Fridge crime
Worried. An alarming movement of fridge-harming people is quietly gaining ground. Last year they did this to a Smeg. This year:
Help to stamp out this kind of violence by sticking only to plain metal and coloured finishes.
We can beat them.
Blue plaque attack
Have you read that English Heritage are stopping it with the Blue Plaques in London, due to funding cuts? What do you think about that? I had mixed feelings about them. The breadth of people commemorated is to be applauded, but the sulky schoolchild in me often thought… ‘Who?’ I enjoyed the artist Gavin Turk’s […]
Trellick of the south?
My Brixton friend tells me that this local building is becoming the next Trellick Tower. You know, a place that on one side people are writing it off as a hole, while on the other it’s being hailed an architectural icon. It’s got presence, whatever you decide. I’ve been aware of it since moving to London […]
What about the menz?
Further to Jill’s post last week about shoe show offs, here is a male version, from The Observer’s new Selby column. Studied chaos? And do those wrapped shirts mean that he cracks a new one open each day? I like to imagine so.
Shoe offs
Not to get off on the wrong foot this year, if you’ll pardon the pun, but while warming up to the idea of engaging with life again, just wanted to mention a thing that’s annoying me in house features of late. The shoe-room shot. The walk-inwardrobe boast. There isn’t really anything super about seeing rows […]