Last night was the opening reception for Fine Cell Work's pop-up shop at 5 Grosvenor Street in Mayfair, central London. Warner Textile Archive join Fine Cell Work in the shop with their latest wallpaper releases including "Aquitaine" which is papered on one wall of...
Artist Caroline Achaintre and Arcade Fine Arts have granted your scribe permission to reproduce several of Achaintree's expressive and remarkable textile artworks. Achaintre's work on The Saatchi Gallery website includes Fevver, her 2008 hand tufted wool hanging. The...
A sleek splash in the Olympic pool by Samantha Arevalo Salinas of Ecuador in the women’s 800-meter freestyle heat yesterday inspired your scribe to refresh her interest in Ecuadorean rugs (alfombras). Olga Fisch was a significant figure in the global promotion and...
Goooooold! crow the headlines on most British newspapers this morning following Olympic victories yesterday. COVER celebrates all Olympians with the luxe, luxurious and resplendent "Golden" textile collection designed by Sally Sirkin Lewis for California-based luxury...
On the rare occasion the BBC has network problems your COVER scribe enjoys looking at the fiery Armageddon Clown 502 Bad Gateway message. Clown chappy looks quite chipper given the firestorm behind him. Return from whence you came, instructs the BBC. Very droll. And a...
Ding Dong! National bell ringing at 08:12 tomorrow morning followed by a giant ding dong on a 27-tonne bell at the "Isle of Wonders" Olympic 2012 opening ceremony tomorrow night. It's the official Olympic launch! Although still surrounded by James Bond-style secrecy,...
Say ooh, la la, come on, come on, come on, say ooh la la. Spelled “oh là là” in his native French, fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier is under licence to French textile firm Lelièvre to launch a home textiles line in the autumn. COVER says oh là là là là! Gaultier's...
COVER's feet are twitching in the starting blocks. The Olympics are four days away. Time to think souvenirs. If your eyeballs can't quite cope with the London 2012 Olympics geezer-style logo emblazoned on home furnishings, get yourself over to Thomas Paul and buy one...
It's the heady moment we at COVER dream of; a gold strike during a lunchtime shufti at the charity shop (thrift store in American speak). This week your scribe bagsied a mint copy of The Contemporary Decorative Arts from 1940 to the present day, published in 1980....