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14| summer 2001





Editorial 

Dan Smith 

Evolution and culture
The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Danielle Olsen

The story of the Rabbit Proof Fence

Laurel Blossom

All the unbeautifuls
Conservation and metaphor at the Laura (Riding) Jackson House

other things

Esther Leslie

Putting the mode back into modernity

Charles Saumarez-Smith

This into that
Give & Take
Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Rosemary Hill 

How the Kon-Tiki came to Eltham

Heather Puttock

Fries to go
Erich Schlosser: Fast Food Nation

Tony Wood

Cameo Fever
Treasures of Catherine the Great 
Somerset House, London

Liz Bailey

Techie Toys

Jane Stevenson

L.R.Smith

apple seeds
A poem

Chris Burke

Taking a line for a walk

Anne Aurasmaa

The talented Mr Ripley
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Copenhagen

David Crowley

The real things?
Was there a socialist object?

Barbara Hardy

Pot luck
Micki Schloessingk's ceramics

Jonathan Bell

New world order
Naomi Klein: No Logo

Peter Davidson

Sacred sweeties
Confectionary for Holy Week

Ben Highmore

Well-upholstered
Marty Crane's chair

Lisa Hirst

Showtime!
The 1940s House
Television series
Juliet Gardiner: The 1940s House
The 1940s House, Imperial War Museum, London

Christopher Breward

Checking out

Monika Parrinder 

Stranger than fiction!

Amazing names from Dear Mr Ripley

Dan Smith

Museum into shop
Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska: The Value of Things

Kate McIntyre

Ourselves alone
Industry of One: Designer Makers in Britain 1981-2001
Crafts Council, London

Bronwen Edwards

Vintage Vogue
The reissue of classic paper patterns

Rosemary Hill

A poem

Tim Travis

Happy birthday, Mr President!
A political gift from the German Democratic Republic

Jane Stevenson

Feminism and the global positioning system

Philip Graham

The spirit in the statues
The story of Kwame and Afwe

Christopher Stocks

Tax barrier

Stephen Escritt

Happy day
Lucienne Day, Robin Day: Pioneers of Contemporary Design
Barbican Gallery, London

Antoni Libera

A Polish prize-giving

Paul Tebbs

Splash!

Kate McIntyre

Arts n'Crafts
New Labour
Saatchi Gallery, London

Elsa MacDougall

Baubles for everyone?
Diamants
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris