Alexander McQueen you live on...

Swoon like woven-hair spotted last year for Alexander McQueen...

Secret spaces and places..

http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/928/londons-secret-galleries
Cheeky little article about lesser heard-of galleries and spaces in London..I will definately be visiting this one....
Time Out writes- Viktor Wynd is a "Curiosity shop on the art circuit and determinedly off any beaten track. Peek through the windows and you’ll see a world in which velvet-cloaked Victorians, or perhaps The Mighty Boosh, might reside. Entering the shop, which is also the spiritual home of the esoterically minded Last Tuesday Society, reveals a wunderkammer of shells, skulls, taxidermy specimens and assorted oddities. Art gets a designated space in the first-floor gallery but, unsurprisingly, shows tend towards the eerily surreal."

Festival wallpaper

I love this 1950's style wallpaper from Mini Moderns. I have a feeling there is going to be a surge in 50's style reproduction goods produced this year as it is the anniversary of the Festival of Britain. This is a lovely little company who print in the UK using waterbased inks and using paper from sustained forests.
Check out the rug too...
http://www.minimoderns.com/shoppe/

Furniture can inspire jewellery right??

http://www.theoldcinema.co.uk/

Yes please...

Mat Collishaw

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/contemporary/mat-collishaw/index.html

Beautiful and fascinating, I had never heard of this technique before...

Collishaw has created a Zeotrope. These were designed in 1834 to create an illusion of action from a rapid succession of images..
He has created the impression of huge fluttering moths that will be visable from dusk in the uppermost dome...
I am very excited to see this and there will be a smaller version to get closer to in the John Madejski Garden. What a good excuse to visit the V&A, or do you need one?

Kelly Mccallum

Wonderfully weird and witty work. I LOVE the taxidermy animals with "accessories"..the rabbit with the moustache!! Kelly is inspired by decay, preservation and also sentimentality so some ideas that are close to my heart.. She describes her work as
"Melodramatic scenes of mortal stillness"

Erica Weiner

http://ericaweiner.com/category.php?category_id=21

Oooh i would love to visit this shop..lovely treasures. I like that she is not afraid of having only one of each piece...