In a moment I want to share with you the most incredible book. A fin de siècle novel that is the very definition of decadence, and is packed with more decorating ideas than Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s waste bin. But first let me share this – a bamboo rocking chair from our local charity shop (Jill, as per, […]
What, you didn’t know that was a thing? Apart from Dirty Dancing, the one movie that all my oldest friends seem to associate with me is, appropriately, the mother of all decorating movies: The Money Pit. Come on, tell me you’ve seen it. It was on tv just the other week – I know because […]
There was a lovely piece in the Telegraph yesterday about the home and workspace of artist Louise Bourgeois, which has been preserved since her death in 2010. It’s in Chelsea, New York – not far from the High Line I think – and it’s in the process of being converged with the neighbouring house to […]
Ooohh I love a mystery. And I love a bit of outsider art. This book, known as The Voynich Manuscript after the rare book dealer who discovered it, appears to combine those two things perfectly.
I read about Bedrooms of The Fallen over the weekend, a hard-hitting war photography project by Australian photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson. His series of poignant images depict the bedrooms of young soldiers who died in Iraq or Afghanistan, putting into perspective the ages of the deceased and of course the pointlessness of it all.