
29th June 2022
Breitling: Paradise
Mid-Century America was a place of space-age futurism, Doo-Wop diners and the curvaceous glory of stream-line moderne. It was exuberant, it was giggly, it was full of joy.
Posted on Step

13th June 2022
Dadá
The all-encompassing contempt for class systems, the ‘discard-everything-standard’-ism, and Duchamp’s prolific self-ironising epitomise Dadaism. Its humour is black as night.
Posted on Step

27th May 2022
Le Veilleur
She knows that to conceal is to intrigue. She understands, as did Anne-Marie Beretta before her, that sometimes more is more. That to choose not to reveal – to wear collars up, high necklines, outlandish masks – is to pique curiosity.
Posted on Manner

1st April 2022
Hybrid Modernity
The Photo-Secessionists believed in photography as art. Reportage or documentary didn’t interest them. They championed subjectivity and manipulation, wanted to secede from convention and make images that were painterly.
Posted on Step

23rd March 2021
Nombre Noir
The ultra-stylised, look-don't-touch eroticism of Serge Lutens was a dominant theme in fashion and beauty throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Posted on Falling

25th January 2021
Détail
Close up… now closer, closer still, until the object you’re seeing comes loose from its context and gets all weird and sacramental, a fetish, a meditation.
Posted on Falling

23rd September 2020
The Ceremony
As collective uncertainty and anxiety hover, what would a zen master do?
Posted on Noise

16th August 2020
Garden Of One’s Own
What if Edith Bouvier Beale were reincarnated as a millennial? Or - bear with us here - she was the first millennial (cue gasp)?
Posted on Falling

9th June 2020
O Rio De Janeiro
Nature, organic shapes, geometric abstraction and Brazilian genius meet hot hot hot sunshine in the exuberantly Modernist urban design of Lucio Costa and Roberto Burle Marx
Posted on Falling

29th April 2020
1936: The Buenos Aires Affair
THE BUENOS AIRES AFFAIR: Could you be the most beautiful room in the world? Why Jean-Michel Frank's
interiors for the Kavanagh Building in Buenos Aires bring tears to the
modernist aesthete's eyes.
Posted on Mapping