{"id":11327,"date":"2022-05-25T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homesandantiques.com\/?p=30306"},"modified":"2022-05-25T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T09:14:10","slug":"rob-ryan-on-his-soul-record-collection-and-roman-coin","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/homesantiques\/rss_feed\/rob-ryan-on-his-soul-record-collection-and-roman-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Ryan on his soul record collection and Roman coin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Rachel Nott\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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I live on the seventh floor of an eight-storey apartment building in London. It borders Victoria, Belgravia and Pimlico \u2013 a busy corner behind Victoria Coach Station. It\u2019s red-brick<\/a>, late 19th-century I guess. I have lived here for 29 years so I suppose I must be happy here. My two daughters, aged 27 and 30, remember no other place to call home. I like the flat as a whole. I\u2019ve never really thought about having a favourite room. It\u2019s too small to have a best one: two little bedrooms, a hallway, a tiny galley kitchen, a diminutive bathroom and a modest living room.<\/p>\n

I buy 1960s, 70s and 80s soul records. I don\u2019t really collect them for the sake of a collection \u2013 I enjoy playing and listening to them. I still find it semi-miraculous that by putting a needle on a revolving piece of plastic I can hear the voice of a man or woman singing 50 years ago; sharing their passion, their dreams and hopes, their pleasure and pain across all those years. Those voices of people who have now passed away, they still speak to me \u2013 how incredible and how fortunate.<\/p>\n

The oldest \u2018thing\u2019 I have is a Roman coin my daughter gave me for a Christmas present<\/a> years ago. I think it\u2019s in my mum\u2019s old sewing box with all of her buttons. The things we hold on to\u2026 My latest possession is a set of screen prints by the artist Martin Grover. They are depictions of common weeds. He has an incredibly beautiful way of screen printing \u2013 his style is hand-painted and quite unique. I\u2019m not much of a shopper, but I do love the kitchenware shop David Mellor.<\/p>\n

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Dandelion hand-stencilled screen print edition of 50, \u00a330, by Martin Grover.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

I designed the invitations for the designer Michael Marriott\u2019s wedding and, as a thank you, he gave me one of his very cleverly designed birch plywood chairs. It looks so delicate that I get a bit scared if anyone goes to sit on it (including me!), but actually it is very sturdy.<\/p>\n

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Rob was given this birch plywood chair (\u00a3245) by the designer Michael Marriott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

In the 1980s I had a squat in Holborn and I thought painting my bedroom fluorescent pink with a sponge, rather than a traditional paintbrush, was a good idea. It was like a horrific acid trip. Thankfully, in those days I seemed to be out every night enjoying life, so I didn\u2019t have to see it that often.<\/p>\n

Artists I admire include Titian, Stanley Spencer, Raoul Dufy, Raphael, Bruegel, Caspar David Friedrich, Adolph Menzel, Claes Oldenburg and countless others. I don\u2019t know what these artists have in common \u2013 I guess they\u2019re all storytellers in their own ways. I go to the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> to feel inspired to create. It\u2019s incredibly popular and busy, yet so vast that you can still find quiet corners in obscure rooms where you can be alone and totally undisturbed.<\/p>\n

I would like to be able to speak French. The only language I speak is English\u2026 it\u2019s pathetic. I love music, but I have a horrible voice \u2013 how wonderful it would be to be able to sing. I listen to quite a lot of podcasts. I love The Frank Skinner Show and Gilbert Gottfried. I tend to like funny things. There is a great podcast called Everything Is Alive, which is a series of interviews with inanimate objects. I listen to a lot of soul music, too.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n

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