Hello my name is My Friend’s House and I’m a Cretaphobic. To save you Googling, that’s a fear of chalk. To be honest it’s chalk and the accompanying board. Brrrr. I got through school somehow, but then my chosen line of work – the interiors racket – turned out to be full of them too. […]
Just back from a wedding in Toulouse, which took place in the grounds of the bride’s parents’ home. It was the stuff of A Place in the Sun dreams. An ivy-covered red-brick house with Toulouse-blue shutters and a pool, perched on rolling green fields. The highlight though, was a central rose-filled courtyard with space enough for […]
Continuing the cutting edge work of Gents’ Week we had to bring you news of the latest trend in masculine homewares. Yes, it’s the Man Candle, or as we’re of course calling it, the Mandle. When I worked at an interiors magazine a real highlight was the Yankee Candle company sending us scratch and sniff […]
I don’t know how this passed me by, but it seems Roberto Cavalli unveiled a homewares collection at Milan in April. Lets go on this journey together. That friends, is one rotating bed. The mattress size is probably the least of our worries. How about that colour palette – mark my words, everyone’s going to be talking […]
There’s plenty to like about Prada’s short film A Therapy and director Roman Polanski always gives good interior. See Romsemary’s Baby and The Ghost Writer for more examples. In this one, walls are deep green, fine lamps are in abundance and – jings – the padded door has its moment. But, the real show stopper […]