Fly by
I broke the lampshade off my standard lamp this week then walked past Persephone Books on Lambs Conduit Street and saw this: Could the two be linked? Large lampshade in Black Goose fabric by E. Q. Nicholson, £60. Tempted
Shopping
Never mind the jumper
Spotted in the interrogation room at Copenhagen Police HQ: Found dangling above the dining table in Colonel Jarnvig’s military barracks home: Discovered lurking by the kitchen table in the same house:* By the time The Killing Series 2 had introduced the Minister of Justice’s office (marble walls, parquet floors) I’d stopped reading the subtitles altogether. […]
Lilly’s Lightbox Company
London-based Berliner Felicia Strehmel makes lighboxes out of reclaimed chests of drawers with photo slides of her own manipulated images. On her website, she states that she’s an amateur photographer, but in the context of her work this seems irrelevant – it’s inventive upcycling and great affordable art. This one pairs a 1940’s oak drawer […]
Purchases and passes
On our day out at Ardingly, as My Friend said, we got rather too overwhelmed with browsing, chatting and eating cheese toasties to take any proper pictures. But just quickly, here are a few pictures of what I bought, and the one that got away. Because yes, I finally got my hands on this Ercol […]
MFH day out: Ardingly
Striding across acres of ground at Ardingly Antiques Fair yesterday, we discovered that a joint My Friend’s House trip is not necessarily conducive to actual blogging. How is it possible to chat, peruse and take photos? Things got off to a shaky start as we both declared a hankering for a swan jug. Luckily the only […]