Thomas Bertie Taylor’s abstract photos find beauty in the most mundane of places

Thomas Bertie Taylor’s abstract photos find beauty in the most mundane of places

London-based photographer Thomas Bertie Taylor takes a different look at the world via abstract images that pick out and highlight mundane details.

You don’t need to travel far to take incredible photos. Just look at the work of Thomas Bertie Taylor, who splits his time between London and Brighton and manages to find new, entrancing takes on these well-worn haunts. By playing around with compositions and focus, Thomas has a knack for presenting the familiar in a new light and making you reappraise supposedly mundane details.

In the surreal world of Thomas’s photos, everything from a person washing a car windscreen to food being handled at a seafood market takes on a strange new energy. Even familiar locations like Brighton Beach feel new and alive, and a reflection in a glass fragment invites the viewer to engage with the image and create their own background story.

Home Tour | Bay Blue by Hugh-Jones Mackintosh

Home Tour | Bay Blue by Hugh-Jones Mackintosh

An American family sought Sydney-based interior design studio Hugh-Jones Mackintosh to design their home in San Francisco’s Bay Area, observing clear parallels between the two coastal cities and their outdoor-focused living. ‘Bay Blue’ seamlessly fuses the two distant corners of the world, reflecting its vibrant, cosmopolitan owners through a unique global lens.

The details inside of The Block’s 2023 walk-in wardrobes

The details inside of The Block’s 2023 walk-in wardrobes

Sunday’s master-bedroom and walk-in wardrobe reveals on The Block leave us spacious and luxurious interiors (if not big enough bedsides!). As the most important bedroom in the house, contestants focused on style, storage and functionality, to produce stunning supporting wardrobes that were lavish in both aesthetics and use. Brimming with inspiration, we step inside each space to unveil all the finer wardrobe details.

The Visual Explanation of The Ladies’ Dress Shoes in the Nineteenth Century

The Visual Explanation of The Ladies’ Dress Shoes in the Nineteenth Century

The evolution of clothing manufacturing is a fascinating journey that intertwines with the advent of factory sewing machines and the emergence of a middle class, eager to acquire and flaunt an ever-changing wardrobe.

This digital presentation, which will continue to expand, offers a glimpse into the daily operations and design inspirations of one of the few manufacturing sectors that still flourish in New York City, drawing from two complementary library divisions.