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.

Sunday 16 Oct...

...I will be at the Vintage Fashion Fair at Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park Road. Lots of midcentury ceramics and dare I say "vintage" (today's dirty word) for sale...including this great French enamel coffee pot.  No markings...whaddyathink 1960s? 1970s?

By the way Cecil Sharp House is the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, which houses this great mural by Ivor Hitchens.  Hey nonny nonny indeed, dude.

It's so bracing...

Skegness is so bracing.  Proper brass monkeys!

This amazing original print by Kenneth Steel from 1956 can be yours!

More Shopping

...and where else can I get to see your poster wares Mr Modernish?

...why here: at 123 in Shoreditch!

...surely Mr Modernish you have become to too hip for us!