Tucked away behind Salts Diner in Salts Mill is The Home Shop. It sells carefully curated, high-end homewares and furniture, mostly way out of my price range and, though beautiful, often too modern for my tastes. Much of the furniture looks downright uncomfortable to me! The store does, however, have a few interesting displays of mid-century collectors' pieces.
I rarely go in but they currently have a textile display by Pauline Caulfield that I wanted to see. I guess her ex-husband the late Patrick Caulfield (artist and printmaker) is better known, but Pauline was at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in the late 1960s and, after raising a family and then getting divorced, she successfully resurrected her artistic career. There are just three main pieces on display: Garden, Black Cascade and Odeon, all remakes from her RCA graduation show. Bold, bright and colourful, I did like them and could imagine them in someone's stylish pad. Not mine though... at £2000+ for one panel.
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