Frames





Metal grids found in Paris in botanical creeper supports and an excellent modernist chair frame.

From the photo collection 'In Paris'.

three chairs (cheers)


I am having some festivities at my new flat next weekend in conjunction with my birthday. It should be interesting however as I only have at present, three chairs. Perhaps everyone will have to take turns sitting down.
Any one of these beautiful chairs drawn by Jacques Adnet around 1930 would go down a treat. As for the drawings themselves, is it too 1930's murder mystery parlance to say that I am completely charmed by them? I think so, no one says they are charmed by anything anymore.

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Furniture for flats














 


































So far in the epic adventure that is to be called 'furnishing my flat' I have sourced two pieces of furniture from Malmö's rather good second hand establishments, both very reasonably priced. I love to gloat/share my successes, so I have documented them in situ and plastered them all over the internet. Unfortunately not much else exists 'in situ' (I write this sitting on a cushion on the floor in the corner where the internet lives) I have no tables, no blinds or curtains, no ceiling lights. Yet it isn't bleak at all, having always lived in rooms with filled to the brim. It is nice to downsize and I hope it remains that way.

Travelogue part I










  
Museu D'Art Contemporani De Barcelona / fruity furniture, La Rambla del Raval / beach loungers, Barceloneta / mosaic work, La Pedrera rooftop terrace / on the cross harbour cable car / interior courtyard, La Pedrera / Jardí Botànic de Barcelona / street scene, Barri Gòtic / Barcelona from the cross harbour cable car. 


A few of my favourite photographs taken with my trusty Konica point and shoot in Barcelona. More to follow.

Items of Interest












































































Isamu Noguchi / My Name Florence Tee / Buoy Rope Bag / Ngaio Marsh / Lady Michael Balcon as Minerva by Madame Yevonde / Danger Man

Some recent items of interest and things that have caught my eye: portrait of Isamu Noguchi in one of his elegant chairs - one thing I would like to do with my life is make chairs; recently I bought this tee shirt from the Swedish shop weekday - ironically (or fatally) it was named the 'My Name Florence Tee', and after that there was no looking back; have started another art project knitting fishing line whilst probably diminishing my already failing eye sight, the main inspiration for this stems from various rope covers for buoys; I also recently completed reading Ngaio Marsh's autobiography, she will always stand as one of my favourite authors alongside Raymond Chandler, Haruki Murakami, Joseph Heller and Herge; Lady Michael Balcon as Minerva looking rather similar to a cover of a Chandler/James Bond novel, with shades of Twin Peaks thrown in for good measure; Danger Man, perhaps the precursor to 'The Prisoner' - I swoon every time John Drake says his token catchphrase 'I'm obliged' and wish I could incorporate this into my everyday parlance except no one else would understand what I meant by it. I also appreciate Danger Man's relatively realistic fight scenes, at least compared to other spy programmes of the time.

Three Chairs



Similar chairs - first designed by my grandfather Allan Wild for Group Constructions 'First House', in Takapuna, New Zealand. Seen in situ above, with matching plywood table and kitchen furnishings.
From Auckland University's excellent Architecture Archive.
Allan Wild and Colin Wilson in Conversation, 2008, reproduction chairs built by my father and I, part of the exhibition 'Modern Love' at rm 103.
ROLU Furniture, found here.