Sensing Spaces: Revisited

This coming weekend is your last chance to visit Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined, an exhibition emphasising our human encounter with architecture, at the Royal Academy of Arts. Experience a range of spaces through the senses of smell, sight and touch at this ground-breaking show!

Wallpapered hideaway

Don't you just love a place where pretty much everything is for sale? From a slice of delicious lemon loaf and a glass of hot chocolate (complete with marshmallows) to quirky collectables and pieces of artwork on every wall. Where? The Montage in Forest Hill. You may recall a post last year in June. This time I'm sitting in a little wallpapered hideaway within the maze of rooms that is the magical Montage, wearing a silk embroidered Chinese jacket from nearby shop, in Sydenham's Kirkdale: Syd's Vintage, run by Claire Draper. Alongside the jacket: a pair of plum skinnies, a purple John Smedley knit, funky Ras boots, all topped off with a Nicole Farhi coat over the shoulders.

Tan on the Thames

More brickwork... this time at Shad Thames, pulling in a fine view of Tower Bridge and within a stone's throw of The Design Museum. I have slept on the premises (!) some time before it became a mecca for contemporary international design. Established in 1989 by Terence Conran, it claims to be the first museum of modern design. And it plans to get bigger - with a proposed relocation to the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington.
I am in all shades of brown, from tan to buttermilk to chocolate between, with my Banana Republic leather jacket, Joseph trousers, John Smedley jumper, Visconti leather bag, Mongolian lamb scarf and my Ras animal print boots.

http://designmuseum.org/
http://designmuseum.org/about-us
http://www.bananarepublic.co.uk/
http://www.joseph-fashion.com/en/ecomuk/page/home
http://www.johnsmedley.com/
http://www.viscontibags.co.uk/
http://www.shopstyle.co.uk/browse?fts=ras+boots