Leighton House Museum

Possibly one of my favourite museums - Leighton House Museum in Kensington, London.  Once home to Frederic Leighton, (1830 - 1896) an english painter and sculptor. Leighton was very successful in his day, his first major painting was bought by Queen Victoria and he later became the president of the Royal Academy of Arts.

The most impressive part of the house is The Arab Hall, there is just so much pattern and detail to take in all around you. Leighton was a great traveller and purchased ceramics, textiles and woodwork from the Middle East to recreate his own paradise in London. Throughout The Arab Hall there are exquisitely patterned tiles which were purchased from Syria and date from the late seventeenth century. But this is only one small part, not to mention the great staircase that boasts a prize peacock, or Leightons studio with copious amounts of art. The whole house is truly beautiful.

Moniquilla

Beautiful designs by Mónica Muñoz, a fashion designer from spain. Here are two lovely scarves she has designed and some notebooks, she is completely right when she says..

'There is a kind of people, which I'm included in, who are kind of weird and buy notebooks that we are reluctant to use. We have them on a shelf because they are too pretty, waiting for an special ocasion to start using them, while we write down to-do lists and sketches in other notebooks that we don't like that much. That's so true, it's something that also happens with pencils.

For all those people, and for those other that are not afraid to use something beautiful everyday - without waiting for something special to happen - to draw doodles and their not-to-forget lists, I've designed these notebooks with many of my patterns, since the very beginning!'

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