Last week I told you I was off for a weekend in Rouen, the primary purpose of which was moving some furniture, but I was also hoping to find a bit of time for a sneaky junk shop or two. Rouen, it turns out, is known as something of an antiques capital, and sure enough […]
I’m away this weekend doing a favour for my brother. He’s living in Tokyo, the poor lamb, but has a storage unit full of stuff that needs clearing out in Rouen, France. In a moment of Christmas bonhomie I offered to hire a van and go get the stuff, secretly thinking it could be a […]
“For some reason from about my early twenties I was obsessed with buying a Scottish island and it had to be both of these things – it had to be Scottish and it had to be an island.” We can all relate to that, one way or another, I think. The above quote is from […]
Aren’t you tired of it? People forever putting people in categories, writing off whole cultures or peoples based on a small group of extreme or, in the perceived view, badly behaved. This photo series by Iranian artist Nafise Motlaq depicting Iranian Fathers & Daughters seeks to defy some of the stereotyping she encountered as an Iranian […]
Today at 8.30 in the morning, the new HAY concession opened on the fourth floor of Liberty. I made it by 9.30 and the shop was eerily quiet, it being before opening time. I felt like I was poking around a big grand house with only nice stuff in it. I imagined it to be […]