My day just flew past in a whirl of new designs. LDF13 kicked off at the V&A this morning – see just how snap happy I got over on our Instagram. Then it was onto the Sebastian Wrong WRONG for HAY collection, which launched in a Georgian townhouse in St James’s Park. If you’re in London and have time, it’s worth going along just to see the building – a great backdrop to the cool Scandi-ness of Hay and the pastels and brights of this collection. There are a lot of designer names involved in it – Stefan Diez, Alex Taylor and Bartjan Pot among them. I might be overstimulated, but I reckon I could live with all the pieces present. Particularly the lighting, glassware and upholstered chairs. My favourite thing though? Probably the printed textiles by Natalie Du Pasquier.

Love the pinker legs on this nudey-pink chair.

The art of sumo

Just when I thought I’d exhausted new things I could obsess about wanting… my desk-mate at work tells me about a vintage sumo wrestling poster she bought on eBay by ‘accident’. Nice innit? I like how the colours are drawn with such clarity, not unlike the spreads in the Racing Post of the jockey’s colours. […]

Carine Roitfeld’s place is sparse innit?

I got two paragraphs into this profile on Carine Roitfeld, exactly up to the words ‘with a drooling gallery of views from her apartment,’ before I bolted over to the website IwanttobeaRoitfeld.com. The French super stylist seems to live in one of those dreamboat Paris apartments with high ceilings and massive balconies with wrought iron […]

Keep it country

Do you remember Cumbrae island’s fabulous 50s Ritz Cafe we reported on a while back? I’ve just been again, but this time it looked a little different. This was Cumbrae’s annual Country & Western Festival, where the island’s tiny town of Millport is taken over by sharp shooters, stetsoned son-of-a-guns, hay seeds, high-rollers and, most […]

Parasol shopping

Because the time is ripe, it being the end of summer and all, I just bought a garden dining table. It was in the sales. It seats eight! I’m picturing nice nights out with friends – though realistically that’ll probably have to wait until next year. Anyway, I realise what the garden really needs now […]