Roving reporter

Current mood: Chelsea flower show

I don’t know about you, but when I’m gifted a last minute ticket to the Chelsea Flower Show (thank you most graciously The New Craftsmen) I like to give my look some serious thought. Here’s what I’ll be channeling tomorrow.* By designer Masha Reva *on the inside certainly

New magazine MacGuffin

Love sleep? Like looking at photographs of ruffled sheets? Interested in the how different species like to get their nap on? Then you’re gonna love MacGuffin magazine (full title, MacGuffin: The Life of Things). Launched at Milan furniture fair last month, it came to my attention when Fantastic Man announced on Facebook that their friends were launching a new title whose […]

Robert Fidler

Damned Designs

What do you think about the planning laws? Flawed but necessary? Sensible or restrictive? Probably, like me, they’re good for others and slightly annoying when applied to your own grand building plan. The recent example of a pub, demolished by developers the day before a listing was brought into force, is a case of everyone […]

Lets skate over it

Heavily disappointed by the outcome of the general election?  Thinking about what you can do to change things? Well I have no answers for that sadly. But I can help you with a bit of friday escapism in the shape of this short film about the disco roller skaters of Central Park – something I’d […]

jumble trail

Rumble in the jumble

It’s either in you, or it’s not, the bargain-hunting bug. I have a very early memory of being at Goldophin Hall – check it out here, Poldark fans – leaping across a fancy rug again and again, while an auction went on in the main hall that I wasn’t allowed in to. My grandma, who […]