I’m writing this in between packing to go away for Christmas tomorrow, so forgive me if what follows is a bit brief and confusing. This is my first Christmas present, a book about artist and writer John Hargrave’s movement The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift. It looks very intriguing, so I thought I’d share it […]
Remember Ros got that brilliant Battenberg-Ikea Monkey art for her birthday? It was by the lovely John Booth who has recently started selling some of his fashion illustrations at new shop They Made This. Each print contains a boy or boys, named after him or them and each one is a splendid vision of pattern […]
Thank you to all the readers who posted helpful comments in reply to my wail about why-they-not-sell-brass-taps-that-i-can-afford? All the advice was really helpful, but, as is the way with these things, the final answer came from an unexpected source. As you can see progress on the kitchen creeps onwards – yes, we’ve built the units […]
Lenny Kravitz designed a range and shocker, it’s quite nice. It’s part of a whole furniture collection in fact and I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, the man had his house in Elle Deco once upon a time. I think that was what you’d describe as groovy if you were too polite to say shag-pad. […]
How many features about kitchen taps have I written in my life? How often have I confidently opined that the taps are the bit you mustn’t skimp on, money-wise? But sitting here, looking for my own set of perfect kitchen taps, I suddenly realise it’s just not that easy. For my about-to-arrive kitchen I am […]