The designer behind the leather accessories label fills her home with quirky objects – there’s even the odd amphibian For decades Ally Capellino has been making beautifully minimal leather goods – bags and purses that are pared rectangles of perfect clarity, all extraneous detail excised. So it is a surprise to enter the two-storey flat of the label’s creator, Alison Lloyd, and find objects on every surface. There are decorated eggs, jugs, crockery printed with images of Greek politicians, a cake stand crowded with brown bottles dug up in the garden, desiccated gunnera leaves and dead moths. (To be fair, I think she would prefer not to collect the moths.) Lloyd describes her style as “organised clutter”, but it’s more provocative and composed than that. She hovers over a bowl of dried lemons on the hall table; some of the cut sides have turned green. When I find these in my own fruit bowl, I regard them as a sign of domestic mismanagement, but in Lloyd’s flat they look curated. She prods at them with a collector’s blend of care and cold-eyed watchfulness. Continue reading...
 |
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.theguardian.com |