Did you see that the New Designer of the year award at this year’s New Designers, went to Tortie Hoare (that name!) for furniture she created using boiled leather? Boiled leather. That does not have a good ring about it. However, on further investigation, it turns out UK designer Simon Hasan has been working with it […]
Lisa Whatmough of Squint The horror which is my desk, utterly chaotic and not creative in the slightest I’m afraid! Where is your desk from? I have no idea I think it was originally a decorating table from my art studio. That’s a lot of paper on your desk, what kind of thing does it […]
A moving-in card arrived from my friend in Poland, a card which she claimed had been ‘made by a Polish granny.’ What else could your roving reporter do but investigate? And when I say investigate, I mean it. I think I read someone’s phd on the subject. It’s wycinanki, Polish paper cutting, and also part […]
Is this the home you got with your interest-free loan off your millionaire mate back in the 90’s? And is that not one, but two pine mirrors? Here’s hoping you raise enough in book sales to get some interior decorating advice. Looks like you’ve tried to style up the fire-free mantlepiece there, but it’s gone […]
I am posting in ignorance of the background, and in defiance of the recurring heat wave here in London, some snowy photos of these empty Russian mansions, abandoned in the forest. Aren’t they amazing? Here’s the source, but it doesn’t tell you much, just that some still have furniture inside, and that these incredible wooden structures […]