Gareth Wild and Michelle Thompson are an East Anglian graphic designer and illustrator, who live on the web at 59highstreet.com. They’ve come up with a way to commemorate the beautiful old village signs that are slowly disappearing from our lanes and hedgerows.
There’s such music in those village names. Ickleton. Elsenham. Sewards End.
Now you can own [...]
Entries Tagged as 'furniture'
Village typography
July 9th, 2010 1 Comment
Holkham Hall
September 6th, 2009 5 Comments
This blog has a slight danger of becoming a stately home review blog, but I’m not going to apologise. I love being surrounded by beautiful things and drinking tea, and a house visit generally involves both of these in spades. It’s like Grand Designs without the hard hats.
Holkham Hall is interesting to visit because it’s [...]
Tags: holkham · north norfolk · stately home
Christchurch Mansion
June 24th, 2009 No Comments
The children of Ipswich are lucky indeed. Not only do they have an estimable town museum, they also have Christchurch Mansion, where they can go and develop their taste by looking at beautiful domestic objects from centuries past, in a beautiful old house surrounded by parkland for running around in afterwards.
The interiors are from every [...]
Tags: christchurch mansion · furniture · ipswich · museum
life.com
April 12th, 2009 No Comments
Under the that wonderfully evocative URL, Life magazine has put its photo archive online. There are photos of everything both great and ordinary, from the early years of the twentieth century onwards.
It’s a great resource for anyone interested in local history, twentieth century fashion, architecture, design, and just how life was lived. There are also [...]
Tags: 1920s · 1930s · art · culture · design · east anglia · history · life · life magazine · photography · photos · pictures · social history
A motherlode of beautiful furniture
January 28th, 2009 1 Comment
This weekend is the monthly auction at Willingham, a small village northwest of Cambridge.
The auction house is a series of beautiful old brick barns, set around a gravelled courtyard, and to me it beats shopping on Ebay hands down, especially for furniture.
Auctions are held on Saturdays and the drill is that if you arrive at [...]
Tags: auction · edwardian · furniture · georgian · retro · victorian · vintage · willingham · willingham auctions
Hidden Art in Cambridge
August 24th, 2008 1 Comment
Kettle’s Yard looks like a nice modern gallery from the street. They generally have interesting art exhibitions, and the quality of light is the gallery is lovely. So far so good, an ornament to Cambridge.
A while back, after visiting, I followed a sign out the back to the house at Kettles Yard, and fell down [...]
Tags: art · cambridge · cambridgeshire · east anglia · gallery · interior · kettles yard · modernism · objects · paintings