On a bit of a roll with desk talk this week….These slinky products were created by industrial design students of  Ecole Cantonale d’art Lausanne in collaboration with Alessi for the Milan furniture fair this year. The collection includes Firezo Note Board by Julie Richoz, which suspends your notes in mid air. Something that would give my computer screen, keyboard, desk top and walls a breather from bright pink stickies.

If you’re digging the professional look and need a filing unit to match, how about the new Job Cabinet by Studio Job for Dutch brand Lensvelt, also launched at Milan? There’s something a bit ‘prison locker’ about it, but I love the massive bronze key.

In my suitcase

I once read an interview with the everyone’s favourite avant garde stylist, Faye Toogood who, before she branched out by herself, was the inhouse stylist for World of Interiors. Apparently she got the job after pitching up to her interview with a suitcase full of stuff that inspired her. A stunt like that would have […]

From your desks

As a duo that runs a feature called Designers’ Desks  from time to time, we’ve already highlighted our love (and yours) of snooping at people’s work spaces. I hadn’t realised until now, that there’s a US blog out there doing nothing but. From Your Desks shares snaps of the kind of artists’ and designers’ desks that […]

New wheels

Other than my garden, new kitchen doors, buying lampshades for all my bare bulbs, getting a rug for the landing and buying new cushions for the living room, the only consumer item really occupying my otherwise selfless mind is getting a new bike. I’ve had my current model – the dead-weight- for 13 years. Of […]

Good luck Margate

Tomorrow is the first day in Margate’s big weekend. Tracy Emin is wriggling into a Westwood frock (probably) to cut the ribbon on the new Turner Contemporary gallery, and kicking off two weeks of celebrations in the town. I have a vested interest – I own a flat in Margate, and sincerely hope that the […]