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Out & AboutOctober 13, 2012

Colourful Crow: artist Nancy Crow at the V&A

By Amanda

Nancy Crow is an artist who happens to use quilting as her means of expression. As a by-product of her success she has dragged the often nightmarishly twee world of patchwork quilting into a new era, one where artistic aspiration… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutOctober 11, 2012

Go See This: William Klein and Daido Moriyama

By Amanda

BIG art week in London this week, what with Frieze London and the new Frieze Masters shows opening and lots of galleries doing the art equivalent of putting on their best frocks. More on Frieze later but firstly add the… Read More

Out & AboutOctober 1, 2012

TWR potted guide to Antwerp part two: where to buy the bargains

By Amanda

Last week I was in Antwerp and of course took our Antwerp guide with me. Do go if you get a chance, it’s easy to get to with the Eurostar and our tickets cost £90 return, which is not far… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 26, 2012

Another walk with The Women’s Room and Instagram

By Jane

Inspired by Amanda’s lovely walk along the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge to Chiswick Mall, I thought I’d take you on my favourite weekend walk. As Amanda said, walking is absoloutley the best way to get around London as one discovers… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 15, 2012

Go see this: Pre-Raphaelites, Victorian Avant-Garde

By Amanda

For me, this exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelites is the BEST thing to go and see this autumn. It’s because I love the style, but it’s a great collection of paintings and if you are a fashion girl I do feel… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 13, 2012

A walk with The Women’s Room and Instagram

By Amanda

Walking is something we love to do here at TWR, you could call it our preferred way to get about London, as it allows you to see so much more of everything, so when Bupa asked us to get involved… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutSeptember 12, 2012

See this: Jumpy with Tamsin Greig and Doon Mackichan

By Jane

First seen at the Royal Court last Autumn, Jumpy is quite simply one of the funniest, most poignant plays I have seen in a long time. Written by April De Angelis, it features Hilary, a middle class 50 year old… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 5, 2012

See this (sharpish): Suzanne Lacy at Tate Modern Tanks

By Amanda

Wonderful things have been happening at Tate Modern which we have been a bit slow in reporting on. The Tanks have opened, a space dedicated to performance art, but ONLY until the end of October, as the whole space is… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 3, 2012

Garden inspiration: Chelsea Physic Garden

By Amanda

For anyone who doesn’t know it, Chelsea Physic Garden is a real ‘secret garden’ tucked away behind a giant old wall in a backwater of Chelsea, squished in between the imposing can-only-afford-if-you-are-a-banker-or-rock-star properties. It is the oldest botanic garden in… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 1, 2012

The Women’s Room: elsewhere on other blogs

By Amanda

While we were away on our holidays we popped up as guest bloggers/interviewees on M&S Stories and Running In Heels, so just incase you missed them, we’re putting in links to them here. Yes, you did read that right, after… Read More

Out & AboutAugust 27, 2012

Montauk memories

By Jane

We spent a few days in the Hamptons as part of our summer holiday in the US, mainly because teen daughter and I are a little obsessed with the trashy American drama Revenge. We were disappointed to find that the… Read More

Out & AboutAugust 4, 2012

Shop love: Objects of Use

By Amanda

We are indebted to TWR reader Ros Hough for her heads up on this lovely shop in Oxford, Objects of Use (not to be confused with this one we wrote about earlier) . It’s a beautiful shop selling posh basics,… Read More

Out & AboutAugust 1, 2012

Port Elliot: our kind of festival

By Jane

These days brands are engaging with their consumers on many different levels. Clever retailers are extending the customer experience way beyond simply selling them stuff and creating events and collaborations which resonate with their brand aesthetic and consumer profile. Anthropologie… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 28, 2012

London we love you

By Jane

Until a few weeks ago, I was a bit indifferent, some could say cynical about the Olympics. Having watched previously ignored Stratford and parts of Hackney transform from run down uninspiring urban wastelands to landscaped, architect designed perfection, certainly made… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 27, 2012

We love: The knitted Olympics

By Amanda

We are full of excitement here at TWR about tonight’s opening ceremony and wish Team GB the very best as the Olympics kick off this evening. London’s retail store windows have been amazingly creative with their Olympic displays, but frankly… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 25, 2012

The Women’s Room fantasy store design

By Amanda

So, as well as designing the clothes for our fantasy TWR range, we thought it would be good to show you what the fantasy store might look like too, after all we have had many moans about who’s doing it… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 15, 2012

This month I have mostly been instagraming….

By Amanda

We hope you are following us on Instagram (we’re The Women’s Room) we’re loving it’s uplifting visual photo-flow of images, admittedly there’s a lot of pictures of dogs and cakes, but really that’s what makes us smile. You might like… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 12, 2012

The Canine Games: the UK’s hippest dog show

By Jane

Last Saturday big A and I took a trip down to the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club to check out the Canine Games, a dog show which promised to be more like Lattitide than Crufts. Organised as a fund raising… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 11, 2012

Jo Malone and Thrive’s Old English Garden in Battersea Park

By Amanda

Jo Malone Limited and the gardening charity Thrive’s Old English Garden in Battersea Park is a newly refurbished, fragrant floral retreat waiting to be discovered. You must go if you are a garden fan. The fragrance company has funded the… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 7, 2012

The best of RHS Hampton Court Flower Show

By Amanda

Here’s a quick overview of other beautiful gardens and plants I saw at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show on Tuesday, including the perfect office for a freelancer, above. Trends spotted included plants for damp places….ferns, tree ferns and mosses which… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 5, 2012

Gold stars for the Edible Bus Stop at Hampton Court Flower Show

By Amanda

A while ago we wrote about the enthusiastic Mak Gilchrist and The Edible Bus Stop scheme, an idea for brightening up her street and getting her community to garden with her around their local bus stop. A year (and those… Read More

Out & AboutJune 30, 2012

In June I have been mainly….

By Jane

Trying unsuccessfully to make Elderflower cordial, hanging out in Hackney – drinking coffee, eating breakfast, drinking far too much with lovely (mad) friends and loving Rubys secret cocktail bar. Admiring Alexa from afar, shopping with teen son and eating giant… Read More

Out & AboutJune 24, 2012

L’Atelier: Eat and shop

By Jane

Every time I walk through Dalston another new cafe or shop has opened and it is increasingly turning into an interesting place to hang out during the day as well as party central (if you are 20 something) at night.… Read More

Out & AboutMay 23, 2012

Chelsea in Bloom, more inspiration for your Jubilee Party

By Amanda

Chelsea in Bloom, where the stores around Chelsea Flower Show put on a ‘bit of a show’ to support the fact that the RHS floral extravaganza is based in Chelsea, is a lovely event, with some really gorgeous floral windows… Read More

Out & AboutMay 12, 2012

Go see this: Hermès Leather Forever

By Amanda

The Leather Forever exhibition by Hermès is on at The Burlington Garden’s exhibition space in London until the 27th May, GO SEE IT. Whatever your feelings are for (up-themselves) luxury brands, Hermès is good at making leather stuff and this… Read More

Out & AboutMay 10, 2012

We love: John Lewis’s new beauty hall

By Amanda

John Lewis Oxford Street has just opened a revamped beauty hall, Jane and I were invited along to the opening party and it was fabulous. We love John Lewis anyway, as you all know but it’s unusual for the company… Read More

Out & AboutMay 7, 2012

I ♥ Hackney: L’Entrepot and The Russet

By Jane

When I tell people where I live, I get two reactions, the first is a kind of guarded horror, quickly followed by a concerned question about where my kids go to school (the really good local ones, FYI!) and the… Read More

Out & AboutApril 18, 2012

We love: Great Dixter House and Gardens

By Amanda

If I’m ever fantasising about inheriting millions from a rich relative I never knew existed (I don’t do the lottery, hence the need for a dead family member) I know EXACTLY what I’m going to spend the money on. As… Read More

Out & AboutApril 4, 2012

Gudrun Sjödén’s new store: more Swedish style in London

By Amanda

The Women’s Room is have a Swedish love-in currently, what with us loving the Hasbeens pop up store at Selfridges last week and now designer Gudrun Sjödén has opened her first, very pretty shop in London and we were there… Read More

Out & AboutMarch 23, 2012

Tulipmania at Neill Strain’s Flower Lounge

By Amanda

If you are close to West Halkin Street in Knightsbridge before Easter, try and get to florist Neill Strain’s flower store, which is bursting with Spring fever and over 40 different types of tulips for Tulipmania, a celebration of his… Read More