“What can happen on a rectangular shape?” asks Giulia Damiani of RCA Secrets, the Royal Academy of Art’s annual fundraiser exhibition taking place this month. This week I visited the RCA’s new Battersea site where a huge collection of original postcard sized artworks is on display. An eccelectic mix of artists, RCA graduates, photographers, fashion designers and architects have donated work. Eley Kishimoto, Manilo...
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This beautiful house is home to Brazilian designer Marcelo Rosenbaum. Situated in the Pinheiros neighborhood of São Paulo, Rosenbaum preserved the existing structure of the original building by choosing to renovate the house himself. The striking arrangement of tiles that cover the floor around the pool, lounge, barbecue, garage and driveway; half wall of the...
Not wanting to miss the first interiors trade show of the year, I fought off wind and rain to get myself down to Home in Earls Court on a very wintery Sunday afternoon. Unsurprisingly perhaps for those who know me, I fell in love with a number of textile designers this year. This is my...
I heart a free front, but this is a particularly beautiful sans serif design by the lovely Fontfabric, aka designer Svetoslav Simov, who is kind enough to create a new and totally unique font each week for his followers which you are able to buy or download free of charge. It has colour, it has curve,...
I came across this amazing ad campaign by Jessica Walsh, a multidisciplinary designer based in New York via an interview she gave to Adobe’s Inspire Magazine last month. Walsh describes her work as a “mixture of passion, play, concept, and form”, and is hugely inspired by the Surrealist movement whose experiments with juxtaposition, subversion and...
The Secret Emporium returned to London this weekend, after a busy summer of love. Born out of the ever popular boutique festival Secret Garden Party, the creators of the Emporium have a fair amount of experience in set dressing, styling and theatrical execution, and they didn’t disappoint this time, turning an east end warehouse into a magical...
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Fondly remembered as the ‘Picasso of concrete’ Oscar Niemeyer was one of the most innovative modernist architects in our lifetime and created some of the most distinct and original buildings across the globe. “Right angles don’t attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man,” Niemeyer famously said. Instead his trademark futuristic designs...
So he may not be may favourite artist in the world (note: no ‘I heart’ tag) but given his unquestionable impact on the global art scene over the last 20 years I felt I had to go and see Damien Hirst’s exhibition at the Tate Modern last month. For all the negative press, it was...
This week I treated myself to an afternoon off work to go and see the Rain Room at the Barbican. Reports of 2 hour long queues were not wrong – lucky for me, my trusty other half worked his magic and we were able to sneak in ahead of the masses before too long. For...
Holly Becker of seminal interiors blog Decor8 came to London town on Tuesday night for the launch of her second book, Decorate Workshop. Fellow interior design stylist Mr Bazaar led the interview while Holly ran through her 8 steps to creating your wonderful home. I found her personal story of how she changed career and became...
