This week your roving reporter posts from Istanbul, the only city in the world to inhabit two continents. Its footing on Asia and Europe gives the place a pretty unique feel – somewhere in between tidy Paris and manic Beirut with a bit of Berlin thrown in – and it seemed very design-conscious. But before […]
Election day dawns, and My Friend’s House wanted to mark it with a style assessment of Number 10. Please don’t take the photo above – of the White Drawing Room in 1988 – to indicate either political or design alligiance. Nothing good came of this revamp*. 10 Downing St today is all weird corporate carpets, […]
Neither My Friend or myself made it to Milan this year – and thank the Lord for that, as the diligent journos who did go all ended up stranded and mass-hiring charabancs to get home. Like Channel 4’s Coach Trip but with sharper hair cuts and more ill feeling, I imagine. So the selection of […]
Last week a sewing club in Paris, this week your Roving Reporter brings you a letter writing club in Vancouver. It’s based in an alt. stationery store, called The Regional Assembly of Text (I guess in Canada that doesn’t have the same Welsh-Parliament ring about it). They invite would-be letter-writers to drop in on the […]
Yes, although my new kitchen is a long way off, I can’t help my mind a-wandering to what I might do. OK, I’ve made a list of the tiles, wallpaper etc of my choosing in a little book. The kind of kitchen I’m pondering is, in a word, yellow. So I thrilled to this example, […]