Cabinets of juxtaposition

how gorgeous is this?
an ex kilt cabinet painted white and filled with logs
talk about great juxtapositions, this one rocks

and then you just perch a fabulous handbag on top of it all

More and more new shoe galleries

Field - an installation by Dominic Wilcox
http://www.dominicwilcox.com/field.html

Bless Dominic, he had to do this installation twice already, once when we agreed and then once again after the fire curtain unexpectedly came down and a big fat builder waded through it

Installed in the new shoe galleries in Selfridges, a field of shoes with green laces springing and spiraling upwards towards the daylight

More new shoe glory...the story continues

the oak room - the room that makes shit shoes look great

Having said that, not all the shoes in this room are shit. Afterall only yesterday, I found myself looking rather longingly at a pair of Nicole Fahri brothel creepers

Heartwarming, comforting, warm and reassuringly solid

The use of old shoe lasts is a genius touch, referencing as it does, the good old days of qualty workmanship, bespoke hand crafted shoes, cobblers that cared. It is an over the shoulder glance at the the glorious handmade shoe days of the past.

Through the space are placed some achingly large solid oak blocks and pewter has been poured into every crack in the wood. It is a heartwarming combination of matierials.

new shoes glory

The new shoe galleries at Selfridges have opened and as the Telegraph said, cut up your credit cards and if you remotely have a shoe thing, do not come near them!

There will be 6 rooms of shoes, glorious gravity defying, wallet stretching, credit card banning, shoes.

I have a feeling that this is just the start of many posts about these spaces....I'm sure there will be heaps more posts to follow this one. Afterall this post only covers one of the 6 gallery spaces.

these spaces make all the shoes within them, drool worthy objects of lust

which do you worship more, the painted white Anne Demeulemeester high top trainers or the vein defying alabaster stone plinth they sit on?

wait until this opens.....the holy grail (for those that way inclined, I'm more a Margielaist myself) 

Tactile in all details, this room has the palest peachy skin soft suede cladding the walls and till

look at that glowing translucent alabaster, which do you yearn to touch and caress more, the shoes they hold or the glorious cold pale stone

Bricks, glorious bricks

Bricks are just great, you gotta love them. They have so many wonderful and unexpected uses. Here they are acting as glorifiers for some amazing shoes.

As always incongrious juxtapositions are fun.

A few more bricks, showing the successful strange marriage of glorious fashion and the mundane brick

It kinda leds you to ask which is the more glorious, the fashion or the brick?

Now new, more nowness right now

Great graphic, good idea.

I'm new, I'm new too, I'm more new.

Newness is all and everything.

Am I really saying that I am not interested if it isn't new?

This is our self perpetuating silly world

Charleston, the home, the house

Since I was a squeeky teen,


I've been a fan of all things Bloomsbury.

The 2 sisters, Vanessa and Virginia were my heros.

In a sleepy rural green filled hollow is Charleston,


an old farmhouse 


that Vanessa and her family lived in for years.

It is fascinating visiting.

Hand decorated and loveworn,


the everyday objects of their life that had vertually taken mythical


form in my mind over the years, from looking at pictures and books


are compelling to view first hand.