Maybe the Guardian is focused on the late Malcolm Forbes' framed assortment of Queen Victoria's stockings and bloomers because Queen Victoria-shaped toilet brush holders are commonplace, the country house water closet equivalent of garden gnomes. It's all news to me.
But I will bet you two shillings and a bob for the driver that those bloomers did not always stay in the frame, if you know what I'm sayin'.
Queen Victoria's bloomers up for auction [guardian]
Lot 418
NOVELTY EARTHENWARE TOILET BRUSH HOLDER moulded in the form of a seated Queen Victoria, Estimate £100-150 [lyonandturnbull.com]
PDF - Sale 338: The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House [lyonandturnbull.com]
Monday, October 24, 2011
Malcolm Forbes' Queen Victoria Toilet Brush Holder
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Handlebar Chandelier By Wilfrid Wood
I know it's been really quiet around here lately, but when someone goes to the trouble of making an awesome chandelier out of three bicycle handlebars, what can I do but post it?
Wilfrid Wood's handlebar chandelier was one of many pieces made from everyday stuff in an exhibit at KK Outlet titled Object Abuse. As pretty much the sweetest project there, this one probably sold, for the benefit of some local London school. [via an ambitious project collapsing]
KK Outlet's Object Abuse flickr photoset [flickr]
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