Arab Architecture

The RIBA are hosting two events as part of the Shubak festival. See here for my Phaidon profile.

Meeting up

Write on the back where and when. See here for details.

Novel on the tube

Tash looking oh so pretty by her Baker Street tube poster. Now go buy a copy of The Novel in the Viola.

Serpentine

Peter Zumthor designed this year's Serpentine pavilion. Click here for my Phaidon article.

Anyone for tennis?

Federer vs Nadal

WIM•BLE•DON from BRYANKU on Vimeo.

(via Seesaw Designs)

A woodturner

“I try to make bowls as my clients wish them to be. Often I will make a bowl out of wood from a well loved tree, so that the tree can live on after its natural death. All of my bowls are for everyday use for fruit, salad, cheese, or bread. As you use them they will gain the marks and patina of your household, they are not intended to be marooned on a shelf as an ornament.”

My aunt Katherine Hallgarten at work.

Alice Stevenson

I've been researching illustrators and remembered a friend of a friend's friend Alice Stevenson. She is a prolific book cover designer, one of which is featured on today's Design Sponge...The design makes me want to leap to Greece with the book in a straw bag.