I’ve started a ceramics course. There isn’t much to tell you yet, I’ve only had week one – week two is tonight. But I can now claim to know what a pinch pot, a coil pot and slab building all are thanks to our teacher Matt Raw. As well as having the perfect type of […]
On Monday three friends and I got ourselves to the Curzon Soho for a 6.15pm showing of Tilda Swinton’s new movie A Bigger Splash. It’s directed by Luca Guadagnino – long-time Tilda collaborator, he of I Am Love. The pair came on afterwards for a Q&A and everyone in the cinema focussed intently on Tilda, […]
Let’s examine some evidence, shall we? I’m looking round houses at the weekend. My pal is thinking of moving to the area and wants someone to come with on a few noseys. The pleasure will be all mine. At a London Burn’s Night supper I said something (incredibly boring) about an untouched Georgian wreck for […]
Before Christmas our lovely ex office-mates, Rumour PR, invited me to a tour of Aldywch station and the unveiling of new posters from their client London Transport Museum. We met at night in the darkness, adding a bit of extra intrigue to the atmosphere of sneaking into a normally shut underground station – Aldwych opened […]
Interior designers, pattern and colour, textiles and wallpaper folk Tapet-Cafe are an old Danish family business that have a pretty fine collection of moody images on their website that I’m liking but finding hard to pin down. It’s all very proper interior design, house in Hampshire sort of thing. But also edgier than that – […]