...and this season we shalll be mainly adorning ourselves and our homes with, triangles! Modernist, masculine, feminine, glamorous, illuminous and 50's retro triangles. In today's post I will be looking at the three-sided from all angles!
I bought one of these pink Alchemia chairs from Calligaris at the Ideal Home exhibition in London several years ago. Funnily they arrived from Rome 6 weeks later, when I was actually in Rome and I saw them in the showroom! The colour of these is incredible, but I also love the orange and red ones too!
...whilst lady Gaga isn't everyones' cup of tea (personally I think her image is great fun!), you have to admit that this headpiece from the utterly brillant fashion prop designer Fred Butler is a work of art. Commissioned and made for the unforgettable "Telephone" video with Beyonce earlier this year
...I really enjoy AnOther Magazine, and they have this great feature called "Another Loves", and this watch from Urban Outfitters was "loved" by Fred Butler; go take a look at her blog and you can see why - it is very much in her style!
...Modernist and masculine - Tamasyn Gambell notebooks. A real Bauhaus feel to this design!
...sadly, on a final note, Britain lost two of its' finest designers this year- Lucienne and Robin Day. I've had a lifelong love of Lucienne's fabrics. The top fabric is the one which started it all off, "Calyx", designed in 1951 for the Festival of Britain, and eventually produced by Heals (the rest is history)! You can see the design at the V&A Museum in London. Here it is again used to furnish some incredible chairs!
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you can buy an exact reproduction of Calyx which was approved by Lucienne herself, from Classic Textiles, attached to the Centre for Advanced Textiles at Glasgow College of Art www,classictextiles.com
ReplyDeletethey will take very small orders which makes the fabric great for framing
Love Tamasyn Gambell, saw her work at Cockpit Arts open studio this weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this information Barbara - I might add some more pictures and a link to this as it's such a great site! ps I've been loving looking at your photographs (esp the Christmas ones!)
ReplyDeleteI am so Jelous Jenny you are always whizzing off to such fantastic design events!!! - Are u going to do a post, I'd be fascinated to learn more on the Cockpits Arts Studio!
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