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29.5.09
Living
:
Real Tennis
. An indoor sport favoured by
the fleet-footed Henry VIII. Chaucer, too, was known
to ask "but canstow playen racket, to and fro?"
Racquets available at
Jesmond Dene
.
28.5.09
Game, set & match
: René Lacoste,
with the first appliquéd trademark, applied
to the the first piqué sports shirt, 1933.
27.5.09
Living
: Copper plate steel engraving
at
Dempsey & Carroll
, established 1878.
26.5.09
Alive and kicking
: The country club.
22.5.09
Living
: Terra cotta roof tiles. The Greeks discovered
that by molding clay around a pipe or human thigh they
could keep out rain more efficiently than with thatch.
Photograph by
Fuori Borgo
.
21.5.09
Living
: Avarcas. Made of cowhide and old tyres,
this traditional Catalan sandal is the eco flip flop.
Available at
Ancient Industries
.
20.5.09
Living
:
The Chelsea Flower Show
, since 1862.
Best
courtyard garden: the Fenland Alchemist garden.
19.5.09
Living
:
Slewing.
The use of multiple strands
of woven willow to create a wattling effect.
Photograph by
Chris Draper
.
Living
:
Wattling
, a perishable woven willow fence,
popular in Medieval gardens and still in use today.
18.5.09
Living
: The
barbecue
.
Again, Primitive Man and all that.
15.5.09
Living
: Stencils. If pre-historic caves
are to be believed, then human hands
were the first form of stencil, followed
a bit later by the written word.
14.5.09
Living
: Red, from Old English
read
.
Heat, energy, blood, anger, passion, love.
Photograph by Madame Yevonde, 1932.
13.5.09
Living
:
Ian Mankin
, natural and organic fabrics.
Woven in an ancient family owned mill in Lancashire.
12.5.09
Yew, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton
Yew, Packwood House, Warwickshire
Box, Kingston Lacy, Dorset
Living
: Topiary, from
topiarus
, Latin, Roman, &c.,
Pliny the Elder and the Younger were simply mad for it.
Photographs from the
National Trust Photo Library
.
11.5.09
Jane, 2009
Henry, 1999
Living
: Pet portraits.
Kings did it, knaves did it,
Even men who lived in caves did it.
Above portraits by
Duncan Hannah
.
8.5.09
300SL Gullwing Coupe, 1954
300SL Panamericana, 2009
Livin
g
: Gullwing, or Flügeltüren, by Mercedes-Benz.
7.5.09
Corduroy, c.1945
Cotton, corduroy, sacking materials, c.1950
Cotton and synthetic knits, c.1965
Living
:
The American quilt
. Made popular with
the introduction of mass-produced textiles in the
1840s and still made today. Courtesy of
Inchmark
.
6.5.09
Frizz top horsehair bar wig
Black metal upright wig case
Living
: The barrister's wig, adopted soon after
Charles II made the wig fashionable in England.
Available at
Ede and Ravenscroft
, est 1689.
5.5.09
Maija and Kristin Isola,
Dombra
, 1960
Living
:
Marimekko
, since 1951.
Stridently modern, unabashedly antique.
4.5.09
Living
:
Richard Baker
,
paperbacks, gouache on paper.
1.5.09
Matisse, 1940s
Lino mounted on wood backing
Barron and Larcher, 1920s
Living
: The linocut. When linoleum* was invented in
1860 it was soon taken up by artists and textile designers
as a more pliable carving material than wood.
*linum: flax, oleum: oil
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