So, just how energetic are you feeling about buying your Christmas presents this year? Because according to my inbox there are many fairs and pop-up shops for you to hoof it to, just so you can tell the recipients of your (mainly craft-based) gifts that you, ‘got it at a place that was only open […]
I’ve had this pack of playing cards by artist and writer Charlotte Cory for some time and have been weighing up whether to put some of them into a black frame for my wall. Thing is, I’m not an avid cards player and therefore don’t get to enjoy the artistry of the cards all that […]
Here’s where they’d live… Designed by Pierre-Gilles Fourquie – who also freelances for big wigger Arik Levy – Wanda is a glass and polished concrete aquarium with a central platform to place a small object for your fish to enjoy as he does the same circuit his whole repetitive life. The designer describes this as […]
Looking at a pink, child’s version of Monsieur Starck’s Ghost chair the other day, I was thinking how ubiquitous it is. One of those taste-by-numbers items. And beyond over since about 2003. And yet, I guess a classic is something that can always take another twist, and I just stumbled across these. Ceramics company Reiko […]
…whatever that might mean. I’m just saying I love the lower end of the high street. My much-admired high heeled brogues are from Peacocks, and only today by Marni-esque smock was complemented, and I was able to boast it was ‘vintage Primark‘. Until now there wasn’t really a viable high-street homes brand, apart from Ikea […]