How many fashionable clothes are worn one or two times, before being discarded or gently wrapped in tissue paper and placed carefully at the back of the wardrobe?. Perhaps a new trend has come along, or washing/cleaning has taken some of the sheen or colour out of the fabric or softened the sharp contours. Is […]
In 2009, Michele Obama broke with the tradition of the First Lady wearing dresses by American designers to major events; her choice for a NATO dinner and for the American Ballet Theatre in New York was the Tunisian couturier Azzedine Alia, whose list of clients includes some of the most noteworthy woman of the age […]
Behind the windows of Phillips in Berkeley Square, the partnership with Matchesfashion.com downstairs displays photographs for auction including Walter & Zoniel’s ICONOSTATUS wall of hand-coloured and gilded tintypes; upstairs is Walter & Zoniel’s full-sized camera obscure, for which you can book a portrait sitting (at a cost) and a selection of current fashions from Matchesfashion.com from designers […]
500 years ago, Henry VIII was king of England. He and his wife Catherine of Aragon had just celebrated the birth of their daughter, Mary, though Henry was desperate for a son to succeed him, and Thomas More completed his book “Utopia” describing the political system of an idealised island state, published in Latin in […]
In 1891 Marianne Brocklehurst, the daughter of the wealthy silk manufacturer John Brocklehurst who was also Macclesfield’s first MP, made her last journey to Egypt where she watched the archaeological discovery and removal of a large number of mummies in Thebes. This took place only a few years before Lord Astor completed his London office […]
In 2011, The Lightbox in Woking held a successful exhibition on British Pop Art. It has now gone further with its new exhibition that looks at international Pop Art in American and Europe. Yet again, the Lightbox has achieved an exhibition of international quality. Curator Michael Regan has brought together works by a many well-known […]
Architecture as a fashion design for women? Perhaps not likely; fabric designers often celebrate the countryside or nature in clothing fabrics, but rarely urban architecture. This tends to be limited to the occasional silk tie or scarf in an art museum. The media artist and writer Andrea Zapp might be about to change that. Born in Germany and […]
Perhaps to recognise Boston’s heritage as a harbour and the location of the Institute of Contemporary Arts on the waterfront, the current exhibition Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present celebrates 50 years of art created from fibre, rope and string which has been woven, twisted and shaped in a variety of ways to create three-dimensional artworks – wall-hanging, […]
"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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