Category: Journal

• Eszter Haraszty and Knoll

  

  When I was writing about Ludwig Becker’s Fata Morgana a couple of weeks ago I had to look up the meaning. The expression has popped up again. The name of one of Eszter Haraszty’s textiles for Knoll Textiles. La Fata Morgana is an Italian phrase for the Arthurian sorceress Morgan. The Sicilians believed the mirages often seen…

  2011-10-06

• Angelo Testa and Knoll

  

  Another stand out for me in the Knoll Textiles’ catalogue is the work of Angelo Testa.

  2011-10-05

• Herbert Matter and Knoll

  

  I’ve been looking at the encyclopedic exhibition catalogue of Knoll Textiles for a couple of weeks now.

  2011-10-04

• Hound’s Tooth and Cock’s Foot

  

  Like paisley the old hound’s tooth is a classic.

  2011-10-03

• Reading Material

  

  William Miller

  2011-09-30

• Perfect Paisley

  

  Raf Simons has created for Jil Sander an elegantly restrained collection.

  2011-09-30

• Pringle’s Patterned Perfection

  

  I’m a real fan of things Pringle.

  2011-09-29

• Scarf Wear

  

  The latest and last D&G runway show was an homage to the square scarf.

  2011-09-28

• Print Madness

  

  I’ve been contemplating prints in fashion.

  2011-09-27

• Sarahville

  

  Buildings with anthropomorphic qualities.

  2011-09-26

• Manscapes

  

  As I’m often thinking about decamping, my stream of consciousness recently led me to John Wolseley.

  2011-09-23

• Deadly Landscapes

  

  When I was young I read Alan Moorehead’s imagining of the tragic Burke and Wills’ foray into vast Australia.

  2011-09-22

• Lost in the Landscape

  

  In 1885, 12 year old Clara Crosbie got lost on the outskirts of Melbourne.

  2011-09-21

• Artists’ Camps

  

  I don’t think a week passes without me thinking of decamping to the country.

  2011-09-20

• Aboriginal Architecture

  

  These shelter structures are beautifully sculptural.

  2011-09-19

• Ghost Towns in South Australia

  

  Back to Fiona Somerville and tent like structures.

  2011-09-16

• Daisy Bates

  

  ‘The magic garb of Daisy Bates’.

  2011-09-15

• Taut Tents

  

  Seems to be a tentage theme going on this week.

  2011-09-14

• Love the Bowl

  

  Back in the 1920s Harold Desbrowe-Annear had put forward the thought of an outdoors auditorium in a section of the King’s Domain.

  2011-09-13

• Crazy Stones in St Kilda

  

  There should be a law for all public toilet blocks to be designed by architects.

  2011-09-12