The first thing I thought when I saw this Tatler shoot, was I need to make me a fruit turban. The second thing I thought was I want that flamingo. It looks like it’s made out of cardboard, but it reminded me of one of my favourite of all time houses – photographer Tim Walker’s […]
Let’s break this down. LX Factory is the Lisbon design scene mentioned yesterday – a sort of village of design studios (plus cafes and a book shop) in a former printworks beneath an enormous 1960s flyover blight. And lo it was shut when we went on this rainy and, it turned out, public holiday. Here’s […]
…with your bum-crunching cobbled hills, tidy tiled townhouses and graffiti scene. Yes, after four days in Portugal’s capital I’m sad to return to real life (my own cooking, washing up, yadda yadda yadda). A quick summary of the design scene to follow, but before that a mention of the city itself. Here’s the pavilion that […]
Styling in the sun – that’s what my friend Louise Rastall left London to do just a few months ago. I love checking out her blog for glimpses of Australian beaches, houses and, most of all, interiors shops I’ve never heard of. She posted about print company Inaluxe being a tonic to cheer her soul, […]
I’ve yet to meet an interiors bod who didn’t sort of daydream about it, from time to time. Yeah! A shop! Yeah, spending all day buying, arranging and rearranging lovely furniture. Yeah, drinking coffee and listening to Radio 4 in fingerless gloves while waiting for a sale. Yeah, maybe selling some art and some cakes […]