I’ll start by saying I know nothing about what I’m going to post. Great start! All I do know is it’s called Slum Beautiful, and it’s a site run by someone called Demond Meek, dedicated solely to his photographs of derelict houses in St Louis, Missouri.

I think there is something especially strange and striking about the fact most of them are sat in their individual lots, disintegrating on their own. The pictures remind me of Julian Temple’s extraordinary documentary about the depopulation of Detroit. Have you seen it? Watch the opening scenes here:

Coupland does furniture

First things first, here’s a nice picture of the novelist / artist Douglas Coupland looking intense at his escritoire. Judging by those globes (and these dartboards) he definitely seems to have a thing about stacking objects for decorative effect. The desk is part of a furniture collection that Douglas designed with SwitzerCultCreative, and which is […]

Review: Curio

Gosh, If we’re not busy prepping up for seminars here, we can be found on other people’s websites boldly forecasting trends. I only bring this up because lately, we announced that the future was online mags and that takes me seamlessly to the point of this post. Have you seen Curio yet? Issue 1 launched […]

We’re making a speech!

Can you imagine? We’re on a panel talking about blogging at Interiors UK, the big interiors fair in Birmingham this week. We got together at the weekend for a practice. We’ve even put together a really rubbish PowerPoint presentation. If you’re at the fair on Tuesday then do come along. The other members of the […]

Lassco clearance sale

Londoners, clear the snow piles from your doorstep. Today, LASSCO is having a warehouse sale at its Bermondsey shop on Ropewalk, Maltby Street. Up to 90% off. There’s mention of Uncle Monty’s library from Withnail and I in the press release…  (if that doesn’t float your boat, the illuminated SEX sign from a Soho book shop might). […]