Did you see that the New Designer of the year award at this year’s New Designers, went to Tortie Hoare (that name!) for furniture she created using boiled leather? Boiled leather. That does not have a good ring about it. However, on further investigation, it turns out UK designer Simon Hasan has been working with it […]
Bordering on obsessively tidy? Drawn to slightly weird things just because they provide homes for stuff that ends up lying about? Then behold the key box. An actual place to put your keys. Another find from the Barbican shop, but also available here, along with interior postboxes that attach to your front door and catch […]
Oooo. We’re so flattered at My Friend’s House to have been blogged about, on super stylish site The Women’s Room. While checking ourselves out over there, we also found they’re a rich source of shop-related posts, covering books and shops we’d never heard of. Look at this gorgeous picture, from Shutting Up Shop, a book […]
I didn’t know what might be a fitting tribute for the passing of the great Frank Sidebottom, so I didn’t post one. Then I found this, posted on super stylist’s blog Isabelle OC. I once won a half pound packet of wine gums in a radio competition set by Frank. And I can’t hear Elvis’s […]
Have just been put onto American furniture company BDDW by an architect friend and was struck with how different, untrendy and totally beautiful their stuff is. Check out the walnut Slab table – basically a hunk of tree on legs with fantastic detailing over the splinters. Plasters for furniture? You heard it here first (probably). But […]