Andreas Schmid and Andrew Mcdonagh & Andrea Branzi Grandi
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Martino Gamper 237. I am crazy about perforated blowers. There he produces a this lunchtime collection are by sharpener, pasta server, slotted material, these were just trials time capsule and a crystal ball. great English photographers spoon, strainer stainless steel in ceramic. Levitating inside the melted now mainly forgotten, whom I strainer. 238. I bought these from a workshop glass something happens, happen to love: Fay Godwin’s in Vallauris, a small ceramic it is the ‘NOW!’ of the fake Bison at Chalk Farm and a Daniel Eatock town close to Nice in France. camera click from an instagram school textbook with photos by & 239. Stone bowl from Iran that I snapshot. street photographer Roger bought in a tourist shop in Mayne, including one that was Andrea Branzi Bahrain. The Year Cubes (Vuosikuutiot) used on the cover of the Wall Bookshelf 2011 240. I have bought a lot of bowls in are produced in Finland by iittala. original edition of Absolute different supermarkets in Heat Death (the end of the Beginners. Several are fairly 257. Empty Drinking Glasses, Japan. I am fascinated by the Universe), (…), 2014, 2013, obscure catalogues of famous 2009–ongoing. This unmatched very high quality and crafted 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, artists, the brilliant ring-bound set of glasses is united by its feeling they hold as beautifully 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001, Miró survey and the guide to identity as packaging that once mass-produced items. 2000, 1999, 1997, 1996, 1995, Matisse’s chapel, both of which contained food items, the 241. This was made from the 1994, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, appealed on the basis that just collection plays on the appeal punched out pieces that 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, propping them on a shelf would of getting something for nothing. remained from the making 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, bring colour to a grey day. of another bowl. 1978, 1977, (…), Big Bang (the Rupert Blanchard beginning of the Universe) & Andreas Schmid and Maki Suzuki Simon Prosser Osvaldo Borsani Andrew McDonagh & L60 1946 & & Andrea Branzi Andrea Branzi Dieter Rams Gritti Bookcase 1981 258. Foam tree trunk, outer insulator Grandi Legni GL21 2009 606 Universal Shelving container for an alcoholic drinks System 1960/2014 255. This collection of bricks was product. 242. Italian travertine sculptures, given to me by Steve Jones 259. Mosaic tiles from a section of a c.1970s. 254. Every week or so for the past who was Carl Andre’s assistant shop front. 243. German anthroposophic box, couple of years, I have left my for more than 8 years 260. Handmade African figure 1930–50s. We have an office at Penguin Books, where I (1978–1986). I met him by 261. Marble form accident in the Tempo Bar in 262. Concrete lump from the appreciation of Rudolph work as a publisher, to spend a 11. Japanese tea whisk made from New York. The eloquent drunk Graphic Design department in Jane Dillon and Charles Dillon Ernst Gamperl Gemma Holt and Max Lamb Steiner’s philosophy. lunchtime browsing in the few bamboo. man was so charming I ended the former Central Saint & & & 244. Bronze torso by Christoff second-hand bookshops that 12. Ostrich feather duster. up leaving my friends to sit at Martins building. Schellenberger, c.1970s. remain nearby, on Charing Franco Albini and Franca Helg 13. French chimney sweep’s Martino Gamper Michael Marriott the bar listening to him for the 263. Marble cylinder container 245. Vorticist sculpture, English, Cross Road and Cecil Court. LB/10 1956 brush, a present from Turnaround 2011 Double Bracket 1995 / 2014 whole evening. By the end of 264. Triangular metal clock, found at early 20th century. Janice Tchalenko. the night – you know how NY a car boot sale in Romford. I 246. Bronze fish. Wouldn’t it be a I seldom have any particular My objects, with the exception 14. Ethiopian hat, the end pieces These objects are made by me 53. Leach Pottery St. Ives, bars don’t really close – having feel that this is what Romford great door handle? book or author in mind as I of the hats, are things that I have been left to keep away and are part of my own Standard Ware drunk seven too many Long learned from Memphis. 247. Travertine base, wooden wig wander, though occasionally I have never used but bring me the flies. personal collection. I feel that it 54. Richard Batterham, student at Island cocktails, I agreed to take 265. Homemade geo ball making head, Mickey Mouse will come across an old edition endless joy. They somehow 269. Three old ladies handbags by is important to reveal the Leach Pottery, 1957–1958. a collection of bricks back to the 266. Metal rod cube, often mistaken hat. by an author I have worked have a hold on me rather like a Richard Slee, 1972. intrinsic nature of the material, I 55. Muchelney Pottery (John UK. In order to do this I had to as an art piece, this came from 248. Mid-century frame used in the with, like Susan Sontag, or an deep-rooted friendship or love 270. Decorative wall plate! deliberately include the core of Leach), student at Leach leave all the books I had bought a closed down haberdashery photographic industry. early title from the Hamish that warms the heart. They are a log and any knots and frost Pottery, 1960–1963, grandson at Strand (36kg) at his place. shop in Deptford. 249. Figurative German candle stick, Hamilton list I publish, such as much cherished and sit cracks while designing my of Bernard Leach. This is why to me, they are not 267. Unknown perspex, metal, Jurgen Bey 1945. Made in remembrance of Saul Steinberg’s The Passport together in my house like objects, I call it the ‘memory of 56. Yelland (Michael Leach), bricks but books I have not threaded object. & the war. or Truman Capote’s Music for objects in a still life painting. the grain’. On the bottom of student at Leach pottery, read yet. 268. This set of factory machinery 250. Modernist marble sculpture, Chameleons, which I can’t Anna Castelli Ferrieri each receptacle you’ll find my 1950–1955, son of and workers was used by mid 20th century. resist. Almost exclusively I buy 1. Prototypes of International hand Bookcase 1946 signature and work number, the Bernard Leach. factory floor planners and books on my lunchtime Mats Theselius signals for car drivers by Charles year it was made and, quite 57. Lowerdown Pottery (Jeremy machinery salesmen, 1930–40s. Paul Neale wanderings because they seem & Dillon, manufactured and sold Celestial Emporium of importantly, the age of the tree. Leach), set up by David Leach, & odd, or beautiful, or unique, or Ignazio Gardella for Vinçon, Barcelona 1973. Benevolent Knowledge Leach Pottery, 1938–1955, son representative of a long Osvaldo Borsani Bookcase 1970 2. Large flat brush head from (Emporio celestial de 39. This was the first time I made of Bernard Leach, now run by forgotten or obscure tradition, France that combines pressed conocimientos benévolos) this shape. Jeremy Leach, son of David Integrated modular shelving or moment, that I find moving metal, wire and wood. is a fictitious taxonomy of 40, 41. As a child I was often walking Leach. 256. I collect objects similiar to the unit and desk, Model E22 in some way. 3. An inventive take on the animals described by the writer along rivers searching for 58. Nic Harrison, student at Leach way writers collect information shaping and forming of a hat. Jorge Luis Borges in his 1942 driftwood. The exterior surface Pottery, 1979–1980. He was the 1947–1955 for writing a book. The objects Very often it is the cover or the 4. A cattle branding iron given to essay The Analytical Language of these objects is reminiscent last student taken by Bernard design that attracts me, for listed are used and made in LPs and graphic ephemera are me by graphic designer George of John Wilkins (El idioma of velvet or suede and the silver Leach before he died in 1979. example, the Johnny Hallyday Sweden unless stated two collections that feed Hardie after a lecture he gave analítico de John Wilkins). grey of driftwood. 59. Janet Leach, Bernard Leach’s volume in its own denim otherwise: directly into my work as a on branding. Wilkins, a 17th century 42, 43 . These pieces of wood both wife, Leach Pottery, 1956–1979. carry-bag, or the Picasso 5. An unused steel bolt philosopher, had proposed a came from the same solitary She continued to work there designer. One is kept at my Spatula, omelette pan, salt & catalogue printed on approximately 100 years old, universal language based on a oak tree. The annual rings of until her death in 1997. workplace (Graphic Thought pepper shaker camping version corrugated board. Sometimes it one of the important elements classification system that these pieces are extremely thin 60. Alan Brough, student at Leach Facility’s studio) and the other (made in Germany), sausage is the title that appeals to me, in engineering — every bridge would encode a description of and present the life long Pottery, 1968–1972. at home. tongs, tea pot (made in India), like John Cheever’s Some in London is held together the thing a word describes into struggle of this tree. handmade spatula, tea pot People, Places and Things That with these. the word itself. 44. This piece is made of oak. 251. These records are from a large (made in India), salt shaker, salt Andrew Stafford Will Not Appear In My Next 6.