Art is meant to challenge. The exhibition “No Shadows in Hell” at the Pilar Corrias Gallery in London asks us to rethink our current perception of the future. We live in a society of contradictions, with extreme societal, environmental and political forces where the sustainability agenda may suggest that we should consume less, but our […]
While the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Crafts Council pose the question “What is luxury” in their current exhibition, the new display of the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum goes some way to defining it. The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of almost 300 objects of exquisite craftsmanship left to the Museum in […]
The gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley are watched over by Henry Moore’s bronze “King and Queen” (1953). This autumn, over 60 additional sculptures are keeping the King and Queen company, in the 18th annual “Surrey Sculpture Society Trail”. A wide variety of garden sculptures, all for sale, provides a treasure trail that […]
London has its great parks but, like any city which has developed over the centuries, there are uninspiring and unloved spaces left over from past building development which, to those who can spot the potential, can become areas for relaxation, enjoyment and imaginative improvement to the urban environment; the most stimulating of these involve collaborations […]
y The Lisson Gallery is located in the “edgy” multi-cultural area to the north of the A40 flyover at Edgeware Road in two purpose-designed complexes in Bell Street which are cultural anchors for the area around them as it goes through regeneration. Indeed a former pub, laundry and telephone box immediately adjacent to the modern […]
The South Hall of the 19th century Covent Garden Market building has been filled with a billowing cloud of 100,000 balloons created by the French artist Charles Petillon and which stretches for 54 metres through the Hall and includes pulsing lights reinforcing its name “Heartbeat” – to represent the “beating heart” of this tourist attraction in Central London. […]
The Beaumont Hotel, which opened a year ago, is the first hotel from the restauranteurs Corbin and King who are the inspiration behind such London restaurants as the Wolseley and the Delaunay. The art deco-façade of the original 1920’s building has been retained and provides the inspiration for the rich art-deco interiors inside. An artistic addition is […]
The Phillips gallery in Mayfair in London has been invaded by new strange alien forms, with 40 works of art by the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos in her exhibition “Material World”. Using a variety of material including woollen crochet, fabric, Murano glass, ornaments, LED lights, mirrors and frames, handmade tiles and other everyday objects, Vasconcelos’ […]
Fire extinguishers, tyres, wheels and basketball balls, combined with graphics of large-leafed plants, fruit and text – these are the elements of Lucas Prices’s sculptures, drawings and paintings in his solo exhibition “Dumb Poetry” at Lazarides Rathbone in London. Lucas Price started out as a street artist called Cyclops in the East End of London, where […]
What is luxury? Is it having the latest technical gadget; relaxing on a super-yacht in Monaco, wearing a unique gold watch from a well-known Swiss or French maker, or perhaps, just having time to enjoy these or even lessor luxuries? Sometimes it is having something truly beautiful that is natural, either real and impossible to […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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