NEW The Midcentury Show heads for Bristol
Sunday 17th October 2010
Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol, BS4 3EH
10am–4pm
Entrance £5
Children under 14 free
Free Parking and Bocabar Café open
Bowing to popular demand from the West of England and thanks to a kind
invitation from The Paintworks, The Midcentury Show touches down in Bristol
this October. See furniture and collectables from the middle of the last
century; invest in design classics from the likes of Eames, Nelson, Jacobsen
and Aalto while enjoying a day out in the city crowned the best city in
the UK and Ireland by the Academy of Urbanism in November 2008. Midcentury.Modern's
sister show The Midcentury Show has evolved to showcase our vintage dealers
around the country.
Saarinen, Vodder, Wirkkala, Aalto, Sandstrom, Jacobsen, Merrow, Rutili,
Jansen, Knoll, Sarpaneva, Mathsson, Jalk, Wright, Mogensen, Nilsson, Lindstrand,
Panton, Bertoia, Castelli, Ekstrom, Ponti, Henningson…
And while we have your attention here are a some Bristol Facts:
Bristol has been voted one of the most popular places to live in Britain
and one of the top three most popular cities. In 2006 Bristol was voted
the happiest place to live in England by a government poll. Harry Potter
was based on a boy JK Rowling met in Bristol as a child, Lara Croft was
created by Bristol based Toby Gard Archibald Leach (aka Cary Grant), Zoe's
dad Johnny Ball, the world's first test tube baby, Damian Hirst, Jeremy
Irons, Kosheen, Massive Attack, the legendary Roni Size, Banksy, Matt Lucas
and David Walliams all hail from Bristol.