Yes, Wonderful Things

A ramshackle place for mini-obsessions, fleeting interests and grand plans. Collected by a female Antipodean living in London and dabbling in the dark arts of book design while wedged somewhere between a small shelf in Tesco and a virtual shopping cart.
A two-week holiday in Turkey last month was a total feast of visual inspiration. It was also a reminder that so often my assumptions about artistic periods and ethnic styles are defined by cliche rather than insight. This wonderful fragment of an Ottoman hanging from the V&A from the 17th century is a great example of the really interesting pieces I saw which combined graphic shapes with decorative and floral pattern. A happy lesson that there is a lot more to Ottoman art than Isnik tiles (as beautiful as they are as well!).

A two-week holiday in Turkey last month was a total feast of visual inspiration. It was also a reminder that so often my assumptions about artistic periods and ethnic styles are defined by cliche rather than insight. This wonderful fragment of an Ottoman hanging from the V&A from the 17th century is a great example of the really interesting pieces I saw which combined graphic shapes with decorative and floral pattern. A happy lesson that there is a lot more to Ottoman art than Isnik tiles (as beautiful as they are as well!).

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