Archive for November, 2008

SEDE - post-materialist inspiration

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Independent magazine SEDE is half images, half words, and was created by freelance photographer Juan Ignacio Moralejo in the aftermath of Argentina’s economic meltdown in 2001. The magazine features gardening, photography, illustration, cooking and travel with contributers from the UK, Japan and the Americas as well as his local friends, who he described The Moment as having “an austere ideology, maybe a recurrent longing for nature and a simple lifestyle. Not exactly hippie-ism, but being aware of the advantages of limitations. It’s well known that you get a bit more creative when you have to struggle more.”

Eleventh of the eleventh

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

A Belgian priest and an Australian Padre with village children, Solre-le-Chateau, France.

Audrey Kawasaki at Thinkspace, LA

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Artist and curator Audrey Kawasaki recreated her studio in the window of Thinkspace Gallery in LA as part of The Drawing Room show.

Summer dreaming…

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Cold wet nights are perfect for dreaming of Caribbean holidays…

All on Etsy

Finding your way around…

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

via Lovely Bit

Via Etsy

Via Apartment Therapy

Via Etsy

The original Mrs G…

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Mr Gorman’s mother Alicia would have been 90 today.

Top left: Wood Green, north London, early 40s. On her way to her brother Jack’s wedding to Mavis, with her sister Mary.
Bottom: Fresno, California, 1993. With Finn and Molly by the pool.

On Liberty

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Liberty tana lawn has to be one of my favorite fabrics, so despite it’s ubiquity this year (mumsy JCrew and Brora through to Luella’s skater dresses and Topshop’s homage to Chloe Sevigny at Opening Ceremony, etc etc), I was delighted to see the print as part of the Cacharel 50th birthday celebrations.

There’s something so satisfying about marrying the prints, and nodding to a print that served the label well, just as they launch a new era with Eley Kishimoto at the helm.

In the meantime I plan to spend winter eschewing the skater skirt and revisiting the seventies liberty revival:

With beret, a long aran knitted cardigan with toggles, and wollen tights. If only those boots had fit too…

Public art by Joshua Callaghan

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Via today and tomorrow.

Lost Buildings

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Lost civilisations, bomb-ravaged Europe, architecture of the imagination. Can’t wait to get my hands on this.

Lost Buildings by Jonathan Glancey

Images and full review at Wallpaper.

Aeccentricgirl

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Something so sweet about this girl and her mirror…