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,...
Rugs & Carpets
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...
Ice Age Art: arrival of the modern mind at the British Museum
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...
Get ready to ride! Forza Tappeti: The Rug Revolution 2013
Go on. Lean deep into the hairpin curve. Forza Tappeti Rug Revolution 2013 at the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile, Milan will be an exhilarating ride. Celebrating its second successive year at the Salone, Forza Tappeti is a COVER magazine exhibition presenting the...
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...
Let it snow! Celebrate rugs by Ulrika Liljedahl for les Atelier Pinton
Snow is falling for the sixth successive day in London. So many snowy days that denizens of the Big Smoke are beginning to lose count of when it started. In doing so we have achieved what your scribe calls "the Dylan Thomas snow conundrum". The Welsh poet and writer...
Carpet Design Awards 2013: People’s Choice
DOMOTEX 2013 visitors voted "Diversity" by Angelo Contemporary Rugs, Belgium. as the people's favourite. Representing the diversity of humanity, the rug is handknotted from recycled wool and viscose. The designers say Diversity "stands up for the idea that it is only...
2013 Carpet Design Awards – Winners
Announced Sunday at DOMOTEX 2013, we congratulate the winners of the international 2013 Carpet Design Awards:
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...