Around five years ago there was a cool shop in Clerkenwell called Her House. It belonged to artist / designer Morag Myerscough who lived upstairs and knew how to throw a good shop party. I have fond memories of surveying eclectic goods with my old flatmate at one of these events, seeing top celeb Archie-from-Monarch-Of-The-Glen and […]
So, just how energetic are you feeling about buying your Christmas presents this year? Because according to my inbox there are many fairs and pop-up shops for you to hoof it to, just so you can tell the recipients of your (mainly craft-based) gifts that you, ‘got it at a place that was only open […]
A while ago My Friend and I were discussing having ‘Man’s Week’ on the blog, featuring the gents of the design world and nothing else, for a whole seven day testosterone extravaganza. Only we sort of never got round to it. But by small way of recompense, we’d like to draw your attention to a […]
Here’s where they’d live… Designed by Pierre-Gilles Fourquie – who also freelances for big wigger Arik Levy – Wanda is a glass and polished concrete aquarium with a central platform to place a small object for your fish to enjoy as he does the same circuit his whole repetitive life. The designer describes this as […]
Maybe because I am not the tallest person in the world and maybe because I grew up in a house where I had what’s best described as a miniature bedroom, I have always been a bit obsessed with small spaces. Ages five and up I made all my friends play at building dens and as […]