Living: The Jacob Sheep. A decorativesheep for stately homes, its fortunes declined
with the stately home. Now appreciated, along
with the stately home, as something useful.
31.5.10
28.5.10
WI shop in Stroud, Gloucestershire
Living: The Women's Institute, established in 1915, to
encourage women to contribute to society during the war.
"The WI allows no nonsense like letting men in.
It is the female reply to White's, and other London clubs
which stand firm against admitting women members.
But I hear there is a move to get away from the
"Jam and Jerusalem" image. If so they are making a
great mistake. The home-made stand at any
money-raising event is cleared out in a few minutes.
It is what people love, so why should the WI wish to get
away from that at which they excel? Jam is the thing."
—Deborah Devonshire
27.5.10
26.5.10
Hoy's Cart by Paul Beck b.1922
Turf Fire by Kenneth Rowntree, 1915-1977
Lady With Cat, by John Aldridge, 1905-1983
Living: The Fry Art Gallery in
Saffron Walden, Essex. Keepers of the
flame for the Great Bardfield artists of
the 1950s and their contemporaries.
24.5.10
20.5.10
Telegram by Rex Whistler, 1936
Extinct:
"Can we bring back: scythes, brogues, mourning,
silence, housewives, telegrams, spring cleaning,
snow in January instead of at lambing time, nurses
in uniform, muffins, the 1662 prayer book, pinafores
for little boys, Ethel Merman and Elvis Presley?"
—Deborah Devonshire
Sunrise furnishing fabric, by
Lucienne Day for Heal's, 1969
Cotton bathing costume,
by Bimba, c. 1936-40
Fashion plate by Horace Vernet, 1814
Living: The Victoria & Albert Museum,
founded in 1852. Too vast a subject, but
presented are 3 small reasons to worship.
18.5.10
Living: Thomas Crapper, (1836-1910).
Inventor of the Marlboro Silent Water
Waste Preventer. Read the compelling
history of the toilet by Bill Bryson.
17.5.10
Hares Arunning (part 1)
14.5.10
Living: The Science Museum, which isn't all scientific.
Photographs of the agriculture gallery by Shelf Appeal.
13.5.10
Enid Marx, block print on galled linen
Enid Marx, block print on organdie
Enid Marx, block print on organdie
Neisha Crosland, Zebra, printed paper
Neisha Crosland, Tudor Rose, pigment print on linen
Neisha Crosland, Maize, printed paper
Living: Neisha Crosland, re-interpreting Enid Marx.
Top three textiles from the Visual Arts Data Services.
12.5.10
Lozenge, c. 1940
Living: London Transport moquette,
here designed by Enid Marx (1902-1998).
The brief: Make it look fresh all the time,
even after a bricklayer has sat on it.
11.5.10
Carte de visite by Bassano, NPG.
Living: The Victoria sponge cake.
Named after the Queen, who was evidently fond.
(NB: Delia would now use butter, not margarine).
10.5.10
Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Victoria
with hat
(Louis, Alexander, Henry + Francis Joseph)
of Princess Victoria's wedding to Louis Battenberg,
one of 4 dashing Austrian princes, in 1884. The
name was anglicized to Mountbatten in 1914.
Portraits by Bassano, cake by Jane Brocket.
7.5.10
The Unmade Bed, by Lionel Bulmer
At the Butcher's, by Lionel Bulmer
Misty Morning, Seaton Carew, by Margaret Green
Terrace House, by Margaret Green
Living: The art of Margaret Green (1925-2003) and
Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992), a union that celebrated
quiet domesticity. Paintings available at Messum's.
6.5.10
3rd Avenue line,
Bowery and Division Street, 1936
9th Avenue line,
Christopher and Greenwich Streets, 1936
9th Avenue line, downtown side,
72nd St and Columbus Ave, 1936
Extinct: The 'El'. Once a steam train that puffed
up and down Manhattan 3 stories up, it converted to
electricity in 1903, before being demolished in 1955.
All photographs by Berenice Abbott, at the NYPL.
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