<span style="font-style: italic;">recent work by </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marianna Kennedy</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">'The trouble with mass-produced objects is that they have no life</span></span>. </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">When you buy them they are already dead. The best furnishings have something of their maker in them, and then they take on the life of the owner too. People like antiques because they sense this living quality."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;">-Jim Howett - Marianna Kennedy's collaborator.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6232/6218786586_ac3766ed98_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6232/6218786586_ac3766ed98_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 890px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6176/6218263527_da0d482c92_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6176/6218263527_da0d482c92_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 936px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />"There is nothing self-conscious or pretentiously arty in any of this. Marianna and Jim are both driven by love of the work, and a desire to make contemporary objects using traditional techniques, and developing those techniques where necessary. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">'We want to keep skills alive, but we want to do modern work,'</span></span> says Jim.<br /><br />'We never make reproductions. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">We use the past as a guide and then we re-invent it.'</span></span> When Jim isn't designing furniture, you'll find him drawing up plans to help people in Spitalfields restore their houses in a way that is neither slavish nor garish, Marianna is likely to be nearby, in her old apron on her hands and knees, messing with lime-wash. She laughs, and shows me the stains on her hands..."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/journalism_01/journalism_01_item.asp?journalism_01ID=204"><span style="font-style: italic;">(excerpt taken from here, Jeanette Winterson)</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">recent work by </span><br /><a href="http://www.mariannakennedy.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marianna Kennedy</span></a><a href="http://www.chastel-marechal.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> atGalerie Chastel-Maréchal</span></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">now til Nov 11,2011</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------</span>

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