My interiors ‘expertise’ is self-taught, but I originally trained (in the very slightest way) as a dancer. Not often that the worlds of dance and architecture are specifically combined, so today I’m sharing the work of Pablo Bronstein. Here he is at home in Bethan Green, working on some architectural drawings. He works in live […]
Oh, it’s been one helluva year. The best cure? Always a trip to the seaside. This time it was Whitstable, and a stay in a converted fisherman’s hut. Wow. First, the colour combinations. I wouldn’t have associated red, black and green with the seaside, but it was everywhere. Right on the beach, these huts are […]
About 18 months ago we ran a post about 549 Lordship Lane in Dulwich – a crumbly ruin that I discovered, with surprise, is architecturally significant. Built in 1873 by Charles Drake, it’s Grade II listed and the only surviving example of a 19th Century concrete house. Read more about it here. I’ve just been […]
AKA Millport. I posted before about the wonderfully preserved 50s Ritz Cafe in Millport, the tiny and only town on the Scottish island of Cumbrae. Well I finally got to visit. A May weekend that was hot enough to swim, on a deserted beach where no one could hear me yelling. I went to The […]
New online magazine A Very Good Place has launched. Edited by Clare Gogerty, the title encapsulates its aims to showcase considered, environmentally conscientious design and ways of living. I’ve been lucky enough to work with three of the people behind it (you can read about them all here) so I think it’s lovely. But actually, it […]