Last Week's Interestings // 166

- jelsen

Good, Sir.

Back in London, Steph and i hit the Design Museum for a run through.

Sir Terence Conran is the "Big Deal" we were introduced to. The exhibition was named 'The Way We Live Now' and rightly so.

Here's a copy/pasted snippet from Design Museum:

Terence Conran has had more impact than any other designer of his generation on everyday life in contemporary Britain through a series of parallel careers. Conran describes the private boarding school he attended as an “inspired” choice by his mother, because it particularly encouraged creativity in its pupils and balanced academic study with practical, physical activities like digging the vegetable garden and rudimentary plumbing. Later, at the Central School of Art and Design in London, Conran absorbed the Bauhaus and Arts & Crafts influenced beliefs that “a good design should be available to the whole community, not just to a few”. After Central he set up as an independent designer at the age of 21. Through his friendship with the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi he was on the fringes of the Independent Group, the artistic avant garde of the 1950s that brought Pop Art to Britain and worked on the Festival of Britain. But he was driven to establish his own shop, as he once said, to prove to people that his designs could find a market even if nobody else wanted to sell them.

And here's a snippet from my camera:

More on Terence Conran > H E R E

A bit about his current empire > H E R E

Great bump-in.

- jelsen

You Already Know

Yesterday morning we dedicated an early bike ride to the Met to finally see the Alexander McQueen exhibit....along with the rest of America, it seemed:

...after two hours of snail-like stop'n'going in a 6-people-wide queue - we arrived at the front gates.

And it was all a dream after that.

- jelsen

Hot-Ass Heat Burning Flames Scalding

We ultimately won, though.

- jelsen

Last Week's Interestings // 118

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How We Do

The Innocents made an impromptu trip to the Brooklyn Children's Museum top-o-morning. Here are some highlights of the mighty fine time:

Refreshing, son. Refreshing.

- jelsen