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Saturday, 29 September 2012
CLOTM: SEPTEMBER .(scribbled at 21:44 )
It only just dawned on me as I was paying this month's rent that I still hadn't got round to rambling about my chair lust for September. I know these aren't exactly appropriate for the current nippy Autumnal weather that's hit Blightly... these chairs are a little reminiscent of that point when caramel just begins to lose its sticky consistency and solidifies into a glass-like texture. Yum.
I spotted these back in dOCUMENTA, and I'm a wee bit hooked. I have absolutely no idea what they're called, or whereabouts in Germany they can be acquired from, but I certainly imagine they don't carry the Alessi price tag that's for sure. They were in every other Kassel café, and extremely practical although that's not really essential I guess (ridiculously lightweight, variety of colours, stackable etc). Our time at dOCUMENTA had sporadic bursts on wintry breezes, and each café had taken to providing individual blankets for each customer which was really quite sweet, that wouldn't really happen over here for fear of theft...
Anyway, so yeah. These Kassel Café Chairs have made it into the September instalment of chair lusting.
AND AND AND: my new Moleskine journal arrived! I've yet to begin using it, but it's the Art edition of their 'Passion Journal' range, which includes everything from
Chocolate Passion Journal to a
Wine Journal, each of which is as equally appropriate for me. But I've opted for the Art Journal, which includes a pull out timeline of Modern Art, a list of contemporary art fairs happening across the globe, amongst numerous other smidgens of Art Historical interest.Within the journal, there are dividers for notes about exhibitions, artworks and art-related events you have been to. An absolute
must for any Private View socialite or Frieze fanatic, it even includes a page of art-themed Moleskine stickers. Yes, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being pleased over the simplest things. I'm afraid my photographs are a bit shoddy and were taken just before I left for work this morning at 6:15, which is when I can barely keep my eyes open, let alone look through a camera lens.
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| The timeline of contemporary art movements. ISM. |
Labels: Chair Lust of the Month, CHAIRS, Documenta 13, Moleskine, Moleskine Art Passion Journal, September Chair
Monday, 16 January 2012
Pour le première fois. .(scribbled at 07:30 )
I will keep to a blog.
At least, that’s one of my resolutions anyway. As well as numerous other
ideas which will no doubt have disappeared come February. These include:
Shifting a pound or 4 off my 11 stone figure, increasing general productivity
at work, pushing my career goals and maintaining some order and organisation in
my enormous Moleskine diary. Oh, and cycling to work instead of jumping on the
bus. But the latter will most definitely not happen any time soon, not until I
stop hearing stories of cyclists’ deaths on Bow flyover.
Well, okay. I never intended to
blog this year. It wasn’t until I was at the Leonardo, Painter at the Court of
Milan exhibition and I was actually moved
by a selection of the drawings and paintings by that I considered how
useful it could be to record as much of my art-related activities as possible.
It wasn’t exactly an epiphany as such (!), but they were absolutely exquisite
and so incredible. You could almost feel the care and devotion that Leonardo
had put into each cartoon. So yes, I’m bashing out this out onto my laptop on a
Sunday night, sincerely hoping it makes a little bit of sense. The whole idea
being that I will write about exhibitions I’ve visited, with perhaps allowing
for a little scope on other things I have an interest in. Which doesn’t really
exceed beyond baking and furniture design really. Yay!
Labels: Art Blog, ART DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, Da Vinci, Leonardo, Moleskine, National Gallery, Painter at the Court of Milan, Resolutions, Sponge, Vermeer, Victoria
