Bailey Street Design changes name to encyclopedia.design
After five years of posting and blogging as the Director of Bailey Street Design, I have decided to take the blog in a different direction.Read More →
January 31, 2025
Join me at Encyclopedia Design, where we delve into the rich tapestry of the decorative and applied arts. Each post spans over 250 years of innovation and unveils the history, craftsmanship, and aesthetic principles that shape our everyday environments. Explore fascinating stories about furniture, textiles, ceramics, and more. Discover how design not only decorates but also defines our world. Ready to uncover the beauty of design?
After five years of posting and blogging as the Director of Bailey Street Design, I have decided to take the blog in a different direction.Read More →
Illustrator Dingding Hu collaborated with NYC DOT and MOCA to create 45 vibrant street art pieces in Manhattan’s Chinatown, celebrating its culture and community.Read More →
The Drone Awards, a Siena Awards initiative, celebrates aerial photography and video. It showcases a new genre and welcomes various platforms.Read More →
Photographer Peter Zelewski’s collection, Alike But Not Alike, delves into the similarities and differences of identical twins through portraits on London streets.Read More →
Joseph Maria Olbrich, a key figure in the Vienna Secession movement, designed the iconic Secession Building, promoting a new, modern artistic style emphasizing simplicity and functionality.Read More →
Miriam Haskell, a renowned New York jeweller, collaborated with designer Frank Hess to create exquisite floral motif jewellery, sourcing materials globally and pioneering new design techniques.Read More →
Izabel Lam is a sculptor and an American fashion designer. Lam turned to industrial design from fashion in 1988. In a neo-baroque style, she designs housewares, including flatware, picture frames, candlesticks, vases and letter openers. Her 15-piece lighting set was made of oxidised curved steel with shades of metal-mesh.Read More →
A diverse, eclectic and interesting selection of designers; architects, ceramicists, metal smith, interior designer. For inspiration and information;Read More →
Karen Vibeke Klint was a Danish textile designer known for her geometric tapestries and home textiles, active in the latter half of the twentieth century.Read More →
Manuel Orazi was a Spanish illustrator, a lithographer who contributed notable Art Nouveau posters of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He designed the 1884 Théodora poster for Sarah Bernhardt with Gorguet. Others of his posters were for Peugeot bicycles, the opera Aben Hamet and, in the form of an old torn manuscript, for the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet.
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