Circles at The Chelsea Flower Show
Always tuned into this shape, here are a few examples I spotted at the show. Fuminari Todaka used them above for his Home garden whilst you could look through the circle of Howard Miller Design’s Dark Matter garden. Ishihara Kazuyuki was another designer using circles as a design motif in harmony with trademark moss balls […]
A little bit of Chatsworth at Chelsea Flower Show
I was so lucky to be offered a ticket to the Chelsea Flower Show this year but was only able to spend 1 1/2 hours there, enough though to get an overview. Dan Pearson’s garden inspired by the outer cultivated landscape of Chatsworth was quite remarkable – look at the moss and weeds on this rock below – it […]
Tate Modern’s Musée de le Danse
I was very keen to see this concept given my love of dancing: the whole of Tate Modern given over to contemporary dance for two days. We arrived on Saturday afternoon to see a solo performance of Levée des conflits before participating in the visitors’ version. Everyone in the Turbine Hall was invited to take […]