30.9.11



Something for the weekend: Background designs
for The Little Mermaid, c. 1987, by Rowland B. Wilson.
(Click to enlarge).

28.9.11

27.9.11


Living: Miffy, a Dutch bunny born in 1955.

26.9.11



Living: Child portraits by Sarah McMenemy.

23.9.11

The Irish Girl, 1860

Living: Ford Madox Brown, re-assessed,

22.9.11


Living: Harris Tweed celebrates its centenary.
Photographs by Lara Platman, "the landscape is the
material and the material is the landscape."

19.9.11

New old word: The bin•dle•stiff (early C20th).
A hobo carrying a bundle, from "bundle" + "stuff".
Above: Joel McCrea in Sullivan's Travels.

15.9.11




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.

13.9.11

What we wore: In 1790.
From the shoe collection
at the V & A Museum.

12.9.11

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."

10.9.11

The Flying Scud*: Demolished.

Living + extinct: Truman's East End pubs.
Via SCP Design Department Store.

* cloud movement, missile, fishing fly

9.9.11



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.

7.9.11

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

6.9.11

Next big thing:
The iHoldaphone (patent pending).

5.9.11



Living: Modern architecture, Ben Pentreath style.

2.9.11




Living: Something for the weekend.

1.9.11


Living: The truth about cabbages + mustard gas.
Photograph of cabbage by News from Nowhere.

contributors

Reed Wilson, Kendra Wilson