Home Sweet Home, Sweet Paumes

Home is a really important place to me. I always flick through magazines with envy when I see amazing houses photoshoot, hoping that one day I will have a house of my own, hoping that one day they will come to my home :) (ok let's get working...) One fine day of November 2010, a very special team of people came into my place in London for a book publication in Japan. The Editions Paumes just released the "Girls Fashion Style London" book this Spring, featuring creative girls' interiors, favourite outfits and accessories.

That is a really nice, girlie and inspiring treasure book, I felt it would be nice to share the few pages about me. I have no idea what it says as it is in Japanese but it looks wonderful :)

Thank you Helena, Hisashi, and Coco from Editions Paumes, for your wizard touch in my little room, and for this amazing present !

Eco Home - Geffrye Museum future event

Tuesday 13 October 2009 - Sunday 7th of February 2010

Constellation Wallpaper, a blue-skies prototype by Aurelie Mosse

The Puff and Flock Sustainable configuration (to be confirmed) will be exhibiting with the Geffrye Museum next fall. The exhibition called Eco-Home hopes to address, without preaching, widespread and increasing concerns about ecology and the state of the planet and how this links to our homes and the way we use, decorate and inhabit them. It will examine current ideas around ‘eco-living’ in an informative and timely way. The climate change agenda is having an impact on almost every area of life and the home is no exception. Recycling and saving energy have, for some, been part of daily life for generations but today they have a new significance and urgency. The mantra ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ is prompting us to change our habits and there are now a plethora of products out there to help us.

We are now being encouraged to think about saving resources like water and electricity and turning to renewable sources. People are also beginning to consider the impact of industrial production methods, shipment of goods over vast distances and toxins being released into the environment. ‘Eco Home’ will investigate how so-called ‘green’ issues have entered our domestic spaces, using a new generation of products as a guide. Visitors to the exhibition will go away better informed and inspired by ideas about how to make an Eco Home which suits their personal taste and lifestyle.

Source : Geffrye Museum

First Histories of the Home Conference

Julius Shulman

The Histories of the Home SSN and The City Centre at Queen Mary, University of London present the first Histories of the Home Subject Specialist Network (SSN) Conference on 5 June 2009 at London Transport Museum.

This conference will showcase different approaches to the study of the home from material culture studies and art history through to contemporary ethnographic studies. The papers draw upon a wide range of sources including inventories, paintings and diaries and span the 17th century to the present day within a British context. The event aims to bring together academics, archivists, museum professionals and postgraduate students to inspire new ideas and foster interdisciplinary dialogue.

Speakers will include: Alison Clarke (University of the Applied Arts, Vienna) The home as process – contemporary ethnographic methodologies in making histories of the home
Victoria Kelley (University for the Creative Arts, Rochester) Cleanliness, shine and polish in working-class and middle-class material culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of London) From drawing room to dressing room: marital dynamics and middle-class domestic material culture in England, 1850-1910. Dianne Lawrence (Lancaster University) Borders of distinction and fashionable friezes – wallpaper and wall decoration in colonial homes in Tasmania, in the latter half of the 19th century.
Sara Pennell (Roehampton University) Home is where the hearth is? The uses and meanings of the hearth in Restoration London.
Kate Retford (Birkbeck, London) Fabricating the domestic interior? The conversation piece in Georgian England.
Tim Richardson (independent scholar, freelance garden historian) The importance of biography and connections in understanding the emergent English landscape garden, 1680-1720.
Barbara Simms (independent garden and landscape historian) The 20th-century house and garden: a review of research and an evaluation of its contribution to our knowledge of the role of gardens in domestic life.
Divya Tolia-Kelly (Durham University) South Asian post-colonial identity within Britain: memory-objects in the home.

Conference fees £45 (£35 concs. – full-time students and the unwaged)(includes light lunch and refreshments) For further information, please contact SSN Co-ordinator Krisztina Lackoi at klackoi@geffrye-museum.org.uk or +44 (0)207 739 9893.

DETAILS Venue: London Transport Museum Covent Garden Piazza London, WC2E 7BB Date: Friday 5th June 2009 Time: 10.00 – 5.00 Cost: £45 (£35 - full-time students and the unwaged)

LIMITED PLACES – BOOK NOW! Please return the completed form with payment by Friday 22 May 2009 to: Krisztina Lackoi, SSN Co-ordinator Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA

Domestic Probe - Call for participants

The Home at the Digital Era

Aurélie, as a part of her PhD project in textile design, is looking for volunteers to take part into her Domestic Probe called Home at the Digital Era, a research investigating what the notion of home encompasses nowadays. The idea of this Domestic Probe is to engage with real people and real domestic spaces to understand how home looks like today and what the notion of domesticity means in a contemporary context, within real people’s life.

Goal This project takes place within the frame of a PhD project in Tectonic Textiles, undertaken in CITA, Centre for IT & Architecture, Copenhagen and hopes to gather up-dated data about the perception of the contemporary home, susceptible to inspire design ideas for smart textiles.

Why I need you? Your active participation will encourage going beyond traditional clichés about the home as well as gathering authentic up-to-date data about contemporary domestic spaces.

What are you supposed to do? I would like to ask you to become a one-day special correspondent of the domestic, reporting about your own home. If you decide to join the research, you will be asked to respond to these two main tasks.

• First of all, to take several pictures about your home. A disposable camera will be kindly provided if you don’t have access to a digital camera.
  
• Answer quick questions about you and your home.
  

The datas collected (pictures and survey) have to be sent back along with the consent form, by the end of march, preferably by email, if not by post at the details mentioned below.

Profile Any volunteer from 18 years old is more than welcome to join the research. I am interested in the most diversified profiles, whether your home is a castle, a single room or a tent. The most important is your motivation.

So would you like to contribute to this research?

For full information, please find here:

• The survey form with all the tasks required from you
• The consent form, attesting your participation and understanding of the research process

If you feel ready, just go ahead and send the information back to Aurélie when done.

If you are still hesitating, feel free to ask Aurélie any question:

Aurélie Mossé, PhD student,Centre for IT & Architecture, School of Architecture, Philip de Langes allé 10, 1435 Copenhagen, Denmark

Tel +45 32 68 66 54

Aurelie.Mosse@karch.dk

http://cita.karch.dk/