Wicker fan chairs? Ripe for a revival or terminally 70s? I ask because there are two for sale in the junk shop on the corner. They remind me of the flats of my mum’s single girl friends when I was a kid, where I hankered after their spider plants in macrame hammocks, and gonks and […]
Tamasyn Gambell, David David, Design Bark and just about everything in Darkroom – there’s been much talk of geometrics and prismatic shapes here at My Friends House lately. Here’s another name to add to the list: Nuria Mora, a Madrid-based artist who recently created this exhibition stand. Would you look at that origami wave coming out the top? Now that’s […]
This just in: Success in Hollywood is currently measured in bathrooms, a fact underlined by news that Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi installed 18 bathrooms in their new mansion. Sources close to Oprah Winfrey, rival chatshow host in posession of 14 baths – though the actual number of bathrooms in her home has not been confirmed in the original report – have been speculating that she […]
Only the G is for designer Bethan Gray and the T is for furniture developer Thomas Turner. The two are launching their debut collection at this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week and it looks like it will fire this blog’s obsession with side tables. Here’s the marble-topped Carve… Which also comes like this… And the leather […]
I’ve recently discovered the blog of talented stylist and author Sania Pell. Her pictures are a real treat, so I hope she won’t mind me borrowing this one to illustrate a THING I REALLY DON’T LIKE. Yeah, it’s clocks. Deal with it. I get the impression this is one of my more eccentric ‘don’t likes’, […]