British rug designer Tania Johnson revealed her first carpet collection back in 2010 while she was residing in New York. Having returned to the UK in 2011 Johnson continues to create some of the most magical rug designs around today. Her latest series entitled the...
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Valentine’s Day 2013. Tainted love no more?
Begone earworm! Valentine's Day is nigh and Tainted Love is on loop in your scribe's frontal cortex. Soft Cell's nonpareil cover of Tainted Love featured in the first series of one of your scribe's favourite telly shows Being Human. Although nominally about a ghost,...
No time to make your own felt rug? Buy the beauties at Peace Industry
News of the recent make-over of famous chef Julia Child's childhood kitchen made your scribe eager to try out a new recipe. But rather than consult her favourite cookery book (not alas one by Child, but rather The Kopan Cookbook), your scribe browsed her groaning...
Catherine Martin rug collection predicts an Art Deco revival
Apartment Therapy asked their readers the interior design $64,000 Question (inflation adjusted maybe half a million): What do you think is the next big thing? While your scribe hankers for Edgaroso's "trilobites and burlap", more realistically your scribe has selected...
Prosaic to profound: Lio de Bruin’s handmade leather rugs
Designed for her 2012 Degree Show at Design Academy Eindhoven, Lio de Bruin's covetable handmade leather needlework rug collection will be exhibited next month at OBJECT Rotterdam. Bruin's inspiration was a "big needlework encyclopedia", a charmingly redundant phrase...
Prayer Rug by Modallion at Toronto IDS 2013
If Madonna's lyrics are a chapbook, guide or vade mecum, then her famous lyric line "life is a mystery" summarises the human conundrum. Just what does "it" all mean? Whether or not you question the meaning of life, a life lived well should be our common goal, and...
Celebrate magical masterpieces with Parris Wakefield Additions
Expect magic not mayhem when the Mayan calendar ends tomorrow. Dystopian doomsayers who cooked the books to make the calendar falsely predict finality and fatalities, might have put their time to better use by joining lovers of number patterns to celebrate the...
Mermaids, cherubs & cheer: Lana MacKinnon’s mid-century designs
"Victory in Europe" day was celebrated 8 May 1945 to mark the end of World War II. A flow of celebratory imagery appeared on ceramics, furnishing and dress fabrics, textiles and rugs. Mermaids and dolphins; putti and roses; swags and urns. Villas and houses were...
Foundation presents Rug Addicts exhibition in East London
Nick Hartwright and Mark Hanlon collaborate with "the world's finest cutting edge artists and designers to create beautiful, limited-edition hand-knotted rugs." Together they are Foundation, a new rug company. Foundation's inaugural exhibition - "Rug Addicts" - opened...