…but you wouldn’t know it from interiors photography. Obviously this is because they’re so ugly. I’ve just spent an hour trying to find any kind of cool TV shot and they don’t exist. The inspiration was the cover of this new book, Nesting, a kind of Swedish The Selby, as featured recently on ChocolateCreative‘s blog. Put a bird on it, indeed.

I’m kind of interested in this as at the moment I have a rotten cold, so this is my view of choice.

My £50 Argos number, put on my coffee table for a bit while I decorated, and now I quite like it there. Anyway, after my research the only conclusions I have reached about tasteful TVs is some don’ts:

DON’T have a dirty great TV mounted on the wall. Dancing On Ice might be fun, but it sure isn’t art.

DON’T have one that rises out the footboard of your bed. I don’t think I could sleep knowing it’s lurking there.

DON’T, for the love of god, mount it on an easle.

Smart art

Any artist using ‘unlikely combinations of sources and genres to highlight the ridiculous in life,’ gets my vote. Michaela Braun, author of those words, creator of Darthvader-lamp and the Difficult Sculpture series, is from Stuttgart, but now lives in Brixton where she works across sculpture, painting, photography and installation. Her work often references everyday household products giving […]

Put A Bird On It!

Sent to us by SocialNesting, this is a clip from US show Portlandia, which gently pokes fun at the oh-so-ripe-for-it Portland craft/alternative scene. If you’ve ever visited Etsy, been to a craft fair or, yeah, let’s face it, read this blog, you’ll get the joke.   As I’m currently dawdling over the task of putting […]

Beirut and Bokja

I’m investigating the design scene in Beirut right now and boy it rocks. If you’ve never been there then go. When I visited years ago and went out for dinner one night, we got a whole new table after starters and mains, just for pudding.* Have you ever been to a restaurant in the UK […]

Japanese street detail

Yes, it’s been a long time coming, but here is our first dispatch, snatched from the hands of our Japanese correspondent. A single picture of a manhole cover in our roving reporter’s Tokyo ‘hood of Asakusa offers an incomplete but telling suggestion of civic differences between here and there. While we’re on a loosely Japanese […]