In Praise of the Pineapple
I have always loved a pineapple, it’s part of my sur-realism kick, it tickles my fancy and makes me smile to see them. They have a long design history, inter-twined with the pine cone, and potent...
View ArticleBeaton’s Paradise Lost
In every life there are the rites of passage that define and shape it, from the joys of falling in love … to the vicissitudes of moving house. These two events are united in the case of Cecil Beaton,...
View ArticleLet’s Go-Rococo
Rococo, rolls off the tongue. Ro-co-co … ooh, how I love it. I am going look at its style, features and the all important: ‘rococo now’. Mainstream-Rococo conjures up Fragonard’s infamous painting of...
View ArticleBeatonesque
I saw this title on Pinterest and it piqued my interest, Cecil Beaton defined his era in many ways, but what is the definition of Beatonesque? Mario Testino says he marked his period as if he were the...
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