Rayela's Fiber Focus: Paradise Found: A Mola Quilt by Rayela Art A W N Pugin - Architect or Decorator - I have just finished this newish biography of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, written by Rosemary Hill. Considering that I had reserved it from the local. ... http://fiberfocus.blogspot.com/2008/11/paradise-found-mola-quilt-by-rayela-art.html
The Victorian Peeper: Pugin Praised in Salisbury A commemorative plaque celebrating the nineteenth-century architect AWN Pugin was unveiled last week at St Osmund's Church, Exeter Street, Salisbury (shown here) -- a church Pugin helped design in 1847. Pugin (1812-1852) was one of the ... http://victorianpeeper.blogspot.com/2007/06/pugin-praised-in-salisbury.html
The Victorian Peeper: Victorian Paper Photography on View "Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860," which runs through 30 December at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, is the first exhibition to explore the opening decades of paper photography in ... http://victorianpeeper.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-exhibit-focuses-on-victorian-paper.html
The Victorian Peeper: Great Gifts for Victorianists, Part II The Gallery also carries a wide range of books, prints, and cards relating to Victorian art, architecture, and design. If Millais is more to your taste, you're in luck. In conjunction with Tate Britain's blockbuster exhibition on the ... http://victorianpeeper.blogspot.com/2007/12/great-gifts-for-victorianists-part-ii.html
The Victorian Peeper: It's Jelly, Baby Bompas and Parr say that their work occupies a niche "in the space between food and architecture . . . jelly is the perfect site for an examination of food and architecture due to its uniquely plastic form and the historic role it has ... http://victorianpeeper.blogspot.com/2008/07/its-jelly-baby.html
The Victorian Peeper: Duleep Singh: The Last Maharajah of Punjab For the house itself, Singh hired architect John Norton to add an overlay of oriental splendor in the form of a minaret; a domed water tower; ceiling and wall panels in elaborate Indian designs; marble fireplaces; embroidered Indian ... http://victorianpeeper.blogspot.com/2007/04/duleep-singh-lost-maharajah.html
The Victorian Peeper: Historical Fictions The four-acre theme park, variously called an "attraction" or "experience" in publicity materials, will "reproduce the architecture of the period with picturesque archways, cobble-stoned streets, and decorative features, together with ... http://victorianpeeper.blogspot.com/2007/03/historical-fictions.html
The Victorian Peeper: Victorian Things: Wine Decanter by William ... A parrot-keeping, rat-hunting, opium-eating Freemason, Burges was an archaeologist and architect who was so short sighted, it is said, that he once mistook a peacock for a man. He was a great traveller, fascinated in particular by the ... http://victorianpeeper.blogspot.com/2007/06/victorian-things-william-burgess-wine.html
The Victorian Peeper: The Muslim Community in Victorian Surrey ... by generous donations from Nawab Mahbub Ali Khan (the Nizam of Hyderabad) and the Begum Shah Jahan of Bhopal, Leitner acquired land near the Institute and set about building a mosque to a design by English architect W. L. Chambers. ... http://victorianpeeper.blogspot.com/2008/02/muslim-community-in-victorian-surrey.html
London For Dummies Fans of contemporary art and architecture shouldn’t miss this new star on the London art scene. Plan on spending at least two hours. The museum is now linked to St. Paul’s Cathedral by the pedestrian-only Millennium Bridge, ... http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1780220/London-For-Dummies