Milan 2011 - Rolf Sachs

We love Rolf Sachs, and were looking forward to his installation at Milan 2011 more than most.



Clearly indebted to Edgar Allen Poe this time round, the disembodied heartbeat in the one room is joined in a kind of hideous chorus by a series of breathy sighs chasing around a darkened room next door - the sounds in this case emanating from caged pillows scattered around the floor.



Turn the sound up for this strangely eerie installation for Rolf Sachs - the reflective red pool pulsates in time with the heartbeat.

PRINT CLUB!

Once in a while you just need to get away from your computer and do something dirty with your hands. Heaven knows we know at WLTT. So it was with great excitement that we all trooped down to Print Club in Dalston for their one day screenprinting workshop. After an interesting pocket history of screenprinting as craft and artform, we got down to preparing our screens and images. Daunting at first, we quickly got the hang of the intial painting and preparations.

After a quick Turkish lunch down the road, we got down to choosing our colours and printing - and the results I think speak for themselves.



Highly recommended and highly enjoyable - and thanks very much to the Print Club club for being so patient and, well, patient.

RIP us

Well it's official - we're dead. Or at least we look it. Last night we hopped along on a spare ticket to the One on One Festival at the Battersea Arts Centre - which we also visited last year. It was one of the most intense nights we've had out in a long time - literally being rushed from one awkward and stressful situation to the next - they like to test your mettle at these one on ones that's for sure. Nothing could have prepared me for the 2 Free experience with artist Ansuman Biswas - though sadly I wasn't nearly a match for the circumstances. It was fantastic in a very humbling way though to be forced to really have a good look at your own behaviour - impossible to avoid in a one on one situation. Being hung out of a window on a board was strangely relaxing in comparison. And as for being put in a coffin and sung to (thanks Hanneke Pauuwe) - I guess it's good to be prepared for both of those things?

Dinner with Designmarketo!

We jumped at the chance to go to dinner with Designmarketo last night - luckily booking tickets in advance to this as it was completely sold out when we got there. Not only are they super friendly and clearly passionate sbout what they do, but they always put on a good spread. And as the saying goes, they didn't disappoint. After demolishing our bread 'volcano' courtesy of designer Olivia Decaris,


we moved on to a succession of light spring and shoots inspired courses - pink grapefruit and pomegranate salad, shots of different fresh soups (the carrot, coriander and coconut was the winner in our table popularity stakes),

haddock for main, and an incredible pannacotta with rhubarb for afters. Coffee was served on an edible sesame seed brittle saucer (designed by Hina Thibaud)


which also went down a treat. All utensils, water jugs, glasses and lighting was on show either for sale or promise of some future development. All in all a lovely evening with good company and set of course in the strangely alluring concrete maze that is the Barbican.

Liberty windows

LOOK! at Liberty's beautiful new windows for their furniture and lighting department! Once again making brilliant use of the small space available, they've been able to completely tile one in updated Delft blue tiles, and flood another with sunflower seeds. Very simple and beautiful and for the new homo-wners amongst us some lovely furniture porn on display. Windows in conjunction with amongst others the V&A's Cult of Beauty exhibition which opens April 2.

Corrie Neilsen at the Design Museum

Hats, dresses and everything else off to Corrie Neilsen, winner of the 2010 Fashion Fringe competition, who has just launched an installation in conjunction with Fashion Fringe,and the Design Museum at the Design Museum tank and Atrium spaces down by the Thames. Designed and built by the Selfridges window display department, some of Corries more beautiful pieces are shown alongside some of her patterns, fabric, sketches and inspirational images, as well as some of your more basic tools of the trade. We were on hand to get a few pictures of the work as it happened. We really enjoyed Corrie's presentation at Fashion Week a fortnight earlier, and it's great to get a glimpse into her creative process- it'll be in the tank until 15 May.

Selfridges at work...




...and the finished pieces

Bright Young Things 2 at Selfridges

Are the second lot as good as the first? Even better we think!

Rhea Thierstein

Jessica Dance

Yang Du

New Power Studio