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New shop Monologue

From the wilderness to consumerism. Diversity innit. Today while pretty much everywhere else is about monumental things happening with the UK, here it’s going to be about a new interior shop on Redchurch Street called Monologue, which I believe opened just this week. I popped in on the way home from Tent – a trade […]

Rugs shout out

Today I’m blurring blog with business, business with pleasure, pleasure with…that’ll do. It’s a shout out about Katrien Vermeeren and her company Emily’s House London who we’ve been working with lately and whose vintage rugs from the Middle East and Africa, we genuinely love – Kilims, Beni Ouarains, Boucherouites, Caputs and Tulus among them. I mentioned […]

Books and mortar

Today the subject pendulum is going towards Weird on our Weird-Wonderful regulator machine. Second hand bricks (or are we calling even bricks vintage now?) stencilled to look like antique books. I like books, I guess I like bricks so I think these look cute. According to Light Reading Melbourne, who made them using old London […]

Light lust

It’s been a big week here at the towers, so I have few words today. But I am going to post lots of images from design and lighting company Apparatus Studio, which just made me sigh quite a lot (the last one has horse hair in it. Horse hair). Enjoy…

Elle Dec giveaway

25 years of Elle Decoration

Jill and I have both, at different times, worked at illustrious interiors title Elle Decoration. I was only there for a month, filling in for someone, and my job quite literally involved looking at photographs of amazing homes every day, deciding which ones were really amazing enough to be included. The real core of the […]