As I post this, Paris interiors event Maison & Objet is kicking off amid a frenzy of instagramming interiors journalists (I’m imagining). Here’s what Matthew Hilton is launching at the event. Glorious simple furniture and – a first for his brand – rugs that you’ll want. The first, just seen, being the favourite.

Is that a duck-egg blue sort of a trim? It’s nice, that.

Just discovered the designer is also publishing an online journal on his website now, full of pictures of trips to Bucharest and Turin, back stories to individual design pieces and bike chat that’s personal, but engaging. It’s nice, that.

Calendar query

We have a reader question. “Where does one get a nice, simple wall calendar a bit like the one in the top bar of myfriendshouse? Been googling but getting things like this:” Well, my poncey answer is that I actually like the bald style of these calendars. My friend works at the Beeb and her […]

About Twelfth Night

The cards are down, the tree is down, and the holes in the decor are brought into sharp focus. Where the tree used to be is now this: A TV the size of a postage stamp and lots of wires. And binning the cards (and no, further to My Friend’s recent question, none of them […]

Winter Hinterland

Just woke up to snow, which makes it feel somehow apt to be writing about Hinterfolk by South Wales-based illustrator Jes Hunt. If you’re a fan of moomins and fairytale stuff, you’re going to love these. That’s Greta posing next to the very thing these figurines remind me of in house ornament terms – the […]

Bit of bully

Everybody watching the darts? Haven’t been to bed before half two this week, because those ladies’ matches from Lakeside are so gripping. Darts nights at home are the new dinner parties – My Friend and I made up a foursome at her house, complete with a box of confectionery for prizes. Her kitchen door hardly […]