This just in via Vogue’s March issue… Ladies must have Total Style. You too, can have Total Style. How? Step 1. Have fabulous house. Have fancy job and/or life titles. Examples – chatelaine and festival director, fashion-shoot producer and tv presenter… Step 2: Abandon all ideas of wearing your slouchies around the house. Get your best threads on. Extra points if your […]
Handmade homewares and accessories designer Margarita Lorenzo of Chocolate Creative takes us on a tour of her desk. Where is your desk from? I made it myself from an old Ikea desk. It’s my printing table and it doubles up as desk for when I’m designing new collections. It also serves as Missi, my cat’s bed. […]
Did you see Jeff Koons at The Serpentine Gallery back in 2009? The exhibition looked to be full of amazing giant inflatable beach toys, actually made from cast aluminium then intricately painted. There was a weird shifty atmosphere because every person in there was trying to cop a feel of the art over the ‘do […]
Any artist using ‘unlikely combinations of sources and genres to highlight the ridiculous in life,’ gets my vote. Michaela Braun, author of those words, creator of Darthvader-lamp and the Difficult Sculpture series, is from Stuttgart, but now lives in Brixton where she works across sculpture, painting, photography and installation. Her work often references everyday household products giving […]
Sent to us by SocialNesting, this is a clip from US show Portlandia, which gently pokes fun at the oh-so-ripe-for-it Portland craft/alternative scene. If you’ve ever visited Etsy, been to a craft fair or, yeah, let’s face it, read this blog, you’ll get the joke. As I’m currently dawdling over the task of putting […]