"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...
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,...
Grayson Perry, Royal Academician, Turner Prize winner and fêted contemporary British artist? Meet Marguerite Zorach. Several years ago your scribe hit pay dirt in a charity shop. Ann Wiseman's 1969 book Rag Tapestries and Wool Mosaics introduced your scribe to...
Edible Surfaces is a collaborative project by London based textile studio Pinaki Studios and Amsterdam's premium chocolate retailer Chocolátl. The collaboration draws inspiration from the processes of chocolate artisans and textile manipulations such as pleating,...
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....
Tall stands of the twin-needle Lodgepole Pine grow in dense forests throughout the western United States and Canada. Varieties are found on coastal shores, plains and mountains. The slender trunk of the high altitude pine tends to be sparsely limbed for much of its...
Sunday sees the sixtieth birthday of Hollywood legend Mickey Rourke, the star of your scribe's favourite movie - The Wrestler (2008). Rourke was robbed of the Best Actor award at the Oscars, and it's a mystery why the movie wasn't nominated for Best Picture, Best...
"Give me a beach, something to eat, and a couple of broads, and I can get along without material things." The Santa Monica bus driver who expressed his basic but base view of the sublime to city sage Reyner Banham (who included it in his 1971 book Los Angeles the...
Although recognised primarily as an architect, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known by the pseudonym he adopted in 1920 - Le Corbusier - tipped his hand to many pursuits as an urban planner, artist, designer and theorist. The Swiss Embassy in London is not open to...