Iris Apfel: wit, wisdom and the art of style
‘When you don’t dress like everyone else, you don’t have to think like everyone else,’ so comments Iris Apfel, the 94-year-old fashionista and self-styled ‘geriatric starlet’. Her movie Iris is full of such nuggets of wisdom, all equally as inspirational as her flamboyant, bird-of-paradise dress…
Typoretum – custom letterpress printing
Typoretum is a family run design and printing business in the village of Coggeshall in Essex which produces beautiful, artisan stationery on antique and vintage presses. The stationery – from wedding and party invites, to birth announcements, posters and sleek…
Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963–2010, Tate Modern
Many of the greatest artists morph from one style to another throughout their lives and Sigmar Polke is no exception. As I walked though the retrospective of the German-born artist’s career at Tate Modern the works were so different from room to room…
The Art of the Brick
With four Lego aficionados in the Wood household it was a given that we would hotfoot it to The Art of the Brick currently showing at the Old Truman Brewery in London. The exhibition by New-York-based artist Nathan Sawaya (who gave…
