Paul Smith Blog

Friday 6 November 2009

If you are in London please visit the amazing Anish Kapoor exhibition. The excitement starts in the courtyard with the huge piece which is a pile of chromium balls piled on top of each other which catch reflections of the exquisite courtyard as well as people, the sky, the light - it’s really fantastic. Of course the exhibition inside is equally as exciting.

In our London showroom we had what is called a press day when we show all our samples of collections for Spring / Summer 2010. I always work hard at making my showrooms around the world look interesting and exciting every time we show a new collection, and the presentation for this press day was no exception.

We recently purchased a large collection of 'backdrop scenery' from The Fol de Rols - an English travelling theatre company from the 40's and 50's which in fact we bought to offer for sale in our furniture shop (we’ve already sold quite a lot!) but I thought this would make a great decoration to show off the samples and they are very optimistic and create a happy atmosphere which in today's environment is great. See the picture attached of the scenery in use in the 1940's.