What Catches Our Eye

We are going to spend this Sunday catching up on some incredible exhibitions that are going on in London. First out is Theaster Gates’A Clay Sermonat the Whitechapel Gallery. Exploring “craft, labour, performance and racial identity” the show exhibits works from the last two decades - from Gates’ early hand-thrown pots to the large Afro-Mingei sculptures.

Next, we will head over to The Barbican Centre for their impossibly exciting show about the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The 150 works on display illustrate the extraordinary range of this polymathic artist; wooden, ceramic and aluminium sculptures are exhibited alongside his ground-breaking lighting and furniture pieces as well as theatre set-designs and playground models. Noguchi is an artist especially close to Métier founder Melissa Morris’ heart as she studied sculpture whilst at university.

We will finish off our day at the Fashion and Textile Museum in order to immerse ourselves in their show Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture. Telling the story about how, fuelled by the more progressive attitudes towards gender, sexuality and freedom of expression, the London fashion scene exploded with new and innovative designs and era-defining stores.

What We’re Reading

As the days are growing shorter, we are reaching for books to energise and inspire us. Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by the trailblazing teacher, author, critic and activist Bernadine Evaristo is just such a read, chronicling how she has spent her life charting her own creative path outside the mainstream and established herself as a vital voice in conversations around race, class and feminism. In 2019, Evaristo made history and reached a global audience when her novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize, making her the first black person to win it its fifty-year history. 

In Manifesto, she shares her intimate story about how she got there and what it takes to “keep going and growing” in your craft, profession or personal life.

What We’re Drinking

Incredible craftsmanship is also at the heart of every vintage produced by the Provencal winemaker Henri Milan. Grown in blue clay, his La Carree Roussanne Domaine Milan 2018 is a masterclass in how to make a ‘terroir capturing’ natural wine. Having fermented for one year in mature oak barriques, the end result is a heavenly, heady and complex bottle with deep notes of candied fruits, orange, cream and fresh mint. Only a very small number of cases are available each year and can be ordered through our friends at Buon Vino.

Westman Atelier by Métier

We are bursting with excitement to launch our long-awaited collaboration between the legendary makeup artist and cosmetic designer Gucci Westman and Métier’s own Melissa Morris. Sharing a passion for meticulous craftsmanship and an uncompromising attention to detail, the result is a stunning range of carefully considered and perfectly dimensioned makeup cases and pouches. 

Westman Atelier by Métier colleciton will be launching next week.

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