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Cubura Cubura Dariam Sneakers
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Tailormade Tattoo Duvel (just send an IM 😊)
Very small and thin dragonfly had to see let a lone capture. Not many dragonflies to choose from at this time. A bit early in the summer for insects.
Marjan Smeijsters designed and made origami shoes for Josie, Josie is over the moon and will take great care not to lose or damage her very special new shoes.
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Marjan Smeijsters ontwierp en maakte origami schoenen voor Josie, schoenen om zuinig op te zijn, ik ga deze schoene niet verliezen of vies maken, heeft Josie beloofd.
A detail from "Gathering"
Fung + Bedford is the multidisciplinary design studio of UK artists Angela Fung (b. Mozambique, 1970) and Ashley Bedford (b. UK, 1970), who create tailormade origami paper installations. These large-scale, often architectural structures hang from walls and ceilings or wind their way through space. Fung and Bedford are fascinated by the fact that a two-dimensional object can be changed into a three-dimensional one with a few cuts, twists, and folds. All of their designs are based on paper. Their ambitious installation for the exhibition is designed for the tall, light-filled space of the CODA Museum, the work of architect Herman Hertzberger. Gathering is a gold curtain that flows downwards from the seven-metre ceiling. The title refers to a physical meeting of spirit, body and space that her work evokes, and is also a contemporary reference to our inability to gather during the Covid pandemic. Fung and Bedford are using the form and the shimmering material to encourage gathering and being together. The installation consists of more than a hundred hand-folded sheets of Fedrigoni gold paper attached to steel cables, creating a curtain structure that visitors can wander along.
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how's this partner? am I getting warm? :)
a little linen, some shot cotton, ruby star rising and some tailormade...
the new display, tailormade. Preparation for presentation for retailers. First impression. 20 cards.
The drapery firm of James McWhirter and Son Ltd was founded in 1898. Business commenced in a shop fronting Brunswick Street. The drapery business boomed and McWhirter purchased adjoining land in Warner Street. He then extended his shop to a depth of 260 feet from Brunswick to Warner Streets. The firm later acquired land on the corner of Warner Street and a block of buildings in Wickham Street at a cost of £8,000/-/-. The company’s land in Fortitude Valley now extended 105 feet along Brunswick Street with a depth of 126 feet to Warner Street.
A five storey brick building was constructed on the corner of Wickham and Warner Streets in 1912 to the designs of architects, H.W. Atkinson and Charles McLay. A second four storey building, fronting Brunswick Street was completed in 1923. The third part of the vast McWhirters Emporium, the building on the Wickham and Brunswick Street corner, joined the two existing buildings. The distinctive building was designed by prominent architects Hall and Phillips and built by G.A. Stronach in 1930-31. This five storey addition provided another 250,000 square feet (a little more than two hectares) of floor space at a cost of £130,000/-/-.
McWhirters flourished as a family department store, its many customers attracted by a high quality of goods, variety of merchandise and moderate prices. The store’s shop windows, especially at Christmas, became a community focal point. James McWhirters sharp business acumen enabled him to expand his business beyond Fortitude Valley to branches throughout Queensland.
McWhirters was one of the three largest Valley retailers along with TC Beirne’s and Overells. All three were family owned businesses. Following the disastrous 1890s floods which drove south side retailers to the north side, the Valley became the shopping hub for greater Brisbane rivalled only by the city centre itself. This trend continued well into the first half of the twentieth century: in 1949 the turnover of Valley residents was estimated at £15 million each year, of which McWhirters, TC Beirne’s and Overells accounted for more than £5 million.
Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.
seamstress and frontwoman for Midnight Opera. An outtake from a photoshoot to show off some pieces she made with vintage fabric.
Tailor Made Ferrari 812 Superfast and McLaren 600LT
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The TC Beirne Complex was constructed for Thomas Charles Beirne in 1902 to the design of Robin Dods. The warehouse portion of the building was extended in 1906, and further extensions were made to the structure in 1910 and 1913, also to the design of Dods. By 1931, architects Hennessey & Hennessey had undertaken extensive additions, and in 1938 an extra 30,000 square feet of floor space was added. In 1956 the building was sold to David Jones, and has changed ownership several times since. Geoffrey Pie undertook alterations in 1974.
Thomas Charles Beirne was born in 1860 in Ballymacurly, Ireland, the son of farmers. He was apprenticed to a draper at the age of fourteen, and in 1884 emigrated to Melbourne where he worked as a draper's assistant and later joint manager for Eyre and Shephard and then Foy and Gibsons. Less than two years later a former employer in Ireland, Michael Piggott, invited Beirne to enter into a partnership and the firm of 'Piggott & Beirne' was established in Stanley Street, South Brisbane. By 1891 the partnership had dissolved and TC Beirne took his capital of £1200 and opened his own store in Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, in premises owned by the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane. The shop employed six staff and had a frontage of twenty feet and a depth of fifty feet. TC Beirne had married Ann Kavanagh in 1887, and the Beirne family lived in quarters above the shop.
The success of TC Beirne's store was immediate, and within a few months of opening, the store underwent an expansion into a second and then a third adjoining shop. Beirne attempted to have the owner of the shops, the Anglican Diocese, pay to convert the shops into one store. When this request was rejected, TC Beirne purchased the Diocese holdings in Brunswick Street in 1897 for £8000 on a deposit of £50. The property consisted of five shops and a bank. Architect William Hodgen Jnr designed extensive alterations to the property, and by 1900 the business was described as having 'evolved into large bright looking premises with a frontage to Brunswick Street of 110ft'. The same article pronounced TC Beirne & Co. to be one of the 'most popular shopping places in the city of Brisbane'.
By this time, the Beirne family had moved from their quarters above the shop to 'Clevelard', Moray Street, New Farm. In 1899 the family moved again to 'Glengariff', Hendra where additions to the residence were made in 1907 to the design of Dods. Robin Dods was also the architect of a house built for Beirne's eldest daughter, Mrs Morgan, in 1912 (now located at 9 Morgan Street, Albion).
The growth and expansion of TC Beirne & Co. continued for the greater half of the twentieth century. Within a few years of the purchase of the Brunswick Street property, Beirne acquired adjoining properties in Duncan Street. The company was eventually to boast a Brunswick Street frontage of 146 feet, a Duncan Street frontage of 311 feet, and an Ann Street frontage of 62 feet. The shop floor areas fronted Brunswick Street, and warehousing areas were located along Duncan and Ann Streets.
In 1902 Robin Dods of the architectural firm 'Hall & Dods', was commissioned to design the building that was to form the core of the present structure. Additions to the company's warehousing facilities followed in 1906 when Hall & Dods called tenders for 'premises, Duncan Street, Valley, for TC Beirne & Co.'. Master Builder, GA Baumber, completed the work at a cost of £6348. Other major work was completed in 1910 and 1913, also to the design of Robin Dods. The tender of GA Baumber was accepted in 1909, while the work completed in 1913 included a 'new storey and other additions, besides the modernising of the Brunswick Street premises at a cost of about £25,000'. This work increased the number of arches on the parapet from two to three.
Less than twenty years later, in 1931, further extensions were made. Architects Hennessey & Hennessey were responsible for the additions. In 1938, 30,000 square feet of floor space was added by contractors GH Turner & Son at a cost of £30,000. The work was completed using structural steel, reinforced concrete and brick, and included the additions of a five-storey building to the Brunswick Street frontage of Beirne's property; and the addition of four storeys on the Duncan Street side of the building.
The success of the TC Beirne & Co. emporium extended outside Brisbane and branches of the store were established in the cities of Ipswich and Mackay, where buildings designed by Robin Dods were erected in 1902 (Ipswich) and 1907 (Mackay). TC Beirne also established a popular and successful mail-order service, extending the company's clientele base into more remote locations.
The early history of another Valley success story, McWhirter's, is directly linked to TC Beirne and Co. In 1894, James McWhirter joined TC Beirne as general manager and temporary partner before leaving to occupy premises on the opposite of Brunswick Street. Like Beirne, McWhirter was an instant success and the two stores, along with other principle retailers, Overells and later the ACB Company and Waltons, did much to ensure the popularity of Fortitude Valley as a shopping destination in the first half of the twentieth century.
While Thomas Charles Beirne became a household name through the success of his retail empire, he was also a prominent figure in wider Brisbane society. He joined the Brisbane Traders Association in 1898 and became its president in 1901. He was a director of the Brisbane Tramways Company, the Brisbane Gas Company, Queensland Trustees, AMP, Atlas Assistance and the British Australian Cotton Foundation. In 1905 he was elected to the Legislative Council where he remained until its abolition in 1922. He was University Warden from 1928 to 1941, and the T.C. Beirne School of Law was founded with his donation of £20,000. Other recipients of his generosity were the Mater Hospital, Duchesne College, St Brigid's Church, Red Hill, and the Holy Name Cathedral scheme. In 1929 he was awarded a Papal Knighthood of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great, Civil Class.
TC Beirne died on the 21st of April 1949. Seven years later, in 1956, the Fortitude Valley TC Beirne building was sold to David Jones. The building was sold again in 1973 and in 1974 alterations were made to the design of Geoffrey Pie. The TC Beirne building for some time housed a branch of Target, another department store.
In the mid 1990s, the TC Beirne store and the TC Beirne warehouse in Duncan Street to the rear became separately owned. Both buildings have undergone extensive internal alteration and refurbishment and now contain commercial and retail outlets on the lower level and apartments on the upper floors. The TC Beirne Centre also contains offices of the Brisbane City Council. The former warehouse, now Fortuneland Centre, has been subdivided into 49 strata titles.
Today, the Chinatown Air Bridge that one linked the TC Beirne Building and the Chinatown car park has been removed as it was not a frequented thoroughfare and jumbled the Chinatown streetscape.
The TC Beirne Building was renovated to its original condition and repurposed as a retail precinct in 2016 to 2017.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Ferrari F12 TDF built through Ferrari's Tailor Made program. The exterior paint is one from earlier on in Ferraris history and is called "Argento Auteil".
Wrapped 812 SF .. looks okay in the picture, but in real life this is one of the worst wraps I've ever seen .. !
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McWhirters Marketplace, comprising 4 adjoining brick buildings of from three to five storeys in height, was erected in four stages on land acquired between 1899 and 1929, by Brisbane draper James McWhirter and the firm of McWhirter & Son Ltd [later McWhirters Ltd].
On arrival in Australia in 1878 from Ayrshire, Scotland, James McWhirter worked for merchants DL Brown & Co. before entering into partnership with Mr Duncan Sinclair in a South Brisbane drapery business, c1883. After a few years the partnership was dissolved, and McWhirter returned to Brown & Co. before joining TC Beirne in his Fortitude Valley drapery business c1894, firstly as manager, then in partnership for about 3 years. McWhirter sold out to Beirne in 1898, and in the same year purchased MD Piggott's drapery business, located in leased premises across the road at 292 Brunswick Street. Piggott had been TC Beirne's employer in Ireland, and his former partner in South Brisbane, but moved from Fortitude Valley in 1898 to concentrate on his Toowoomba store, established in 1896. When McWhirter took over Piggott's Brunswick Street business, the new firm of McWhirter and Son, drapers, was established, opening in September 1898 with a staff of 30.
James McWhirter was an experienced manager and astute businessman who established his drapery business just as the Queensland economy was recovering from the severe economic depression of the 1890s. Despite the slowing of the economy engendered by the widespread drought of 1900-02, McWhirter was in a position to capitalise on Queensland's economic boom of the early 20th century, and within three decades the firm he established in 1898 had expanded from a small drapery business to one of Brisbane's largest and most sophisticated departmental retailers, with a principal store occupying over an acre of land bounded by Brunswick, Wickham and Warner Streets, Fortitude Valley, at the well known Valley Corner.
In the early years of the 20th century, Fortitude Valley, centred around the intersection of Wickham and Brunswick Streets [the Valley Corner], became one of the most important shopping centres in Brisbane. This is explained partly by the ready availability of efficient public transport - train from the late 1880s and electric tram from the late 1890s; partly by a rising population in the surrounding suburbs of New Farm, Bowen Hills and Newstead; but most importantly by the healthy spirit of competition between the Valley's principal retail stores - TC Beirne, McWhirter, Overells and later the ACB Company and Waltons as well - which attracted customers from all over Brisbane.
From its establishment in 1898, McWhirter & Son expanded rapidly. In 1899 McWhirter purchased the allotments at the northeast corner of the busy intersection of Wickham and Brunswick Streets, although these were not occupied by McWhirters for another three decades. In 1902 the firm also acquired land at 48 Warner Street, at the rear of their Brunswick Street shop, and extended the Brunswick Street building the depth of the block between Brunswick and Warner Streets. In 1905 they secured an adjoining allotment in Warner Street, on which they erected another warehouse, which appears to be an extension of the c1902 building.
In 1905 the firm was registered as a private company, McWhirter & Son Ltd, and by 1907 was listed at 292-298 Brunswick Street, having expanded into several adjacent shops east of the original building. By 1909 the firm employed 270 staff, had established a London office, directly imported many lines, and had developed an extensive mail-order department servicing all parts of rural Queensland, as well as clients in New South Wales, South Australia and British New Guinea. The firm pioneered the free carriage of mail-orders, and attracted a wide custom. The majority of their clientele were women, so besides drapery and a particularly fine millinery department, the firm stocked medicines, perfumes, silks, and home furnishings. The facade of the Brunswick Street building had been remodelled by 1909 with the first arcade front in Brisbane, and the firm's colourful window displays were a great attraction.
In 1910 McWhirter acquired title to four more allotments in Warner Street, and between 1910 and 1914 to the two allotments in Brunswick Street occupied by his first store and adjacent premises to the west. The Warner Street land was situated between McWhirter's existing 48 Warner Street warehouse and Wickham Street, with long frontages to both streets. Reportedly purchased for £8,000, McWhirter intended to erect on this site, thoroughly modern and well-equipped buildings, such as will meet the requirements of the ever-increasing trade.
McWhirter commissioned Brisbane architects Atkinson and McLay to design a substantial, five-storeyed building for this corner, and when completed in 1912, the new building became an immediate Valley landmark, seen for miles around, and dominated the Valley Corner area. Described as a vast emporium on its opening in October 1912 - and subsequently marketed as such by McWhirter - the store was well-appointed in fine materials. Every effort had been made to design the most modern and progressive of department stores, with new devices for the comfort, convenience and prompt attention to customers. On the ground level the extensive street frontages had the latest in island windows with narrow copper mouldings. There were five street entrances, and mosaic tiling and leadlights in the main vestibule. The interior was well-ventilated and well-lighted; fittings were of silky oak throughout; and the ceilings were lined with Wunderlich pressed metal. A sprinkler system was installed for fire prevention, there were three electric elevators for the convenience of customers, and the pneumatic cash tube system was the largest in the state. In an innovative move, hundreds of silky oak display tables permitted customers to browse and inspect goods without being dependent on sales assistants. Other goods were displayed in glass cabinets under glass counters, and there were sliding glass doors to the shelves behind the counters.
The grand new store housed over 50 departments. Manchester, materials, haberdashery, jewellery, travel goods, etc were located on the ground floor. The first floor, which housed the millinery and women's clothing departments [including a corset boudoir], was particularly well-appointed. It contained a large circular display room with carpet on the floor, mirrors everywhere, and showcases so arranged as to form little retreats or parlours. On the second floor were furniture, carpets, linoleum, and on the third were crockery, glassware, kitchenware, toys, and for the convenience of customers, a tearoom overlooking the river and suburbs. On the top floor were the dressmaking and tailoring workrooms, equipped with revolving pedestals for fittings.
Clearly, McWhirters had identified their principal clientele as female, and dedicated the new building to this market. The men's clothing department had been relegated to the Brunswick Street store, although it did take up most of this building. A new boot department was opened, serving both male and female customers, but this was not located in the 1912 building.
McWhirter's 1912 store was the one of the first of the big Brisbane department stores - rivals included TC Beirne and Overells in Fortitude Valley, McDonnell & East near Roma Street Station, and Finneys and Allan & Stark in Queen Street - to reflect international trends in modern department store retailing. Between 1860 and 1920, the industrialised world's level of affluence and leisure time increased significantly, and the 'art of shopping', once the prerogative of the wives of the wealthy, was adopted eagerly by the wives of the emerging middle classes. By the mid-19th century department stores were evolving world-wide to accommodate the rising numbers of middle class shoppers. The earliest of the grand department stores was Aristide Boucicault's Bon Marché, which opened in Paris in 1852, followed by Macy's in New York in 1860. These provided important models, but in Australia the department store was also the logical extension of the general store or drapery.
To complement the refined department store environment, customers [predominantly female] experienced a superior quality of service, the object of which was to make them feel special and confident. Often this entailed an attitude of deference, but more commonly in Australia this developed into cheerful, polite efficiency and promises of honesty and fair dealing. Whichever method was employed, the aim was the same - to encourage spending.
McWhirter and Son Ltd were at the cutting edge of department store culture in Brisbane, prospering through the 1910s despite the slowing of the Queensland economy during the First World War. About 1918 a substantial, 4-storeyed brick bulk store was erected in Warner Street opposite McWhirters' c1902-05 warehouse. One floor of this contained a staff dining hall/meeting room. By 1921 McWhirter's Motor Garage was operating on the north side of Ballow Street in Fortitude Valley, to house and service the firm's fleet of delivery vehicles.
James McWhirter junior died suddenly in 1919, and in 1920 the firm was floated as a public company, McWhirters Ltd, with James McWhirter senior as managing director.
Further expansion took place with the acquisition in 1921 of the Brunswick Street allotments between McWhirter's existing store and the allotments he had purchased in 1899 at the corner of Wickham and Brunswick Streets. With the exception of a lane off Wickham Street, McWhirter now owned all the allotments between Brunswick and Warner Streets, from Wickham Street east to, and including, his first Brunswick Street store - an area of nearly an acre in the centre of the most popular shopping district in Brisbane. Building commenced in 1922-23 with the construction of a new four-storeyed store replacing McWhirter's original store in Brunswick Street. The building impressed with the wide span between columns, excellent lighting and ventilation, and fast elevators.
James McWhirter died in England in 1925, but the firm of McWhirters Ltd continued to grow, paralleling the development of Fortitude Valley as a thriving commercial centre, with its three competing anchor stores of TC Beirne, Overells and McWhirters. By the 1930s, McWhirters had also branched into shirt manufacture, with their own clothing factory in the Valley. The mail order department had remained an important and lucrative aspect of the business, and McWhirters also offered credit and lay-by systems. Part of the success of McWhirters, like other early 20th century department stores in Brisbane, lay also in the value placed by management on employees. By 1931, some of the nearly 800 McWhirter employees had been with the firm over 3 decades, and staff had their own benefit society.
In 1929 the company secured title to the lane off Wickham Street beside their 1912 store, and in 1930-31, just as Australia was being caught up in a severe, world-wide economic depression, McWhirters Ltd constructed a four and five-storeyed brick building on the corner of Brunswick and Wickham Streets, linking the facades of their 1912 and 1923 buildings. The steel framed building with reinforced concrete walls and facework in brick and terracotta, was designed by the Brisbane architectural firm of TR Hall and LB Phillips [designers of Brisbane City Hall and Ascot Chambers]. It featured a principal truncated corner, richly decorated in the Art Deco style, which became a landmark advertisement for the store on the busy Valley Corner. The builder was GA Stronach of Brisbane, who tendered with a price of £112,000; the 800 tons of structural steel was manufactured and erected by local firm Evans, Deakin, & Co. Ltd; and Wunderlich supplied the terracotta tiles used on the truncated corner as well as pressed metal and fibrous cement ceilings. McWhirters department store now had a floor space of 6.5 acres.
The exterior facades of the 1930-31 building were designed to replicate those of the 1912 and 1923 buildings, but internally the building reflected new trends in department store presentation. There were no partitions, each floor measuring about 300ft by 200ft, with supporting concrete pillars masked by stained wood cabinets. Large twin-elevators were installed and the pneumatic tube system was extended. On the ground level three separate 'lock-up' shops fronted Brunswick Street, for businesses which traded after normal [5.30pm] store hours.
In 1955 McWhirters was purchased by Myer, a Melbourne-based department store chain, which continued to operate the former McWhirters complex as a department store until 1988, when the Myer consortium closed its Valley store. The closure reflected the decline of retailing in Fortitude Valley from at least the 1970s, principally due to changing demographics, an increasing dependency on the motor car, and strong competition from suburban shopping centres. In 1989 the property was redeveloped as McWhirters Marketplace, entailing extensive internal refurbishment.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.