Who said the following? ‘I see space in three parts simultaneously; the grid forms the lines of a room… the zoning defines its function… and the flow brings the whole together and creates the movement.’ a) Charlie Sheen b) Leonard Nimoy c) Kelly Hoppen You guessed it. Everyone’s favourite phone-hacked interiors guru, Kelly Hoppen. […]
Journalist Max Fraser has asked over 100 UK designers to create a piece of art from a sheet of A4 graph paper to raise money for the charity Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres – he lost his own mother to cancer some years ago. The signed works, priced £250, will be on show at Somerset House […]
Ever wished you could get downstairs 40% faster? Ever longed to descend through your home head first? Ever dreamed that your home would be the only place in the neighbourhood where every child comes to play? All day. All hours. Ever thought ‘why wouldn’t I want to start my day ass-side on the street in […]
First, sorry the temptation to pun on a Belinda Carlisle classic proved too great…today I bring you landscape photography in circles. Tom Storm shoots culutral sights – some iconic, such as Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate – through bubbles. The idea germinated at a festival in Galway where he found himself surrounded by huge bubbles that he started […]
these rugs, by delightful Spanish designer Jaime Hayon. Both from The Rug Company, and therefore way beyond my budget. And yours, probably. To those of you not familiar with Mr Hayon’s work, he creates elegant, feminine and deeply eccentric objects, often mixing in graffiti and chicken imagery. Why not! Having interviewed him on the phone […]