Well I’m kind of kidding, but I am a Cancerian, and have an early memory of being both fascinated and repelled by a very 70s skandi print crab money box I was given. So this crab collage of a coffee table kinda caught my fancy. And at least it makes a change from birds.

Actually on closer inspection maybe it’s a pink tray. Pity, because I could really go for a hot pink lacquer coffee table, as, I’m sure, could you. The picture is from the gallery on Lonny’s website. This American homes mag – of shelter magazine as they appear to call them – is great for inspiration, especially as you can read the whole mag online. The rooms are much more (over)’done’ than in comparable UK magazines but as long as you can accept you’re never going to have a Central Park-facing apartment of your own to decorate, it’s a great read. A few sample spreads below. Don’t get me started on owls…

Living room – arranged and unkempt

I wanted to show you my new two-seater Assembly Room sofa insitu in the living room. But, in the process of shooting it I got caught up in trying to get nice angles of the room. End result – new two-seater sofa barely visible in the image bottom right… A few days later I found […]

Motor chic?

From Bill Oddie to Jeremy Clarkson (yikes). In a bid to move My Friend and I away from animals for a moment, lets talk about the world in which vehicles and interiors have just joined hands. Specifically in the new Jamie Oliver restaurant at Westfield, designed by interior architects Blacksheep (who are south Londoners by […]

The Bill Oddie of interiors…

…that’s me. Who says the whole birds thing is over? Shut your face. While there are new species of our feathered friends to put to work in the service of design I’m still interested. Pelicans anyone? Don’t even try to tell me it’s not a trend.

Potter’s world

What do Damien Hirst, Harry Hill and David Bailey all have in common? Apparently they all own works by Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter and are loaning them to the pop-up Museum of Everything in Primrose Hill, for a special exhibition. Does taxidermy give you chills? Even you might find it hard to not find Walter […]