It's been like watching paint dry these last few months but JOY is round the corner....can’t wait to spend some pennies when our world opens up again on Monday. Window display@fortnums #fortnumandmason mason #windowshopping #backtolife #joy 
If you believe last weeks Race Report was a shameful whitewash designed to sow division, if you believe the timing of its delivery during the trial of the racist murderer Chauvin was deliberate, if you refuse to be gaslit by the likes of Patel, Braverman and Sewell, join the @runnymedetrust and the longstanding social justice signatories in the carousel & sign their open letter to the Prime Minister. Link & letter in the @runnymedetrust bio. #rejectthereport 
13 months accidentally spent in an enticing part of #southlondon London by the misfortunate timing of my sabbatical and the scourge that is the pandemic, I am super happy to be back in the Grove. To ensure I see my much loved neighbourhood with fresh eyes. ( this unnerving image is of my optic nerve taken @cubitts ) I treated myself to an eye test and new specs... channelling #williamblake as I potter in my own garden this Easter morn. “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour” #vision #homesweethome 
#bigtomatocompanychairchallenge Honouring the chair designs of the giants of 20th Century Modernism & desiring to inject some fun into Summer 2021 (our #21st birthday year), we challenge you to strike a pose and take a B&W selfie in your favourite chair. Here's what you need to do: 1. Take a black & white selfie of yourself in your favourite chair (swipe for inspo) 2. Post on Instagram and tag us in with the hashtag #bigtomatocompanychairchallenge 3. Our 2 favourite images will receive a set of 6 mugs each from our Modernism or Bauhaus Redrawn collections. We'll announce the two winners on our Instagram in seven days. You have one week to accept this challenge so click chair-fully 🍅 #bigtomatocompany #bigtomatocompanychairchallenge #birthdayyear #chairchallenge #black&white #selfie #collectionoftheweek #bauhausredrawn #modernismredrawn #bauhausdesign #chairsofinstagram 
Our Bauhaus Redrawn collection pays further homage to the women and men of modernism and whilst that is all we claim, we are honoured to have 3 out of 6 of this collection be chosen for the @bauhaus_dessau_foundation design shop for their Spring opening. "Marcel Breuer's Model B3 chair is a revolutionary take on the classic upholstered 'club chair' of the nineteenth-century drawing room, a sleek amalgamation of curving, overlapping stainless steel tubes, with taut rectangular fabric panels floating like geometric forms in space. The artist himself described the chair as "my most extreme work . . . the least artistic, the most logical, the least 'cosy' and the most mechanical." But it was also his most influential, exemplifying the groundbreaking developments in functional design that were marking out the Bauhaus by the mid-1920s. Lightweight, easily moved, and easily mass-produced, it met all the requirements of the school's design philosophy, its components arranged with a clarity that made its structure and purpose immediately legible." The colloquial name for the chair honours the painter Wassily Kandinsky, who admired the piece when he first saw it in Breuer's studio. Quote attribution - theartstory.org The complete collection is available at bigtomatocompany.com 🍅 ✏️Drawings rendered by Elif Yanya #designshopbauhausdessau #bigtomatocompany #collectionoftheweek #bauhaus #design #architecture #bauhausdesign #art #modernismredrawn #contemporaryart #minimalism #modernart #midcenturymodern #barcelonachair #cescaMB15 #MR10chair #wassilychair #lillyreich #waltergropius #marcelbreuer #gerritrietveld #finebonechina #madeinstokeontrent 
Let us consider silence. Let us consider the Law. Let us consider the Georgia lawmakers attempts to suppress black and brown votes in 2021. Let us consider the LAW. I put it to you that the LAW is an ass. I put it to you that the Law will use all its might & all its power to continue to suppress us all. Let us join with the leaders of the sixth district of the AME which includes 500 black churches in Georgia that have called the silence by Coca Cola deafening. Let us join them in their call for boycotts on Coca Cola, Delta, Home Depot, Aflac, UPS and Southern Company. These companies put out ‘statements’ in 2020 supporting the @blklivesmatter movement yet these major companies have declined to speak out directly against the bills that amongst other things imposes new voter identification requirements, a limit to ballot drop boxes, making it a crime to offer food and/ or water to those waiting in line. I ask you my fellow travellers in this the COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION Do not remain silent. Let us use our voices in our deeds & in our actions and support our brothers and sisters in Georgia. Let us use the might in our wallets, it is our most persuasive tool. Fact: The Coca-Cola company donated $409.2k to the Republicans in the 2016 cycle, the highest since 1990. #yoursilencewillnotprotectyou #boycott Image attributions @ibramxk @audrelordeproject @meawwnews 
Modernism Redrawn celebrates some of our favourite design heroes of the 20th Century with these iconic chairs. Our roll call includes Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Arne Jacobsen, Charles and Ray Eames and Hans Wegner. We're honoured that the collection will be sold in the @designmuseumbrussels to coincide with their exhibition ‘Chaise. Stoel. Chair. Defining Design’. The exhibition runs from the 23rd of March until the 29th of August and employs the chair to question design, its evolutionary developments & adaptations from the late 19th century until today. Line drawings rendered by Elif Yanya🪑 #bigtomatocomapny #collectionoftheweek #designmuseumbrussels #modernism #modernismredrawn #20thcentury #midcenturymodern #design #interiordesign #pierrejeanneret #charlotteperriand #arnejacobsen #eameschair #eamesloungechair #chaiselounge #eggchair #oxchair #swanchair #finebonechina #madeinstokeontrent