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7| winter 1997-98





Editorial 

Stephen Escritt

Sancho's best Trinidado 
Ignatius Sancho and the 18th-century London tobacco trade

Carol Tulloch

Fashioned in black and white 
Women's dress in Jamaica, 1880 -1907

Sorrel Herschberg

English contemporary HK Furniture
and the post-war new look

Flora Samuel

A door of experience 
Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp

other things


Esther Leslie

Explaining the shadows
August Sander
National Portrait Gallery, London
28 February - 9 June 1997

Hildi Hawkins

Missing link
Poem

Philip Nobel

Mapping the city
The new New York subway map

Julie Burchill

Ambition
Extract from the novel Ambition

Gavin Stamp

Fly me to the stars
The tomb of Carl Morgan Bigsby

Jorge Luis Borges

Of exactitude in science
Short story from A Universal History of Infamy

Verity Wilson

Small things
Marc Riboud in China: 40 Years of Photography
Barbican Art Gallery, London
19 June - 17 August 1997

Helen Clifford

Consumed by culture
Harper Collins, London

Greg Stevenson

Better than bizarre
The ceramics of Clarice Cliff

Jacq Barber

Super Nova
Why Jarvis Cocker paid £28,000 for a set of old magazines

Gavin Stamp

Decomania
Bevis Hillier and Stephen Escritt: Art Deco Style
Phaidon Press, London

Judith Somerville

Best foot forward
In search of a great-great-grandfather

Tony Harrison

Long distance
Poem

Nicholas Oddy

Pedal-power
Bike: Cycles. A Tour of Bicycle Design, 1825-2000
Design Museum, London
30 October 1997 - 22 March 1998

Kate McIntyre

Spaced out
Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 1990s
Hayward Gallery, London
3 April - 18 May 1997

Ten top tights tips from the collection of Anneli Kurki

Stephen Escritt

The name of the Room
sterreichisches Museum frangewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna

Hannah Andrassy

Gardner's world
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, USA

David Brady

A man's job
Rizzoli, New York

Alan Powers

By George!
A personal history of the New Georgians

Ruth Levy

Monkey business
Love and the sock monkey

Hildi Hawkins

Homeland
Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Maria Gould

Things like that
Short story