LONDON — Major art museums in London are using augmented reality as a way to share works with the public and to entice visitors back inside, even with coronavirus restrictions in flux. The National Gallery has teamed up with the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts and other […]
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How a Spanish designer brought colour to every corner of her London home
A framed necklace from Brazil hangs over the living- room fireplace. Candlesticks are from Morocco, with beeswax candles from Matilda Goad – Rachael Smith Sandra Barrio von Hurter lives and breathes colour, from the cheeky cherries that dangle from her jewellery to the sun-blasted yellow of her kitchen. Her business, […]
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Copper Cabinets and Jungle Wallpaper Brought This Old Victorian London Home Up to Speed
Tile, Darkroom. Photography by Veerle Evens for Made.com In the summer of 2010, interior designer Emma Gurner, founder of design studio Folds Inside, and her husband, Rob, were growing desperate. Their offer on a dreamy period home in the leafy London neighborhood of Finchley had fallen through in the eleventh […]
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London Design Biennale features gorgeous
The London Design Biennale is launching in the midst of a catastrophic year. Its main theme, Resonance, has artists grappling with issues like climate change, privacy, and technology, while its online exhibition asks artists to address these issues even more head-on. Design in an Age of Crisis: Radical Design Thinking […]
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I thought I’d have left London and be in my dream country home by now
It is 350 miles from Hampstead Heath (via the ferry at Pembroke) to East Ferry, where one of my bridesmen has offered to lend me his cottage near the Irish coast. I leave my life packed in a 50 sq ft storage unit and head off with a suitcase and […]
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Gosh Comics of London Joins Bookshop.Org
Greatest living cartoonist Mark Stafford writes “Well there’s lovely. Gosh, the finest comics shop in London has joined that bookshop.org site whereby you can shop online knowing your cash is going to independent bookstores rather than, well… Jeff Bezos. So if you can’t shop at the actual place, (and I […]
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Sotheby’s London Unveils Retail Space, Offering an Array of Collectible Items
Artist Bouke de Vries attends the launch of a new exhibition by Adrian Sassoon marking the opening of the new Showroom at Sotheby’s on September 28, 2020 in London. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby’s Text size Sotheby’s is diving further into the retail world with the opening Monday of a […]
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London Designers Embrace Film, Set Their Own Rules
LONDON — This was a London season of mixed emotions and many question marks. With new government restrictions forbidding social gatherings of more than six people, most of the city’s designers embraced the film format for the first time, with just a handful of one-on-one appointments hosted on the side. […]