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ReUnion pub

Drunk at the architecture festival

Well it might make it pass quicker. I’m joking. If you want a design-endorsed tipple this weekend I recommend heading to the ReUnion Public House. It may not look like much now… …but by Saturday this empty site in Southwark should be home to a pub, garden, pop-up hotel and secret (of course) cinema. It’s […]

New shop: Folklore

If I didn’t live with such a clumsy bunch of plate smashers – two are under four, maybe that’s a harsh description – I’d consider getting myself over to this new shop on Upper Street to invest in some of these: I’ve already had a nosy around the website and found a few other things that […]

Do you still make your own pop?

If so, you might be interested to note that designer Yves Behar launched a brand new Soda Stream recently. I confess I hadn’t really tuned into the fact that the Soda Stream was still a popular product. Is Soda Stream still a popular product? There are certainly loads of them on offer. The Yves Behar design is […]

Chalkboard

Your design gives me the fear

Hello my name is My Friend’s House and I’m a Cretaphobic. To save you Googling, that’s a fear of chalk. To be honest it’s chalk and the accompanying board. Brrrr. I got through school somehow, but then my chosen line of work – the interiors racket – turned out to be full of them too. […]

Ride on mower

Mandles

Continuing the cutting edge work of Gents’ Week we had to bring you news of the latest trend in masculine homewares. Yes, it’s the Man Candle, or as we’re of course calling it, the Mandle. When I worked at an interiors magazine a real highlight was the Yankee Candle company sending us scratch and sniff […]