Phil Beard
Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Postcard of the Day No. 35, A Tokonama

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This has been a favourite for more than 30 years since first acquired as one of a batch of Japanese postcards bought from Baldur Books in...
Sunday, 28 March 2010

Walking on Rubber

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Some dazzling interiors from the 1930s courtesy of a promotional pamphlet produced by Leyland Rubber Flooring. They range in style from the ...
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Monday, 22 March 2010

Walking in the Future

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I’m living in the past But I’m walking in the future The words belong to the great Jamaican master of paradox, Peter Tosh. They seem to embo...
Saturday, 20 March 2010

Charlie Gillett

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Those of us who take pride in the excellence of our musical tastes do well to remember that our preferences are formed out of a dialogue wit...
Friday, 19 March 2010

Great Railway Stations: Ryde Esplanade

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The formerly extensive railway network on the Isle of Wight has for more than four decades been reduced to a single vestigial branch of 8.5 ...
Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Les Grands Boulevards

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Les Grands Boulevards has been the commercial heart of Paris for 150 years. Broad, spacious and tree-lined avenues of standardised apartment...
Sunday, 7 March 2010

W S Bagdatopoulos

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William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (WSB) is the unsung hero of early Indian advertising illustration. In his hands, the familiar stodgy univer...
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