Thursday, October 29, 2009

Cut your cloth accordingly...

Also at Hull's Ferens Art Gallery right now is an exhibition of mind-bending proportions - Shirley Craven's iconic 1960s fabric designs for Hull Traders (based not in Hull but over the Pennines). There around over 30 fabrics by Craven hanging on the wall, all of which make you want to start humming A Whiter Shade of Pale and/or purchase a wah wah pedal. I didn't know this before but, apparently, Craven revolutionised post-war fabrics with her weird and wonderful designs. Also tempting the gallery visitor is a lot of 1960s tomatom furniture and its accompanying literature, some of which contains George Best - as if it could be anyone else - draped over very curvy chairs.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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