Today's subject is subversive but sweet. Readers who decided not to splash the cash on the Roses rug your scribe recommended, may opt instead for the Valentine's day gold standard gift - sugar. But if your yen is more cerebral and less Willy Wonka, consider a linked...
Yesterday your scribe attended the press preview of the British Museum's new exhibition Ice Age Art: arrival of the modern mind. The exhibition explores sculpture and drawings during the last European Ice Age (circa 40,000 - 10,000 years ago) and the "modern" mind...
The portmanteau word "carpetalogue" is the delightful moniker created to describe the ‘pages’ – i.e. carpets - in the current exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers, London. Celebrating art and design studio M/M (Paris), the singular exhibition title is interpreted by...
Too big to drop through the letterbox, your scribe's cloven hoofed neighbour kindly delivered the package left in his custody by her postie. Inside was the new Fransje Killaars artist monograph published by 010 Publishers, Rotterdam. Killaar's polychromatic textile,...
On the back of the V&A's fabulous Hollywood Costume exhibition, how about following it up with a Hollywood Carpet exhibition? Andrew Hearst has designed these carpet tiles based on the creepy hotel floors in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and is looking for a...
Editor Ben Evans picked up the Metro on the way to work this morning and discovered crotchetdermy. We love crocheting queen Shauna Richardson's collection of stuffed animals. So do the V&A who exhibited her work as part of their 'The Power of Making' exhibition....
While the design mafia flocked to the myriad events allied to the opening of the London Design Festival, your scribe spent a blissful morning yesterday at the British Museum press preview of the exhibition "Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain," after...
"Take me back to Manhattan, Take me back to New York. I'm just longing to see once more, My little home on the hundredth floor!" Cole Porter's lyrics sum up the magnetic pull of New York city - Manhattan and the boroughs. And whether or not you live on the hundredth...
If there's one thing COVER knows it's moths. Not gorgeous, blowsy cloud forest moths, but the tiny destroyers of clothes and carpets. Your scribe still mourns her Christopher Farr rug. Carefully folded for a period in storage, it emerged with fist-sized holes. But...
