Living: Lights salvaged from the Dunlop Factory
and now reproduced in 3 industrial colours (with
choice of silk cord) by our relations at Trainspotters.
Via Remodelista.
29.10.10
28.10.10
27.10.10
25.10.10
How the other half live: 1930s settee
not found in Queen Mary's Doll's House.
At the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Queen Mary, enjoying adolescence
The Queen's Bedroom
Living: Queen Mary's Doll's House.
Architect: Edwin Lutyens.
Landscape: Gertrude Jekyll.
Murals: William Nicholson.
Horse portraits: Alfred Munnings.
Hand-written books: Arthur Conan Doyle.
Scale: 1:12.
22.10.10
Switzerland, 1934
Bavaria, 1925
Bavaria, 1928
Austria, 1929
Living in colour: Hans Hildenbrand (1870-1957).
A German photographer for National Geographic.
20.10.10
19.10.10
18.10.10
Old cars in a junkyard, 1960
Discarded front end of a 1930's era roadster
in an automobile junkyard. 1962
Men from a demolition crew on their break, 1951
Caddies at Pinehurst Golf Course
Trainscapes, 1950
Trainscapes, 1950
Living: Walker Evans in colour, taken whilst he was
staff photographer at Fortune magazine, 1945-1965.
15.10.10
14.10.10
Thriving: Weeds, finally getting their
place in the sun. Cards by John Dilnot,
available at Ancient Industries.
13.10.10
Living: The Castle Bob. Introduced
by Irene Castle in 1915, the Bob was
still creating waves 10 years later.
Illustrations by John Held, Jr.
12.10.10
11.10.10
Endangered: The wool industry.
The Campaign for Wool (patron, HRH)
launches National Wool Week today
with sheep grazing at Savile Row.
8.10.10
7.10.10
Living: Chatsworth, The Attic Sale, part 2.
From our Middle England Correspondent:
"There had been a mania for decoupage and for
taxidermy, now surplus to requirement, even in an
attic. Oak travel boxes each with a plaque 'His Grace
the Duke of Devonshire' and a number, 14, 15, 16,
gave an idea of the precision needed in traveling
from house to house. Oil paintings so murky they
were almost black were paired with cheery piles of
marrows and unscrubbed turnips. Poached salmon
sandwiches were served in the tea pavilion and a
mud bath took place on the lawn between the tents.
Most people saved their shoes while the others
squelched around an early motor car, a Russian
sled (to be pulled by animals with bells on)
and a 60s Triumph Stag with a sticker in the
window: Follow me to Arsenal. 'It's not a clear
out,' the Duke has said. 'It's a clear up.'
And he was not wrong."
Photographs by Kendra Wilson
6.10.10
His Grace's perambulator
Patched sofa
Shredded sofa
"But could one get it into one's London
home, this is the issue here."
A 'birch chair'
"Why would you keep this stuff? Just bin it!"
Living: Chatsworth, The Attic Sale, part 1.
From our Middle England correspondent:
"A heavenly day at Chatsworth in Derbyshire for the last
day of the Attic Sale. The pavilion was filled with hilarity
as men in purple jumpers and curious folk from near and
far took a punt on the massive fireplaces and broken down
old chairs. There were pieces commissioned by Georgiana,
the other famous Duchess of Devonshire, and there were
nicnacs picked up in the 70s, unaccountably held on to.
A very raggedy old sofa, one-armed and with stuffing
coming out of the bottom and the top was described in
the catalogue as 'distressed'. My own favourite discovery
was a mother and her daughter, found photographing
their teddy on all the tables and chairs that
took their fancy."
Photographs by Kendra Wilson
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