Hay worked with one of the original founders of the movement in question. Clarisse Demory is all over it. And, you’re reading about it here on My Friend’s House. Three tell-tale signs* that the answer is trend, trend, trend. What am I banging on about? Memphis Group. Or should we call it New Memphis Group? […]
Every good blog has one…Do you know about Fine Cell Work? It’s a social enterprise that trains prisoners in skilled and paid needlepoint work, often commissioned by interior designers. The organisation first came to my attention when I saw some of their Tattoo cushions in Tom Dixon’s shop, but I think you can also buy […]
I’ll tell you this much about Instgram. You (I mean me) should know better, but you can get right swept up in endless photos of Alexa Chung’s hair and her shoe collection. And don’t get me started on Ana Kras’s world (she of the Bonbons). There’s one Instgram feed that has recently gripped me above […]
News that £1.2m lottery money is going on restoring Jimi Hendrix’s old flat at London’s 23 Brook Street led to two events here. First a search for photos of the place as it was back then – more on that in a bit – and second, an epiphany that the future has surely got to be […]
When I was about 14 my parents took me on a three-week holiday around parts of California and Canada, much to the continual annoyance of my older brothers who’d been brought up on holidays in Gairloch (google it, Sausalito it is not). Anyway, I remember being driven around fancy parts of LA by family friends who […]