… 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 to create sustainable employment and entrepreneurship for over 750 women. And their work is jazzy and zig-zaggy as a Jessie J jumpsuit.

Chelsea safari

It’s design week at Chelsea Harbour, have you been? I went yesterday to scratch up the car in the super-tight carpark and to nearly get a cuddle off a security guard who wasn’t looking where he was going while flailing his arms weirdly.  That said, Cole & Son’s new Fornasetti (II) monkeys, Procuratte Scimmie, managed […]

Esther Mahlangu

I read about this at Christmas, and have been meaning to bring it to you ever since. The story comes from Apartamento magazine. It’s about the graphic art of South African woman Esther Mahlangu. Mahlangu was born in the Kwamhlanga region of Mpumalanga in South Africa, and paints the traditional designs of her Ndebele community. The […]

Nautical but nice

We don’t really do theme‘s so much, but after being gifted this cool German plate… …I went in search of other nautical things that are not shells-and-driftwood, twee nightmare. Notknot cushion from Reykjavik Corner Store. If it were mine, I’d sit and thread my fingers through those knots, continually. Black Stripes Cylinder by Bodil Manz. Portable lamp […]

Village voice

Remember the discussion about blue plaques recently? I think I have a new favourite.* It’s from Walthamstow’s Unofficial Tourist Board, a site where residents of what I think is called Walthamstow Village get together to  post pictures of mattresses, shop signs and other suggestions that the gentrification of Walthamstow is slower than it might be, […]