☀️ Eustace Collection: 1620
Weighed down with the complexities of modernity, I stand before the porch of St. Peter and St. Paul and take on the mantra of Bacon's Novum Organum.
metalwork
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☀️ Eustace Collection: The Atom
I place my thumb upon the latch and press. It makes a delicious ‘click and clump.’ I think of the person I’ve just seen walk in through the door before me. They pressed it too.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 Nov 2023
If I were a Banksy or an Emin, and presented the world with an object that had been shaped by the collated, nuanced press of several thousand people over five hundred years, I’d think I was onto something.
Be there: Lichfield Cathedral West Front Door in glorious VR
The west front doors at Lichfield are covered in decorative metalwork. They warrant a closer inspection - the clasps and keyhole covers are as intricate as the cusping on the stone work.
Sine Loco: Domestic door clasp, Chipping Campden
Material Culture in Abstract From the sublime to the (supposedly) mundane - our material culture throughout the British Isles is a palimpsest of artefacts that reflect our endeavour to create beautiful things from every material at hand. This post records our material culture in abstract. MEMBERS ONLY...
The Latch
During my visit, I enter the church via the porch which has an angel topped gate that houses a lock and latch that is a shrine in itself - a secular shrine to its maker.
Sine Loco: decorative door furniture, Selby Abbey
Material Culture in Abstract From the sublime to the (supposedly) mundane - our material culture throughout the British Isles is a palimpsest of artefacts that reflect our endeavour to create beautiful things from every material at hand. This post records our material culture in abstract. MEMBERS ONLY...