Okay, so I should say right away that the rural Austria I visited was not a destination for cutting-edge design. The Austrians know how to do a good swimming pool though. This was in the basement of our hotel in Kitzbuhel. All concrete and polished metal with skylights showing glimpses of the street above. It […]
Yes, it’s summer – sort of. But get your embroidered slippers off that metallic pouffe, put down your mint tea, snuff out the candle in your fretwork lantern. Aren’t you bored of Morrocan style yet? No? Well, may I humbly suggest you will be. Round my way we’re already embracing Uzbeki homewares instead. A friend […]
The other day at work we were talking about whether we’d been obsessed with houses even as kids, and the answer, it seems, was a universal Yes. We all remembered a fascination with the Brambly Hedge books, kind of twee animal books full of cross sections of elaborate mouse houses in tree trunks. But the […]
I’ve been in my new flat two months now, and I feel like some kind of alarm is about to go off. When people came round in the first weeks and told me how delightful it was, they were forgiving of the step ladder blocking the hall, and saw beyond the peach walls to what […]
A few last pictures from France, this time documenting the mighty boulodrome in the village. It is here that people from the village congregate at around tea time, and sometimes are joined by folks from the next village along. Getting to play is just the best bit of the holiday – language barriers fall away […]