Adjö Stockholm...

Stockholm... Two of Carl Larsson's late 1890s frescoes depicting the history of Swedish art in the entrance hall of the Nationalmuseum of Sweden. With thanks to the team at the museum for inviting me to Stockholm, and treating me to a wonderful tour of the collection.

Design and Fear | 3. The most menacing of the Italian hand gestures described by Bruno Munari in his 1963 Supplement to the Italian Dictionary is “Horns”: "The index and little fingers of the hand jab downwards, as though to ban the evil into the earth.”

Stockholm... Loved this double act installation of Nicole Eisenman's Makers' Muck and Edith Hammar's Hot and Slutty Giants at Modernamuseet. @ModernaMuseet

Stockholm... Happy to have had the opportunity to see the Swedish edition of Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick's exhibition on pregnancy, menstruation, menopause, abortion rights and other aspects of Designing Motherhood at ArkDes. @ArkDesC

Charlotte Perriand | 7. Perriand��s most ambitious architectural projects - transforming Méribel into a ski resort and building a new resort, Les Arcs - were in the Savoie mountains, where her grandparents lived and she visited them on childhood holidays.

Goodbye Liverpool.... Sunset on the wonderful waterfront of the River Mersey with the thrilling sight of an actual Ferry-Across-the-Mersey disappearing along the river.

Charlotte Perriand | 6. In the late 1950s, Air France launched a marketing campaign named: “the leading edge of progress”. The problem was that most of its ticket offices and travel agencies looked far from progressive. Perriand was hired to change that.

Thank you to the team at Tate Liverpool for inviting me to return to Liverpool to talk about the design history of bricks during your Brickworks exhibition on the role of bricks in art, including Sarah Lucas's love of breeze blocks.

Liverpool... and hello Liver Bird, proud and perky as ever.

Charlotte Perriand | 4. Collaborations were central to Perriand’s work. One of her most productive working relationships was with the French designer Jean Prouvé, who she met in the 1920s and with whom she exhibited at Galerie Steph Simon in Paris.

Rana Begum's Louvre series of panels of glass, stone and metal at Kate MacGarry. It closes on Saturday....

Charlotte Perriand | 3. In the 1930s, Perriand’s politics became increasingly radical. As well as campaigning for affordable social housing, she designed inexpensive shelters and furniture to be made from standardised industrial components, like this one.

Looking forward to giving a talk for Tate Liverpool on an Impromptu Design History of Bricks at RIBA North on Thursday. @tate @tateliverpool @RIBANorth

Charlotte Perriand | 2. This photograph of Perriand, taken in 1928 by her colleague and future lover, Pierre Jeanneret, depicts her as such a confident, accomplished and alluring young woman. It has not only become a totem of modernism, but of feminism.

Adios Monterrey… Thank you for a wonderful visit @tecdemonterrey #cumulusmonterrey #designunited #cumulusassociation #cumulus2024

Charlotte Perriand | 1. This week’s posts will be on the early 20th century French designer and architect Charlotte Perriand, one of the few women of that time to forge a successful career in either discipline, to celebrate her birth on 24 October 1903.

Monterrery.... Tadao Ando's school of art, architecture and design at UDEM, the University of Monterrey, and, nearby on the campus, Tatiana Bilbao's constellation of buildings and plantings.

Albert Frey | 7. Having started out in Palm Springs by designing desert retreats for wealthy weekenders who flocked there after WWII, Albert Frey, and John Porter Clark, were commissioned to design important civic buildings, including City Hall.

RT @ConectaTECmx: El evento inició con el discurso de Alice Rawsthorn (@alicerawsthorn), múltiple galardonada, crítica de diseño, autora y…