Source: http://lifestyleetc.co.uk/2011/06/03/the-world-according-to-shan-annabelle-valla/
Friday, June 10, 2011
The world according to Shan Annabelle Valla
Shan Annabelle Valla creates playful things of subtle beauty, mainly in glass and porcelain. The sort of things that we want on our mantlepieces. We’ll be saying so in person on Sunday at Pulse. But what else can we learn about this talented designer/maker? Tell us about your studio. My studio is compact but I [...]
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Perpetual Wall Calendar!
I've been searching around for a decent wall calendar for some time now, and now I've found it - this is a great variation on the perpetual calendar theme. You can either chalk on birthdays/ meetings etc or add post it notes! There are some great wall decals out there, but Fern Living are my favorites!
Pargy
Source: http://www.popartrockgirlyeah.com/2010/12/perpetual-wall-calendar.html
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Exclusive Consumer Show at LFW
Jaeger and Vodafone UK to present Jaeger London's current spring/summer 2011 collection in an exclusive catwalk show for Vodafone customers during the February 2011 London Fashion Week.
200 pairs of tickets to a one-off catwalk show featuring Jaeger London's current Spring/Summer 2011 collection will be available for Vodafone customers exclusively.
Iconic British brands Jaeger and Vodafone UK have joined forces to offer Vodafone customers unprecedented access to London Fashion Week. Vodafone UK has 200 pairs of tickets to the exclusive Jaeger London catwalk show featuring Jaeger London's current Spring/Summer 2011 collection. The show for Vodafone customers will take place on Sunday 20th February 2011 at Somerset House, London. Vodafone customers can sign-up at: vodafone.co.uk/vip
Belinda Earl, Jaeger's Group Chief Executive, comments: "We are delighted to offer Vodafone UK customers exclusive access to a special Jaeger London Spring/Summer 2011 catwalk show, as part of London Fashion Week. We are very proud of our current collection, which is in-store already, and hope that those Vodafone customers lucky enough to get tickets will thoroughly enjoy the experience."
Jaeger London's Autumn/Winter 2011 show takes place at 1pm on Saturday 19th February 2011 at the BFC Catwalk Show Space, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA.
Image: Jaeger London spring/summer 2011 collection
Media Enquiries:
Jaeger Press Office
+44 (0) 20 7979 1134
press.office@jaeger.co.uk
200 pairs of tickets to a one-off catwalk show featuring Jaeger London's current Spring/Summer 2011 collection will be available for Vodafone customers exclusively.
Iconic British brands Jaeger and Vodafone UK have joined forces to offer Vodafone customers unprecedented access to London Fashion Week. Vodafone UK has 200 pairs of tickets to the exclusive Jaeger London catwalk show featuring Jaeger London's current Spring/Summer 2011 collection. The show for Vodafone customers will take place on Sunday 20th February 2011 at Somerset House, London. Vodafone customers can sign-up at: vodafone.co.uk/vip
Belinda Earl, Jaeger's Group Chief Executive, comments: "We are delighted to offer Vodafone UK customers exclusive access to a special Jaeger London Spring/Summer 2011 catwalk show, as part of London Fashion Week. We are very proud of our current collection, which is in-store already, and hope that those Vodafone customers lucky enough to get tickets will thoroughly enjoy the experience."
Jaeger London's Autumn/Winter 2011 show takes place at 1pm on Saturday 19th February 2011 at the BFC Catwalk Show Space, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA.
Image: Jaeger London spring/summer 2011 collection
Media Enquiries:
Jaeger Press Office
+44 (0) 20 7979 1134
press.office@jaeger.co.uk
Source: http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/news_detail.aspx?id=276
The Perpetual Garret
Where the starving artists slept.
Source: http://nymag.com/realestate/features/apartments/artists-apartments-2011-4/
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National Portrait Gallery exhibition to celebrate UK's 'first actresses'
Nell Gwynn among 17th- and 18th-century divas returning to centre stage in a series of portraits by world's greatest artists
The divas of the 17th and 18th centuries, the gorgeous women whose fashions were copied, portraits endlessly reproduced and private lives raked over in gossip columns, will return to centre stage in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
The First Actresses will examine the portraits and careers of the likes of Nell Gwynn, the Covent Garden orange seller, comedian and royal mistress, to Sarah Siddons, whose performances were said to be so intense that a co-star was once said to have been rendered speechless, while members of the audience fainted in awe.
Siddons will share the limelight with 52 others, including Dora Jordan, renowned for her sweet nature, fabulous legs and for bearing 10 children by the future George IV; Lavinia Fenton; Mary Robinson, another royal mistress; and Elizabeth Inchbald, who retired from acting and became a successful playwright. The women have been captured by some of the world's most celebrated artists including Gainsborough, Reynolds, Hogarth and the caricaturist Gillray.
Their heyday began with the restoration of King Charles II, when not only were theatres reopened but women were for the first time permitted to appear onstage ? some provoking outrage by wearing breeches.
The exhibition will include the portraits of two of Charles's mistresses, Gwynn and Moll Davis. The king was said to have pleaded on his deathbed to "let not poor Nelly starve". He need not have worried as she retired with a staggering �1,500-a-year pension.
The gallery will also debut a recent acquisition showing three of the most famous Georgian society ladies - Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Lady Melbourne, and their bluestocking friend, the sculptor Anne Seymour Damer - as the three witches from Macbeth in an amateur performance. It was commissioned from the artist Daniel Gardener by Lady Melbourne and has been accepted by the government from a private collection in lieu of death duties.
Gill Perry, co-curator of the exhibition and professor of art history at the Open University, who has been studying the lives and reputations of the stars, says there was always endless ribald speculation about their sex lives - illustrated by many cartoons in the show - and a widely-held belief that most of them had worked their way up from very low origins if not outright prostitution. In fact, many came from irreproachable backgrounds, some made spectacular marriages, and others saved and invested their earnings and became producers and playwrights when their looks faded.
The First Actresses will run from 20 October to 8 January at the National Portrait Gallery in London
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/07/national-portrait-gallery-first-actresses
The best barbecues are the pits
A 'low and slow' recipe for pulled pork that will give you taste of the Carolinas and quite possibly a hankering for a real barbecue pit in the back garden
? In pictures: how to cook barbecued pulled pork
I think it's safe to say that Americans take their barbecue seriously. Get most US food-lovers into conversation about it and they'll bang on for hours about the relative virtues of the different styles.
In Texas and Kansas City - cattle country - beef is popular, particularly ribs and brisket, with big, sweet, hot and smoky sauces. The variations between the two can be discussed endlessly and with positively rabbinical precision. In Memphis, the hog is favoured. Great slabs of pork, slathered in enough sauce to satisfy big, Kung Fu Elvis at his most unhinged. But for me, the barbecue of the Carolinas is the best.
I was lucky enough to live in various parts of North Carolina over a few years and I've never forgotten the experience of driving off the main roads to some grape-vine publicised pit, hidden in a mountain hollow or a coastal backwater, to see a legendary pork-master slaving like a kobold in the smoke. Furniture in these places usually stretched to the plastic and folding. Tables were covered with newspaper if you were lucky and iced tea, on the rare occasions it was available, came in jam jars.
I hope there are a still a few of these places around, but the last time I visited was 20 years ago so there are no guarantees. What sticks in the memory though, is the pulled pork - shoulder in the east of the state, whole hog towards the Appalachians. A thin, vinegar based sauce towards the coast, sweeter, thicker and with tomatoes west of Raleigh. The meat is cooked as slowly as possible over indirect heat until, at around 85C (internal temperature) it gives up any structural integrity at all then it's literally pulled apart, usually by a huge guy to whom you're distantly related, wearing thick rubber gloves, and served in an awful cotton-wool bun with coleslaw.
It's sublime. Completely, overwhelmingly delicious. As the juices run down into your stubble they mingle with discreet tears of sheer joy. God's food.
As it happens I got married in North Carolina, to a local girl. Though the marriage, sadly, didn't survive, this means I still have relatives over there. Good, strong men and beautiful women, many of whom own guns and who will probably hunt me down and kill me for what I'm about to say.
I think I've finally cracked a way of doing a pretty good North Carolina pulled pork barbecue in England.
OK. I'm aware - really aware - that we're on dangerous ground here, but let me explain the thinking.
In a normal pit barbecue, the meat is dry-rubbed and then slow-cooked, usually overnight, with indirect heat from burning wood. The air temperature in the closed cooking vessel rarely gets above 100C and the gentle smoke builds up tarry layer of flavoursome particles on the surface of the meat which is enhanced by constant mopping with a liquid.
Many barbecuers believe that the smoke flavours actually penetrate the meat during the process though a more practical cook might argue the point. There is certainly a limited penetration of the marinade and the rub (the legendary "smoke ring") but the beauty of pulled pork is that it bypasses all such controversy - before serving the meat is shredded so the moist interior, the gorgeous layer of lubricating fat and the charred, tarry exterior "bark" are thoroughly mixed so the flavours really can marry together. To my mind it's this effect, plus the acidic bite of the special vinegar-based sauce, that makes North Carolina pulled pork the uber-'cue.
This recipe achieves a similar effect though using methods that owe little to tradition and will, I know for certain, cause Uncle Buzz to reach for his old thirty-aught-six with malice aforethought.
Sorry, Uncle Buzz.
Pulled pork (see here for the illustrated how-to gallery)
1. For the dry rub I used roughly equal quantities of smoked paprika, chipotle chillies, salt, dried onion flakes and English mustard powder. These are run through a grinder or blender. Using smoked ingredients in the rub helps build up the flavour if you don't own a barbecue pit.
2. Massage the rub into the surface of a boned pork shoulder, making sure to cover it completely. Then seal it in a heavy plastic bag and refrigerate overnight.
3. Whatever kind of barbecue you have, set it up for the most indirect heat you can manage. If you're using charcoal, add wood chips. If you're using gas put a metal box or tray of smoke chips on the bars over the direct heat. Close the lid and allow to smoke for 45 minutes. With the charcoal barbecue put the meat on as the heat is past its peak. With gas, keep the flame to medium. Remember that the intention is not to cook the meat but to build up a healthy smoke deposit on the outside.
4. Make a large wrapper for the meat with a double layer of foil in a roasting pan. Lift the meat in. Pour over your "mop". This is made of equal quantities of vinegar and water liberally sweetened with sugar, honey or molasses and several big tablespoons of English mustard powder. The idea is that this will keep the meat moist while building another layer of flavour.
5. Seal up the foil into an envelope and place in an oven, preheated to just shy of 100C for 5 or more hours.
6. Remove the meat (internal temp should be 85C), open the foil and allow to rest. Crank the oven up to maximum. Draw off the liquid - a mixture of pork juice, fat, the mop and the rub - with a turkey baster and keep it in a safe place. If you have time to cool it it will make it easier to defat it. When the oven reaches top heat, put the meat back, uncovered for a 10 minute sear.
7. The meat should now be at least tender enough to cut with a spoon. Lift aside the skin layer and, wearing thick rubber gloves, pull the pork apart with your fingers. You can also use forks. Be sure to thoroughly mix the spicy outer crust with the moist, steamy interior. The main sacrifice of this method is the skin which may remain too rubbery to eat.
8. Heap onto a dreadful white bun and top with coleslaw
9. The magical liquid you saved from the pan, defatted if you so wish, contains not only the ingredients of a delicious sauce but also all the juices that would have been lost in a traditional barbecue. Treasure it. Add only a healthy squirt of commercial ketchup or shriracha hot sauce for a vital hit of MSG before pouring it back over your bun. Do not, I repeat do not, make the mistake of adding any kind of commercial barbecue sauce. You'll miss the whole point if you do.
Let's not kid ourselves here. This ain't no authentic Nor' Ca'lana pulled pork, but until we start building proper pits in our backyards, it's a pretty good substitute. Consume in a lawn chair with an ice-cold Pabst Blue-Ribbon and try to imagine what the sun would look like if it was going down behind Grandfather Mountain instead of your garden shed and the incinerator chimney on the hospital.
Bonus: barbecue baked beans
1. Soak some haricot beans overnight. Drain, rinse and then boil them hard for 10 minutes removing any scum.
2. Place any or all of the following into a large pot. Leftover pork, any skin from the barbecue, leftover sauce, fat drippings. Add a finely chopped onion, a can of chopped tomatoes and the drained beans. Top up with enough water to cover the beans, close the lid firmly and place in a 120C oven for as long as you can. All day is good.
3. Proper barbecue baked beans are a benison from the pig gods. Distribute them carefully to your friends and watch them become followers.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/jun/09/pulled-pork-barbecue-pit
High Line park in New York opens second section - in pictures
The disused elevated railway became a park in 2009, with the opening of the second phase doubling the length to one mile
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/jun/08/high-line-park-new-york
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
8 Quick Changes for the Impatient Decorator (8 photos)
Occasionally I get a wild hair and need to freshen my space. This does not mean that I head out for a shopping trip each time the urge hits me. I couldn't afford to given the amount of times I am stricken with what I consider to be "The Designer's Curse." According to my husband, we are never satisfied....
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Banksy documentary no hoax, Thierry Guetta lawsuit suggests
Court case against Thierry Guetta, subject of Banksy's film Exit Through the Gift Shop, seems to confirm reality of his art
Some have considered its central story too wild and fanciful to have genuinely been drawn from real life, especially since the name next to the director's credit happened to be that of arch-prankster Banksy. But further evidence has emerged that Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was not a hoax after a court ruled against its subject, street artist Thierry Guetta, in a high-profile copyright case.
Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles obsessed with street art, starts out as the purported maker of the 2010 film and ends up being its central figure after he reinvents himself as artist Mr Brainwash and puts on his own show. One of the pieces, displayed as part of the latter's Life Is Beautiful exhibition (which provides the film's dramatic twist), landed Guetta in court.
Glen Friedman, a well-known photographer, successfully sued Guetta for breach of copyright after a federal judge ruled that a photograph of the rap group Run DMC, which Guetta manipulated for his piece, could be protected by copyright. A further hearing will decide the extent of damages.
Guetta downloaded Friedman's photograph from the internet, altered it and projected it on to a large piece of wood. He then proceeded to paint the resulting image on the wood, and also glued on 1,000 pieces of vinyl records for good measure. The artist had argued that Friedman's shot was similar to many others taken of Run DMC in the 1980s, but California federal judge Dean Pregerson dismissed his argument, also ruling that Guetta had no defence under a transformative fair use law.
"To permit one artist the right to use without consequence the original creative and copyrighted work of another artist simply because that artist wished to create an alternative work would eviscerate any protection by the copyright act," said Judge Pregerson in his ruling. "Without such protection, artists would lack the ability to control the reproduction and public display of their work and, by extension, to justly benefit from their original creative work."
The decision could impact on other artists working in the US, because it appears to limit their ability to freely use manipulated images in art. The transformative fair use law had previously been seen as a strong defence against copyright claims in such cases.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/08/banksy-thierry-guetta-lawsuit
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Student Spotlight: Professional's Choice Graffiti Remover
This generic graffiti remover brand needed a face-lift.
"Using a visual interpretation of what the product does, this packaging will stand apart from its competitors and give a fresh face to a boring product."
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Book review - The Meghan Method
There is a new book out by Meghan Carter called The Meghan Method that I wanted to give a shout out here. First, because she included desire to inspire in her list of blog resources. :) Second, because I think this book is fantastic for those who need some help when it comes to decorating their home. Meghan lays it all out for ya. She helps you figure out what your goals are for the space (she has lots of helpful sheets on her website you can print off to help with this), then she helps you create a plan and drawings of how it will look, and finally she has all kinds of tips and ideas on how to make the space come to life - with talk of budget, timelines, and pulling it all together. What I thought was very smart was that Meghan's book takes you through all these steps with a few rooms she designed. Below are some examples of the drawings she did for an office, as well as the final product. You can purchase the book here.
Source: http://www.desiretoinspire.net/blog/2011/6/5/book-review-the-meghan-method.html
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Frozen Pipes and Home Flooding
Freezing weather conditions are very much capable of inflicting damage to your properties or priceless belongings. Frozen pipes are very common during extremely low temperatures which in most instances lead to burst pipes and may result to flooding inside a house.
To prevent occurrence of frozen pipes and resultant household flood, you need to do some precautionary measures such as the followings.
- Know the locations of pipes running along exterior walls as they are constantly exposed to cold air. Commonly, pipes are found in the attic, basement, or garage.
- Provide insulation to exposed pipes.
- Keep the water flowing to prevent frozen pipes as dormant water freezes easily, placing higher risk to pipe bursting.
- When blizzards occur and electrical supply is interrupted for a long while, draining water pipes is highly essential to prevent possible freezing.
- Keep yourself updated with current weather advisories so you can anticipate severe weather conditions.
- If you intend to go to a trip, maintain a temperature of no less than 55 degrees inside the house to avoid incidence of plumbing problems from occurring as it will prevent pipes from freezing.
- You can also install a home security system that has flood monitoring capabilities. Such device can lessen prevalence of burst pipes and home flooding as its flood detection feature will signal a monitoring center if there are burst pipes or rising of ground water. Authorities will be informed promptly even you are out of your home.
- Ensure proper installation of a home security system by having it handled only by professional plumbers.
Protect your valued appliances, furniture and home from the negative effects of floods due to burst pipes by performing the precautionary measures mentioned above.
Source: http://homedesignsense.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/05/frozen-pipes-and-home-flooding?blog=1
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Sam Leith on Leonora Carrington
Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got till it's gone? The recent death in Mexico City of the British surrealist Leonora Carrington, at the age of 94, was the first reminder to many of us that she was still alive. Carrington was a living fossil from the early 20th century, swimming quietly in a distant sea.
Meeting the late Bill Deedes, one of the great figures in British journalism, I felt a stirring of awe that the old boy winking cheerfully at me started out reporting Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia. The same frisson stirs with the knowledge that, padding about somewhere on the planet, was a woman who ran away to Paris in the 1930s to shack up with Max Ernst.
The daughter of a Lancashire cloth tycoon, Carrington decided from a fairly early age that the life of a debutante was not for her and absconded to France to become an artist. She was what we now call a "wild child", and the stories about her wayward youth are glorious, if perhaps semi-apocryphal. Did she really send a hyena in a frock to her coming-out ball instead of herself? Did she really keep a pet eagle? Did she really serve her houseguests omelettes filled with their own hair, snipped off in the night? Did she really show up at parties naked, with her feet painted with mustard? I get the odd story mixed up, I must confess, with ones about Syd Barrett.
As with Barrett, it wasn't all fun and games, though. Ernst was interned, and Carrington fled from the Nazis to Madrid, where she was locked in a lunatic asylum, strapped to a bed and forcibly medicated. She escaped and, after marrying a Mexican diplomat, left Europe for Mexico City, where she stayed for good.
I came to Carrington through her writing. An old friend, years ago, pressed into my hand a green-spined Virago paperback called The Hearing Trumpet. She told me that, for everyone she knew who had read it, it had become a favourite. I read it ? and followed suit.
Carrington wrote The Hearing Trumpet when she was young; but, unusually, its protagonist Marian Leatherby is very old: 92, two years younger than her creator would be at the time of her death. The plot, near impossible to properly describe, begins with Marian carted off to an old folks' home by her ungrateful son Galahad. In short order, there follow witches, poisoned brownies, a winking nun, an army of cats, a trip to the underworld, an ice age, and a woman with the face of a wolf.
Amid this surreal swirl, the joy of the novel is Marian's voice, pragmatic, spry and funny: "The fact that I have no teeth and never could wear dentures does not in any way discomfort me. I don't have to bite anybody and there are all sorts of edible foods easy to procure and digestible to the stomach. Mashed vegetables, chocolate and bread dipped in warm water make the base of my simple diet. I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway."
Pragmatic, spry and funny are epithets that apply across Carrington's work. Even at her most imaginative and mysterious, there's a grounding humour, a matter-of-factness in counterpoint to the weird stuff. That chair may be sprouting human limbs, but other than that, it's a very workaday chair.
Her paintings look as if they date from way before the era they actually emerged from. Almost medieval, they are filled with hooded and cowled figures, with flattened perspectives, monks and strange formal gardens. Her half-animal, half-human creatures, unheimlich yet seldom outright grotesque, remind you of Hieronymus Bosch. They also have a dash of the primitivism that enraptured her contemporaries and near-contemporaries.
Yet Carrington, as her distant relative Joanna Moorhead wrote in her fine and feeling obituary for this paper, wasn't interested in intellectualising her work. And looking over some of it does make me think how rich and interesting surrealism still seems ? richer, with its experimental rummagings into the id, than the self-conscious, circular gestures of much of the postmodern and conceptual art that was to come.
Recent photographs of her showed the same handsome, fierce, intelligent face as she had in youth; except now her skin had the monumental quality of a woodcarving. She was still making art.
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jun/05/sam-leith-leonora-carrington
Digital Innovation Strategy
This London Fashion Week, starting 18th February 2011, the British Fashion Council (BFC) brings fashion to broader audiences in London, giving commuters, shoppers and tourists the opportunity to see the latest from the shows. There will be daily video highlights on the screens in the underground with highlights from the London Fashion Week twitter feed (@londonfashionwk), plus an outdoor LED screen in the courtyard at Somerset House showing daily highlights and live streaming of the shows.
The Burberry Prorsum show will be live streamed on the famous Landmark 32m digital screen at Piccadilly Circus, 4pm, Monday 21st February – a first for any brand.
Activity on the Underground is courtesy of CBS Outdoor UK and Glaceau Vitaminwater, the Piccadilly Circus Live Streaming is a partnership with Glaceau Vitaminwater. The opportunity to live stream the shows from the BFC show venue has been in part supported by the London Development Agency with Topshop also live streaming from their venue.
In 2009 the British Fashion Council launched its digital innovation strategy which positions London as a leader in fashion showcasing, embracing technology to show catwalk shows online to a global audience. This season 37 shows will be live streamed, 27 from the BFC show venue at Somerset House, 9 courtesy of Topshop from their official venue Old Billingsgate Market and Burberry who will be live streaming their show online to over 150 countries and directly at 40 live events across the globe.
Also new this season is the London Fashion Week mobile tag which brings you real-time show and event updates and the latest London Fashion Week news. This has been created using Microsoft Tag technology.
The BFC’s digital innovation strategy aims to harness technology and creativity to promote British designers to global audiences. A digital committee featuring Caroline Rush, CEO, British Fashion Council; Clara Mercer, Marketing Manager, British Fashion Council; Ben Hammersley, Editor-at-Large, Wired & Founder of Dangerous Precedent; Daniel Marks, Director, The Communications Store; Graham Fink, Creative Director, M&C Saatchi; Imran Amed, The Business of Fashion; James Grant, CEO, Starworks; Jane Boardman, CEO, Talk PR; Jason Knight and Sojin Lee was established in 2010 to inform and develop the BFC’s digital offering. In 2010 a British Fashion Award for Digital Innovation was introduced to mark our commitment to digital innovation in fashion marketing and to recognise the brand that has pioneered digital initiatives: the winner was Burberry.
To see the digital schedule visit www.londonfashionweek.com/digital schedule.
For press enquiries please contact:
Gemma Ebelis, PR Manager, British Fashion Council
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7759 1989
gemma@britishfashioncouncil.com
The Burberry Prorsum show will be live streamed on the famous Landmark 32m digital screen at Piccadilly Circus, 4pm, Monday 21st February – a first for any brand.
Activity on the Underground is courtesy of CBS Outdoor UK and Glaceau Vitaminwater, the Piccadilly Circus Live Streaming is a partnership with Glaceau Vitaminwater. The opportunity to live stream the shows from the BFC show venue has been in part supported by the London Development Agency with Topshop also live streaming from their venue.
In 2009 the British Fashion Council launched its digital innovation strategy which positions London as a leader in fashion showcasing, embracing technology to show catwalk shows online to a global audience. This season 37 shows will be live streamed, 27 from the BFC show venue at Somerset House, 9 courtesy of Topshop from their official venue Old Billingsgate Market and Burberry who will be live streaming their show online to over 150 countries and directly at 40 live events across the globe.
Also new this season is the London Fashion Week mobile tag which brings you real-time show and event updates and the latest London Fashion Week news. This has been created using Microsoft Tag technology.
The BFC’s digital innovation strategy aims to harness technology and creativity to promote British designers to global audiences. A digital committee featuring Caroline Rush, CEO, British Fashion Council; Clara Mercer, Marketing Manager, British Fashion Council; Ben Hammersley, Editor-at-Large, Wired & Founder of Dangerous Precedent; Daniel Marks, Director, The Communications Store; Graham Fink, Creative Director, M&C Saatchi; Imran Amed, The Business of Fashion; James Grant, CEO, Starworks; Jane Boardman, CEO, Talk PR; Jason Knight and Sojin Lee was established in 2010 to inform and develop the BFC’s digital offering. In 2010 a British Fashion Award for Digital Innovation was introduced to mark our commitment to digital innovation in fashion marketing and to recognise the brand that has pioneered digital initiatives: the winner was Burberry.
To see the digital schedule visit www.londonfashionweek.com/digital schedule.
For press enquiries please contact:
Gemma Ebelis, PR Manager, British Fashion Council
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7759 1989
gemma@britishfashioncouncil.com
Source: http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/news_detail.aspx?id=295
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MAN line-up for AW11
Topman and Fashion East will again bring the MAN showcase to Men’s Day at London Fashion Week. This will be MAN’s 12th season at LFW, highlighting innovative and talented designers who are selected by a panel of industry insiders. Showing on the runway for AW11 are Martine Rose, Central St Martin’s MA Graduate Felipe Rojas Llanos and designer Thom Murphy’s label New Power Studio.
Lulu Kennedy, Director of Fashion East says “I am extremely pleased to be working with Topman, the panel and the elected three designers for the 12th season of MAN. Felipe Rojas Llanos, Martine Rose and Thom Murphy’s New Power Studio will all be showcasing their AW11 collections and everyone is excited to see how these leading lights are developing. MAN continues to push the boundaries of British menswear by nurturing relevant emerging talent.”
Gordon Richardson, TOPMAN Design Director says 'MAN continues burning the torch for all that's new and creative in British menswear design. Its heartbeat pumps the vital fresh blood into Menswear day’
Felipe’s style is innovative and playful yet highly wearable. The collection consists of clean, minimalist silhouettes in a soft colour pallette with couture-like attention-to-detail.
The label has shown at menswear day of London Fashion Week for the last four seasons, in the form of a Fashion East menswear installation, a film (whose images were simultaneously rendered into textile prints for the collection) and as part of the MAN runway show. His presentations are invariably theatrical, visually arresting and humorous.
The MAN panel includes AnOtherMan Fashion Director, Alister Mackie, Style.com's Tim Blanks, Editor of GQ Style Ben Reardon, Fashion Director of GQ Style Luke Day, Deputy Editor of Fantastic Man Charlie Porter, Senior Fashion Editor of Another Man, and Fashion Director of Vogue Hommes Japan Nicola Formichetti, Fashion Director Andrew Davis, b Store's Co-Owner and Head of Buying Matthew Murphy, Online Editor of of Vice Magazine Daryoush Haj-Najafi, Saturday Telegraph Magazine's Men’s Fashion Editor Clare Richardson, and TOPMAN Design Director Gordon Richardson, presided over by Fashion East director and founder, Lulu Kennedy.
For further information please contact:
George MacPherson, Account Director, Starworks London
george@starworkslondon.com
+44 (0) 20 7318 0400
Kelly Reed, PR Manager, Topman
kelly.reed@topman.com
+44 (0) 20 7291 2721
For London Fashion Week ticket requests only email: MAN@starworkslondon.co.uk
Image: Felipe Rojas Llanos at MAN SS11
Lulu Kennedy, Director of Fashion East says “I am extremely pleased to be working with Topman, the panel and the elected three designers for the 12th season of MAN. Felipe Rojas Llanos, Martine Rose and Thom Murphy’s New Power Studio will all be showcasing their AW11 collections and everyone is excited to see how these leading lights are developing. MAN continues to push the boundaries of British menswear by nurturing relevant emerging talent.”
Gordon Richardson, TOPMAN Design Director says 'MAN continues burning the torch for all that's new and creative in British menswear design. Its heartbeat pumps the vital fresh blood into Menswear day’
FELIPE ROJAS LLANOS
Felipe Rojas Llanos was born in Chile in 1981 and brought up in Sweden. He showed his collection entitled Suspended Animation as one of only four menswear designers at the Central Saint Martin’s Menswear London Fashion Week show where he received the bursary award from Giorgio Armani. Felipe’s MA collection is currently stocked exclusively at Browns.Felipe’s style is innovative and playful yet highly wearable. The collection consists of clean, minimalist silhouettes in a soft colour pallette with couture-like attention-to-detail.
NEW POWER STUDIO
New Power Studio is a young, spirited, London-based menswear label which offers wearable clothes with an edge. The designs are inspired by pop culture, combining sportswear and tailoring references. Since its launch in 2009, industry support has been substantial and enthusiastic. Coverage has included i-D, Arena Homme Plus, POP, British Vogue, New York Times, dazeddigital.com, GQstyle.com and Vice.The label has shown at menswear day of London Fashion Week for the last four seasons, in the form of a Fashion East menswear installation, a film (whose images were simultaneously rendered into textile prints for the collection) and as part of the MAN runway show. His presentations are invariably theatrical, visually arresting and humorous.
MARTINE ROSE
This is the sixth season from Martine Rose’s self titled label. Her previous collections which have included ambitious installations at Blacks members club and Fashion East Installations have been well received by press and industry alike. Last season saw her produce her first catwalk show entitled ‘love is…’ and she has since collaborated with Timberland and Wallpaper* on an outwear piece. Rose’s new footwear designs for Caterpillar will be shown on the catwalk alongside her A/W collection which further explores her interest in contrasting textures and unexpected silhouettes. Expect clothes which seamlessly marry street style trends with a high fashion sensibility from one of the coolest girls in London.The MAN panel includes AnOtherMan Fashion Director, Alister Mackie, Style.com's Tim Blanks, Editor of GQ Style Ben Reardon, Fashion Director of GQ Style Luke Day, Deputy Editor of Fantastic Man Charlie Porter, Senior Fashion Editor of Another Man, and Fashion Director of Vogue Hommes Japan Nicola Formichetti, Fashion Director Andrew Davis, b Store's Co-Owner and Head of Buying Matthew Murphy, Online Editor of of Vice Magazine Daryoush Haj-Najafi, Saturday Telegraph Magazine's Men’s Fashion Editor Clare Richardson, and TOPMAN Design Director Gordon Richardson, presided over by Fashion East director and founder, Lulu Kennedy.
For further information please contact:
George MacPherson, Account Director, Starworks London
george@starworkslondon.com
+44 (0) 20 7318 0400
Kelly Reed, PR Manager, Topman
kelly.reed@topman.com
+44 (0) 20 7291 2721
For London Fashion Week ticket requests only email: MAN@starworkslondon.co.uk
Image: Felipe Rojas Llanos at MAN SS11
Source: http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/news_detail.aspx?id=273
Amy Van Doran, Matchmaker
�I�m always asking people about their love lives.�Source: http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/look-book-2011-6-6/
We love Etsy, and so does West Elm ? the store will host Etsy sellers June 4
Most design lovers know Etsy. The online shop (etsy.com) features pages of amazing handmade home and fashion products in various categories by artists worldwide (need a hemp tea towel with a whale on it, or fresh spring art? See etsy?s Bookhouathome; the spring art is pictured). You can meet 15 Etsy sellers on June 4 ...
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Bath: Stonk Rope Towel Rail
Stonk Knots of Cornwall, England, hand produces rope accessories for both the home and garden based on traditional techniques. We particularly like the circular Stonk Rope Towel Rail made of p.o.s.h., a material originally intended for classic yachts. For pricing and additional product information, go to Stonk Knots.
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Luce laptop includes dual solar panels for clutter free work
Naresh: Modern innovations in technology may have empowered us with some of the most advanced gadgets or tools to ease our lives, but one can never ignore the untamed furies of the Nature that could negate all our establishments with just a single stroke. The
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Harold Tillman CBE
Harold Tillman, Chairman of the British Fashion Council (BFC) has been bestowed the honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the Princess Royal this morning at Buckingham Palace. Tillman was appointed CBE in the 2010 Birthday Honours list for his services to the fashion industry.
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Harold Tillman comments: ‘It is a real honour to be recognised in this way. The UK is home to some of the world's leading fashion brands and I am proud to be associated with a number of them through the British Fashion Council and directly with Jaeger and Aquascutum. I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to acquire these two wonderful British businesses with true heritage and be part of their revival.’
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Harold Tillman, throughout a career spanning four decades, has established himself as an entrepreneur across fashion, retail and leisure and an ambassador and champion of British fashion. Tillman has revitalised a number of British businesses, currently owns and Chairs British heritage brands Jaeger and Aquascutum and was appointed Chairman of the British Fashion Council in 2008.
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During his tenure at the BFC, Tillman has strengthened London Fashion Week’s reputation as a global showcase for British fashion design talent, and is credited with bringing Antonio Berardi, Burberry Prorsum, Jonathan Saunders, Matthew Williamson and Pringle of Scotland back to the London catwalk. As part of the BFC’s 25th anniversary celebrations he launched the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund to assist talented British designers.
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Having studied at the London College of Fashion, Tillman’s services to the fashion industry began following an apprenticeship at Savile Row’s Kilgour, a tailoring business.� He was fast-tracked to� the role of the company’s Managing Director, and recruited a young Paul Smith to innovate the design department plus footballer George Best to promote the clothes; transforming Kilgour into a hugely successful brand of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Key to Tillman’s services to the fashion industry are his charitable achievements. He set up a scholarship at London College of Fashion in 2006, pledging �1 million to sponsor ten MA students each year. He also sits on the board of the Fashion Enterprise Forum, which raises money for young industry entrepreneurs and is Chairman of the Alumni Board for the University of the Arts London.
Caroline Rush, CEO of the British Fashion Council, comments: ‘Harold is an inspiring Chairman and driving force within the British Fashion Council and the industry as a whole. We are delighted that his achievements have been recognised in this way.’
See images from the event
For British Fashion Council press enquiries, please contact:
Gemma Ebelis, British Fashion Council�
gemma@britishfashioncouncil.com
+44 (0) 20 7759 1989
For Harold Tillman press enquiries, please contact:
Alison Poole, Brunswick Group
jaeger@brunswickgroup.com
+44 (0) 020 7404 5959
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Harold Tillman comments: ‘It is a real honour to be recognised in this way. The UK is home to some of the world's leading fashion brands and I am proud to be associated with a number of them through the British Fashion Council and directly with Jaeger and Aquascutum. I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to acquire these two wonderful British businesses with true heritage and be part of their revival.’
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Harold Tillman, throughout a career spanning four decades, has established himself as an entrepreneur across fashion, retail and leisure and an ambassador and champion of British fashion. Tillman has revitalised a number of British businesses, currently owns and Chairs British heritage brands Jaeger and Aquascutum and was appointed Chairman of the British Fashion Council in 2008.
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During his tenure at the BFC, Tillman has strengthened London Fashion Week’s reputation as a global showcase for British fashion design talent, and is credited with bringing Antonio Berardi, Burberry Prorsum, Jonathan Saunders, Matthew Williamson and Pringle of Scotland back to the London catwalk. As part of the BFC’s 25th anniversary celebrations he launched the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund to assist talented British designers.
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Having studied at the London College of Fashion, Tillman’s services to the fashion industry began following an apprenticeship at Savile Row’s Kilgour, a tailoring business.� He was fast-tracked to� the role of the company’s Managing Director, and recruited a young Paul Smith to innovate the design department plus footballer George Best to promote the clothes; transforming Kilgour into a hugely successful brand of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Key to Tillman’s services to the fashion industry are his charitable achievements. He set up a scholarship at London College of Fashion in 2006, pledging �1 million to sponsor ten MA students each year. He also sits on the board of the Fashion Enterprise Forum, which raises money for young industry entrepreneurs and is Chairman of the Alumni Board for the University of the Arts London.
Caroline Rush, CEO of the British Fashion Council, comments: ‘Harold is an inspiring Chairman and driving force within the British Fashion Council and the industry as a whole. We are delighted that his achievements have been recognised in this way.’
See images from the event
For British Fashion Council press enquiries, please contact:
Gemma Ebelis, British Fashion Council�
gemma@britishfashioncouncil.com
+44 (0) 20 7759 1989
For Harold Tillman press enquiries, please contact:
Alison Poole, Brunswick Group
jaeger@brunswickgroup.com
+44 (0) 020 7404 5959
Source: http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/news_detail.aspx?id=257
Life Swap, Global Edition
Keep what you like about New York � but find it somewhere else. (Even Phoenix.)
Source: http://nymag.com/realestate/features/global-life-swap-2011-4/
The world according to Lina Meier
Lina Meier is inspired by ‘the interaction between people and products and driven by a genuine love for design’, and you can tell that by looking at her cool, yet totally usuable pieces. As well as her own studio, she collaborates with graphic designer Sara Keranen-Gramner on Studio Yra. Busy, busy, busy. However, she did [...]
Source: http://lifestyleetc.co.uk/2011/06/03/the-world-according-to-lina-meier/
"I love New York."Modernist America by Richard Pells ? review
US art and music may have embraced the European avant garde, but how big was its impact on Hollywood?
On the cover of Richard Pells's Modernist America are pictures of George Gershwin, Marlon Brando, the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building ? a Dadaist litany that quite fails to do justice to the book's capacious grasp. Everyone from Bardot to Bart�k, from Le Corbusier to Le Carr�, from Tennessee Williams to Indiana Jones is crammed into its pages. Not even the kitchen sink is missing. Having discussed the neo-realism of Fellini and Bertolucci, Pells moves straight on to analysing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and other kitchen-sink classics of half a century ago.
The book's thesis is that fears of US cultural imperialism are overblown. If the modern world has been taken over by American art, then that is only because American artists have taken so much from modernists around the world. What was Andy Warhol but Duchamp for the leisured class? Jazz might be the definitive American sound, but its roots are all over the place ? in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Europe. Tin Pan Alley is a mash-up, too ? a harmonic hybrid of Gilbert and Sullivan, Dixie dance and the melancholy chords of the Jewish scale. Without The Rite of Spring there'd have been no Appalachian Spring. Without Hitler, who exiled so much European talent, there'd have been no Hollywood.
And without Hollywood, Pells wouldn't have a book. Fully half his text is given over to what he calls "the most important? form of art and entertainment in the modern world". Art, he is adamant, the movies most certainly are. Film editing, he tells us, owes debts to cubism, futurism and surrealism. Cutting from one shot to another enables the cinema to "create a feeling of movement as well as a sometimes fractured sense of time and reality. The fragments of experience, captured in a single shot and then juxtaposed with other shots to produce a multiplicity of perspectives, are the cornerstones of the cinema, and they are also central to the modernist view of the world."
Undeniably true, though Pells fails to see that the movies' formal modernity is more often than not undercut by a preachy, moralising conventionality wholly at odds with the insurrectionary impulse of the avant garde. Only in the late 1960s and early 70s ? the subject of Pells's best chapter ? did Hollywood stray into ideologically challenging terrain. Nor do movies play havoc with the surface of the recognisable world ? as every important painter at work since the invention of the camera has done. Life as seen through the lens of Michelangelo Antonioni takes place in a spooked-out arena ? compressed, closed off, dislocated, alienating. But even at his most Brechtian, Antonioni makes images of a verifiable, empirical world. Like it or not, the cinema defaults to realism.
Pells, though, can see the self-conscious aesthetics of modernism everywhere. Groucho wisecracking straight at the camera, Busby Berkeley making abstract patterns of his dancing girls by filming them from on high, John Ford's repeated vistas of Monument Valley ? all draw attention to themselves and away from the stories their movies are ostensibly telling. Even the inventor of the method was an unwitting avant gardist. Constantin Stanislavski might have believed his techniques would help actors attain such naturalistic transparency they would disappear into the drama, but Pells is having none of it. The method, like all forms of modernism, calls "attention to the charisma of the creator". Fair enough if you're talking about Brando, but what about TS Eliot, who believed that art was less the expression of a personality than an escape from it?
The problem is that Pells, a recently retired history professor from the University of Texas, seems to believe that a work of art is modernist merely by dint of its having been made in the era of modernity. An evening in front of the box should convince him that this is far from being the case. The medium itself may be a cubist-style cut-up job, but the main reason for the popularity of shows such as The Sopranos and Mad Men is that they offer the pre-modernist delights of the Victorian novel ? solid, rounded characters, unpredictable yet understandable plots, invisible narration.
Miraculously, though, Modernist America isn't crippled by its historicist blunder. While Pells's big argument doesn't hold up, most of his smaller ones do. No one who thinks Cyd Charisse a lesser dancer than Ginger Rogers is entirely to be trusted, but otherwise Pells makes for a fine guide to the 20th century. His book is worth reading for the section on Hemingway alone ? and for the blinding insight that the tics and twitches of Travis Bickle and Clyde Barrow and the other crazies of the American new wave owe a lot to Vivien Leigh's Blanche DuBois. Now that's what I call modernist talk.
Christopher Bray is working on a book about 60s politics and culture
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/05/modernist-america-richard-pells-review
Back to nature: A lavatory to connect you with nature
Jaazhh: In an
attempt to connect city dwellers with nature, Ekateryna Sokolova has come up with a public lavatory concept christened, ?Back
to Nature.? People working in tall buildings hardly get any time to form a bond
with their beautiful surroundings. The
attempt to connect city dwellers with nature, Ekateryna Sokolova has come up with a public lavatory concept christened, ?Back
to Nature.? People working in tall buildings hardly get any time to form a bond
with their beautiful surroundings. The
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Accessories File: Summer Sandals
It's the season of the sandal, and the options are endless: There are earthy, utilitarian flats for every day or colorful wedges and satin single-straps for evening. So, to make the quest for the perfect pair easier, Accessories Editor Filipa Fino scoured what’s out there and used a divide-and-conquer approach,...Source: http://www.vogue.com/guides/accessories-file-summer-sandals/
�nico Musk
"Packaging for women’s fragrance. Laboratorios RNB. 2011:
Musk is a highly valued substance in perfumery. It is very frequently used to give body and quality to many perfumes. Its delicate aroma evokes purity, clean skin, peacefulness, smoothness. The cylindrical bottle, the textile texture of the box, the graphic... and all, in the design of the Único Musk, want to evoke the pleasure of the habitual, of things simple, natural, authentic."
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Save Money and Recycle with Scrap Crafts
Many of the items that most people discard on a daily basis can actually be used as craft supplies. If you just think creatively, you'll be able to save money and recycle cans, bottles, cardboard and many other materials, simply by transforming them into something new. You might even be able to sell your creations to earn more money!
Glass Bottles and Jars
There are a number of crafts you can make from glass bottles and jars. You can purchase a set of glass paints, which are transparent and look beautiful when painted on bottles and jars. Acrylic-based paints are the best choice for children, but there are also solvent-based paints that work best if an adult will be making the craft. You can also use opaque paints to create interesting painted jars and bottles. You can even use leftover flat wall paint and spray paint on glass, especially if you plan to add a glaze sealant when finished. Before painting, clean the glass thoroughly to improve paint adhesion. It usually works best to apply light colors first. After they are dry, add the darker colors. If using standard latex or acrylic paints, apply a clear gloss glaze as the final step to help preserve the finish.
Tin Can Crafts
If you're like most people, you discard or recycle numerous tin cans each day. However, they can be used to create many interesting craft projects. Cans with plastic lids can be painted and used as decorative storage containers. However, even if the can doesn't have a lid, you might be able to find a plastic lid from other containers which will fit. Spray paint designed for metal surfaces works well on cans. Once the can has been painted a solid color, you can use enamel paints and an artist's brush to add designs. Or, use decals to make the job even simpler. You can also use an awl or other sharp object to carefully punch holes into the side of the can to make a decorative candle holder. For example, lightly trace a heart shape onto the can. Then, use an awl to punch evenly spaced holes along the traced shape.
Scrap Paper
There are an almost unending number of crafts you can make with scrap paper. You can use old greeting cards to make pretty placemats for your table. Cut a piece of cardboard to the desired size and shape for the finished placemat. Then, use glue to cover the cardboard base with cut up greeting cards. After the glue dries, cover the placemat on the front and back with clear contact paper. Be sure the contact paper extends at least a quarter inch on each side of the placemat, so that the contact paper seals completely. You can also cut greeting cards up into strips to make attractive bookmarks, covering them with clear contact paper if desired. Children often enjoy making mosaic pictures from scrap paper. Simply cut colorful greeting cards or other colored scrap paper into small irregular shapes. Then, children can glue these shapes onto a piece of paper to form pictures.
Jessica Ackerman, writes for WallDecorandHomeAccents.com and offers aspiring home designers the opportunity to decorate with flower wall sculptures and metal wall crosses.
Photo by ashleytheartist2002
Source: http://homedesignsense.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/04/save-money-and-recycle-with-scrap-crafts?blog=1
Attention Seekers
Apartments ad extremum.
Source: http://nymag.com/realestate/features/apartments/superlatives-2011-4/
Houzz Tour: Clean-Lined and Casually Coastal (18 photos)
Neutral colors created a calm base for this Atlantic coast condominium. Atop it, interior designer Liz Williams layered distinct textures, reclaimed architectural pieces, unexpected artwork, her clients' collections, and pops of punchy patterns. The result is a breezy and relaxing retreat where her clients...
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Antique Chic: Edison Bulbs (8 photos)
Today's antique-style filament light bulbs are named after Thomas Edison, but he didn't invent the first electric light bulb. (He did invent the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb.) Regardless, these light bulbs and their low, orange glow have become a mainstay in industrial-chic commercial...
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