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Kelly Behun x The Rug Company
How does your collection with The Rug Company reflect your design aesthetic? I find inspiration in what I see around me every day and then interpret and incorporate elements into my designs. This collection for The Rug Company was directly influenced by New York City...
Kelly Behun x The Rug Company
How does your collection with The Rug Company reflect your design aesthetic? I find inspiration in what I see around me every day and then interpret and incorporate elements into my designs. This collection for The Rug Company was directly influenced by New York City...
Mad Men series 6: luxe moderne or pop art modernity?
It's 1968 in the world of Mad Men. Or so say pundits speculating on the time jump for series six which debuts with a two hour special 7 April (US) and 10 April (UK). Your scribe is unable to watch since cable poached MM from BBC4, so no plot spoilers please....
Mad Men madras? Meet Osborne & Little’s pink & yellow Trapani
First day of Spring 2013 is achieved, and now it's almost time for sum, sum, summertime. Blazing glory is three months distant for northern climes, and yes London's sufferance of summer gloom will likely continue, but nevertheless your scribe is thinking summer madras...
At the heart of excellent craft there’s only one right way
The Alf Onnie curtain shop in East Ham, London, was on its uppers. Established in 1920, the family owned curtain company was one net curtain away from financial disaster. But then along came Alex Polizzi. Star of BBC television reality show The Fixer, Polizzi uses her...
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...
Ho, ho, ho! Merrymekko!
Confession. Your scribe Christmas self-gifted on her way to the Anne Kyyrö Quinn reception last week. Signposted by a clock on the pavement of the retail juggernaut that is Oxford Street, St Christopher's Place is a wee lane with enticing small shops. Marimekko is...
Rumble in the rhombus: TEX Tile weave inspired ceramic tiles
Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay are the Raw-Edges Design Studio. Their TEX Tile ceramic tile collection for Mutina is inspired by the texture of textiles. “Almost every object has its own particular texture, whether it’s a natural or a handmade material", the duo declare....
Warner Textile Archive launch Wendy Bray wallpaper collection
Finding treasure in the attic doesn't just happen to punters on the Antiques Roadshow. The launch yesterday of Warner Textile Archive's Wendy Bray wallpaper collection (nine designs) at the Fine Cell Work pop-up shop in Mayfair, London, was the result of a rummage...
Hollywood floors
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...
Courtauld Institute of Art annual book sale – design and more – opens 2nd October
Each year your scribe looks forward to her alma mater's annual used, vintage, and rare book sale at Somerset House on the Strand in London. Tuesday October 2nd is the public opening of the 2012 Courtauld Institute of Art book scrum err, sale. Rugby lingo is...