Some rather wintery photos on what is meant to be a beautiful hot day, but these simple, almost stark pots caught my eye. They are by ceramicist Alison Rees who exhibited at New Designers and was invited back to their One Year On show this year.

As I didn’t go to New Designers – because I am a slouch and a lazy bones – I have the talented stylist and writer Sania Pell to thank for introducing me to Alison’s work, via these lovely shots she did for her always-inspiring blog.

S’print

It’s been just me and Morrissey not joining in the Olympic spirit. Everyone else has lost it for the diving, or the 100m cartwheeling or the hoola-hooping, while I have remained pretty much unmoved. But if lusting after vintage prints was an Olympic sport I would of course be tearfully collecting my medal. These Summer […]

Wallpapered bathrooms: Trend or travesty?

My obsession with wallpaper is no secret, but I wondered what you thought of a sub-set obsession with wallpapering the bathroom. My bathroom is a nightmare of pipes and gross black bits, but if I was redoing it I’d defo be after the sort of look gracing the cover of this month’s World of Interiors. […]

Visit: Sunbird pavilion

Half of Mr MFH’s family are from Bethlehem so I’ve earmarked this event from the London Festival Of Architecture to visit before it finishes on 11 August. It’s the Palestine Sunbird Pavilion (at the Dreamspace Gallery), so called as a reference to the occupied territory’s local birdlife and the little known fact that the area […]

The improvised home

I found these incredible images of homes in the Philippines via the Commune Design tumblr, and had to share them. They were taken by photographer Peter Bialobrzeski at the Baceco compound, a squatter camp near the Port of Manila, home to an estimated 70,000 people. If you want to read more about the photographs and […]