It’s sunny, but a storm is coming, I believe. To prepare, I was watching this film about Marimekko’s Weather Diary range, inspired by Norwegian weather patterns. Marimekko video I love the plates, and their soaked, blurred pools of colour. They remind me of my lovely Leaper plate, another possesion of my mum’s, which I’ve been […]
Being quite partial to a painted portrait, the story behind the 1950’s Aero girls sparked my interest: Two archivists from the Borthwick Institute for Archives, found a Rowntree’s file containing a batch of 20 original oil paintings, tucked in between boxes of sales figures and meeting minutes. Each canvas was labelled either with a first […]
At the weekend, we went (last minute) to Goodwood Estate, West Sussex for a night, armed only with slightly bad moods from having been in London too long. I was vaguely aware of expecting a race course, a country house where the Hemmingways once hosted their Vintage festival, and enough trees and rolling hills to […]
I’ve been living without a coffee table. Part of me is delighted by this – I hated the old one, it makes the living room look bigger – but when I had some friend’s over lately for an evening of wine and cheese (really) I had to bodge together a temporary solution that involved some […]
That’s The Poundshop founders George Wu and Sara Melin, and you read right, I said The Poundshop. Together with another Sarah (Gottlieb) the duo set up their concept back in 2010, hoping to harness their love of shopping with a greater aim of making design accessible to the masses. They achieved the latter by selling […]