My parents are downsizing, and have 30-odd years worth of stuff to edit before they move. On a recent visit I spent a lot of time with my head stuck in the never-used china cupboard, and found these. Norway’s Figgjo Flint studio’s Lotte design must have been hip for newly weds in the 70s. I […]
Of course there’s more to Istanbul than the floor. There’s the famous Hagia Sofia mosque, Topkapi Palace, several contemporary galleries – Istanbul Modern and Santral both great and the latter in a former power station that gives it a Tate Modern feel – and delicious stuffed veg. But you can get all that in The Lonely […]
When you see them, it seems so obvious. Norfolk printmaker Angie Lewin has produced a small range of homewares with St Jude’s textiles. Only just available, and sold online through Illustrated Living, it currently consists of three tea towels and six mugs. Not familiar with Angie’s print work? Well, below, two of my favourite of […]
Yup, I have three lonely plates hanging on the wall by my stairs. So this spectacle shames and delights me in equal measures. It’s the staircase over at wallpaper designer Tracy Kendall’s house. She found the paper plates (Indian, she thinks) for £4 each in a Designers Guild sale, ‘last century,’ she says. Amazing, aren’t […]
Some new wallpaper has come across our desk here at My Friend’s House, which regular readers will know, is the only excuse we need for a bird wallpaper compilation. Above, new from Elli Pop at Hidden Art, Monsoon Moon wallpaper. Next, graphic, and slightly threatening looking swallows on wallpaper by Paris based Minakani design studio. High […]