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REcreative

Lydia Campbell — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:58:46 +0000

http://www.REcreative.uk

New Art website created by and for young people as part of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project – a £1 million initiative by the luxury goods brand to engage 13 to 25 year old Londoners in contemporary art in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts and the Tate, Hayward, Whitechapel and South London galleries.

Syddor Sagor

Lydia Campbell — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:20:14 +0000

Hand Made clothing is like nothing else, you are wearing time and love in each stitch from a careful creator. Each dress invokes the magic of old fables told to us as children by Hans Christian Anderson. Mick Lindberg’s ‘Syddor Sagor’ collection makes us free to be any character we choose, and only then do we become more ourselves. Order at Enquiries@tablet-living.com

Model: Colette Brown, Designer: Mick Lindberg, Stylist: Lydia Campbell, Photography: Ruby Kobayashi @ Fargone,Lighting: Michael Gordon @ Fargone, Studio: Filmplus Acton.

ONCE – To Love & To Cherish

Lydia Campbell — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:23:32 +0000

Lets encourage each other to consume less but cherish more the things we buy and wear.

{Once} is a platform dedicated to promoting the skilful practice of craftsmanship and design. Whether it’s’ music, weaving or cooking we are most alive when we are making. All of us can make something but for the times when we can’t, the next best thing is to feel, hear or see the mastery of someone else.

I am often surprised by the joy I get from the beauty in mastery. When what matters to someone is apparent in the application of skill involved in an object a meal or a piece of music, it raises our consciousness and inspires us to care about something, to have something matter to us. In a technology flattened world….watching, wearing, or hearing, skilful human practice gives surprising meaning and joy.

We inhabit a shared world where there are highly skilled individuals creating works that are deeply meaningful and essential to life. By engaging with them, we are pulled into stories, processes, and histories common to our humanity… We become involved and connected to the world around us. And we begin a journey of discovery of our own.

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Romy Derman, London

This project grew out of a postgraduate innovation research project at Goldsmiths, University of London in the summer of 2010. Through our retail shop and styling work, we discovered that people had a desire for a meaningful experience when they engaged in retail transactions and that the closer we could bring the design and history of the objects into the experience, the more enriching it would be. So we developed the concept of a online retail platform using the power of photography, audio, visual media and social networking to tell the story of the modern artisans.

Made Once

Lydia Campbell — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:31:35 +0000

Artisan Mick Lindberg and designer Ruchi Mehta have collaborated with Tablet as part of our ’Once’ project. Here we offer a bespoke service enabling customers to choose from a selection of fabrics and colours on an exclusive made to order collection. For a swatch book of colours and fabrics please contact us on enquiries@tablet-living.com or click on the shop to order.

The possible ranks higher than the actual

Lydia Campbell — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:58:10 +0000

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Academic research led to intrigue when I was introduced to this film, by a university lecturer, whilst researching artisans and sustainable practices, for my course in innovation in practice at Goldsmiths University in London.

It is a film about mastery, by Italian-American film maker Tao Ruspoli. Unfortunately it has never been released, but there are six trailers if you explore further, that are beautiful and will leave you dying to see more… Mr Ruspoli if you are listening please can we have more.

Searching for mastery has led me on a fascinating journey of discovering unknown unknowns. It was this short film that really inspired me to start my search in earnest and I soon became aware that there was a brave new world of inspiring thought on revolutionary practices emerging, redefining how we engage with our selves and our environment. The ‘slow movement’ is one such development based on the philosophy that doing things thoughtfully and expertly is necessary for our resource depleting consumer culture to re balance itself. Although not a blood member yet, this gentle and considered philosophy stirred my interest instantly .

‘Slow’ for those who don’t know, is the opposite of fast and is the new buzz word of the new decade. Or in fashion speak, ‘slow is the new fast’ and according to The world institute of slowness, ‘’We are not rats and life is not a race!’’ (‘’curiouser and curiouser!’’ cried Alice)

The the thrill of finding talented individuals and innovative organisations dedicated to their passion, usually on the edges of culture and society, unconcerned about being ‘found’, led me to think about what it is that inspires, that gives meaning and joy? Is it the thrill of possibility? Of becoming better and better until mastery and excellence is achieved?

The 1920’s philosopher, Martin Heidegger is famously quoted for saying “The possible ranks higher than the actual.’’

Striving for excellence is a concept I’ve been brought up to respect. It is something my father, who became a world renown geneticist in-spite of growing up in a small village in West Africa, fiercely and lovingly advocated most of my life and it’s the element of striving that he celebrates in even the smallest successes.

Excellence; (ˈɛksələns) Late 14c., from Fr. excellence, from L. excellentia , from excellentem

The state or quality of excelling or being exceptionally good; extreme merit; superiority. (Oxford English Dictionary)
The best antidote to racism. (Dr. F.I.D. Konotey-Ahulu my father)

Inspired with vicarious excellence I voyage on like a merchant sailor of a bygone age, unveiling a network of artisan’s, musician’s, sustainable and ethical designers, and ecological organisations who are reaching out beyond the limits of possibility in their work and practices.

This platform offers an opportunity to buy some beautiful unique products resulting from collaborative design with artists and makers in even remote parts of the globe. Available to members only of Once online.

Tara Fitzgerald The BBC’s Waking The Dead

Lydia Campbell — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:46:34 +0000

This blossom sleeved shirt was chosen by the wardrobe department, on the BBC’s ‘Waking The Dead’ production, they selected a few pieces for both Tara Fitzgeralds and Sue Johnstons characters (Dr. Eve Lockhart and Grace Foley) from Tablet s/s ’09.

“Lydia,

Have tried on the dress and it is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much.Love,
Tara”

Sue Johnstons Shangri la

Lydia Campbell — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:56:08 +0000

It was a privilege to be asked by actress Sue Johnston for some pieces she could wear on her journey through China and Tibet to find Shangri-La, the mythical paradise described in James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon. Sue is admired by women from all over the UK and in the world of classic television drama, she has become an icon. But it’s not just her on screen talent that she is admired for. Women always compliment her on her eclectic off screen style. She has an obvious love of beautiful fabrics and textures and her look is individual precisely because she refuses to conform to fashion dictates, preferring to combine shop bought items with local and independent artisan hand made pieces. She wears whatever she wants whenever she wants. And it is this confidence that makes her so effortlessly stylish.

Sophie Okonedo Secret Life of Bees Promo

Lydia Campbell — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:04:31 +0000

Styling Sophie Okenedo in Vivienne Westwood jersey dress and jacket (below) – for the Secret Life of Bees promo tour after the Toronto Film Festival 2008.

The Secret Life of Bees is a 2002 historical novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd and was adapted into a 2008 film by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Sophie plays one of the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters — August (Queen Latifah), May (Sophie Okonedo) and June (Alicia Keys)

African cloth/western style

Lydia Campbell — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:00:22 +0000

How exciting is this new label by Mick Lindberg called ‘Nondo’. It epitomises Tablet’s passion for beautiful things that are beautifully made. It is also the perfect beginning for our narrative on weaving and textiles which has instinctively always been the basis of our decision to buy the collections we buy, but has now crystallized into a philosophy, through which we can support women weaver communities and designers innovating with traditional materials world wide.

Under the label ‘Moth’ Mick Lindberg has been selling her exquisitely hand embroided cashmere jackets to Colette in Paris and Browns in London for years. Some customers collect them as one would collect precious gem stones.

Also a well respected photographer, Mick sourced the fabric for this latest collection whilst she was working in Tanzania, east Africa. She has used the traditional Kanga cloth, with its distinctly floral patterned prints to compliment her elegantly simple summer dress. Each dress section is hand cut to cleverly place the pattern and swahili proverb precisely in the right place – on the halter neck or across the hem. ’Nondo’ means ‘moth’ in swahili. Everything about it is perfect.!

Click on our shop to order.

Beverley Craven Rainbow Video

Lydia Campbell — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:05:38 +0000

Beverly Craven still sounding amazing since her well loved ‘Promise Me’ hit of the Eighties. Last spring, she started touring to promote her new album ‘Close to home’.

Beverly has been out of the spotlight for some time, “In 2005, Beverley was diagnosed with breast cancer. The devastating news forced her to re-evaluate her life and, as the mother of three young daughters, she was thrown into turmoil as she prepared for life-saving treatment. “I think, without sounding too poetic, having a brush with death has made me feel more alive,” she says. “In many ways it has been a positive thing, it has given me a new lease of life.”

With a clear sense of identity and image she wanted to portray to the public, Beverly wasn’t looking for a complete new look, just a bit of inspiration. When we lunched at her house and talked about life and the changing season’s of life, it was me who was inspired; by her life, her talent and her graceful hope for the future.

Beverly Craven PressQuotes from Pauline Hawkins Halifax Courier (2008)

Vivienne Westwood Shirt and Sebastian Jeans