Decorating dilemmas

You offend me

In the aftermath of LDF I find myself grimly fascinated by horrible house stuff. So, in this spirit I have a question for you today. Which disgusts you more, a bidet? Or a novelty urinal? Cast your votes or fess up if you have either one explaining, I implore you, why?

Earthy ware

News flash: this hand-made ceramics collection is brand new to Couverture. You know, Emily Dyson’s lovely chi chi shop in Notting Hill that used to be on the Kings Road. The designer Dawn Vachon is from Melbourne – G’day! – and she’s created a stoneware range of cups-and-saucers, bowls and jugs, in a lovely blue-grey […]

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House arrest

Did you read Julie Burchill’s comment piece in the Observer at the weekend?  She was opining that our love affair with thrift, craft and homemaking is not just conservative but Conservative, and that a love of vintage is hankering after the symbols of a racist, homophobic, classist, sexist past. She also has a go at Jeneatte […]