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If you designed a bed with your husband…

…why on earth wouldn’t you design it to look like this? Husband-and-wife design duos are fascinating, and most definitely a thing, but I have to admit I’d never heard of Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne before seeing this picture on AnOther magazine’s Instagram today. This brilliant picture of their bird bed however left me with no […]

Friday cushion fact

Lenny Kravitz designed a range and shocker, it’s quite nice. It’s part of a whole furniture collection in fact and I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, the man had his house in Elle Deco once upon a time. I think that was what you’d describe as groovy if you were too polite to say shag-pad. […]

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House tour with a grumpy old man

The idea of moving is looming large on the horizon. How horrible. The flat in London has a cellar, which is a wonderful asset for storing stuff, until the time comes to empty it again. A good friend is also moving soon, and we listlessly discuss just putting all our excess stuff together for a […]

Culture (date) night and nice humans

Last night my husband and I had date night at communications agency (gallery and bookshop) KK Outlet. They were hosting a salon-style dinner event that made me feel better about humanity, though it could make you feel worse. Three speakers were invited to talk on the subject of Home in between us all eating a really quite […]

Dads’ barbecue

At the risk of turning this into Mumsnet*… I’ve been involved with some emails about the organisation of my kids’ school Christmas Fair. One line of enquiry from the women with the unenviable job of organising the whole thing was that last year’s barbecue run by dads is under threat of not getting enough dad […]