tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87609380124530839912024-03-23T03:14:51.814-07:00kuriosasVintage design, illustration, ephemera, artefacts, art, photography, Eastern Europe, obscure places, visual & aural delightsNORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-6041132394723787092015-07-02T02:41:00.000-07:002015-07-02T02:41:10.359-07:00KURIOSAS HAS MOVED!<div style="text-align: center;">
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I first came across the work of Estonian artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCri_Arrak"><b>Jüri Arrak</b></a> through friends of Kuriosas <b><a href="http://50watts.com/The-Swamp-Ladies-of-Estonia">50 Watts</a> </b>in the US who unearth all kinds of beautiful and crazed book illustrations from around the globe. </div>
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These images of Arrak's children book from 1975 entitled <b>Panga-Rehe Jutud</b> (<i>The Swamp Ladies of Estonia</i>) left me completely spellbound with their 70's psychedelic glory.</div>
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With two days left in Tallinn, it <span style="font-size: small;">occurred</span> to me that Jüri could still be alive, and perhaps based in the city, maybe still even creating these creatures. After a bit of research I found he was indeed still around, and actually very highly revered, having recently been comissioned to <a href="http://www.president.ee/en/media/press-releases/1403-a-portrait-of-lennart-meri-was-unveiled-at-the-office-of-the-estonian-president-yesterday/">paint the Estonian president's portrait.</a> </div>
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I emailed the tourist office late at night on a whim and to my suprise, they sent over his phone number the next day at 6am. At this point I felt I had no choice but to pursue the trail so I dialled it, apprehensively, with no idea what to find. Happily, after a few rings a merry sounding voice answered; we muddled through the language barrier, I tried and failed to describe my blog and he finally asked if I wanted to visit his studio later that afternoon. Already cheered by his description of his diary as his 'paper brain' and massively intrigued about meeting him, I paced around the city in anticipation with thoughts whirring; willing the day to pass and wondering, based on his psychedelic artwork, what the hell this studio was going to look like.</div>
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At 5pm I lingered slightly tentatively near the Soviet era cinema I'd been directed to, admiring the typography of KOSMOS and stark exterior as a way of distracting myself</div>
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A lofty smiling man approached and I realised it was Jüri, he immediately hugged me and seemed entertained by my age, laughing that I could be his granddaughter. I was instantly struck by how youthful and vibrant he seemed, he somehow didn't fit the mould of a pensioner. We then walked up to the top floor of an aging nearby apartment block, heading to the studio he has kept since the late 1970's. Now 77, Jüri told me with relish how he climbs the 110 steps to his studio at least 3 times every day (in fact I embarrassingly struggled to keep pace with him as he scampered up them)</div>
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Once inside it was almost like entering a cave; religious artifacts, photographs, paintings, sculptures, books, old artifacts, archives, masks, keepsakes; an eclectic topsy turvy haven yet also, I sensed, a meticulously run operation.</div>
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Born in 1936 in Tallinn (back then in the Soviet Union), he told me how he was sent to Leningrad (now <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a></b>) for the army from 1955 until 1958. Following this he stayed on in the city and became a taxi driver. Frequently corresponding with his brother back in Tallinn studying art, Jüri received regular advice and encouragement from his sibling who urged him to try drawing and taught him via letters, step by step "how to draw Picassos." Quickly developing a passion for art, Jüri was spurred to return to Tallinn and enrolled at the <b><a href="http://vana.artun.ee/index.php?main_id=328&lang=eng">Estonian State Art Institute</a></b> in 1961, studying Metal Art for the next five years.</div>
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Alongside other students from the Institute, and inspired by the pioneering artists they had discovered such as Kandinsky (which must have been tricky, since the Soviet Union had <b><a href="http://www.enotes.com/topics/soviet-union-bans-abstract-art">banned abstract art</a></b>) Jüri formed a group called <b><a href="http://www.studyinestonia.ee/estonia/culture/art">ANK'64 </a></b>who were the first group in the Soviet Union against the style of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Realism">Socialist Realism</a></b>; at the time the only permitted artform. This must have seemed incredibly radical and risky given the strict climate they were operating in at the time, but perhaps it was inevitable that the growing spirit of dissidence in the West at the time started to filter through on some level. </div>
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When asked about his other influences, Jüri answered without hesitation, "The Surrealists" and mentioned artists like Magritte. This strand of influence in his work seemed very clear to me in this very early painting he showed me. He told me liked paintings with doors, as they act as "windows to other worlds."</div>
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In 1970, the society offered him an exhibition based on their knowledge of his practice as a metal worker. Jüri then daringly chose to exhibit his abstract paintings instead. </div>
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Since it was at the last minute it all still went ahead, but he was
reprimanded by the head of the society, stunned at this apparent artistic turnaround and obviously worried by the stark
discordance to 'acceptable' aesthetics these paintings posed. Jüri told me how he placated the head by saying he was 'just a decorative artist,' cleverly convincing the society that this radically different,
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I was left feeling quite affected by this tale, realising just how trying it must have been to have had any freedom as a creator of any artistic works in such a climate of censorship and suppresion, but also thoroughly impressed at Jüri's obvious abundance of chutzpah to attempt something so risky and subversive. </div>
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Jüri's work moved on to the development of characters in the 1970's. He likened his creating of these characters to "like handwriting" since they have such a signature and consistent style, and come so naturally to him.</div>
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In 1975, he was commissioned to create the <b>Panga-Rehe Jutud</b> children's book, which had a print run of 40,000. To keep the powers that be happy, he insisted that the psychedelic story was 'just meant to be a dream,' again, just a whimsical, unthreatening creation, and nothing to concern them. </div>
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He told me he painted the pictures using gouache and that were all produced at actual size - the book being around an A5 format.<br />
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It interested me that some of Jüri's work seemed to reflect the pagan roots that are still apparent in the Baltic regions through their <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/23097/"><b>Midsummer celebrations</b></a>, beliefs I was intrigued to learn still live on in Estonian pagan religions such as <b><a href="http://maausk.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/some-features-of-maausk.html">Maausk</a></b> (despite Estonia apparently being the <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14635021">least religious country in the world</a></b>). It also clearly draws on mythology abundant in both the Baltics and Scandinavia centring around the existence of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll">trolls</a></b>. All religion would
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Jüri also showed me his one animation <b>Suur Toll</b>, made in 1980 and based on Estonian mythological figure <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toell_the_Great">Toell the Great</a> </b>a giant hero who lived on the Estonian island of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saaremaa">Saaremaa</a> </b>in the Baltic sea.<br />
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It took him a year to complete and he revealed, unsuprisingly, that it was very hard work. The 16 minute film is here and really well worth a watch, it's fantastic to watch his creations move and there are some really very far out visuals and inventive character design that make it hard to compare with much else.<br />
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Jüri and I talked about a number of topics, including his passion for filmmaker Bergman as well as writers such as Dostoevsky,<b> </b>"I love Russian emotion!" he enthused.</div>
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As we chatted he busily unearthed numerous prints, paintings and sketches from his vast and carefully kept archives<span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="color: black;"> to show me; he has exhibited all over the world consistently since the 1970's and enthusiastically showed me various newspaper cuttings and exhibition catalogues about him from over the years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="color: black;">Many of his later works have the same fantasy elements, but depict battles, slayings, apparitions and mythological looking figures. Curiously I talked about similar imagery on the Soviet pin badges I found in Tallinn in my <a href="http://www.kuriosas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/tallinn-russian-market-soviet-union-pin.html">l<b>ast post</b></a>; they also featured dragons, wizards and images of powerful beings.</span></span></div>
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With the amount of iconography in his studio, it was natural we talked about religion. Jüri likened belief systems to ladders reaching to the skies, searching for meaning, "The problems come when people think, 'My ladder is better than his!'" he declared.</div>
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He also handed me a book of his own philosophical essays to read, in order, he said, for me to properly understand what was behind his work. Exploring themes of consciousness and metaphysics with a healthy dose of 70's mysticism, it was obvious to me that Jüri was quite a spiritual, questioning kind of person, and I wasn't suprised to learn from other sources later on that <a href="http://www.estonica.org/en/Culture/Buddhism_in_Estonia/Building_the_first_stupas_of_northern_Europe_in_1983-1985/">he helped introduce strands of Buddhism to Northern Europe</a>. </div>
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I was really tickled to find this picture of him after our meeting, dating from the late 70's and looking like a bit of a bohemian maverick, it made me wish I'd met him back then too, whilst possibly wearing a great kaftan. I got the sense I only really scratched the surface of his life stories, and that he had been a pioneer in all sorts of ways.</div>
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Now married to his third wife "I<span style="color: #0000ee;"> <span style="color: black;">am </span></span>an artist you know" he shrugged by way of explanation, Jüri's energy and playfulness really fascinated me - he explained that he doesn't ever think about age, or what convention dictates he should or shouldn't be doing. We talked about retirement and he insisted he would keep on going to his studio every day as long as he could do because "everyone needs a problem to solve."<br />
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I left feeling very alive and full of ideas after meeting Jüri - learning about his massively productive creative career, his independent and nonconformist spirit, innovation and determination to create for years in such a restrictive environment was inspiring, and humbling, and I was charmed by his age defying mischeviousness, eccentricity and charisma.<br />
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I really hope I'm climbing 110 steps to a magical creative hideaway every day when I'm 77, creating psychedelic worlds, in fact I might make that my goal - Jüri is now my blueprint for youthful older age.<br />
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I've recently returned from some eye opening adventuring around Estonia and Finland for summer, so much so my head is a bit congested with all the shiny things I saw. I'll start with Tallinn in Estonia; my good friend Jaana hails from there so I've always been intrigued about seeing her on her home turf, especially after sipping the supreme Estonian vodka she often smuggles back. </div>
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This building was my home for the week. It had a rickety and austere Soviet era lift that slammed shut then made noises that sounded like they came from the Futuristic Zone in the Crystal Maze as it whisked me high speed to the fourth floor. By the end of the week I'd grown very fond of it's cantankerous ways.</div>
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Tallinn has a beautifully preserved medieval centre which is worth a visit to see some of the buildings but, for me, lacked anything genuine anymore in terms of having many Estonian residents or a semblance of normal working life - it's simply a gilded land for tourists. After a day there I didn't go back, and instead spent my time exploring the diverse Russian neighbourhoods, traditional wooden housing, vibrant creative spaces, and industrial landscapes reminiscent of Tarkovsky's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/">Stalker</a> (which was filmed in part in Tallinn). </div>
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One brilliant place to get a flavour of the past, as well as the present mix of people who populate the city is the Russian Market (<a href="http://www.inyourpocket.com/estonia/tallinn/shopping/markets/Balti-Jaama-Turg_7152v">Baalti Jaama</a>), just behind the train station. I spent hours here rooting through the Soviet memorabilia stalls and junk shop outlets, meeting and photographing some stiking local ladies and sampling some of the technicolour cabbage salad offerings.</div>
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The antique shops there were brimming with enough oddball Soviet toys and artifacts to keep me short on breath for a while, but my favourite finds were these metal pin badges boasting some super psychedelic designs. After standing in a store for a good stint carefully selecting these ones to take home, I found later that other outlets I came to at the market were selling hundreds more, all with different designs, at which point I had a tiny meltdown and resigned myself to just sticking with the ones I'd chosen. I'm definitely flying back here and snapping up the lot when I have my lotto win, and I will employ elves to tile my bedroom with them.</div>
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For now, here are the few I chose, in no particular order as I think they work best in a random fashion. They look to date to the 1970's, but who knows with Soviet design, their aesthetic was often out of sync with the rest of the world so these could be more recent:</div>
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I think because for some reason they reminded me of Terry Gilliam's <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/watch-all-of-terry-gilliams-monty-python-animations-in-a-row.html">Monty Python animations</a> from the late 1960's and early 70's which massively perturbed and excited me in equal measures as a child. I still love them as an adult and think they had a huge impact on my fledgling mind:<br />
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I was interested in general to see trends in the imagery towards powerful and wild animals, 'heroes' fighting dragons, images of courage, ferocity and dominance. This might generally have helped perpetuate the sense of a world with enemies, one with constant threats, where the reality of combat was (supposedly) real and tangible, learning then to harness a kind of fierceness within oneself was perhaps the clearest way of preparing for this.<br />
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I also found these energetic Soviet posters in the corner of one second hand outlet, photographed at weird angles as I was sardined against military uniforms. There were lots more but I chose to cease photographing when I caught the Russian owner shooting me a seething look, oops<br />
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More to come soon anyway - I started interviewing people on the trip and met Estonian artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCri_Arrak">Jurri Arrak</a> well known for his beautiful and insane 1970's swamp ladies illustrations, animations, paintings and more; will post the full story shortly!<br><br>
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I found this in an indoor fleamarket in <a href="http://www.arundel.org.uk/"><b>Arundel</b></a>, a pretty and very quintessentially English town in West Sussex brimming with tea rooms and enjoyable tweeness. I took a gang from London for my birthday and we had a superb day exploring old churches, rummaging in bookshops, trying some of the excellent rustic fodder at <b><a href="http://swanarundel.co.uk/">The Swan</a></b> and ending the night with bargain whiskies before jumping on the last train home.<br />
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Film Fimmel roughly translates as 'Film Infatuation,' so I was intrigued as to what some of the chapters were about. Because my German only stretches to ordering kaffee und kuchen, I had to take to Google translate with some of these, with limited results - this section below reads as 'Mysterious Characters,' which still doesn't tell me much, although this flat capped ruffian is already a winner<br />
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Since some of the pages were slightly coming away which gets those book collector creatues all ruffled<span style="color: #0000ee;"> </span>I got it for just 5 euros which I felt triumphant about since it's obviously a unique item with an unmistakable connection to the visual hallmarks of what was a hugely influential era.<br />
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The cover made me think straight away of the jagged edges, sharp angles seen in lots of German Expressionist films of the time, but especially<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari"> <b>The Cabinet of Dr Caligari </b></a>- I'd recently spent an afternoon watching it with some excellent visual fiends <a href="http://go.wiyumi.com/"><b>Jo</b></a> who also blogs about vintage treasures she finds in grubby lorries, and <b><a href="http://go.wiyumi.com/">Jaana</a></b>, Estonian refugee and clever book designer, and we were infatuated with the striking sets and spiky shapes and the superb sense of menace and expertly crafted creepiness throughout.<br />
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Made in 1920, it would have been around at the same time as the book's publication.<br />
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I was in Berlin to create an installation with artist <a href="http://www.rachaelmacarthur.com/"><b>Rachael Macarthur</b></a>. Thanks to <a href="http://dasgift.tumblr.com/"><b>Das Gift</b></a> for hosting us, a super bar and gallery space in Neukolln with a Scottish slant. Here are a few pics of what we created: </div>
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I've recently started another blog alongside Kuriosas - I'm collecting portraits of eye catching, unusual people with an eclectic sense of style. Last week I captured 70 year old artist George Skeggs on the streets of Covent Garden. I loved his wonderful purple accessories, artfully put together outfit and general chipper demeanour; his infectious creative energy put a spring in my step for the whole day </div>
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The blog is called <a href="http://theluminouseye.tumblr.com/"><b>The Luminous Eye</b></a>
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with a story to tell - which luckily in London is quite a few, and for some reason, they often seem to find me first. Have a peek if you'd like to see moreNORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-68780726022117889412013-05-16T07:53:00.001-07:002013-05-21T04:18:43.291-07:001940's Funghi Book covers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I came across this cheeky duo at the <a href="http://www.northlondonvintagemarket.co.uk/">market</a> I run recently and was so charmed by the bold, pop graphics and supreme colour scheme I had to manhandle a customer who'd already bought them and ask if I could grab a few pictures (albeit dreary iPhone ones that don't do them justice) </div>
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They were both printed in 1945, one of my favourite eras for lively and exciting surface design, but due to the psychedelic subject matter they somehow wouldn't look out of place amongst the tripped out fabrics of the late 60's / early 70's.</div>
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The colours on the cover above made me think of a palette that swelled in popularity across graphics, textiles and ceramics just a few years on in the 1950's. This handsome mid century ceramics set by German company <b><a href="http://www.schlossberg.ch/">Schlossberg</a></b> used an almost identical colour scheme. </div>
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One of my favourite recent finds - fantastic magentas on this pretty charming 1930's illustrated times tables pamphlet. Found in a junk shop in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto"><b>Porto</b></a>NORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-32720149382914102112013-02-22T04:43:00.000-08:002013-05-20T15:42:40.900-07:00Vintage French Illustration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I found this illustrated paper folder at a rural antique shop in <a href="http://www.normandie-tourisme.fr/normandy-tourism-109-2.html"><b>Normandy</b></a> a while back - I think Le Cygne Noir was a grooming product and am guessing this is from the 1940's perhaps</div>
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Bountiful hay bales, slumberous hamlets, handsome thatches, ancient antique shops and brocantes, Normandy bewitched me with it's idyllic chocolate box charm. <br />
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I was also a bit enchanted by this incredibly quaint fairytale style house overlooking the sea in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Valery-en-Caux"><b>St Valery En Caux</b></a>, the lettering on the sign, flowers and overall style are all typically <b>Art Nouveau</b> so date it to the early 1900's. I think I'd like to retire here to watch the ocean from that top window whilst surrounded by a supreme selection of cheeses.<br />
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All of these pictures were taken on film on my favourite £2.50 <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Maxima-Zoom-35mm-Camera/dp/B00420ZDVU">1990's camera</a></b>. I've noticed it has a curious trick of cloaking nearly every image with a nostalgic wistful haze that somehow tempts you to remember that at that moment in time life was actually a gilded, glittering sea of existential euphoria, when in actual fact you had been suffering from severe heartburn after eating a misguided gigantic chocolate croissant half an hour before lunch.<br />
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I think I am actually totally at ease with this method of sugar coating existence though and believe some form of it is fairly compulsory - so grab one of these lo-fi wonders on eBay and live in your own 70's Terence Malick film forever.<br />
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Dazzling wrapping paper from the 1950's with a fantastic palette of acid brights and superb graphics. It also has an enjoyably cheap and crunchy feel to it. Found at <b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6gr2sxd">North London Vintage Market</a></b> which I also organise.<br />
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I much prefer this technicolour version of winter. I'm thinking of moving here shortly to spend my days skating around neon trees with a mysterious man in black until Spring. NORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-29786978925595618622013-01-22T16:00:00.000-08:002013-01-23T07:30:10.560-08:00Vintage John Donne book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Recently celebrated by the <a href="http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/"><b>Southbank Centre</b></a> in a 60th anniversary event, the Festival of Britain was a landmark event of it's time, encouraging recovery, optimism and propserity after the war by showcasing the successes of Britons in Science, Technology, Architecture, Design and across the arts.<br />
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I was a bit excited to find a sniff of a love story within this tome too. This was written inside the cover<br />
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I like to imagine B & M having a magical time skipping around in glamorous 1950's attire, reciting Donne poetry in the Plazza del Duomo and generally being in the throes of giddy romance. I'm going to keep this memento safe for them.</div>
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......and a locust playing a xylophone</div>
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I found this insane little item on my trip to <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca">Cluj Napoca</a></b>
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I spent a week skipping around <b>Porto</b> in Portugal a while back and was cheered to find some playful book graphics lurking at flea markets and in musty back street shops.<br />
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Most of Porto's typography, signage and interiors are all still firmly lodged in the 1960's and 70's making it a pretty excellent retro excursion. I also loved the splendid Art Deco sights dotted around the city that still look really quite glorious. <br />
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We also went to a superb Art Deco villa on the outskirts of the city called <a href="http://www.serralves.pt/"><b>Serralves</b></a>, started in 1925 by <b>Portugese</b> architect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Marques_da_Silva"><b>José Marques da Silva</b></a> and finally finished in 1944 for the Count of Vizela to reside in. It has incredible examples of opulent 30's features and fittings as well as vast and ridiculously idyllic grounds replete with expertly coiffed lawns, wooded paths and a scented garden - this Count was a lucky chap.</div>
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We also tried this dubious local culinary beast - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesinha"><b>Franceshinas</b></a>
consist of dangerous levels of bread, ham, sausage, chipolata, steak and melted cheese
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NORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-30665673971606136722012-04-20T02:17:00.002-07:002013-01-15T09:51:47.468-08:00Art Deco graphicsRecently picked up this dazzlingly Art Deco jewellery box from <a href="http://sunburyantiques.com/"><b>Kempton Antique Market</b></a><br />
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I love the dynamic hand painted graphics - design depicting movement and vitality was typical of that era, in part perhaps because people were trying to move on from the war and an exotic, decadent aesthetic style that embraced progression and speed was a natural outlet for this.<br />
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It's probably no coincidence that Surrealism was also at it's height during this period; maybe a real ruling characteristic of that period was of seeking a departure from the real and conscious world. This is probably from the late 20's / early 1930's.<br />
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This design reminded me of some of the work in the <b><a href="http://www.vorticism.co.uk/home.html">Vorticism</a> </b>movement<b> </b>10/15 years before. Their angular shapes were an obvious pre-cursor for Art Deco's distinctive graphic style.<br />
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This piece is by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis"><b>Wyndham Lewis</b></a> from around 1915<br />
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NORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-14987845944830504872012-03-08T09:50:00.002-08:002012-03-11T14:46:30.828-07:00Klaus PichlerHad some fun discovering the work of photographer <b><a href="http://www.kpic.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=1&Itemid=2">Klaus Pichler</a></b> from Vienna recently. If you're also a sucker for East Bloc chic check out his beguilingly kitsch collection of images from Odessa in the Ukraine.<br />
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The title is a compilation of personal superstitions collected from friends and strangers. Some are personalised derivatives of common superstitions, others are entirely new inventions. Some date back to childhood experiences, others are from more recent times. Some of them are simple, others highly complex. But they are all based on the common ground of supremely personal attempts of the construction of meaning. </div>
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NORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-22409385705969189222012-01-11T04:48:00.002-08:002012-02-26T21:08:10.785-08:001950's interiors articleSome colourful mid-century inspiration here using a classic 50's palette of reds, yellows and greens. Nice 'indoor gardening' tips for transforming your window into a den of foliage. <br />
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Some fairly unhinged imagery similar to the covers I <a href="http://kuriosas.blogspot.com/2011/01/polish-soviet-illustrated-childrens.html">featured last year</a> from Lviv in the Ukraine.<br />
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The whole hoard has some interesting graphic and illustrative styles, with the titles seemed to date from around the 1950's to 1970's. I think the best one is the naked alien people with the block of colour over their eyes, yes! I managed to smuggle it home so they now greet me daily as I wake up; the jury's still out on what the long term effects of this are.<br />
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Anyway, Transylvania was a winner! Icy tundras, hearty stodge, alcoholic blueberry tea and rambling taxi rides to rural villages where they still use horses and carts and farming has remained pretty much the same as 100 years ago. <br />
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We were also lucky enough to be invited into a local woman Susanna's home, and got to marvel at her extensive collection of enamelware, vintage units, tea sets and alarming amounts of kitsch.<br />
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We stayed in a welcoming town called <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca">Cluj Napoca</a> </b>- home of the Cheeky Girls, who we incidentally SAW which made us chortle for around a week. Romanians are super affable types and the language is actually, thankfully, more like Spanish or Italian as opposed to some of the Eastern countries who think nothing of putting five consonants in a row like this is normal sane practice.<br />
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Well worth a visit and apparently neighbouring Moldova is also excellent in summer. Just don't order this utter beast if you can help it (there was a massive slab of pork underneath all that too).<br />
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Currently more than a little enamoured with the sensational Soviet War memorial at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brest_Fortress">Brest Fortress</a>, Belarus built to commemorate the 1941 battle on the site. <br />
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The vivacity and abstract, psychedelic nature of these films make them look like they're straight from the 1960's - when in fact they were thirty years ahead of the time.<br />
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Len used a variety of playful techniques and materials to create his dazzling colours - dying, stencilling and using felt tips on film as well as combs and surgical instruments to create texture.</div>
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Amazingly the following 1930's films were commissioned by the Post Office - some far out methods of promoting savings banks </div>
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Lye was also an important kinetic sculptor and subscribed to the belief that motion could be part of the 'language of art,' creating moving image until the end of his life in 1980.</div>
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NORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-62356833755254768322011-10-16T03:48:00.000-07:002011-12-16T00:06:46.925-08:001960's East German cat brooches<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQPS7eWc09CEkatox4RJahB7gAqRwHLNqt3oROOGDlF7sv9i0XDLb6sQJDuB8Rpe70ei6c4prKi7Rgf22d73_vTMAt_pyAGjnr5JGskZsSlOTPPwC-c3ngR_RT-XFaAiJfQYsT6B7n2Y/s1600/IMG_5748.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQPS7eWc09CEkatox4RJahB7gAqRwHLNqt3oROOGDlF7sv9i0XDLb6sQJDuB8Rpe70ei6c4prKi7Rgf22d73_vTMAt_pyAGjnr5JGskZsSlOTPPwC-c3ngR_RT-XFaAiJfQYsT6B7n2Y/s640/IMG_5748.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Love how kitsch and playful these vintage plastic 1960's/1970's cat brooches from the DDR are.<br />
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I did actually have a few of these for sale through <b><a href="http://www.zakka.co.uk/">Zakka</a></b>, my vintage collectables umbrella but they sold out super quickly - will post a link if and when I find more. Sourced in BerlinNORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-55955973018887155342011-10-15T13:43:00.000-07:002013-01-15T10:10:58.653-08:00Belly Kids Poster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently came in contact with the friendly folk at <b><a href="http://www.bellykids.co.uk/">Belly Kids</a></b> who create small publications and put on adventurous nights around London with music and zines. <br />
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They asked me to illustrate aposter for their recent event at the new East London bookshop and gallery space <b><a href="http://beachlondon.co.uk/">Beach London</a></b>. This guy came out to play as a result - a few posters might be available soon through <b><a href="http://www.tokkobooks.com/">TOKKO</a></b> too.NORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760938012453083991.post-42847481171541285872011-10-15T04:45:00.000-07:002013-01-15T10:11:14.602-08:00Nathaniel Russell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Loving the characters of American artist and illustrator <a href="http://www.nathanielrussell.com/"><b>Nathaniel Russell </b></a><br />
His five dollar pet looks like a bargainNORTH LONDON VINTAGE MARKEThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00022926056390387540noreply@blogger.com0