Not interiors at all, but irresistible. Website Booooooom! invited readers to submit remakes of famous pieces of art. The best ones are really rewarding, not least because they have often noticed some aspect of the picture you might have missed, or reinterpreted an aspect of it in a surprising way. Also interesting how many feature […]
A while back I promised a comprehensive report on my findings from Clerkenwell Design Week then managed to mention just one designer from the show: David Saunders AKA David David. The company collaborated on this chair. Well – news just in – there’s a David David pop up shop at The Lollipop Shoppe this month and […]
Hmm, it’s not always easy to reconcile a love of property with a desire for social justice. But this week’s Channel 4 special documentaries on Britain’s empty homes might make you feel a bit worse, then a bit better. If you’ve ever passed an unloved building and fantasized about grabbing the keys and doing it […]
Or 549 Lordship Lane, is another local landmark that S E Londoners may recognise. Not just the rat infested wreck I dismissed it as, it’s a Grade II listed building believed to be the only surviving example of a 19th Century concrete house (1873) by builder Charles Drake. Drake set up the Patent Concrete Building Company […]
The tiniest village you’ve never heard of, Ladywell is in south east London, hidden between Brockley, Crofton Park and Lewisham. When I was flat-hunting this is where I most wanted to be, and though I now live up the hill, I still watch developments on the mini-high street with interest. There was already and excellent […]