Art Deco glamour

I was looking forward to seeing the art deco bathroom at Upton House as I had heard so much about it, but nothing had prepared me for its style, elegance and sheer wow factor

Alcoves, columns, a rich deep red and walls covered in aluminium leaf.

The multi faceted vaulted ceiling, also in aluminium leaf

The bath in its own alcove

another view of the bath

 

 

the alcove with the dressing table

 

and a closer look

 



the mirror above the sink, again in its own alocove

moving back a bit ...

 

a glimpse of the stylish bedroom.

Inside Upton House

Last time we visited Upton House in March, the house was closed so we wandered around the grounds. This time it was the turn of the house itself.

The grand fireplace at the entrance lobby.

A view of the entrance lobby from the floor above

The owner of the house was chair of Shell so there is a room that is full of Shell adverts in the form of paintings, prints and posters

Footballers Prefer Shell, by Paul Nash (oil on canvas, 1935)

and the poster

These Men use Shell: Journalists by Hans Schleger

The surreal into advertising....

Adoration of the Kings,  Hieronymous Bosch

The Massacre of the Innocents, After Peter Bruegel the Elder

A Man and his Wife,  Master of the St. Barbara Legend

A last look at the grounds.

Hubert Dalwood

The second exhibition currently showing at the Mead Gallery is  'Hubert Dalwood, Landscape into Sculpture'

But before going into the exhibition we admired the neon light installation at the entrance.

The young Priest

Head

Relief I

Mother and child

Landscape into Sculpture

Cloudy tower

Anni, at the Mead Gallery but in this photograph  as exhibited at Roche Court

 

 

 

 

I loved the large aluminium sculptures.

 

 

He became fascinated with the relationship of sculpture to architecture, and the relation of both to the body.  'Scale is the important thing. That is what the Greeks were so good at, relating their buildings and their spaces, even when very large, to the scale of a human being. That is what architecture is for me, and that is what sculpture is also'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Temple, in Toronto.

 

 

 

At Roche Court, perfect relationship between architecture, sculpture and the body.

 

 

Anni Albers

The Anni Albers exhibition at the Mead Gallery is a delight

She went to the Bauhaus as a young student in 1922 where she entered the weaving workshop because it was the only one open to her as a woman.

Code  (pictorial weaving and metallic thread)

Haiku  (cotton, hemp, metallic thread)

Second movement III  (two colour copper plate etching)

Camino Real   (screenprint on paper)

Second Movement  (two colour copper plate etching)

GRI  (screenprint on paper).

Broadway

An afternoon spent in Broadway

Picturesque houses made of the yellow Cotswold stone  (where is the door???)

it had rained in the morning and everything was fresh and clean

Cotswold stone and timber framed, sitting next to each other

I managed to squeeze my camera through the iron bars of the gate of this house in order to get the photograph

then lunch at Russells's

fortunately the sun had come out so we were able to sit outside. The food was delicious.

A picture of my mother

This is a picture of my mother in her lab. She was one of the first women to go to medical school in Athens and she worked as a microbiologist all her life. In the 1940s she also edited the journal Cliniki, the only medical  journal at the time. I love this picture.

Jewellery

I have just finished making some more necklaces

for Editions of John Noot galleries in Broadway.

I have mainly used trade beads but some are made with gemstones. All findings are sterling silver.

This one is made from Venetian millefiori from the late 1800s and blue donut shaped glass beads also from the late 1800s.

Recycled green glass from Ghana and donut shaped clear glass beads from the late 1800s

Blue Czech wedding beads and ruby in zoisite

Donut shaped beads made from recycled glass from Africa

Turquoise, lava and silver

Recycled glass donut shaped beads from Africa and amethyst

Clear glass donut shaped beads from the late 1800s  and chrysophase

Venetian millefiori trade beads from the late 1800s

Donut shaped clear and blue glass beads from the late 1800s

Recycled glass from Ghana and blue donut shaped glass beads from the late 1800s

Bohemian moulded black beads and sterling silver bead

Blue Czech wedding beads and agate

Magnesite  and black moulded Bohemian beads

Turquoise, lava and sterling silver

Venetian crow beads from the early 1900s and clear donut shaped beads from the late 1800s

Czech wedding beads and peridot

and a bracelet - clear donut shaped beads from the late 1800s.