Define ‘bodging’. I always thought it just meant doing something shoddily (hello!) but in actual fact it is also the ancient art of working unseasoned, green wood. I only know this after reading about the Bodging Milano project. Rory Dodd of Designersblock invited a number of furniture designers to Clissett Wood to take part in […]
The first rule of book club is….no never mind. I just wanted to flag up this art duo’s installation piece. It’s a giant maze made up entirely of books and you, people, are invited to join Brazilian creators Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo to help build it in the Clore Ballroom of The Southbank Centre […]
Stumbled across the shop Forest in Clerkenwell last week and thought it really sweet. How do you like those yellow window frames? The shop was set up by LCF fashion student Eva Coppens and as you can see her thing is Mid Century Scandinavian design. Eva herself, by the way, was the lovely smiley vision of a […]
Want to know what Mary Portas sees when she closes her eyes? I’ve just spent ages lethargically looking through a Flickr group called UKClosed, made up entirely of pictures of empty shops. It’s hypnotic, depressing and beautiful in a Barnsley-after-the-apocalypse kind of way. And the strange thing is how each one gives you a jolt […]
Great series of photos of the old Covent Garden Market in the 60’s and 70’s taken from the book Old Covent Garden by Clive Boursnell. It motivated me to search for shots of the old Paddy’s Market in Glasgow, which shut down in 2009 because it had supposedly gone to seed. It was more, er, rustic a market […]