Andrea Bates worked in the interiors industry for 14 years, buying for Heals, Jamie Oliver and others. Then, in Autumn 2011, she set up her online shop and consultancy, Future & Found. ‘The bricks and mortar shop followed in March 2012 and I’ve never looked back,’ she says. Today, we’re delighted to gain behind-the-scenes access to Andrea’s desk… Where is your desk? With true […]
Lets pretend for a minute that we’re all at ease spending £350-a-night on holiday digs and peruse Guestbook, the latest magazine from the people of One Fine Stay. That’s the ‘unhotel’ company, whose mantra ‘live like a local’ (just not a very ordinary one) describes its business of offering swish houses in London and New York as the alternative to staying in a hotel room. The company’s […]
I’ve been looking at the website of photographer Dillon Marsh, based in South Africa. Someone had posted a link on Facebook to this series of photographs, of nests built by Sociable Weaver Birds in telegraph poles in the southern Kalahari region. His work seems concerned with the interplay of nature and the man-made world, and […]
No, is the answer i think, with more snow coming. The daffs all over the garden are refusing to flower, so I had to fling a pound around in Tesco for these. In pursuit of some sunshine I’ve just been out to New Cross, where I almost bought a coffee table but got overwhelmed by […]
I’ve been claiming, round the house, that I’m applying for a job in New York. I’m not of course. They start work at 7am over there. But the pretence that I’ll be flat hunting in Manhattan shortly is cheering me up no end. New York and Tokyo are the only two cities I’d be interested […]