Timorous Beasties caught our eye this morning with their wonderful and typically richly detailed Topical Tropicalfabric, shown below.
London-based painters and decorators, designers and homeowners can pay a visit to the TB shop on Amwell Street; the mothership is in the west end of Glasgow — details for both are here.
We delivered a bright finish with clean lines in this Edwardian sitting room in south London, with the walls in All White, and the fireplace in Cornforth White (both by Farrow & Ball).
We first encounteredCrittall Windowswhen working on a flat in Astral House in Westminster, a classic expression of the Art Deco style (not far from the much-loved, and much-filmed, Regency Cafe).
Crittall windows are steel framed and are distinguished, in contrast to typical sash windows, by their repeating patterns of glazing bars and smaller panes.
The company, named for its founder Francis Berrington Crittall, is still going strong, long after its founding in Essex in 1889.
We worked alongside our friends from Made by Jason on the fit-out of the Myla and Davis salon in East Dulwich in 2013.
During a recent return visit my eye was drawn once more to this wonderful bit of detailing: oak drawer fronts and their surrounds formed from the same piece of timber, resulting in the continuation of the grain from one section to the other.
Perhaps your eye has once or twice been drawn to the incredibly thin and beautifully elegant pointing on a handsome Georgian building in London?
The technique which yields this appearance — bearing the wonderful name of tuckpointing — is an illusion…
Tuckpointing is a way of using two contrasting colours of mortar in the mortar joints of brickwork, one colour matching the bricks themselves, to give an artificial impression that very fine joints have been made.
You can see the contrast between the more common weather struck pointing on the left, and tuckpointing on the right, here:
And here is an image which illustrates the care and skill involved in the deception…
Should you wish to add another brick to the foundations of your pub quiz knowledge, 10 Downing Street features tuckpointing…