Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Monday, 30 January 2017
Monday 30th January: G.H Smith Papers Showspace
G.H Smith have opened a new showroom in London to not only have a physical shopfront for their papers and services but also act as a gallery space. Here is the first installation by their collaborators Made Thought who have used Colour Plan paper to make a spectrum tidal wave of all the hues. They are currently running a competition to find out the world's favourite colour - the winner will have the colour paper named after them and a set of personalised stationary. Select your colour and enter at: http://worldsfavouritecolour.com/
Friday, 27 January 2017
Friday 27th January: Pantone “Outside In” Air BnB House
Time to re-think AirBnB. It's not just a gateway to experience a city from a resident's insider location but now you can book an engineered "experience". This comes from two angles by either staying at a home that has been decked out and decorated on a theme or signing up to a specialist course. To fully illustrate both of these new concepts, AirBnB have partnered with Pantone on a premises in Clerkenwell totally devoted to all things green inspired by their "Colour of The Year" - Greenery. Once thru the Pantone painted door you immediately enter an indoor forest with tree-stump stepping-stones to the next room. Here is an indoor greenhouse dinning room, dripping with foliage and potted up with vegetables and herbs for you to pick fresh for the adjacent kitchen. This is the ultimate fantasy for anyone still pining after Andie MacDowell's dream flat of pines and perennials from "Green Card". The flora continues down a spiral staircase to a bedroom carpeted in lawn, complete with a tepee snug cave for children. The en-suite bathroom doesn't just have scented candles but is an immersive wet-room recreation of a rainforest soundtracked by chirping frogs. Its normally hard enough as it is to get out of the bath, now you'll definitely wallow for way to long in this lily-pad pool but then youv'e only got to pad over the moss bath-matt to get into bed.
You can literally explore this piece of paradise in East London for yourself as the listing is now live. If however you can't take on the entire booking, you can have a peek inside via one of the creative courses. I went to a wall-paper screen-printing workshop as part of a programme including tea blending, terrarium building and gin botanical brewing. It's heaven for any green-fingered and / or green-thinking creative. I got to take away a keep-sake of my time at the "Greenery" house to add to my very own home groaning with over-growing spider-plants. Who knew, we're all on the same page............. and Pantone reference.
Check out the courses on Eventbrite here.
Friday, 20 January 2017
Friday 20th January: Lizzie Kings' "Tie & Die" book launch
When Lizzie Kings's publisher announced the launch of her book last night she simultaneously told the crowd that Lizzie has become one of their favourite authors. Needless to say we are all equally fond of the magic wonder that is this creative gem of all things gold, yellow, exotic and cosmic. Now her spectrum tie-dye techniques are documented in a step-by-step manual for any budding textile designers to have a go at recreating the aesthetic. The party at Hackney's pink painted cafe Palm Vaults is hung with macrame plant pots, of which some dip dye variations appear in the book. Have a peek for yourself in any book store from today, out on Pavilion Books!
(All photos by Mitchell McGillvary except a couple by me)
Friday 20th January: Lizzie Kings' "Tie & Die" book
Lizzie King has just launched her "Tie & Dye" book to turn her motto "Get Rich or Tie-Dyeing" into a do-it-yourself guide. There are 15 projects to try out including water-melon bunting for summer parties and her signature rainbow shoe laces which she has made for NIKE in the past. Here she sent me a complete kit to road-test the carnival sock instructions for red/gold and green feet ready for the road. Here are my stages of preparation, dying and the finished article joining my archive Lizzie tassel necklace for the collection. The book is now available nationwide and thru her own website with this personalised tote bag as a deal at her launch last night!............. see the next post.
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Tuesday 17th Jan: Grace LaDoja at LSFF "Evolve" Filmmaker Q&A
As part of London Short Film Festival the ICA invited director Grace LaDoja to show a retrospective selection of her moving image and talk thru her career to date. Despite already knowing and having worked with Grace, I learnt so much about her that I didn't know! It was fascinating and a fantastic opportunity to see her films on a large screen - including the first promos for Twigs which set her up as an artist, not just a musician & performer. There were her famous videos for Skepta as his collaborator and manager with anecdotes on how the relationship came about and insight to the "brand" development. As he's now been nominated for multiple Brit Awards its going to be a very interesting year as it was the same awards show where his performance concept triggered the controversy that ultimately gave him mainstream success! In addition to this, Grace gave background to her long-standing consultancy for Supreme which will now be top of news forums even more than usual with today's unveiling of Luis Vuitton AW17 mens collection on the Paris runway!
Follow Grace's Instagram to keep up with her projects and world travels............
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