‘To write it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it, all my life.’
F Scott Fitzgerald is so inextricably bound to his works it is hard to separate him from his fictional characters and their life and times.
‘Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment’
Spring. It’s the time of year when the world begins to take new form, a physical and spiritual reawakening. Inspiring an exciting transformation from the stark winter months to an aura of magic and surprise, everything is, as they say, in bloom.
‘Who would say that pleasure is not useful?’
Charles & Ray Eames designed some of the most influential and innovative pieces of 20th century furniture but, through their toys, photography, paintings and films, they defined an open, organic, emotionally expressive approach to design and lifestyle.
‘Obliterate’ the kids this half-term.
Not literally, of course. Take them to visit the interactive installation The Obliteration Room, part of the Tate Modern’s Yayoi Kusama exhibition, which resembles an ordinary domestic interior – with each item of furniture and furnishings painted white.
“I never liked heroin that much. It’s a very overrated drug.”
Corinne Day was famed for being the often-controversial photographer who launched Kate Moss’s career – and the backlash against the sensationally named ‘heroin-chic’ look and ‘grunge’ trend that followed.
