Issue No. 210
January 2008
Upfront: our regular round-up from the world of crafts.
Tanya Harrod on Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman; furniture for kids; Cloth and Culture Now; Tacoma’s new glass hotel; the best places to go during Liverpool’s year as the capital of culture; Collect is previewed; and the talent spotlight falls on glass artist Jenny Beardshall
Inside this issue
Features:
The Theatre of the Spectacle
Stuart Haygarth takes stuff we throw away and turns it into something beautiful. Grant Gibson watches him install his latest chandelier at the Lighthouse in Glasgow.
Fruits of the Loom
West Dean Tapestry studio promises to be one of the stars of Collect 2008. Margot Coatts previews its new work.
The Hand-made House
Controversial artist Adam Jonas Horowitz was inspired by shells, seeds and classical Greece when he decided to create his own home in New Mexico, discovers Liz Hoggard
The Great Divide
With the boundaries between art, craft and design constantly shifting, author Howard Risatti has decided it’s time there was some definition…Reviews
Emmanuel Cooper weighs up Out of the Ordinary; WOKmedia lights up Canary Wharf; Charles Darwent on Glenn Adamson’s new book Thinking Through Craft; Pricked: Extreme Embroidery; Plus Neocraft and Tales of the Unexpected.
And finally
Photographer Etienne Clement is this month’s Collector and gallery-owner Libby Sellars tells us what inspires her.
