Can there be anything more satisfying than a good cushion and a good spoon? Don’t answer that, I just wanted to tell you about designer Kirsten Hecktermann. Her background includes sewing things for stylists to shoot on the World Of Interiors and her own work is – I’m just going to go right ahead and say it […]
The first thing I thought when I saw this Tatler shoot, was I need to make me a fruit turban. The second thing I thought was I want that flamingo. It looks like it’s made out of cardboard, but it reminded me of one of my favourite of all time houses – photographer Tim Walker’s […]
Let’s break this down. LX Factory is the Lisbon design scene mentioned yesterday – a sort of village of design studios (plus cafes and a book shop) in a former printworks beneath an enormous 1960s flyover blight. And lo it was shut when we went on this rainy and, it turned out, public holiday. Here’s […]
…with your bum-crunching cobbled hills, tidy tiled townhouses and graffiti scene. Yes, after four days in Portugal’s capital I’m sad to return to real life (my own cooking, washing up, yadda yadda yadda). A quick summary of the design scene to follow, but before that a mention of the city itself. Here’s the pavilion that […]
Ever since working on the ‘Nautical Issue’ at one of the larger interiors mags, I’ve kind of had it with sail boats and beach huts and other seaside-themed whimsey. Keep your rope doorstops, have your sailcloth cushions, shove your driftwood sculpture. Thanks. But here is a sea-theme I can really get into, from the consistently […]