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The Pimlico Road Summer Party is on Tuesday 10th June and runs from 6 - 9pm. The event is glamorous, stylish and fun with a host of well known celebrity faces. Throughout the evening there are specially themed events in the galleries and showrooms, restaurants and bars and the theme this year is summer carnival.
There will be a Victorian carousel in the square, with jugglers to entertain, a jazz band will create a real buzz and there will also be free candy floss and ice cream handed out to young and old alike. A large numbers of the galleries will be serving champagne, wine and soft drinks and Daylesford have a specially sourced rose wine for the evening.
There will also be a host of private views in the art galleries such as Plus One, John Adams Fine Art and Mark Ransom and it’s a real chance for The Pimlico Road Design District to show it really is a one stop shop for interiors, art & design and a luxury destination for visitors and discernable shoppers!!
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CHELSEA BOOK DAY, 25 JUNE 2008
Art and design book signings and talks hosted by Potterton Books London
during the Chelsea Festival, 14-27 June 2008
The Chelsea Book Day will celebrate beautiful books. Beginning at Cadogan Hall with a talk in association with the Chelsea Festival on Decadence and Decoration by Stephen Calloway, the day continues on Lower Sloane Street with book signings and talks by leading figures in the world of design and decoration history, photography and architecture.
Stephen Calloway, author, historian and curator of prints at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum will bring the decadent and opulent world of the great society decorators of the 1920s and 30s to life in his talk, Decadence and Decoration. He will proved insights into the private and professional lives of celebrated figures such as Oliver Messel, Cecil Beaton, Rex Whistler and their creation of luxurious and exotic interiors, set designs, costumes, photographs and paintings.
Stafford Cliff is a design expert and author of numerous books on interiors, decoration and lifestyle. He will sign copies of his new books English Style and Decoration and French Style and Decoration as well as editions from the Thames & Hudson series The Way We Live. He was formerly Creative Director of the Conran Design Group in London.
Derry Moore is a leading photographer of people and interiors; capturing the rich, celebrated and royalty in their homes and gardens. His work appears in numerous books and has been published in magazines including The World of Interiors, Architectural Digest, Country Life and Vogue. In 2005 his work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, who own thirty-seven of his portraits. Moore will sign copies of his books Rooms and A Gardener’s Life, The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury.
Quinlan Terry is one of the UK’s leading architects. His Neo-Classical style has brought him both fame and controversy. Terry’s public, private and commercial clients include 10 Downing Street and Brentwood Cathedral, Baker Street and Richmond Riverside and, locally, the infirmary at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. He will give an introductory talk and sign copies of the book Radical Classicism, The Architecture of Quinlan Terry, by David Watkin.
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Notes to Editors
• The Chelsea Festival, 14-27 June 2008
• The Chelsea Book Day, 25 June 2008
o 10.45-12.00 Decadence & Decoration, a lecture by Stephen Calloway (in association with the Chelsea Festival)
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace
Tickets £13, book online at http://www.chelseafestival.org or call 0845 890 2435
o 13:00 – 14:30 Stafford Cliff – Book signing
o 16:00 – 17:30 Derry Moore – Book signing
o 19:00 – 20:30 Quinlan Terry – Introductory Talk and Book signing
Potterton Books London, 93 Lower Sloane Street
To reserve a place email assistant@pottertonbookslondon.co.uk or call 020 7730 4235
• For further information and for images on the authors, books and events associated with the Chelsea Book Day, contact Clare Spiller on 020 7730 4235 or email shop@pottertonbookslondon.co.uk
• General book shop enquiries contact Clare Spiller, Manager, Potterton Books London on 020 7730 4235 or email shop@pottertonbookslondon.co.uk
Potterton Books is an independent bookshop that specialises in books on interior design, the fine and decorative arts, antiques, gardens and flowers, architecture, fashion and jewellery, photography, lifestyle and culture.
Potterton Books London is based in the heart of Chelsea’s interiors and antiques district. The shop stocks and sources a unique selection of new, out-of-print and rare books. It is a local shop that offers a warm, relaxed atmosphere for customers to browse.
Potterton Books supplies books to interior designers, antique dealers and the public from four branches in London, North Yorkshire, New York, and Los Angeles, as well as numerous international art, antique and design fairs.
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Our next exhibition will be the OLYMPIA INTERNATIONAL ART & ANTIQUES FAIR from 5 - 15 June 2008.
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Private view: Tuesday 26th February 2008
Exhibition: Wednesday 27th February – Saturday 22nd March 2008
Steve Whitehead is one of the most significant realist painters working in Britain today. This importance arises from two aspects of Whitehead’s work. The first relates to Whitehead’s affinity with almost every other British realist painter to be seen exhibiting in London at the moment, and the second to his difference from almost all those other painters.
Like most British realist painters Whitehead owes a strong debt to American Photorealism of the 1960s and 70s, something that can be seen most clearly in works such as Millennium Bridge and Thames Barrier. But when we make this statement we need to remember that Whitehead, together with his friend Clive Head, was looking at American artists like Richard Estes, Ralph Goings and Robert Bechtel long before they were widely known in Britain. In a very real sense Whitehead is a pioneer, and it is partly out of his prescient interest in American Photorealism that the current vogue for British Photorealism has emerged. Yet the significance of Whitehead is more than the fact he helped to introduce the British to a neglected form of American painting. Whitehead has been experimenting with the lessons learned from America for long enough to allow his art to develop away from this source into a very British form of realist art. In practice this means that Whitehead does not simply repeat the radical experiments made by artists such as Estes in the 1960s, rather he takes the lessons learned from those experiements and uses them to create a new form of painting. These paintings cannot any longer be described as photorealist, although they clearly have that origin. Instead they should be recognised as a new realism.
In this development Whitehead has taken traditional Photorealism on a journey in which it has been combined with lessons learned from other art movements, including German Romanticism and early twentieth century English realism, each of which has become just as important in defining his art. It is no wonder Whitehead shuns the word ‘photorealism’ when discussing his work as he is clearly not a slave to either the legacy of Photorealism or the photograph itself. Look at his paintings for long enough and an enormous range of influences slowly reveal themselves, from Caspar David Friedrich to Meredith Frampton and others. This work is not by a painter of photographs or a man who disengages his humanity to become a human enlarging machine. It is the product of an intensely human and humane artist, a maker of rich and rewarding works of art.
Michael Paraskos is a writer and broadcaster on art and author of a new book
entitled Steve Whitehead: Realist Painter, Orage Press 2008, ISBN 978-0954452315.
Linked to: Plus One Gallery
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This year’s Christmas celebrations begin as The Pimlico Road Association joins forces with neighbours Elizabeth Street and Motcomb Street to create London’s biggest festive party.
The Belgravia Christmas Party takes place on 9th December, a Sunday, making it the perfect destination to amuse the whole family. Visitors will be entertained by carol singers, jugglers, festive stilt walkers, competitions and Father Christmas will be present throughout the day.
To add to the ease of the day complimentary rickshaws will be available to transport guests between the street locations.
This unique party atmosphere hosted by London’s finest independent, exclusive shops is a just stones-throw away from Sloane Square and links the Design District of The Pimlico Road with the shopping delights of Elizabeth Street and Motcomb Street.
Members of The Pimlico Road Association will bring their own magic to the event: Appley Hoare Antiques will add a French flavour with accordion players and regional French wines to sum up Christmas on the continent. Daylesford Organics will be presenting festive activities with roasted chestnuts, Christmas pretzels and a demonstration of wreath making in their ‘Garden Room’. While modern Italian restaurant Vivezza will be serving warm Vin Brulè, an Italian speciality from Piedmont and small homemade savoury biscuits as their addition to the Pimlico Road Christmas experience.
The Pimlico Road Association members include David Linley, Joanna Wood, Nicholas Haslam, Jane Churchill, Justin van Breda and Appley Hoare Antiques - www.thepimlicoroad.com.
For further information, product images or expert advice from members of the Association, please contact David or Amy at Pure Public Relations on 020 7580 0444 or david@purepr.com
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