‘My parents both lived here very happily for 25 years I think.’ Harry Seidler, 2003 [1]
Rose Seidler, a wonderful hostess
Rose Seidler and Bea Evans in the living room, c1965, Photograph © John Evans, Sydney Living Museums
Monthly archives: October 2017
Eating modern
The kitchen and servery at Rose Seidler House Photo © Nicholas Watt for Sydney Living Museums (detail)
We’re ‘thoroughly modern’ here at SLM, with The Morderns: European designers in Sydney and Marion Hall Best: interiors exhibitions in full swing at Museum of Sydney. Modernism came into its own on our shores with European émigré architects, interior designers and furniture makers working in the 1930s to 1960s. Not only did modernism change the way we live, it changed the way we cook and eat. Continue reading
And over we go!
A pair of Astley Cooper chairs from Smee & Sons catalogue 1850. Sydney Living Museums, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
Okay I admit it; I may have become a little too obsessed with the perils of Astley Cooper chairs. Continue reading
Country hospitality
The way eggs should be - 'Hillingdon eggs' boxed by hand in recycled cartons, collected by Izzy and Lil. Donated by Michelle Pearce for an eat your history workshop, Orange, NSW. Photo © Jacqui Newling for Sydney Living Museums
Yours truly, ‘the Cook’ has been eating up the country miles with a visit to Forbes and Orange in New South Wales Central West. Continue reading