Blog author archives: Emma
Eames living room moves to LACMA for design exhibition
A new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is exploring California’s role in shaping the material culture of the United States. Over 300 objects will be on display from the worlds of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and … Continue reading
Yukari Sweeney Design’s Eames-inspired Cushion #9
So we’ve been giving Yukari Sweeney Design a lot of attention lately, but I hope you’ll agree, it’s well deserved. They’ve just released a new product influenced by the Eames Case Study House #9 which I just had to tell … Continue reading
J is for… Arne Jacobsen (1902 – 1971)
Arne Jacobsen is one of Russell’s favourite designers, and this post follows on nicely from Alvar Aalto in our designers series, because Jacobsen, like Aalto, advocated design as a total work of art – Gesamtkunstwerk, or to quote Ernesto Rogers, … Continue reading
Yukari Sweeney Design Collaboration
Where can you find print featuring cowboys, manor houses, koi carp, horses, birds and flowers, covering a range of items from walls to people and anything in between? Yukari Sweeney Design, of course! Yukari Sweeney are a surface design company … Continue reading
A is for… Alvar Aalto (1898 – 1976)
Put an iconic piece of modernist furniture in front of me, and though I’ll admire it, I can’t always identify the designer or tell you its history. I’m still navigating my way through the icons of the Mid Century Modern … Continue reading
Come and say “Hello” on Flickr…
We’ve had a Flickr profile for a few months now, so I ought to tell you what we’re doing on there. Our modest aims: To share photographs of Mid Century and Modernist-inspired design. To find inspiration amongst the photographs posted … Continue reading
Vintage Marketplace at Vintage by Hemingway at Southbank
It’s only four days to go until the event of 2011. It has to be Vintage by Hemingway at Southbank. We’ll be watching the festivities from our stand at the Vintage Marketplace, and as it’s the 60th anniversary of the … Continue reading
Eames on Design: The Collected Words by Daniel Ostroff
With an introduction by Peter Fiell, Charlotte Fiell Fiell Publishing (2011) Eames on Design: The Collected Words takes a different approach to the books about Charles and Ray Eames which have gone before, in that it is the first to … Continue reading