Redfernse

I’m so sick of pretty, I want something true, don’t you?

[Redfernse @Redfernse]

Cuir síoda ar ghabhar ach is gabhar i gcónaí é. 🧣 🐐

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Textile artist Gunta Stölzl, Wall hanging "Slit Tapestry Red/Green" 1927, the artist ran the pioneering weaving workshop at the progressive German design school, the Bauhaus #womensart #WeavingArtWeek

[Garda Info @gardainfo]

A new virus has arrived which targets the system that powers Apple devices. Here’s what you need to know 👇

Victims of the malware should consult a competent cyber security professional and report the crime to their local Garda Station.

#KeepingPeopleSafe

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

"I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper"
- Zaha Hadid (1950-2016), award winning, Iraqi-British architect #WomensArt

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'Cheyne Walk, spring afternoon light' (2024) by Daisy Sims Hilditch
https://t.co/9VJwcTEBC1

[Cork Safety Alerts @CorkSafetyAlert]

A Cork Safety Alerts follower has reported spotting Hemlock Water Dropwort washed up on Front Strand beach in Youghal yesterday, Wednesday 18 March. A previous sighting was also reported at Mall beach in the town.

This is one of Europe’s most toxic plants. Do not touch it and keep children and pets well away. If you or your pet have had any contact with it, seek medical or veterinary attention immediately.

[Modernism in Metroland @mod_in_metro]

Loughborough Road Estate, Brixton

1954-57

London County Council Architect's Department

Image from RIBApix

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

On St Patrick's Day.

Ladybird books were published in many different languages - including Irish

(Artists: Eric Winter and Robert Lumley)

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Sinead O'Connor in her house, London, 1994 by Jill Furmanovsky, photographer known for her work featuring artists from the music scene #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is considered one of the first Western artists to create purely abstract work, producing pioneering, non-representational paintings as early as 1906 #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘Shilton, Oxfordshire’
Artist: SR Badmin

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Fabric design by Vanessa Bell, sister of Viginia Woolf, dating from 1913 #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunias,c, 1925 #WomensArt #Mothersday

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Brittany, France early 20thc, women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt

[C20 Society @C20Society]

NEWS: Twentieth Century Society has submitted a listing application for the River and Rowing Museum in Henley, Oxfordshire (1989-97), by David Chipperfield Architects.

Opened by Queen Elizabeth II in November 1998, the building is an exceptional example of late-twentieth-century contextual Modernist architecture. With formal references to local river boathouses, the traditional wooden barns of Oxfordshire and drawing on lessons from Japanese architecture, it was shaped by the ideas of critical regionalism and grounded in local context, climate, and culture.

The project represents a significant point in the history of David Chipperfield Architects; it was their first major UK commission and first significant cultural building – a sector in which they have since developed an international reputation. In his letter of support for the application, Sir David has credited the project with pioneering themes that became central to their work, such as the exploration of natural light and sensitivity to context, while developing the practice's approach to dialogue and advocacy, lessons that directly informed later projects such as their seminal Neues Museum in Berlin.

Sadly the River and Rowing Museum closed in September 2025 after 27 years of operation and the future of the site is currently being reviewed by Museum trustees. However David Chipperfield Architects and the Society are convinced that the flexibility of the original design will allow the building to serve a new purpose in a way that respects and preserves its architectural character.

➡️https://t.co/BnmN2O1o1E

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'Big Ben over Westminster Bridge' (c.1910) by George Hyde Pownall

(Private collection)

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

Clerkenwell dawn.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian born Hollywood actress, was also a designer/inventor who created aviation designs for Howard Hughes and co-patented a “secret communication system” - the basis for modern WiFi #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

[Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement]

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day.

This photograph — “Weavers on the Bauhaus Staircase, 1927” by T. Lux Feininger — captures some of the remarkable women who shaped the Bauhaus. As members of the textile workshop, they transformed weaving into one of the most innovative and influential disciplines of modern design.

Their work combined craft, experimentation and modern thinking — embodying the Bauhaus idea of uniting art, design and everyday life. The legacy of these women continues to influence textile and design culture around the world.

Weavers on the Bauhaus staircase, 1927.
From top to bottom: Gunta Stölzl, Ljuba Monastirskaja, Grete Reichardt, Otti Berger, Elisabeth Müller, Rosa Berger, Lis Beyer-Volger, Lena Meyer-Bergner, Ruth Hollós and Elisabeth Oestreicher.

Photograph: T. Lux Feininger
Collection: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

#InternationalWomensDay #Weaving #DesIgn #Art #Bauhaus

[Modernism in Metroland @mod_in_metro]

Today is International Women’s Day, so we thought we would go through some of our Anatomy of a House blogs that explore houses designed by women. First up, Georgie Wilton’s steel house in Surrey from 1969, now dismantled and in storage https://t.co/opVaEiZt52