things

8| summer 1998

Editorial

Going with the grain

Lucy Peltz

The pleasure of the book:

Extra-illustration, an 18th-century fashion

Margaret Campbell

Affie cauld and affie lonely:

Tuberculosis shelters in Britain, 1900 -1930

Flora Samuel

A confession of faith in stone:

Carl Gustav Jung's tower at Bollingen

Hildi Hawkins

Keeping the Cold War cold

Finland, America and the Design in Scandinavia exhibition, 1954 -1957

other things

Jonathan Bell

Cut'n'paste

Destroy: Punk Graphic Design in Britain

Royal Festival Hall, London

6 February - 16 March 1998

Flora Samuel

Thought, word and deed

Shaker: The Art of Craftsmanship

Barbican Art Gallery, London

22 January - 26 April 1998

Martin Amis

Real men

Extract from the novel 'God's Dice'

Rosemary Hill

A painter's progress

Jenny Uglow - Hogarth: A Life and a World

Faber & Faber, London

Christopher Mount

Life's little luxuries

Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997

The Bard Graduate Center, New York

27 February - 14 June 1998

Augusto Monterroso

The dinosaur

A very short story

Steve Baker

Mon velo

Cycling, writing, dreaming

Carol Tulloch

Into focus

Photos and Phantasms: Harry Johnston's
Photographs of the Caribbean (1908-9)

The Royal Geographical Society, London

3 -13 March 1998

Georges Perec

On the difficulty of imagining an ideal city

Poem from Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

Liz Boggis

identity::crisis

powerhouse::uk

Horseguards Parade, London

8 -16 April 1998

Pas car

Elocution rhyme

Andrew Bolton

Glocal heroes

Asia City

Photographer's Gallery, London

3 April - 16 May 1998

Anne Aurasmaa

Here be monsters

Myths and Monsters

Natural History Museum, London

5 April - 13 September 1998

Lost Sense

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

14 February - 20 September 1998

Edmund de Waal

Leaving home

A potter's goodbye to the things he makes

Virginia Woolf

Here comes the 19th century

Extract from the novel Orlando

Philip Nobel

New car, New York

The 1998 New York International Auto Show

Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York,

11 -19 April 1998

Victoria Kelley

Into the blue

The beauty of pregnancy testing kits

Susan Howe

Scandiwegianism

IKEA's PS range and the Nordic design tradition

Rosemary Hill

Straitlaced stories

Marianne Thesander - The Feminine Ideal

Reaktion Books, London

Beatrice Fontanel - Support and Seduction: A History of Bras and Corsets

Abrams, New York

Bettina Schurkamp

Sizing up

Rem Koolhaas - S, M, L, XL

Taschen, Cologne

Peter Davidson

The Englishman's catechism

Poem

Lisa Hirst

Shooting fashion

Jurgen Teller

The Photographer's Gallery, London

29 May - 25 July 1998

Jurgen Teller - Edited and designed by Cornel Windlin

Taschen, Cologne

Hans Christian Andersen

The bottle

A biography

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