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Wallace Collection and Marlyebone- Last Post of Trip

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Tuesday June 9 was a mainly sunny day but cool.  High 16C.  We headed out on the 388 bus for London Bridge station and then walked to Eames Gallery on Bermondsey Street to pick up our print.  It was all wrapped in a tube, ready to go. Last look at the Shard-near London Bridge  We took the Tube to Marylebone, one of our favourite 'hoods in London.  We had decided to go to the Wallace Collection, one of the most significant collections of fine and decorative arts in the world.  The collection is displayed at Hertford House, former home to Sir Richard and Lady Wallace.  The collection was bequeathed to the British nation by Lady Wallace in 1897.  It opened to the public as a museum in 1900.  We had visited the permanent collection a few years ago, but wanted to check out the temporary exhibition entitled: Winston Churchill: The Painter. Outside of the Wallace Collection- Hertford House As we entered the Museum, we first checked out a display in ...
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Schiaparelli at the V&A and Theatre

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Monday June 8 was a partial rain day and quite cool.  Only about 16C.  Our destination for the day was the Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art exhibition at the V & A Museum. Poster for the Exhibit Opening screen Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) redefined fashionable taste and perceptions of beauty in the 20th century.  She was born in Rome to a family of academics and aristocrats.  She left Italy at 23 to live a life that was anything but conventional. She moved to London in 1913, married and then in 1916, in the middle of WWI, Elsa and her husband moved to New York where she spent some time with Man Ray and other artists.  In 1920, her daughter, Gogo, was born and following the breakdown of her marriage, in 1922, she moved with Gogo to Paris.  With no formal training, she launched her first fashion collection in 1927 of hand-knitted sweaters with geometric patterns and trompe l'oeil bow-knots, the latter were a huge success. Her creations soon made her a d...
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