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October 10, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY We did end up buying a carpet on the recent Syrian trip. Or it might be a rug or a kelim. I know that quantity of knots per square inch are the acid test. Any way here it is, a lovely object from Tabriz in Iran. The man on the right is the carpet [...]  October 10, 2010 | Sculpture gazing in Sussex Flicking through a magazine, I came across pictures of a fish on a bicycle and a rubber palm tree and knew that I had to drive down towards the Sussex Downs to take a better look. These and other provoking works of contemporary British sculpture, are set in the wooded grounds of the Cass Foundation [...] October 8, 2010 | Celebrity pin up
WHO? Martha Schwartz WHY? Transforming urban spaces and attitudes to them. Look out for Massar Children’s Discovery Centre, Damascus opening 2012.
Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1096′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); [...] October 6, 2010 | Wordless Wednesday on 6.10.10
Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1076′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); October 3, 2010 | Oh lovely Damascus. Damascene rose, damask fabric and as the guidebook would have it, Dimashq. The old town is an ellipse – bounded more or less by walls and divided up into different districts – the original pattern is christian, jewish, muslim. The oldest inhabited city in the world, perhaps. The Romans came and went, Tamerlane shot through, [...] September 24, 2010 | Get that goat Holiday Time and I am off to find this goat in Syria. Or the friends of this goat. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1044′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); September 19, 2010 | Playing with scale There is a walk round here that I go on nearly every day. The landscape is pretty spacious and empty. We are in Suffolk which is the county of the large skies. It is what you get with flat ground. London is not much over an hour away by train but this is the empty quarter. [...] September 17, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY Eighteenth century looking glass with embedded lenses. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1014′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); August 4, 2010 | Trial fields and Wolsey woven together by Ernst Neto trial fields at Thompson and Morgan I had a very strange day that started with marvelling at stunted sunflowers in a rainy trial field by Ipswich. The rush of motorway traffic, made louder by the rain, dinned our ears. Pylons lurked and rain slanted down on a crowd of the horticulturally hooked . We put [...] July 25, 2010 | In praise of Blotanical.com with animal chorus on the pigs back As a self-confessed techno-phobe and luddite, I feel I am on the pig’s back with lovely www.blotanical.com. It’s the website for people blogging about gardens all over the world. Can’t quite think why this new hobby of blogging came upon me. Computers? URLS? RSS feeds? All a dense fuzz in the brain’s [...] |
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