Another favourite from the current exhibit ‘Pop: Design, Culture, Fashion’ at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. c.1966 Hans Jurgen-Holzer’s screen printed cotton for Heals Fabrics. Share this ___________________________________
Some favourites from the current exhibit ‘Pop: Design, Culture, Fashion’ at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. The ready-to-assemble couture is perhaps a forerunner to Miyake’s …
Looking back at the Japanese Art and Design exhibition at MAD recently which showcased pieces from the museum’s permanent collections. This was a feast for …
…this penchant to revisit fabric treatments a la textile in interiors; we saw it with lace, and net, via Marcel Wanders, and now here we have the Elizabethan Ruff!
Australian Bookbinding has it’s annual showing at the AGNSW, ending tomorrow. Various designers playing with the idea of graphic enticements of the book covering variety. …
It’s easy to look back at the past and think that all other eras knew their own minds and with purist zeal were able to create entirely new work, for and of the time, without reference to their predecessors. Not so at all, which is one reason why I love scouting around the decorative arts in museums so much. Perhaps they validate my penchant for re-appropriation. Influence, or inspiration?; magical words that treat us to new ideas and open an old way to a new frame of vision.
Coates’ latest collection delves into bones and limbs, joints that connect and form skeletal frameworks that sustain weight….the genesis of this idea had come from thinking about the body’s supporting structures and one stool in particular that had started the ball rolling.
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.
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