Past Caring on Essex Road is a real vintage shop. No fancy decorative taxidermy and jacked up prices, oh no. Just other people's old holiday photo albums, Babycham Marie-Antoinette style glasses (complete set), giant wicker thrones, a faux-velvet model of a bull and some really orange novelty alarm clocks.
And this. A patent snakeskin velvet lined picnic hamper for two. For a mere £35. Think of the picnics...
Japanese artist Fuyoko Matsui opens in Paris this week at Galerie DA-END - her first big show out of Japan. With a Phd in classic Japanese Nihonga painting methods, she constructs violent visions using inks on silk but the rage is refined through the painstaking traditional techniques. As such her often shocking and visceral subject matter is neutralised, creating beautiful and subtle pieces. They are wonderful. She will be big.