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Matthew Rose is an American artist based in Paris, as his site so succinctly says. We love collage at Livingetc. And he has a new show starting on September 1 at Storie in Paris. Which we hope to pop into when we’re in town for Maison.
It was hard not to get a little bit emotional at the human endeavour in Paris yesterday, as 160 or so cyclists crossed the finish line of the Tour de France, after 3,430.5km up and down some of Europe’s steepest mountains. Had a tear in my eye, but muscle and lyrca whipping past at 45 miles an hour will do that to a girl. More of the actual reason I was in Paris in the November issue of Livingetc, plus the Hussein Chalayan retrospective and a brilliant exhibition on plastic toys to follow on this here blog…
From tomorrow until 29 May, Rise Art will be taking over the exhibition space at Luna & Curious, where Rise Art Select Artist Dai Roberts (top, buy it here) will create a room installation that will transform his modernist-inspired screen prints into a spatial experience, allowing the viewer to ‘wander’ inside his artistic universe. Well, that sounds rather wonderful to us. In addition, Rise Art will also showcase limited-edition prints by artists Pedro Guimaraes (middle) and Ting-Ting Cheng (bottom), two photographers chosen by Rise Art’s board of curators as Select Artists with a fascinating take on travel and still-life photography.
And if it’s true that everyone’s a critic, this is the time to prove it – Rise Art will be giving away a £100 gift voucher to the visitor that can write the best micro-review on Dai’s UNIT installation which, along other contributions, will be published and shared on the site.
After so many apologies in 2010 to the building’s postmen for having to bring ridiculous packages up to our office, it’s our New Year’s Resolution. So, we’ll shop vicariously through you.
You’ve only got a few hours to bag this bargain, an unusual Sixties Anglepoise…
Livingetc has been a gushing fan of Bodie and Fou for a very long time, and is very pleased to announce an extra 10% off everything on the site, including sale items, until 31 January at midnight. Browse at your pleasure and then enter the code LIVINGETC at checkout. Happy shopping. You can also win a year’s subscription to Livingetc here.
Norman Rockwell spent 60 years documenting everyday life in America through his illustrations, and while his best-known works are a bit apple sauce and white picket fence, he also recorded political events and the civil rights movement. Which you will see if you go to Dulwich Picture Library, for the first exhibition of his original works in this country. It will include all 322 covers of the Saturday Evening Post, created between 1916 and 1963, along with illustrations for advertisements, magazines and books – providing a comprehensive look at his career. Create your own moment of Americana here.
Every year the brilliant Geffrye Museum (interior design in England since 1600 to the present day) decorates each of its rooms with authentic Christmas decorations. From austere to kitsch in eleven wonderful rooms…
Why is this proud pooch looking so pleased with himself? Just had a little pet pampering down at Harrods, that’s why…
London’s premier department store has just opened a day spa aimed at stylish (and demanding) pets…
…offering everything from basic grooming to animal reiki and personal training, a session makes the ideal Christmas gift for the VIP (very important pet) who has everything.
Caesar shows off his on trend turquoise ‘pawdicure’ (and his master, Patrick Cox).
The Pet Spa is located on Harrods Fourth Floor. Treatments start from £59.95.
From today, yes today, Truman Brewery will be transformed for the East End Design Show. Expect to find the work of Takae Mizutani and Sons (above), The Future Mapping Company (below)…
And Latorre Cruz‘s amazing Jet Set shelves (below)…
Photograph: Gideon Mendel
Keep your Rockefeller Center, give us skating at Somerset House any day of the week (well, as long as it’s a day between 23 November and 23 January 2011).
Especially seeing as there are cupcakes designed by Tom Aikens in the Tiffany Tuck Shop. After all, skating on a sugar buzz under the stars is the best kind of skating.
