Category: Exhibitions
Vintage Seekers column: The Design Museum and its new 60s home
Estella Shardlow is deputy editor of Vintage Seekers, the premium online platform curating a heritage lifestyle. In a regular Vintage Seekers column Estella reports on high-end vintage events and news. This time, she takes a closer look at The Design Museum and its new home. The Design Museum is moving house. As revealed in a [...]
Vintage Seekers column: An Odyssey of Art & Design at PAD London 2011
Estella Shardlow is deputy editor of Vintage Seekers, the premium online platform curating a heritage lifestyle. In a new regular Vintage Seekers column Estella will be reporting on high-end vintage events and news. This time, she reports back from the fifth annual PAD London art and design fair. Passing through Berkeley Square this week, you [...]
Homage to the tramp: Charlie Chaplin – the great Londoner
Charles Chaplin was born in 1889 in East Street, Lambeth, where he spent most of his childhood in poverty. He was even temporarily orphaned when his mother was forced into a mental asylum. From an early age Chaplin found escape in London’s music halls where he made his mark as a boy actor, laying the [...]
Vintage Seekers column: Chelsea AutoLegends
Estella Shardlow is deputy editor of Vintage Seekers, the premium online platform for rare 20th century design and collectibles. In a new regular Vintage Seekers column Estella will be reporting on high-end vintage events and news. This time, she reports back from Chelsea AutoLegends, which paid hommage to all things Sixties. “There’s so much that’s [...]
Radio times – check out the The British Wireless and Television Museum
Vintage Guide writer and broadcaster Gemma King explores the wonders of The British Wireless and Television Museum in Crystal Palace. I have always loved the medium of radio. As an awkward teenager I whiled away the hours exploring the frequency dial – giggling away to radio comedies on BBC4, tuning into French stations on long [...]
Discover English living room styles at the Geffrey Museum
Set in elegant 18th century almshouses, The Geffrye Museum depicts the quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms. Its collections of furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are displayed in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day. The displays lead the visitor on a walk through time, from the 17th century [...]
