This just in: Success in Hollywood is currently measured in bathrooms, a fact underlined by news that Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi installed 18 bathrooms in their new mansion. Sources close to Oprah Winfrey, rival chatshow host in posession of 14 baths – though the actual number of bathrooms in her home has not been confirmed in the original report – have been speculating that she […]
My brother in Tokyo posted on Facebook (a rare event) asking everyone he knew to remember in their own way the devastating earthquake and tsunami that affected so much of Japan last year. So here is our post today, featuring the poster made by Daniel Freytag during the appeal that followed. Tokyo blogger HelloSandwich has […]
When I was about 10 I bought a row of pastel coloured ceramic buildings while on holiday on Cornwall. A weird, twee gift to myself that ended up at the charity shop a few years later. But what if those buildings had been The Whitechapel Gallery? This miniature building is by archtiectural model-makers Chisel & Mouse, whose collection […]
Only the G is for designer Bethan Gray and the T is for furniture developer Thomas Turner. The two are launching their debut collection at this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week and it looks like it will fire this blog’s obsession with side tables. Here’s the marble-topped Carve… Which also comes like this… And the leather […]
Gilbert and George, as I’m sure you’ve read, have a new exhibition opening across no less than four White Cube galleries from this weekend. In celebration I wondered whether it was possible to peek inside their famous Spitalfields home, Hello style. Turns out it was, via the magic of Google. I have had several encounters […]