My favourite upholsterer arranging a veil curtain
I love the warm end-of-afternoon glow in this image taken in August in Provence, while documenting the final installation of a private commission for an upholsterer friend of mine. English light tends to be beautifully soft and white, uniformly bathing everything like a studio soft box, but I alway really enjoy making the best of the golden holiday-like, nostalgia-prone light of Southern Europe, as a photographer’s treat.
Magnus Long & Michael Ruh at the Conran Shop
The Conran Shop celebrated the London Design Festival by unveiling its Autumn 2014 collection. It features designs and exclusive collaborations, including Magnus Long’s beautifully balanced Stix Dining Table in Marquina Marble and Michael Ruh fabulous
blown glass luminaires.
Gala Fernandez: Out of the Cage
I shot the Out of the Cage show featured by the Marion Friedmann Gallery at the London Cervantes Institute first thing in the morning, and the late summer light was doing a great job at complimenting Gala Fernandez’s incredible glasswork blown into birdcages.
‘the objects are a result of the interaction of the hot fluid glass with the moulds, the final pieces carrying the marks and history of both their former existences,’ Marion Friedmann explained in an interview to Designboom. ‘the project questions the status of confinement versus refuge. a cage can be conceived as imprisonment or a shelter for comfort. the glass works subtly capture this essence of limitation, protection and custody in a very imaginative fashion.’
