An email from my friend in Poland today alerted me to Beryl Bainbridge’s death, and told me to look at the pictures of her in the papers. I confess that I’ve never read her books, something I intend to remedy as of this week. But I had enjoyed pictures of her glamorous, ravaged face and […]
Where are your desks from? Good old Ikea! They’re practical with plenty of space for doing a whole manner of different things. What do you have on and around your desks? We’re both car boot sale and charity shop fiends, and collect vast quantities of junk! We have to keep it to a minimum in […]
We’ve got a Guest blogger today. So without further fuss, let My Friend’s House hand you over to I heart Malmo… While checking out the shops (and trying to resist the sales) in Copenhagen last weekend, I came across Bøgebjerg Antik (Kompagnistræde 25 st th, 1208 Copenhagen), the perfect souvenir shop. By perfect, I don’t […]
Ha Ha! Did you see it? A gen-u-ine TV interiors joy. No, not Philippe Starck doing his best Alan Sugar. Not Kevin or Phil or Kirsty. I’m talking about Monday night’s episode of Mary Queen of Shops, featuring furniture shop Under The Moon. Run by hippies-in-aspic Dazzle and Denny (really), it was a horrific house […]
Last week I went to the launch party of this cool pop-up foldaway bookshop by London design outfit Campaign. It’s taking over a small empty store on Heddon street as part of the London Festival of Architecture and the whole interior fit-out is made of recyclable cardboard – even the display table (below), which looked […]