Big love for London
It's difficult to trust that I took that photo of my foot a week in the past. That turned into a marker in the sidewalk inside the small park in the back of St. Paul's Cathedral and the inscription actually examine "Here stood Paul's cross." I had simply walked out of the Cathedral with my pals Bob Borson and Stacey Bewkes. Borson observed the marker first and a terrific photograph op was born.
Endless thanks to Modenus and the sponsors of Blog Tour 2011 for getting our rag tag band of North American design and architecture bloggers to London for the Design Festival. Here are some London highlights.
London is an superb town. It's stunning, easy and massive. As lots because it embraces the 21st Century, it is nevertheless gift to its records. Some of the finest minds humanity's ever produced called that town domestic and their fingerprints are everywhere.
The group with whom I shared that great city last week are a special lot. The are Susan Serra , Tamara Matthews-Stephenson , Carmen Natschke , Veronika Miller , Mollie Magill , Jonathan Legate , Elise Jones , Michelle Jennings-Wiebe , Meredith Heron , Mae Hacking , Andie Day , Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo , Leslie Carothers , Michelle Carangi , Bob Borson , Tim Bogan and Stacey Bewkes . All of us knew each other before the trip but most of us had never met. It's a curious state of affairs brought on by the social web and it was a real treat to meet up with a bunch of people with whom I have more than a few things in common. All of our Blog Tour posts are being aggregated on the Blog Tour website and our photos ought to start showing up there this week too.
Blog Tour wasn't a one-time thing. In March of 2012, a group of UK design bloggers are coming to New York for the AD (Architectural Digest Home Design Show) . I can't wait to be there to reconnect with my UK friends. Then in April, Blog Tour's taking a mix of North American and UK bloggers to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. After that who knows? I'm holding out for Mumbai and Beijing but wherever it ends up, Blog Tour is here to stay and it was an honor to be part of the its maiden voyage.