Category Archives: Industrial

RESORT…………..one year on.

April 15, 2014 by thecurioinmargate

RESORT studios featured in Isle Magazine this month. A piece I wrote about the early days, nearly a year later RESORT is growing steadily, lots of new members, interesting projects and work coming out of the studios and big plans for the future. It will be Resorts official first birthday at the beginning of July…….there may be a party! Look out for a copy of Isle magazine to read about it. (you can go to forts cafe in cliftonville and […]

Categories: Industrial, Margate, studios, Uncategorized • Tags: Art, Cliftonville, Isle magazine, margate, RESORT, Resort Studios, studios

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Thanet in a year…………..

November 15, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

This volume of The Curio represents a year of discovery & development in Thanet. I have documented beautiful & interesting spaces, incredible heritage & architecture, amazing people who live & work in one of the most vibrant of seaside locations & things that might otherwise go unnoticed. Each & every day I discover something new – for a small place there is a lot to talk about, to be proud of & to look forward to. There are still many […]

Categories: Birchington, Broadstairs, Gardens, Heritage, Homes, Industrial, Margate, Museums, Ramsgate, studios, Theatre / bars / restaurants, Vintage • Tags: antiques, architecture, Broadstairs, design, eastkent, margate, Ramsgate, renovation, restoration, thanet, vintage

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Haeckels………

November 8, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? I am Dom Bridges, creator of Haeckels. Why Cliftonville? I guess to promote this side of Margate drag people up the hill to Cliftonville, sell the natural beauty & health benefits of living on the English coast. Strangely this very shop was one of the reasons why we moved here in the first place, we came for a drink here one night at Moonbow Jakes, nothing else seemed open for miles it felt like a beacon & […]

Categories: Heritage, Industrial, Margate, Uncategorized, Vintage • Tags: Beauty, Cliftonville, coastal, design, eastkent, Ernst Haeckel, Haeckel, health, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, London, margate, Pegwell Bay, Perfume, renovation, restoration, seaweed, Shopping, thanet, vintage

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Materials Lab & Hello Print Studio @ RESORT studios……………

October 4, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who Are You? Nick Morley (aka Linocutboy). I am an artist and illustrator. I run Hello Print Studio, an inspirational space for making prints at Resort. I’m Rachel – Sculptural Designer Maker working within public arts (Rachel Ella Design) and founder of the Materials Lab at Resort Studios. If you were an animal what would you be? Nick – I AM an animal. Rachel – A bee because I’m organized, sociable, hard working and would love to fly. What does RESORT mean […]

Categories: Industrial, Margate, studios • Tags: Cliftonville, Creativity, design, Designer, eastkent, interiordesign, interiors, kent, Lifestyle, lino cut, linocutboy, margate, Nick, Nick Morley, Pettmans Depository, Public art, Rachel, Rachel Ella Design, rachel taylor, Raymond Briggs, Resort Studios, sculpture, thanet

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RESORT STUDIOS……………..

September 27, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who Are You? Mr & Mrs Plant / BLOCK COLOUR. Dan Chilcott. Jo Willis – The Curio. Kim Conway, photographer & printer. Kate Harrison – illustrator. Steve Ibbitson & Francesca Flowers. Tamsin Landells – founding partner of R/L studio, Architect. Helder clara. Leise Wilson. Nick Morley. Rachel Taylor. Simon Medhurst & Dawn Weller. Angeli Yara. Teresa Limbrick. What does RESORT mean to you? Blockcolour – living the dream….Our studio is a part of our brain that inspires work on amazing things. Dan […]

Categories: Heritage, Industrial, Margate, studios • Tags: Angeli Yara, architecture, Art, blockcolour, Canterbury Festival, Cliftonville, Curio, Dan Chilcott, design, eastkent, fran flowers, helder clara, interiordesign, interiors, Jo Willis, kate harrison, kent, Kim Conway, leise wilson, Lifestyle, linocutboy, London, margate, R/L Studio, rachel taylor, renovation, RESORT, Resort Studios, restoration, salvage, Simon Medhurst & Dawn Weller, Steve Ibbitson, Tamsin Landells, Teresa Limbrick, thanet, vintage

.dash………………….

August 30, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? We are .dash, an experimental theatre company. Two of our team also manage the Tom Thumb Theatre. Why Cliftonville & the Pettmans building for the location of your play? We are head over heels enamoured with the Tom Thumb, but being one of the smallest theatre’s in the country ‘And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out’ simply would not fit in it (it features a 30m Hornby train set & projections 10m wide). We were adamant we wanted to […]

Categories: Industrial, Margate, studios, Theatre / bars / restaurants • Tags: .dash, .dash theatre company, .dashtheatrecompany, arts council, contemporary theatre, experimental theatre, hornby, kent, south east, thanet, Tom Thumb theatre

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Neil………………..

July 19, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? Neil Sparkes – Musician, Visual Artist, Writer. Why Margate? I grew up in Deal, Kent and have known and loved this coastline since I was a kid. I lived in Cuba in the 1990’s and find there’s a strange parallel to the Margate sea front and the Malecon in Havana, but with the uniquely British “out of season” months which I love. There seems to be a gravitational pull to the coast from the city. It was […]

Categories: Heritage, Homes, Industrial, Margate, Vintage • Tags: architecture, Arlington, Arlington House The Robert E. Lee Memorial, brutalism, brutalist architecture, design, eastkent, kent, London, margate, Orson Welles, Parker Knoll, thanet, Thelonious Monk, vintage, Visual arts

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Ann Carrington……………

May 3, 2013 by thecurioinmargate

Who are you? I’m an artist working from a studio in Margate. Why Margate? The combination of urban and seaside appeals to me. I like the fact that Margate is a little rough around the edges, that it hasn’t been done up to within an inch of its life ….you feel there is an adventure to be had. How do you define style? As Gore Vidal famously said “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and […]

Categories: Industrial, Margate, studios • Tags: Ann Carrington, architecture, design, eastkent, Frank Gehry, Gore Vidal, interiors, Iris Van Herpen, kent, margate, Peter Doig, renovation, Sigmar Polke, thanet, Thomas Heatherwick, Todd Oldham