Tag Archives: Barbara Jones

D I Y Barbara Jones

By crownfolio | Published: May 14, 2012

Barbara Jones is becoming increasingly collectable.  At least that’s the message I’m getting from eBay.  We recently watched a whole collection of BBC schools booklets go past; most went for one or two pounds if they sold at all.  The one exception was this. By Barbara Jones, it sold for £21.50. All of which preamble [...]

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By crownfolio | Published: March 21, 2012

The email from the Swiss auction house Poster-Auctioneer announcing their latest auction has once again dropped into my mailbox.  So I flicked through page after page of foreign posters, pretty sure that none of them would appear on the blog.  Until I came to this Donald Brun and my resolution crumbled. It’s the perfect mixture of sophisticated [...]

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Architecture subsidiary art to confectionary, obviously

By crownfolio | Published: January 6, 2012

I’ve been reading quite a lot about the Festival of Britain recently (mainly because there is, still, precious little else written about design in the 1950s).  But it has reminded me that I really do need to get around to inventing some form of time travel. This is Barbara Jones sorting out exhibits for Black [...]

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Why Miss Jones

By crownfolio | Published: January 3, 2012

Another rave from the grave for the last of the holiday season.  This is revived mainly because it is not possible to have too much Barbara Jones on this blog, but also because I have been reading about her work for the Festival of Britain and will be posting about it in due course (due [...]

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Buy, Buy, Sell, Buy

By crownfolio | Published: May 23, 2011

There are a lot of posters about at the moment; it’s only Monday morning and I’m exhausted just thinking about it.  Not only have there just been the  Christies and Onslows sales, but there’s also quite a bit coming up on eBay too.  I’d like to sum it up in some kind of executive summary [...]

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Radiowl Times

By crownfolio | Published: April 14, 2011

You may have noticed by now that not only do I like Barbara Jones, but I perhaps like her owls best of all.  Which means that I have been wanting a copy of this, the apotheosis of all her owlery, for quite some time. It’s a late children’s book from 1970, and given that the [...]

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