I’m investigating the design scene in Beirut right now and boy it rocks. If you’ve never been there then go. When I visited years ago and went out for dinner one night, we got a whole new table after starters and mains, just for pudding.* Have you ever been to a restaurant in the UK […]
Yes, it’s been a long time coming, but here is our first dispatch, snatched from the hands of our Japanese correspondent. A single picture of a manhole cover in our roving reporter’s Tokyo ‘hood of Asakusa offers an incomplete but telling suggestion of civic differences between here and there. While we’re on a loosely Japanese […]
I don’t have a local cinema or dvd shop, so I once tried to interest my beloved in the idea of a travelling film caravan, which I’d roam the streets in at night. That idea that was met with some scorn. So I triumphantly bring news of The Sol Cinema – the world’s smallest solar […]
Erm… not that new I know, but I’ve just rolled in from a bar in Hoxton where these upside-down pot plants – originally designed by Patrick Morris – were key to the decor. And to be honest, never mind me, the plants weren’t feeling it. Whaddaya reckon?
Relax, this post is not about Lou Doillon, Vanessa Paradis or Jarvis Cocker’s ex wife. It’s about a totally different breed of fabulous French women, shot in their homes by photographer Baudouin for his I Am A Parisian Lady series. Witness painter Vyva and dancer Amelie as they demonstrate that following trends is for wimps. But […]