Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany

Olivia and I visited the Saatchi Gallery to see this great new show, twas a perfect winter Sunday.

* Thanks liv for the photos x

Bloombury at Whitechaple Gallery & traditional Mali Bogolan mud cloth available here.

Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington

bones

Love and other Catastrophes

Print and Embroidery

Patterns

I have been drawing quite a few of these geometric paterns in my sketchbook, colourful tribal, it always works.

Berlin

Berlin, so lovely.

Saatchi Gallery

A few things from the Saatchi Gallery in west London.

Sunday

Loving Sunday, my one day off this week (hectic work week, lead up to PV trade fair in Paris at the end of the month).. I started the day by cycling down Regents Canal which is just behind my place, then visited Victoria Village, bought some lovely vintage clothes and had a coffee at Loafers, a charming cafe. In the afternoon sunlight I then headed to Brick Lane market to meet with Nat, Dave and Sar for some Sunday ciders.. for my hopelessly short weekend I think I made the most of what I had, with possibly one of the last sunny weekends before the vast expanse of the winter ahead... xx

Andrei Amado

I'm really going to miss Andrei my wonderful, talented fashion designer flatmate, who is leaving us for Milan this week. This image show's one of my favorites from his MA collection from CSM.. So brilliant!

Versailles

Needless to say I was quite moved by the experience of visiting Versailles. I have wanted to see Marie Antoinette's Hamlet for many years, the three quarter size village she had built just before the French Revolution, ironic really.

It was amazing to witness the sheer scale of Versailles, it's existence truly demonstrated the excesses of the French monarchy of the 18C, which embodies an aesthetic lavishness unmatched by anything else I have ever seen, and today remains as the Architectural evidence of the root cause of a Revolution.

Paris

Spent 4 lovely days in Paris with my Mum last week, it was amazing. So wonderful to chill out there in the heat, a much needed change from the English summer. Paris was so quiet, it seemed to be the one week when all the inhabitants had gone South to escape the heat, it made for a very relaxing time. We visited Le Bon Marche twice, Rodin's Gardens, Jardin du Luxembourg, The Quai Branly Museum which held the largest collection of Indigenous Art I have ever seen, and the Port de Vanves flea market.