Ancient Industries: March 2011

31.3.11

Living: Mildred Pierce, set design.

30.3.11

Living/extinct: Embossed bunny stickers at

Ancient Industries, discontinued by Shackman.

29.3.11

Sisters Lloyd at the Old Bedford

The Old Bedford

Minnie Cunningham at the Old Bedford

Extinct: The Bedford Theatre,

Camden High Street, 1861-1959.

Paintings by Walter Sickert.

28.3.11

Living: Kilim, possibly of

Mongolian origin, and more like a

woven tapestry than a pile rug.

All vintage rugs at Loom.

25.3.11

Living: Alfred Wallis and

Ben Nicholson at Compton Verney.

24.3.11

Re-living:

Portrait of John MacWhinnie

by Fairfield Porter, 1972.

23.3.11

Living: Curiosity Shop by Emily Sutton at St Jude's.

22.3.11

Living:

Dirt. The Filthy Reality of Every Day Life.

The Great Dust-Heap at King's Cross,
watercolour by E. H. Dixon, 1837.

21.3.11

Living: Place setting at Leila's Cafe.

Photograph by Reed Wilson.

18.3.11

Living: Red and white American quilts

(650 of them) at the Park Avenue Armory.

17.3.11

Living: Fly fishing, with William Powell.

16.3.11

Living: Leila's Shop, via Spitalfields Life.

15.3.11

Out for a spin with Mackintosh, goggles, gauntlets

Off for a swifty in Sunday tweeds

Adventures in cross-dressing (he is English)

Dressing for dinner with jaunty striped socks

Living: The dandy Toad.

Illustrations by E. H. Shepard.

14.3.11

Living: Let England Shake.

Film by Seamus Murphy.

11.3.11

Living: Intellecta Monograms.

10.3.11

RIP: Peter Yates, 1929-2011.
Director of Breaking Away
(and other films like Bullitt
and The Dresser).

9.3.11

Living: Spanish enamel coffee pot with

hinged lid. Available at Ancient Industries.

8.3.11

The Cape Cod Watch

The Harnais Pocket Watch

Living: Hermès, stitching by hand since 1837.

"Profit is not the driving force. It is the reward."

7.3.11

Living: Olive oil can, made by Ibili in Spain,

now available at Ancient Industries & AIUK.

4.3.11

Extinct: Illustration in advertising.

Watercolours by Rowland Wilson.

3.3.11

Living: Barbour Flyweight Rose

Beadnell jacket with Liberty print lining.

2.3.11

A Crashed Aeroplane, Devon

C. J. Pearce

HMS Ark Royal Action

by Eric Ravilious

Incendiaries in a Suburb, 1941

by Henry Carr

Gunner W. C. Macaloney,

Royal Canadian Artillery

by Henry Lamb

Living: Lesser known paintings

at the Imperial War Museum.

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