Fascinating interiors fact*: Chancellor George Osborne has had his budget box lined with this Ginevra wallpaper from the family firm’s recent Grand Tour collection. Osborne and Little describe the origin of the Grand Tour on their website: ‘Three hundred years ago, wealthy young Englishmen began taking a post-Oxbridge trek through France and Italy in search […]
After Leonard Cohen’s Greek house, another room from popular culture I love is the one John and Yoko are in for the Imagine video. Amazing proportions and pure white, it is perfect for the simple concept of the video, whereby Yoko walks round opening the huge shutters, letting in more and more light as the […]
Just started reading another book I was given for my birthday this year, The Street Art Stencil Book by art direction agency ON.Studio. I have it on authority from my Norwegian gift-giving friend that street art is big news in Stavanger just now. Have you ever been to Stavanger? It’s no Hoxton, so the street […]
Tamasyn Gambell, David David, Design Bark and just about everything in Darkroom – there’s been much talk of geometrics and prismatic shapes here at My Friends House lately. Here’s another name to add to the list: Nuria Mora, a Madrid-based artist who recently created this exhibition stand. Would you look at that origami wave coming out the top? Now that’s […]
Looking for blog inspiration today I read this piece on the Guardian about what objects the writer would save from a house fire. She chooses two much-mauled and mended toy lions that belong to her autistic son, and writes about the meaning that has accumulated in them over the years. Loving anything that can be […]