Roving reporter

If you hate Goop…

…then you might like this. Or at least, I think I might like this. It’s the blog of David ‘Talking Heads’ Byrne, which has been up and running for years I think, and it covers all from the food he’s cooked (Shrimp Tacos!) and the places he’s visited to a review of Jay Z’s book Decoded. […]

Fantasy Floorplans

Sclemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated…

On a loooooooong car journey I was boring my companion about my childhood obsession with having my own flat. At the age of eight I had a picture of a credit card cut out of the Sunday Times magazine and glued to cardboard that I imagined was a kind of swipe key, and I pretended […]

Unsettling design history

This striking looking Munich art gallery has a dark past. It was the the Third Reich‘s first monumental structure of Nazi Architecture, first opened in 1937 as Haus der Deutschen Kunst – or House of German Art. A museum for what the Third Reich considered to be Germany’s truest art, designed by architect Paul Ludwig Troost, Hitler’s foremost architect at the […]

Dog shaming

Listen, I was going to tell you all about my visit to the former SS headquarters in Munich (which, following some research turns out to be not the former SS headquarters – you’re still getting the low down next week). But anyway, I found out about the Dog Shaming blog, spent half an hour laughing […]

Rope rug

(All the) rug rage

During a late night game of boules my friend, captaining the other, losing, team tried the dirty trick of telling me there was an Eley Kishimoto sample sale happening now that I should go queue for. Such was my love for this adventerous fashion brand that, had I believed her, I would have left her […]