I can’t even remember what I was looking for yesterday, but I ended up on the website of Calvert Avenue shop Soboye. It’s a (mostly fashion I think) boutique that’s big on African prints and to get straight to the point, here are some pretty fabulous beaded cushions from there, which were inspired by the […]
A quick one to give us all something to think about over the weekend… I just saw this on Anothermag.com and my long-running desire for a pink velvet sofa suddenly reasserted itself. Isn’t it gorgeous? And the best thing is that it would go wonderfully with black… …cat… …hair. Oh.
Just to recap, Ros is on a sort of self-styled writer’s retreat on a stunning hideaway island in Scotland for a month and has been swimming with otters – I went to the same place during the summer on her recommendation and use the word ‘stunning’ with intensity. I am in London doing London Design Festival. I’m not […]
Er, I’m developing an egotistical book habit. I’ve been buying books with my name in the title. That is weird isn’t it? The idea hadn’t occurred to me until an old friend from my magazine days – hello Debi – bought me the first one as a gift. The House That Jill Built – how appropriate? […]
…Is one of many quotes you might struggle to identify with on a personal level in the book Belgravia by German-born artist Karen Knorr who shot subjects from the wealthy set of the famous London neighbourhood between 1979 and 1981 – the beginning of Thatcherism. The artist’s parents lived in Belgravia and her mother and grandmother feature […]