I mean, how many walls do I think I have? I should try to cure myself of this wallpaper hoarding by papering my flat with all of it. Ok now, like a memory test… from left to right: Osborne & Little, Folie; Osborne & Little, Maharani; Arthouse, Radiance; Osborne & Little, Boheme, again; Neisha Crossland, […]
In a high powered business meeting over at my gaff lately, My Friend enthused at the sight of this calendar, bought for under a fiver at the art shop in China Town. It’s made up of that very thin almost tracing paper and there’s a great satisfaction to ripping a page off every day. Not […]
Lovely new products at Aram, here are Alison Smithson’s Cornell Boxes. Cute storage and display units, available with or without the post, or in a revolving version (for easily-bored people in tiny flats). The boxes are so named for the artist Joseph Cornell, who’s work consisted of precise collections and arrangements of found objects in […]
Is it just me who thinks these pin cushions are ace? Quite the antidote to Cath Kidston’s sewing kit, anyway. Spotted yesterday at the Barbican pop-up shop at Clerkenwell Design week, they’ll be available from the 10 June in the permanent shop in conjunction with The Surreal House exhibition. I’m afraid my journalistic skills went awol […]
I’m afraid I already know what side of the parrot perch I’m sitting on with this one and it’s… Trend! It’s from a new range called Parrot Party, by kitsch shifters Lladro, they of the porcelain ballerinas and horses. I can’t help but find it rather lovely. I just went for a look on the […]