Gosh. I’m back on Lladro watch. If you’re not familiar, Lladro are the Spanish porcelain pedlers that serve up high kitsch figurines, bought by Godknowswho. I often pass their London shop, but I’m too scared to go in, lest I get disorientated and emerge with a £2,000 Venitian gondola sculpture. Or one of these ‘Childhood Vignettes’. But […]
Pole lamps. How can they be so right when they sound so wrong? I didn’t even know they existed until two days ago. An American design from the 40’s, the original is by Ted Stiffel of the Stiffel Lamp Company in Chicago. Let’s not dwell on where Ted may have been ‘hanging’ in his down […]
I’ve never seen this picture of the wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst before, but it’s going on my fridge. That’s the place where I keep a record of looks to adopt in the future. I’ve also just recently seen that Kate Spade is the latest to design using Broadhurst’s extraordinary prints, putting the ever-lovely Japanese Floral […]
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 […]