During a couple of unfocussed, internet-based curtain fabric searches – just how is your curtain project coming along My Friend? Cos mine is forever changing and never reaching a conclusion – I’ve been dotting back and forward to Eley Kishimoto for inspiration. The fashion design duo has made several forays into interiors, which have always […]
Some simple but lovely furniture by Canadian-Japanese designer Oki Sato and team – AKA Nendo – from the Think Black Lines collection, which was exhibited at the Saatchi gallery earlier in the year. Nendo has produced pieces for Cappellini and Fritz Hansen and did the interior of this ‘parent and child’ cafe in Tokyo I’ve […]
OK, so I have a very elegant 50s danish sofa. It’s got one wonky leg and after a whole evening in front of the X Factor it’s not that comfortable, but that’s a price worth paying. It came from eBay covered in moss green fabric and for ages I’ve been thinking about recovering it. Maybe […]
A few days back in my search for teeth I got a bit stuck on David Shrigley’s website and have since added to my fantasy Christmas present list this book, one of these screenprints and this salt and pepper set… According to an old Creative Review article on the website, the artist arranges his cd’s […]
In The Evening Standard today, the irrepressible Meg Mathews showed us round her beautiful home. I had a few thoughts. Don’t like that shade of pink, was one. Another was how those Toga sofas never look comfortable or aesthetically pleasing to me. Doesn’t it just look like a big caterpillar? Or, after a bit, a […]