This post was first published on May 5 2010 – and so written before we’d even heard of the Con-Dems, witnessed the Rose Garden love-in, etc. 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 […]
Hello and welcome to our Greatest Hits week (I). Every summer in history features a compilation album – mix tape if you grew up in the ’80’s – so we thought why not for the blog? For the rest of the week here on My Friend’s House, we’ll be posting from a back catalogue that […]
Today I was planning to post about Peckham Print Studio. A water-based screen printing studio, they not only produce cool work for brands including Urban Outfitters, they also offer open access memberships and workshops for people to learn the skills or create their own work.
In my childhood, in a little Cornish village, the village hall was known as the Tin Tabernacle. A small building with a porch, it was made of corrugated iron and sat in a nest of brambles near the phone box. I went there to yoga lessons with my mum, and other people’s birthday parties. I […]
An update to my earlier post about the Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau wallpaper, photographed in a locked room, has just come through from our French decorating correspondents. If you missed it, here is the story of the priest of Rennes Le Chateau, who started spending eye-popping amounts, the source of which remains a mystery to […]