Category: #sundayscraps

I was insulted on Professor Gilbert’s behalf when her raising her twins was framed alongside the fact that her husband had quit his job to care of them. The reverse happens every single day and noone writes about it. / Didn’t realise Brassaï had taken time lapse photographs of graffiti carved out of walls in… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #25

I have spent most of my time in London in the south (living west at the moment – which I’m still getting used to after over five years) and I would say it does have a different feel. I have probably said before, but there was something quite life-affirming about having to cross the river… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #24

How to be alone, a poem / Stag Horn’s Sumach which I spotted in my neighbourhood/ Economics for the people / On the theory of ghosting / Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club / the Australian immigration system has updated its values to describe religious laws as inconsistent / Voter turnout in the US / The… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #23

Diamonds made from the carbon in air / Dr. Jessica Taylor’s fantastic 30 lessons learnt for her 30th / the New York Times equivalent of Radio 3’s Slow Radio / Remembering ‘Turning the place over’ by Richard Wilson / his Italian Job bus on top of the De La Warr Pavillion designed by Serge Chermayeff… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #22

It’s been 20 years since IDII opened its doors and 14 since it closed them (and I graduated). The founding team is giving a talk about it next month. / Rachel Syme from the NewYorker has started a pen pal thing / Public Practice is looking for Associates to work with local authorities again. /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #21

Loved the work of José Luis Vargas at Carl Freedman Gallery / Beehive design company whose logo Medium stole / The ‘head tooling’ section of Ken Isaacs 1974 book on self builds / A Vogue article on menopause featuring a 48 year old Gwyneth. Whatever. / Ken Miles, the racing car driver / CFP Radio… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #20

My talented friend Jeremy drove us to ‘Temple of the Winds’ walk in Surrey after popping in to see Mary Fraser Tytler incredible terra cotta chapel. We also drove around the modernist  Alton Estate on the way back into town. Strange that it was designed by Rosemary Stjernstedt who designed the much nicer Central Hill… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #19

A Radio 3 show that touches on Sylvia Plath’s multiple biographies including the controversial 1990 one / I was given a tiffin tin for lunch at Leila’s which I ate on Arnold Circus, staring at Marlowe House/ Walter Hopps who ran an important gallery in L.A. in the 1960s / the long gone 5 Spot… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #18

Can’t believe Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre is being demolished / The interiors of 222 Strand which was ventilated by two women cycling / I wore a keffiyeh I bought in Jaffa in 2008 and looked up the Palestinian version which is now mostly made in China but can be bought from the only Palestinian… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #17

The campaign to save Central Hill Estate, a modernist gem in Crystal Palace I tweeted about yesterday / the Vanburgh Park Estate in Blackheath was designed by Chamberlain, Powell and Bon who designed the Barbican / Someone’s been collecting the modernist homes in Lambeth, might put them on a map / The Decision Loom, about… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #16