Category Archives: Design

05Mar/22
FASHION-AND-TEXTILES-TEXINTEL

Sartorial Sixties

‘Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture’, an exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, explores how a handful of Chelsea boutiques sparked a fashion revolution in the mid-1960s. Here we review ‘Beautiful People Photographs 1966 to 1973’, the dedicated accompanying photography show in the museum’s upstairs gallery space.

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06Feb/22
Cara Murphy Spectrum

Book Review: Mastery. Women In Silver

Following an 8-week run at the Ruthin Craft Centre (RCC) in Wales, the Mastery. Women in Silver exhibition closed as summer turned to autumn in 2021. An accompanying book with the same title, by Elizabeth Goring, Jane Audas and Philip Hughes (director of RCC) was published as the show opened and remains available from the RCC shop. We are delighted to have been sent a copy to review.

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18Jun/21
57 Lisa Traxler photo Tessa Newmark

Full Blast

We’re back on track after a long hiatus – initially we were too busy to post news and reviews and then we were not busy enough, no thanks to C19. We’re now delighted to be back with a real live art show by one of our favourite artists, Lisa Traxler, drawn from a body of work developed during the pandemic lockdowns. Continue reading

14Jan/19
Salvador Dalí and Gala Dalí with Artist Pavel Tchelitchew, photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1936. Courtesy of The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, Sotheby’s

Cecil Beaton – Thirty From The 30s

A timely publication, given that Sir Cecil Beaton was born on this day, January 14 (1904), which also signals your last chance to go and see a visionary capsule collection of vintage portraits, focused entirely on the 1930s, by one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. Continue reading