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.
I had a time when bright colors and sleek modern furniture was my favorite...but I kind of outgrew it. Give me some over-stuffed chairs now please. And wood that looks like wood.
ReplyDeleteThe colours would be a little too bold and bright for my small rooms, but I like the furniture and other things on display. I recognise the red elephant - it is an Eames piece, I think. Some of their designs made it into everyday items which were still pretty much in use when I was a little girl in the early 1970s, and I remembered many of the things O.K. and I saw at an Eames exhibition in 2018. I wrote about that exhibition here, if you are interested:
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I see you also have a new blog ! With me it was really necessary since my husband died and I am living in my "castle" a retirement home. I love the colors of the pieces on display. In fact I love colors and my paintings are always colorful. My clothes too, and some of my 80 or 90 year old girls suddenly are also dress colorful, before they didn't dare ! Makes me happy !
ReplyDeleteLove the panels and the shop looks so interesting.
ReplyDeleteInteresting but not my style (whatever my style is.)
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