new RUST studio - before pictures!
20 March 2010
I can only show you a few segments of our new RUST studio/shop, because we've show a few people the place in real life and the feedback has not good!
However, Nao and I have a vision that not many other people seem to see,and we are not scared of hard work in order to get it!
The main points of renting a commercial space in London are: position, size and price. All other problems can be overcome. So we have a rear ground floor former jewellery polishing business premises in Hatton Garden. We are going to make it look like a hot house in Kew gardens!
So far, the space has been completely gutted of it's contents, and since we took these photos, it is almost completely repainted white!
It is part of a huge block of 1930s workshops, our one has a separate office space within it, with lovely glass partitioning and a small glass ceiling (covered in pigeon poo and the like).
The previous tenants made it as secure as Fort Knox so we will have to make it a design feature...there is also a huge safe that is 30cm thick!
Progress could not be started until I had eaten my Chedders and apple juice. That suit was made for a huge builder with massive beer gut, it was not a flattering look, and even worse, the paint just soaked straight through it! Rubbish.
Yesterday we ordered a beautiful solid Oak flooring, it will look amazing!
After that we have to tackle the approach, which looks like a post Nuclear bomb site, lovely...
To be continued...
meet the ancestors
11 December 2009
I went to visit my mum last weekend, she lives on the Isle of Wight where I grew up.
I found bundles of old Box Brownie photos of her and her brothers on holiday at St.Helens on the Island during the 50s. My mum and her brothers were at boarding schools on the mainland, but spent the holidays with their mum on Isle of wight.
They had a beach hut there...above, at the end is my mum and my two uncles at the other end (not sure who the other people are?)
A very cool bunch.
They had a boat too which I think was called the 'Owl & the Pussy Cat' or something of that nature!
I love this picture!
My mum sporting some fine knitwear and plimsolls, I must have inherited this gene.
She didn't like wearing dresses as a child but I'm rather liking this one and chic hairdo.
My uncle Steve sadly passed away from cancer in his 40s, but I like to remember him like this, motocross style!
Going back nearly 100 years, this is my Grandma and her mum + brother in 1915!
It looks like it could have been taken yesterday, I love those button-up boots, and those cheeks! who would have thought she'd look like this...
Looks like a movie star but she was actually a nurse/mid-wife most of her life.
And what about this pair of urchins! That's me and my youngest brother (I'm the one with the hat by the way!).
So that's a few family photos, not many men in there, as both my Mum & Grandma were divorced, but plenty of brothers!
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