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3 weeks ago |
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Kemp-Habib |Laurence Ellis
One might assume that Emily Frances Barrett, known for elevating everyday detritus into wearable art, perceives beauty in all things. This is not the case, as I discover when visiting her studio in east London. ‘I don’t pick up any old bottle top,’ she quips, presenting me with a recent acquisition, a crushed blue cap adorned with a scratched-up star.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
For 37 years the kaleidoscopic tesserae of the Equality–Harmony mural presided over Broadwater Farm, a sprawling Corbusian housing estate in Tottenham, north London. Affixed to a five-storey bin chute on the Tangmere House block, the mosaic was commissioned in the wake of the Broadwater Farm riot in 1985, sparked by the death of Cynthia Jarrett, a Black woman who suffered a heart attack during a police raid on her home.
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Dec 15, 2024 |
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
The south London home of lighting and furniture designer Gareth Devonald Smith is a tribute to the maxim ‘art for art’s sake’. Its breeze-block-lined corridor alone immediately signals to the visitor that here dwells someone with an urgent desire to create. Thickly applied squares of ready-mix plaster have been daubed on to each brick, and it’s an approach that extends throughout his three-storey live/work space.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
Within minutes of arriving at Leap Year, the first major British survey of South Korean artist Haegue Yang’s work, through a noisy curtain of bells and past a room full of clothes horses adorned with electrical cables, I witness an ‘activation’.
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Sep 20, 2024 |
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Inggs |Ariadne Fletcher |Alice Kemp-Habib |David Lipton
These emerging designers are ones to watch, handpicked by the WoI team. Take your pick from sinuous glass to vibrant beaded tapestries, or boldly geometric lighting to tableware-with-a-twist. Sanaa Gateja has been dubbed the ‘Bead King’ in Uganda, thanks to his pioneering use of waste paper – transforming books, brochures and all manner of paper waste into beads.
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My interview with Kathryn Scanlan, winner of the Gordon Burn Prize, was published by @GuardianBooks on Fri. Kick The Latch really challenges the idea of what a novel could/should be. I loved reading it and really enjoyed writing this piece ⬇️
Kathryn Scanlan: Gordon Burn prize winner on pushing the boundaries of fiction https://t.co/yAtizXyQ0o
"[I don't know] if it’s even ethical to advise anyone to go into this industry any more" Wholeheartedly agree. I loved my journalism BA but the idea that there are students spending tens of thousands on the same course today, with 0 guarantee of work at the end of it, is 🤯
