Copenhagen

When modernish goes on holiday it shuns the big bright lights, the soothing coconut dangling beaches and hedonistic, young people heavy fun spots.  Instead it finds itself seeking design inspiration in suburban Copenhagen - in freezing January of course - and wandering round the architectural legacies the city offers.  So below is a soupcon from a recent trip: Finn Juhl's house, Arne Jacobson's Bellavista complex and lastly the Jacobson Restaurant.  Watch out for an article on the midcentury magazine website detailing the trip... oh yes and see our website for Scandinavian wares...

Finn Juhl's House

Bellavista

ms modernish in the Jacobson restaurant

Where will you be...?

Erm, modernish will be here in the next few months... 

Feb 4th - Spitalfields, London

March 18th - Midcentury Modern, Dulwich

Plus watch this space for some London shop collaboration mayhem...

modernish is not appearing at any of the below places, but if you would like to buy a bus blind for a South London or Surrey destination let me know on modernish.dan@gmail.com and I may be able to help.  Single destination signs on linen available from £30.

Exactly Where have you been...?

...erm nowhere in particular

I have sourced some great items you can buy at www.modernishdesigns.co.uk

You might like these lovely Scandinavian items

Anita Nylund for Jie Gantofta, Sweden

Jie Gantofta, Sweden

Cathrineholm, Norway

Riihimaki, Finland

Onwards and Upwards

Just an indication of where I will be selling in December:

3rd Dec - Spitalfields

4th Dec - York Hall, Bethnal Green

10th Dec - Ivydale School (my daughters Xmas Fair!!!) - The great Andy Tuohy will be there too

17th Dec - Brixton Market Fair

I will also be putting some new posters on the webshop (link on the left) over the next few days, including some Munich Olympic ones from 1972.  There will be a couple of French ones too.

Just to scare you, it's Christmas soon!  

A big hello to Midcentury Magazine readers and casual browsers.  The modernish shop can be easily reached by using the link on the left.  We have got some great new items...including ceramics, posters, books

Picking up random ephemera

I found this old christmas card recently.  An amazing circus screenprint (hardly a christmassy subject!)  It's signed Arrobus and some casual research tells me that this is Sydney Arrobus, who was working around the 2nd world war.  I can't find any more of work by him in this manner, but I think this is a really lovely stylised work and would like to know more...anybody...?

Heygate

I too this photo from Elephant and Castle Station, however it seems that the goodbye to the Heygate Estate won't happen overnight, with final demolition activities not scheduled until 2015 due to the quantity of asbestos removal.

I have never lived here or even lived in a huge multi-occupancy estate, but a feel a sense of sadness that this building is going, or that the "experiment" of large social housing projects has deemed to have failed.

Strange that the fitted interior ethos - e.g. the furniture, home-wares etc - remain and has so much current resonance.