Am thinking of excursing
Am rather tempted by this exhibition Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles, 25th January 2020 - 19th April 2020: [C]elebrates seven pioneering women who saw beyond the purely functional, to reveal the extraordinary artistic, social and cultural importance of textiles. From the exquisite anthropological collections of traditional Balkan costume by Edith Durham, to the ground-breaking contemporary South Asian collection of Nima Poovaya-Smith, these women defied the ‘traditional’ concept of collecting - an activity still more often associated with men - and forged the way for textiles as crucial documents of social history as well as works of art in their own right.
Apart from already touching upon various of my interests, I have a feeling that Durham got name-checked somewhere by Rebecca West in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
I went to the Sussex Modernism exhibition in the same venue a few years ago.
Two Temple Place is also worth a look in its own right: Two Temple Place is a spectacular neo-Gothic mansion completed in 1895, that combines the grandeur of a London mansion with the intimacy of a private home. The interiors are adorned with gilding, marble and stained glass creating an opulent setting for any event, while the warm mahogany wood panelling gives a cosy and homely feel to the space.
(Cosy and homely only if one was in a Scott novel, was my thought: faux-baronial to the max, but rather fun. Possibly one might even invoke the term 'dahling, so amusing'.)
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