Mar-den's first photo-shoot by Ania Wawrzkowicz
Newcomers to the furniture scene and friends of Glass, Mar-den, are offering our readers a 10% discount on their beautiful offerings until the end of the February.
Mar-den, who launched late last year, source and sell 20th century furnishings. Sisters Frances and Alex Marden, and their good friend Charlie have flawless taste and together have collated what can only be described as ‘the immaculate collection’. Coupled with a website which is both simply designed and simple to navigate, they are Glass’ go-to people for modern marvels.
Mar-den's first photo-shoot by Ania Wawrzkowicz
Our current object-of-desire is the curvaceous Jindrich Halabala 1930’s armchair, which has been lovingly re-upholstered in grey wool.
To collect your 10% discount, log-in here and type the code ILOVEGLASS into the promotional box on the basket page.
Mar-den's first photo-shoot by Ania Wawrzkowicz
Mar-den's first photo-shoot by Ania Wawrzkowicz
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As part of this summers’ Shoreditch Fringe Festival ‘Traces’ is taking place this weekend. Housed in a Victorian Building in East London, whose location will be kept secret until the final hour, Traces explores a new format in exhibiting art and design. The work of over 60 designers, including furniture, lighting, textiles, ceramics, jewellery, food, illustration, digital and sound, will explore ‘the history of the building and the value we put on memory’. Using theatre, sound and art, the building will be ‘brought back to life’, allowing visitors to guess at its past and the people who lived there:
“Every story, however hidden, leaves a trace... The objects we leave behind, speak fragile broken sentences to those who come across them later. Have you ever stood in a museum and longed to make contact with those stories, by touching the objects so tantalisingly close behind the glass? Or wandered through a dilapidated and empty, wishing you could see it as the last inhabitants left it?â€
Whilst the concept is a little bit too ‘London Dungeons meets Kentwell Hall’ for my liking, the quality of the artists and designers who are exhibiting at Traces makes me very intrigued and not just a little bit excited.
Traces is open 12-8pm Friday and Saturday and 11-6pm on Sunday. Please see website for more info www.traces-london.co.uk or sign up to the mailing list info@traces-london.co.uk or follow Traces on Twitter @traceslondon
With the advent of ‘Stitch and Bitch’ clubs nationwide and photographs published of supermodels knitting between catwalk shows, handcraft has long since left behind its dowdy reputation and is no longer the reserve of pensioners and spinsters. One less explored craft is that of quiltmaking, yet it affords so much opportunity for invention and, in reusing old scraps to make something new and beautfiful, is sustainable to boot.
This
weekend, the annual Festival of Quilts will be held at Birmingham’s NEC. Organised with the support of the Quilters
Guild of the British Isles, the festival is in its tenth year. More than 1000
quilts will be on display, while a programme of masterclasses and stands from a
range of suppliers mean that you’ll find everything you need to create your own
family keepsake / work of art at home.
The
festival runs from the 16th to 19th August, 10am-5.30pm (closes 5pm Sunday).
Tickets
are available on the door:
Adults
£15.00 (Guild members £14.00)
Concessions
£14.00 (Guild members £13.00)
Children
aged 5 to 18 £6.00
As a journalist / working in architecture, I often find myself at pop-up restaurants or one-off events across London. With my eye always on design, more often than not, I am astounded by the lack of thought that has gone into the aesthetics of these events. If nothing else, this simply represents a missed opportunity for branding and sales.
From menus to signage to furniture, the small touches at these events are crying out for something a little bit special to make them memorable and exciting. One such element is the bars at these events, where trestle tables covered in white paper or the wood-laminate reception desk are dragged out and soaked in wine. Thankfully, RAW Architecture Workshop has come up with a cheap, elegant and practical solution to this design-void.
Designed for a rooftop in Dalston, RAW’s modular bar is super-light (it can be lifted by a couple of people), fits into a teeny-tiny van and can be branded to suit your event with its beautiful back-lit front panel.
It is also modular, so you can put as many of them together as you require to create the perfect set up for your event. RAW have also designed a modular desk, a table, a seat, a bench and a speaker unit.. So get planning!
info@rawarchitectureworkshop.com
Fear not Londoners – if you haven’t got any tickets for the Games, then there will still be plenty of exciting things going on across the capital this summer which you can do for free.
One great example of this is a series of architectural installations designed by the creative people at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
Commissioned by the Mayor of London as part of the ‘WONDER’ series of Incredible Installations, these 5 pieces will transform famous locations around London, including Trafalgar Square, Parliament Square, South Kensington tube station forecourt, Euston Square gardens and the UCL quad.
The installations were designed by researchers at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture and are being unveiled this week throughout London. They will stay in place throughout the Games and the Paralympic Games, until 12th September.
Visitors to the installations will experience a huge gazebo teaming with locally bred algae, an urban garden of recyclable building cells, a house made of the world’s flags, a series of story-telling trees and an enormous tea-making machine.
The projects reflect the Bartlett’s vibrant and diverse research culture, as well as the commitment to bringing some of its most innovative design production closer to the public in the heart of London.
Some of the installations will be reinstalled in the UCL quad later on in the summer while the Bartlett organizes an exhibition of all the projects in the autumn.
Click here fore more information about the five installations.
ABOVE & TOP - Bloom is a pavilion constructed of pieces which visitors can move or rearrange to create all manner of structures
The Alga(e)zebo references the traditional gazebo, as well as the tradition of exposed steel paraphernalia that we find in our cities
If your eye has been captured by the beautiful Foffa bikes in the Architecture & Design section today (Fifty Shades of Foffa), then you might also want to check out these beautiful handbags for cyclists.
Designed by 'friend of Foffa' Rachel Bonney, the bags have all of the style and finishing of a handbag but act like a sports bag, incorporating a reflective panel and a cross-chest ‘anti-sway’ strap.
Photo copyright Iwan Baan
If you have a spare five minutes, have a look at this short interview with American Architect Steven Holl as he walks through his latest project, Daeyang Gallery and House, in Seoul, South Korea:
Holl touches on light, materiality and detail as he explains the concept behind this thoughtful and tranquil space. "Architecture can change the way you feel, like music" he enthuses.
Glass showed you Surfacephilia's beautiful wallpapers and plates back in March when we spotted her at MidCentury Modern (Brand New I'm Retro).
If you didn't find an entire wall to dedicate to these bold graphic prints - or indeed if even if you did - you can bring in a touch of their glamour with one of designer Helen's newly launched range of cushions incorporating the same elegant designs.
The 'Navajo' range can be purchased online: www.surfacephilia.co.uk
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