“To foster the dreams and creativity of today’s young children who will be the bearers of tomorrow through the art, and also to further understanding of the world’s diverse cultures and differences in global liefstyles.”
The intricacy of the woven horsehair strands; their red dyed coloration and the tiny scale of brooch and necklace components is perhaps not surprising for a country with such a lace-making heritage.
The abundance of yellow and the wall-to-wall tomes in a square room of not too large a scale make it very cosy. Having said that I think I would want to be sticking my head around the door at the Picasso, Gainsborough and tapestries in the sitting room next to it; not to mention that music room.
Roberts draws inspiration from x-rays and CT scans, body-mapping and contouring the human form. For AW2011 the collection teams with accessories from Eye of the World; a collaboration between Liam Motyer [a teacher] and Hope Von Joel [a stylist]. Each wooded accessory is uniquely crafted and finished by hand in London. It is a balance where each offsets and carries the other into a seamless look.
There is no sound yet there are fleeting moments. Rather than frozen in time the image is captured, held for a moment and released once more to captivate.
Nine yards of unpleated linen was required to make one yard of the pleated fabric. Linen, a notoriously creasing fabric, is fairly crease resistant when smocked. The gown would likely have been quite light and very comfortable since the fiber breaths and is quite absorbent, making for a gown that is both beautiful, form fitting and comfortable.
Harry Bertoia’s diamond chair; a classic design for Knoll that Bertoia created shortly after setting up a studio in Philadelphia in 1950. Trash day and …
The vibrancy of colours is striking. This vibrancy is not least a result of the layering and building up of the canvas surface, but also the placement of colours in relation to each other.
My first encounter of the museum floor had me standing in front of these two creatures. Formidable and beautiful, these birds of prey are as close as many of us would hope to get and an amazing opportunity to study the feathers and shapes in their beautiful plumage.
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