Where is your desk from? It’s a really old desk from some offices on Elizabeth Street, which were being cleared out when we moved into the shop. It creaks and groans a bit but has a perfect central drawer to hide my scanner. It has lots of lovely worn areas from age… I love it! […]
Excuse the unwise street slang, but I’ve just been looking at the most charming website. I was burbling to a friend about the recent loss of the ‘Cash Register Systems’ empty shop and sign from my old road. It was a 70s sign, a bit drab and business like in its day, but through the […]
I just lost half an hour of my life perusing this lovely blog by San Fransisco artist / illustrator Lisa Congdon. She photographs, draws and sometimes paints a collection a day, mostly of stuff you immediately wish was on a shelf or wall in your own house (just me?). Unlike the photographed items, which belong to her, the drawn ones are imagined, which strikes me as a particularly good form of […]
Hey, I know I promised you highlights from Made in Clerkenwell, but your roving reporter came down with a chest infection and missed it, so I urge you to nip over to Stylist’s Own for her picks. I did drag my recovering ass – one deaf ear and all – over to Clerkenwell design week […]
Lovely new products at Aram, here are Alison Smithson’s Cornell Boxes. Cute storage and display units, available with or without the post, or in a revolving version (for easily-bored people in tiny flats). The boxes are so named for the artist Joseph Cornell, who’s work consisted of precise collections and arrangements of found objects in […]