Boscastle, Cornwall 1956

Margaret Howell first exhibited a selection of landscape paintings by Peter Yates at Wigmore Street in 2010. We now offer a series of numbered limited edition fine art prints selected from works shown at the exhibition. Each print is hand numbered and hand embossed.

West Hartlepool from Durham 1958

Peter Yates (1920-1982) was one of the founders of the innovative architectural partnership Ryder and Yates, which brought modern design to the North East of England in the post war period. But also he was an artist, painting throughout his life, often exploring ideas related to architectural form. Some works explore the juxtaposition of bold geometric shapes that characterised the practice’s architecture. Other works celebrate the relationship of traditional buildings. On many occasions his art works were incorporated within buildings in the form of large murals. He also contributed bold graphic designs for exhibition stands and commercial premises. These works were either hand painted by Yates himself, or printed on to Formica.

Prints produced by The Bookroom Art Press and made to Fine Art Trade Guild Standards.

Available at our Wigmore Street shop

ERCOL REISSUE BUTTERFLY AND STACKING CHAIR

Butterfly and stacking chair reissued in elm with black painted beech legs and uprights. The butterfly chair was originally designed with black legs when first launched as a limited run in 1958. The stacking chair was never produced with black legs and the reissue is a new design development.

The reissue chairs will be launched at the London Design Festival, available exclusively at Margaret Howell, 111 Fulham Road, London SW3 and our Paris and Tokyo shops.

NICOLA TASSIE HAND THROWN STONEWARE CERAMICS

A series of matt glazed lamp bases designed by British ceramic artist – six one-off individual sculptural forms inspired by architecture, motion and light. The lamp bases compliment a range of Nicola Tassie ceramic tableware available in Margaret Howell shops.

As part of Brompton Design Day on Saturday 22 September, Nicola Tassie will be at our Fulham Road shop from 2 – 4pm. Nicola will host a talk about her ceramics practice at 3pm.

In support of Open House London Weekend, Margaret Howell and William Mann discover a walk along the River Lea.

Lea Valley is a mix of ancient marshland, metropolitan infrastructure and changing landscapes.

Bird Island 2009 Photographer Philipp Ebeling

EXHIBITION

Photographs by Philipp Ebeling and Jason Orton

A visual exploration of the Lea Valley and the area’s potential to evolve as a public landscape.

Monday 5 September – Saturday 17 September

34 Wigmore Street London W1U 2RS

Open House London Weekend

17-18 September

londonopenhouse.org

Margaret’s love of the East Anglian landscape gave her a strong sense of place and an emotional connection towards Charles Bartlett’s early etchings. Charles too loves the same landscape and the inspiration it provides for his work – it is a place he has called home for much of his life.

The ‘sense of place’ is shown in the beautiful lines, tones and colours of his etchings. Charles’s skillful printmaking balanced with the love of his subject matter are appreciated and valued by Margaret.

‘There is something in coastal East Anglia that makes a painter want to paint, a photographer to frame, and a composer to make music. An open landscape and seascape whose natural elements are constantly renewed by shifting light from the enormous skies. Always changing, always challenging.

This selection of etchings shows Charles Bartlett’s response to this challenge. Through skilful use of texture, tone, semi-abstract shape and line, he succeeds, for me, in evoking the atmosphere of a fond and familiar place.’

— MARGARET HOWELL

‘Since a very early age painting has been my life. It is the most enjoyable yet the most heartbreaking thing I know.’

‘As a painter and printmaker I try to embody the spirit of place, express a personal and emotional reaction to nature, the poetic rather than the literal.’

— CHARLES BARTLETT

In association with the Emma Mason Gallery a selection of framed colour etchings are now on sale at our Wigmore Street shop. All have come directly from the artist’s studio and in several cases are the last available for sale.

This is the second in a series of collaborations with designers from other fields whose work Margaret particularly admires. This time her partner in the making of a unique shirt is Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility.

Working with Sam Hecht was easy and pleasurable. Partly because we share a similar approach to design, paring away the inessential to find the purely useful, but also because it was clear from the start Sam knew exactly what he wanted. A prolific designer of a wide range of products, his vision was for a shirt to reflect his lifestyle – busy and urban, with much of it spent on two wheels. Sam took a shirt, then took it apart. Why not, he said, turn up the tail to make back pockets?’

— Margaret Howell  2011

‘My discovery of Margaret Howell’s clothing has been a joyful surprise.

That Margaret herself has a burgeoning curiosity about the modern condition, about how we live for simple pleasures, honest materials, the kind of authenticity which people always want to come back to – is something we share and that motivates me too. It seemed reasonable to design a shirt that appears familiar but also reflects how people are moving around the city these days.’

— Sam Hecht

Industrial Facility  2011

The result is a pale blue cotton shirt, pre-washed, with minimal front detailing. The back detail is inspired by turning up the tail of a classic shirt to create a divided pocket. An extra pocket on the left sleeve can hold a travel card. This is a shirt for both cycling and wearing in the work place.

Sam Hecht and Kim Colin founded the London design office Industrial Facility in 2002. They have developed a range of projects in the areas of furniture, electronics, consumer products, fashion and interiors. Their work is in the permanent collections of museums around the world.

Industrial Facility believes that design should simplify our lives. They practice rigorous investigation and analysis to achieve this, concerned not just with the detail, make and function of an object, but also the place where it will spend its life.

A selection of products designed by Industrial Facility will also be on sale in our Wigmore Street shop

Hardback copies of the catalogue are on sale at our Wigmore Street shop. To find out more about the exhibition click here

Picture – Anthony Caro at his retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1963) © Barford Sculptures Ltd