Alice Pattullo & Design for today

'The Brick House' was always filled with friends engaged in the kind of activities anyone working in an office dreams of  - painting, gardening and walking.

During the 1930s artists Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden, who met at the RCA, briefly lived in the red bricked house in North East Essex together with their wives Charlotte and Tirzah. At weekends they shared their house with friends and other artists – some of whom settled in the area creating a thriving artist colony. It is hard not to imagine a lively, creative and enviable community.

Ravilious and Bawden's work from the period has come to embody a certain 30s aesthetic.  It is not surprising that the illustrator Alice Pattullo, who lists Bawden as one of her key inspirations, saw the opportunity to create her own doll house-esque imagining of how their lives and home might have looked.

Neatly in conjunction with the Eric Ravilious show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Design For Today have printed, using spot lithography in England, Alice's original and truly sweet illustrated fold out card. The result is a nostalgic window into particular place and time. The set includes a witty 'cut out and play' insert of the two artists and their signature possessions - a lovely reminder that there's more to do than your emails.