Sorry, am I becoming a wood bore? Look at the first collection from new Dorset company Another Country. It’s friday, I won’t drone on, but the company blurb talks of craft, solid wood, Scandinavian and Japanese woodwork, and flat pack. To generalise, many of those descriptions translate as ‘nice’. Well, one says ‘practical’. Anyway, one […]
…that this really, really good paint shop has been lurking on my own high street for a few months? The rover in me has clearly been taking a big holiday. Colour Makes People Happy is the front for Siecle, a Dutch brand of paints by Dofine that’s been around London for a while with its lovely […]
… sort of. Love Gillian Kyle’s illustrated homewares, enough to buy My Friend one of her Glasgow Breakfast themed tea towels for her birthday (although I sorely wanted to keep it myself). Well news comes across the desk that Gillian has just added mugs with the Tunnock’s teacake image, plus more Scottish breakfast goods. While […]
no, you big hippy, not the Carole King album. Though I like that too. No, I’m talking about needlepoint, embroidering, bitchin’ stitchin’. I love RE’s collection of cushions and chairs in vintage needlepoint – hours of work and creative instincts, that otherwise would have sat unloved in the charity shop. I think the key to […]
I’m having a fascination with wooden lighting after seeing this Tom Rossau lamp in the flesh. I had to stroke it. You don’t really get that urge from the picture, but trust me, if you see it for real you’ll be leaning in before you know it. It got me started on a bit of […]