Browsing Archive: August, 2011

Cloisonné and Fashion

Posted by Gill Connolly on Wednesday, August 31, 2011,

I was intrigued the other day when my daughter showed me an article in Vogue about an up and coming clothes designer called Mary Katrantzou. Here are some of her designs:

The reason it caught my eye was the obvious influence of cloisonné enamels on the prints that she has used.
Look at a these cloisonné objects which illustrate classic cloisonné designs:

Cloisonné is the technique for creating designs on metal with coloured glass paste within wires of copper that have been bent into a des...
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Paris

Posted by Gill Connolly on Sunday, August 14, 2011,

The girls in front of Musee Du Louvre

We have just come back from a cultural trip to Paris. I realised that I have driven through it many times, but never visited. So we did all the things that a good tourist does - Musee Du Louvre, Musee D'Orsay, Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur and we even paid £40 for two beers and two cokes in Montmartre! However the one place that left a lasting impression on me was the Musee de l'Orangerie.

For those who are not familiar wit...