Trend or…
…need I even ask? Banana chairs from Anthropologie.
UK Closed
Want to know what Mary Portas sees when she closes her eyes? I’ve just spent ages lethargically looking through a Flickr group called UKClosed, made up entirely of pictures of empty shops. It’s hypnotic, depressing and beautiful in a Barnsley-after-the-apocalypse kind of way. And the strange thing is how each one gives you a jolt […]
Swan news
In Brixton Village over the weekend we passed by the shop Brixi with a ton of these in the window. Good grief, I thought, someone found the mother load of vintage swans at a market and is now selling them for £45 a piece. My mind later swung between fury over another human’s great find […]
When do I get my pink kitchen?
When I mentioned it ages ago they laughed, but here is more proof positive, doubters, that pink is the perfect colour for a kitchen. This is from the Hackney home of artist Francis Upritchard and furniture designer Martino Gamper. You can see more of the place and feel really happy for them here. My version […]
Nice bins
Yes it really has come to this. I’m actually posting a blog about bins. It’s just, I’ve spent some years in research as to what a nice bin looks like and thought what you’d really want this friday was my findings. I give you… Or as the website shop has it, ‘Wonderfully Preserved Vintage Industrial […]