31.12.10

Living: Enlightenment, from the
country that produced the viaduct,
Leonardo, and the Cinquecento.
Plastic bags will be banned tomorrow.

30.12.10


Living: Darning + patching
in deepest Bloomsbury.
Photographs by Kendra Wilson.

29.12.10

Living: Any Wintry Afternoon, 1930,
by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson.

28.12.10

Palazzo Eleanora Duse

Il Redentore, from Zattere, Venice

The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute

Living: Walter Sickert's Venice.

27.12.10

Jefferson Market, 1917

Spring Rain, 1912

Pigeons, 1910

McSorley's Bar, 1912

Six o'clock, Winter, 1912

Living: John Sloan's Greenwich Village.

24.12.10

Living: Cornelians and rose-cut
diamonds. Germany c. 1728.

23.12.10

Living: Stays, red wool with
cream linen. England, 1770-80.

22.12.10

Living: Shoe by Hook
Knowles & Co., c. 1900.

21.12.10

Living: Empress cage crinoline,
spring steel and wool braid
c. 1865-68. Victoria & Albert.

20.12.10


Living: Doll's coat, red wool with
pale blue spotted silk lining 1690-1700.

17.12.10



Living:
The art of the monogram

16.12.10

Otto Karl, hunting style, velvet felt
Chantal, beret, hamster*
Lord Theo, velvet felt

Living: Mühlbauer of Vienna.
A family concern since 1903.

*Quite large ones, presumably

15.12.10

Derek Hudson, 2004

Evert Collier

Unknown designer, c. 1585

Living:
The unique + brilliant magpie
that is Mary Caple.

14.12.10

kind hearted woman

dishonest man

telephone

well guarded house

tell pitiful story

Extinct: Hobo signs.

11.12.10

Strasse 2
after European enamel signs

Delancey
from tenement doorways

Trafalgar
inspired by British monuments

Depot
modelled on vintage railcars

Living: Numbers re-created

10.12.10

Living: The self portrait Christmas card.
Commonly practiced in America,
Not practiced by commoners in the UK.
(But don't they look smashing).

9.12.10

Cave Girl

Flintstone

Living: Tartan at The Rug Company.

8.12.10

Living: The great Victorian tartan craze. Led by
Victoria + Albert when they bought Balmoral which
they carpeted in Royal Stewart and upholstered in
Dress Stewart. John Brown at Balmoral, portrait
by Hills and Saunders, early 1880s, at the NPG.

7.12.10

Living: Vivienne Westwood tartan.
Design your own at the V & A.

3.12.10


Living: Stewart. A Lowland tartan which
hails from a town near Paisley. It comes in
many styles including Black, Royal, Hunting,
Dress, Modern, Ancient, Muted and Antique.
Black + Royal available at Ancient Industries.
Living: The Grapes, Narrow Street, Limehouse,
London, established 1720. Dickens "sang" for his
supper here as a child (who wants to hear that?)
So today children are barred, along with telly.
Recommended by the chaps at Old Town.

2.12.10


Men's Traditional Leather Derby Boot

Tug of War Boot
World War I Boot

Hill Boot

Living: William Lennon & Co, since 1899.
"The only remaining heavy duty safety, foundry
and agricultural boot manufacturer in the UK."
Recommended by the lads at Trainspotters.

1.12.10

Living: "English Homes," by
John Dilnot, screen printed on recycled card.
Available at Ancient Industries.

contributors

Reed Wilson, Kendra Wilson