Tamasyn Gambell furniture hookup
Four words which delight me. Tamasyn Gambell is the textile designer who we covered here. Her work is steeped in traditional production and environmental awareness. Normally that’d be well boring but I love the simple prints and the quality of what she produces. Now she’s teamed up with Forest to produce furniture which is a geometric delight.
How’s your hand writing?
I listened to Philip Hensher chatting about the dying art of handwriting on Start the Week last week and have now just stumbled across his blind analysis of certain famous people’s penmanship. Guess whose handwriting (above) he describes as ‘a bit sad and babyish’? That’s one Barack Obama. I’m definitely with the Hensher on the […]
Thornback & Peel shop opening
Last night the two of us made it out of our houses at the same time to attend Thornback & Peel’s shop opening. It’s at 7 Rugby Street in Bloomsbury, and the place was packed. As usual I took my camera but was too shy, and nervous of knocking things over, to take any pictures. […]
No draws here
Forgive me if I sound grumpy, but something has been annoying me for years and I’m going to use this blog as an outlet for my rage.* I noticed it first as a mag staffer, working on interiors titles where, you’d think, people should know what this is… Then lately, I was perusing a well […]
Braderie – denied
So it’s time for the ropey holiday snaps. I spent a week in the super-cute French seaside town of Collioure. I’ve seen it described as the French St Ives, and it is, but sunnier. A historic fishing village overlooking three pretty beaches, its a maze of alleyways between the maison du pecheur, tall local houses […]