The Guardian today features the obituary of Scottish-born, Japan-based architect Kathryn Findlay. Her most recent work includes a collaboration with Anish Kapoor on the towering Olympic Park sculpture ArcelorMittal Orbit. Her own work was more obviously organic, and influenced by the materials of her ex-husband and architectural partner Eisaku Ushida’s native Japan. This project may […]
Who do you think this is, blushing while she spoons a quail? Clue: it’s a domestic goddess who was on the scene well before Mary Berry or Nige. The extreme styling of copper pots, rustic baskets and what looks like an unstoppably mutating kale might give you a clue. Though I’m surprised to see a […]
I’ll tell you this much about Instgram. You (I mean me) should know better, but you can get right swept up in endless photos of Alexa Chung’s hair and her shoe collection. And don’t get me started on Ana Kras’s world (she of the Bonbons). There’s one Instgram feed that has recently gripped me above […]
The other day, one colleague shouted to another, ‘Did you know Ros doesn’t have an Oyster card?’ ‘How does she get on the tube?’ the other replied. ‘She has a little paper card that she actually puts through the machines!’ There was much hilarity that this service still existed, or had ever been thought of […]
News that £1.2m lottery money is going on restoring Jimi Hendrix’s old flat at London’s 23 Brook Street led to two events here. First a search for photos of the place as it was back then – more on that in a bit – and second, an epiphany that the future has surely got to be […]