…I’ll be at home watching The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, a film about ‘the intermingling of love and hate.’ What about you? I’ll be updating my interior decor and clothing accordingly. The mural is of Poussin’s Midas and Bacchus. Surface View could do me something similar. Massive white shag pile – will try […]
Goodness knows I always wear a head scarf with my conical hat when I’m dead-heading the roses. But that’s not a selfie. It’s a photo of Lady Birley – Rhoda, if you’re feeling familiar – tending to her grounds at Charleston Manor, taken from gardener and photographer Valerie Finnis’s book Garden People. It’s also part of […]
So, we’re covering sport now. Sort of. The winter Olympics kicks off today in Sochi, Russia. As you probably know, Russia’s anti-gay laws motivated Stephen Fry, Peter Tatchell and many, many others to campaign against the Olypmics taking place there at all. I signed petitions, maybe you did too. Today it felt important to show […]
Or not… We all love those regular stories in the Daily Mail about someone who done a drawing wot looks exactly as good as a photograph. Am I right? Well here is a version for the interiors hipsters (that’s you. And us).
Aren’t these ceramics lovely? The artist Kirstie van Noort visited Cornwall, taking inspiration from the county’s three major industries from the last century – copper mining, tin mining and the china clay pits. From these she created over 100 paint colours.