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Batman & Robin street sign - Street Art Utopia

A little street sign to start the week....

Batman and Robin

http://www.streetartutopia.com/?p=5982

Fred Astaire

It's the start of the holidays proper...so who better than Fred to remind us about having fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire

 

Diana Cooper's Drawing Room in Paris

 

There's a theme to this week's last two blogs...Parisian Apartments...

This was Diana Cooper's...one of the funniest, soignee ( and tres belle too ) women we were told about as children for being the ultimate woman.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Diana_Cooper

 

Hubert Givenchy's Dining Room

Hubert de Givenchy is one of the tallest men we have ever met - plus one of the most elegant and kind...

His days of designing clothes may be over - but not his apartment.

This is his Dining Room in Paris...mirrors, a round table, a roaring fire and soft, low lighting.

Heaven...

 

 

 

Churchill, Chartwell and drink...

A third of a bottle.....

 

 

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chartwell/

Americans - Nancy Lancaster

It's a day for Americans - and this is one of our favourites - Nancy Lancaster.

Garden designer par excellence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lancaster

Benjamin Franklin's day...

We may design houses, restaurants, hotels, furniture and bits & bobs....but if we were to design a timetable for everyday, then who better than Benjamin Franklin to show us how...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

W.Sitch - Lighting

The workshops of W.Sitch - makers and clever repairers of period lighting...

They have been going since the 1770s - so they know their stuff.

 

http://www.wsitch.co.uk/

Heatherwick Studio at The V & A

 

We're acolytes of Thomas Heatherwick and so off we went to the studio's exhibition at The V & A.

Curling bridges, christmas cards and new London double decker buses with proper seats and conductors.

So easy to admire..

 

http://www.heatherwick.com/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/heatherwick-studio/

http://www.heatherwick.com/new-bus-for-london/

Land Rover Defender XTech

Land Rover have unveiled their special edition XTech defender....

Bronze & Grey...

http://www.landrover.com/gb/en/lr/defender/