Category Archives: exhibitions

Posters on Display

By crownfolio | Published: January 16, 2012

There was more to the Beverley Pick book than could fit into one single post. Ironically, what got left out last time was posters: to be precise their display, as demonstrated in this wonderful illustration by Mr Pick. It particularly jumped out at me because we have the poster at the bottom left, which I wasn’t [...]

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On Display

By crownfolio | Published: January 11, 2012

Having already written in praise of the ephemeral last week, it’s time to explore some more things that can never be recreated. I ordered this book ages ago, but it arrived just before Christmas after a slow sea crossing of the Atlantic. The wait was worthwhile, because it is full of wonderful things, even if, [...]

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Thinking in numbers

By crownfolio | Published: January 9, 2012

For anyone who thought the infographic is a modern phenomenon, the London Transport Museum is here to set you right. They’ve just created a new display of graphics about numbers, which I am mainly drawing your attention to because this Schleger is both fantastic and not often seen. Interestingly, it’s from 1938.  These kind of [...]

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Skylon Biro

By crownfolio | Published: May 25, 2011

Mr Crownfolio went off to do some shopping for our holiday the other day.  He still has no sunhat, but we do now own this. Given that the gardens were the slightly more raucous and, dare I say it, downmarket outpost of the Festival of Britain, I wasn’t expecting too much from the guide.  But [...]

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life : henrion : rabbit

By crownfolio | Published: April 6, 2011

I called up this book out of our library’s reserve stores the other day (you can easily enough find it on Amazon if your library isn’t so obliging). It’s from 1972, so I wasn’t hoping for too much from it, but actually I was surprised.  There’s a short introductory essay, but then the bulk of [...]

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Que savez vous de la Grande Bretagne?

By crownfolio | Published: January 31, 2011

I got some lovely photographs by email before Christmas (so thank you Adrian Jeffery) and to my shame, what with one thing and another, rather left them to one side.  But now I am here to make amends. Because this is a fabulous thing. It’s the brochure for the British pavillion at the 1958 Brussels [...]

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