The new issue of international interiors magazine apartamento includes my feature about British artist Duggie Fields and his extraordinary mansion flat in inner west London neighbourhood Earl’s Court.
Earl’s Court Elegance: My piece about British artist Duggie Fields’ 50 years at his amazing abode in apartamento #21
Apr 27th, 2018
Sonos Song Stories: Bowie In Berlin photographic display of rarely seen images
Apr 25th, 2018
//Large renditions of photographs from the 1977 session in Tokyo with Masayoshi Sukita for the “Heroes” sleeve. Photo courtesy Sonos//
To mark the opening earlier this month of the new Sonos store in Berlin – the home leisure company’s first retail presence in continental Europe – I was invited to organise a display of photography relevant to David Bowie’s creative connections to the city.
Electric Colour Company’s sign for Time Out’s Gray’s Inn Road offices, 1970
Apr 19th, 2018
//ECC’s sign on the facade of the Time Out offices at 374 Gray’s Inn Road, King’s Cross, London, autumn 1970. Photos courtesy Electric Colour Company/Andrew Greaves//
Recent encounters with Time Out founder Tony Elliott have brought to mind the audacious sign created by design collective Electric Colour Company to mark the magazine’s move into premises at 374 Gray’s Inn Road.
Furniture Pimp: Unique pieces from the collection of Jim Walrod, connoisseur and floating free radical
Apr 18th, 2018
//Catalogue cover featuring detail of Tête Cultivée, Nicola L, 1970//
As befits a sorely-missed man of singular style and taste, the catalogue for the forthcoming sale Furniture Pimp: The Collection Of Jim Walrod is an absolute treat.
//Right: Walrod at home photographed by Collin Hughes; Left: works featured in the forthcoming sale//
Remembering the extraordinary Malcolm McLaren: Visual artist, designer, thinker, provocateur + raconteur
Apr 8th, 2018
//Malcolm McLaren with New York scenester Eileen Polk at New York nightclub Hurrah, October 1978. Photo: © Joe Stevens. No reproduction without permission//
Today marks eight years since the death of visual artist, designer and cultural provocateur Malcolm McLaren.
His friend Joe Stevens sent me this photo a couple of years back. It was taken during the period when McLaren – wearing one of the tartan bondage suits he designed with Vivienne Westwood – was mounting the defence of Sid Vicious, then on the murder charge for having killed Nancy Spungen.
This extraordinary episode from an extraordinary life – during which time McLaren encountered the likes of Donald Trump’s vile mentor Roy Cohn, the legendary radical lawyer William Kunstler and criminal defence attorney F. Lee Bailey (the latter by way of an introduction by Allen Ginsberg) – will of course be covered in my book Malcolm McLaren: The Biography, which is to be published by Constable & Robinson next year.
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