High quality, innovative Craft from over 200 makers in a variety of disciplines. As the tagline goes, "Made, not manufactured". This year the venue for Crafts Council run Origins is Old Spitalfields Market in the East End of London. This is the original contemporary craft show of pedigree, which used to be held for many years at Chelsea Town Hall and was known as The Chelsea Crafts Fair. Click on any image and photo in this post to visit its website. This event coincides with "The Power of Making" Exhibition at the V&A and the "London Design Festival".
When I was a student at Central Saint Martins, studying jewellery design and silversmithing back in 1989, Spitalfields was somewhere you could go and buy food in the middle of the night, early hours of the morning when everything else was asleep, an atmospheric pulse beating at the heart of working London. To see old images of the place and it's environs....keep scrolling down.
Original photo by Mark Jackson & Huw Davies. Found on the fascinating and absorbing website Spitalfieldslife. Take a moment to see how many diverse trades are advertised in the right hand margin of this wonderful site. Following photo also from Spitalfieldslife.
From the Deadpubs website.
And now, for something really special; A house in Spitalfields where you can step back into a moment in time, between 1724 to 1914 at Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street. There are historically accurate stories to see at several points over the centuries, smells to inhale, sounds to catch your ear, as if the occupants of the house had been there just minutes ago and as the owner responsible for bringing this house to the viewing public said, this is not just a museum, "it is still-life drama".
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