I’ve yet to meet an interiors bod who didn’t sort of daydream about it, from time to time. Yeah! A shop! Yeah, spending all day buying, arranging and rearranging lovely furniture. Yeah, drinking coffee and listening to Radio 4 in fingerless gloves while waiting for a sale. Yeah, maybe selling some art and some cakes and some flowers and stuff. Lewisham could defo do with a poncey interiors shop, and I’ve found just the place.

Look at the signage! Look at the only-slightly-smashed bottle-bottom glass detailing! I haven’t been this excited since I imagined buying the launderette in Deptford and giving it an avant make-over.

Picture by thisisp’s, via Flickr

Not yachty

Ever since working on the ‘Nautical Issue’ at one of the larger interiors mags, I’ve kind of had it with sail boats and beach huts and other seaside-themed whimsey. Keep your rope doorstops, have your sailcloth cushions, shove your driftwood sculpture. Thanks. But here is a sea-theme I can really get into, from the consistently […]

Ercol rage

I’m not much of a label snob, in either fashion or interiors. And though I admire the look and craftsmanship, I’m not really an Ercol nut either. But I do, I just do, really like the classic Windsor chair. So imagine my delight when I saw this outside my local junkshop on Saturday. That string […]

Design pop quiz!

Who said the following? ‘I see space in three parts simultaneously; the grid forms the lines of a room… the zoning defines its function… and the flow brings the whole together and creates the movement.’ a) Charlie Sheen b) Leonard Nimoy c) Kelly Hoppen   You guessed it. Everyone’s favourite phone-hacked interiors guru, Kelly Hoppen. […]

More good art

Journalist Max Fraser has asked over 100 UK designers to create a piece of art from a sheet of A4 graph paper to raise money for the charity Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres – he lost his own mother to cancer some years ago. The signed works, priced £250, will be on show at Somerset House […]