Something for the weekend: Background designs

for The Little Mermaid, c. 1987, by Rowland B. Wilson.

(Click to enlarge).

Living:

The Danish Modern Bat Mobile.

Available at Ancient Industries.

Living: Miffy, a Dutch bunny born in 1955.

Living: Child portraits by Sarah McMenemy.

The Irish Girl, 1860

Living: Ford Madox Brown, re-assessed,

at the Manchester Art Gallery.

Living: Harris Tweed celebrates its centenary.

Photographs by Lara Platman, "the landscape is the

material and the material is the landscape."

New old word: The bin•dle•stiff (early C20th).

A hobo carrying a bundle, from "bundle" + "stuff".

Above: Joel McCrea in Sullivan's Travels.

Bring back: The rolltop desk.

A mid-nineteenth century American icon with

space for everything (including escaped convicts), it

was replaced by the steel desk in the early twentieth.

What we wore: In 1790.

From the shoe collection

at the V & A Museum.

Living: Margaret Howell's 10 best product

designs. Above: Abacus tubular steel lighting by

David Mellor, 1955. "His designs work without

drawing attention to themselves, as the best

design should."

The Flying Scud*: Demolished.

Living + extinct: Truman's East End pubs.

Via SCP Design Department Store.

* cloud movement, missile, fishing fly

Forgotten: Charles Le Maire, 1897-1985,

costume designer for the Ziegfeld Follies, later

wardrobe director for All About Eve and others.

Above: Greenwich Village Follies, 1925-1926

from the New York Public Library collection.

Living: Wool Week, 5th-11th September.

Next big thing:

The iHoldaphone (patent pending).

Living: Modern architecture, Ben Pentreath style.

Living: Something for the weekend.

Living: The truth about cabbages + mustard gas.

Photograph of cabbage by News from Nowhere.