Relative newcomers to the world of professional flower arranging, Ellie Jauncey and Anna Day of The Flower Appreciation Society, are gaining a vast and tasteful audience of fans who love their signature displays of bloom-filled swan planters and floral head dresses, as well as their distinct branding (you must see this). They met a year ago while […]
I managed to catch the tail end of a documentary, What Do Artists Do All Day, shown on BBC4 last night. It’s not on iplayer yet, but look out for it. The focus of last night’s episode was taxidermy artist Polly Morgan, who seems to live and work quietly from a vast warehouse somewhere in London. […]
Just read the latest Curio magazine, and the cover story was about Serbian designer and artist Ana Kras. The story was about her Bonbon lights, and the intro described her as ‘beautiful furniture designer Ana Kras’. Once my envy subsided I visited her website. There’s lots more to her than being beautiful her lights, but […]
Morton Young and Borland is a textiles company specialising in Scottish Madras and Lace. Founded in Ayershire in 1900, by the three gents below, it’s now the only producer in the world manufacturing with original Nottingham Lace Looms. Some of its work was used in Django Unchaned and Lincoln, among other films and tv productions. […]
… the Interwoven exhibition at Habitat, King’s Road. The exhibition on the first floor runs for another week and it’s a great place to look at a big trend for the season, that of jazzy basketry. I love these pieces by Gone Rural, one of the companies exhibiting. They work with communities in rural Swaziland […]