ERCOL SAYS... SIT DOWN

We visited the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green today and thoroughly enjoyed the current exhibition, 'Sit Down: Seating for Kids', sponsored by Ercol. Designs by Charles and Ray Eames, Robin Day and Thomas Chippendale are amongst those featured. The main hall also plays host to the Ercol chair arch (pictured), commissioned by Wallpaper* magazine and previously exhibited at the V&A in South Kensington.

Curators Catherine Bornet and Noreen Marshall have created a show that brings a potentially dull subject to life, helped greatly by playful illustrations by Emma Houlston and 3D design from Wells Mackereth.

The show deserves extra praise for its efforts to engage children (and adults, of course) in the chair manufacturing process:

'The earliest of these seats (1680) look back to a tradition where designer and maker were the same craft worker. Even when individual furniture designers became fashionable and well known, like Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), they usually began by learning practical techniques. More recently Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was a jeweller and sculptor as well as a designer and Verner Panton (1926-1998) trained as an architectural engineer.'

Sit Down: Seating for Kids closes on 5th September 2010. Admission to the exhibition is FREE. V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA. Nearest tube: Bethnal Green. Open daily: 10.00 – 17.45, last admission 17.30. Switchboard: 020 8983 5200

Images from Emma Houlston's site

Comments

Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate: The GENUINE Windows 7 activator for x32 and x6480

Windows 7 Windows 7, probabley the greatest creation of Microsoft. From the past years, I am using Microsoft's 98, XP, 2000 Professional, 2000 Servers and Vista. Form all of these operating system, I like XP best and hate Vista. But few days ago, I heard that Windows 7 is a great product of Microsoft and I read several pages and articles on that. So, basically I became interested and downloaded Windows 7 ultimate from rapid share link. I installed that and find that Windows 7 is really a great operating system and I become a fan of Windows 7 ultimate. But I saw that it's a trial only and I can only use that only for 30 days! Damm!! after 30 days, I face several problem. Later I searched Google for Windows 7 Ultimate keys. But failed. Later, I asked my friends through email about the Windows 7 key. Many of them gave me several links of Windows 7 keys but all of them are not really working. Later, I found one hotfile link for Windows 7 ultimate which was the Windows 7 activator....

7 Tips before you buy detectors for gold and treasures and minerals

Before you buy detectors for gold and treasures and minerals you should know ... 1- The device name, type, whether it is a descriptive or a radar device or electromagnetic . 2- The idea of ??the device which detects treasures, gold and minerals . 3- The manufacturer of the device and then doing research to find out the reputation of this company in the market . 4- Price of the device and compares the price the same machine with another company . 5- Depth which is expected to have reached the device to detect gold and treasures and minerals . 6- Of the factors that affect the discovery of treasures is the terrain for example search in the mountainous areas differs from the search on the coasts of that must take into account the spectrum . 7- The most important thing is that the field test of the device with the buyer prior to purchase machine .

Types and forms of imitation gemstone and manufactured

Types and forms of imitation gemstone and manufactured * gemstone replicas * gemstone synthetic * Alternatives to gemstone What is the difference between these expressions? The convention (Sterling)apply to some materials that are manufactured in the laboratory, provided that these materials are similar with those that form in nature in terms of structure and species crystallization, as well as on the similarities in the properties of the natural and visual. The convention is called artificial Artificial some of the material that corresponds to some gem stones originate membership, which consists in the Bakal natural biological processes, such as amber, coral(amber or jet black) . From this definition we realize that the word (present him) always be combined with precious stones (non) membership. In contrast to that of the word (similar) or (alternative) simulant refers to any material that simulates similar to any metal in cream form or the virtual Isltzm Alchlbh it in ...

All Mix Blog

Search This Blog