Nice article over at the Bridalwave website for anyone looking for a retro look for a registry office wedding – but be prepared, it doesn’t come cheap!
The cards are available in ages 0-13, plus 16, 18, 21 and every decade from 30 through to 100. If the typeface looks familiar, it’s probably from some 60s-based merchandising or advertising, with the numbers referencing the colourways and decorative typefaces of 1960s pop Victoriana.
Simple, but very stylish and effective. The cards should retail for around £2 each. Check out the Umpen Editions website for your nearest stockist.
You can pick up just about anything for your living room in wood, from record decks, TVs and radios through to sideboards and wood-effect sofas and. And you can now add armchairs to that list – or more specifically, the ILVA Curve wooden armchair.
Built to fit into your designer living room rather than for comfort, the Curve armchair is in a walnut veneer that should match your expensive vintage sideboard, with a chrome frame for matching most room accessories.
The chair is actually in the sale, retailing for £198. If you want something that offers a little more comfort, there’s also a black leather version for £250.
I can’t honestly say these are particularly fashionable, but if you’re after a pair of novelty trainers, they don’t come much more novelty than these Royal Elastics Resi Warhol trainers.
Based on Warhol’s famous banana, they feature an upper of two tone cracked leather, molded rubber outsole and extra thick foam sockliner, not to mention a Warhol signature on the sole. You can buy them online for $125 (around £65). Find out more at the Royal Elastics website
Art Meets Matter is celebrating the 50th anniversary of London’s Royal Court Theatre with a range of mugs featuring some of the theatre’s most talked-about productions.
There’s a diverse selection available, but the most obvious one to pick up is the play that opened the theatre all those years ago – Look Back In Anger by John Osborne, arguable the play that marks the starting point of modern British drama.
Finnish architect/designer Alvar Aalto is one of the leading lights of modernism – a fact that’s being recognised by London’s Barbican Gallery, which is hosting his first UK retrospective, curated by contemporary Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
The exhibition primarily focuses on Aalto’s architectural style, featuring models, drawings, photographs and artefacts from 14 key projects across six decades, including Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium (1929-33), Villa Mairea (1938-39), AA-System Houses (1937-1945), Experimental House (1952-53), North Jutland Art Museum (1958-72) and the development of the urban centre for Seinäjoki (1952-87).
But Aalto is probably just as well known for his interiors, which are also featured. Items on display include his famous stacking stool and other furniture, as well as glassware, light fittings and textiles, many of which are still manufactured today by Artek. Also featured are works by the exhibition curator, heavily influenced by Aalto’s past work.
The exhibition runs from 22nd February – 13th May 2007, with tickets priced between £6 and £8. The gallery is open daily from 11am – 8pm, excluding Tue & Thu (11am – 6pm).