A quick heads up – if you find yourself near Clerkenwell tomorrow night (thur 20th May, 5-8pm) or fri-sun all day from noon, check out this event where over 80 designers will be showcasing their wares. Tickets cost £2.50 and can be used throughout the three-and-a-bit day event. I’ll be flagging up my favourite spots in due course, but in the meantime here’s a teaser.

Clockwise from top: Supafrank, Shan Annabelle Valla, Loglike, Ane Christiensen and Charlene Mullen.

All aboard

What do you reckon to Boris’s new Routemaster design? As one geeky enough to still enjoy occasional trips on the remaining Routemasters down the Strand I’m not too sure. New designs by Michelle Mason reminded me again how lasting the image of the original is.

The yard sale

Roving reporter here, just back from Dalston. A yard sale in Dalston held by my fashionable trend-forecasting friend and her fashion-industry-working flatmate. There are details in the last sentence that led to my conviction that yard sales are Where It’s At. Along with the web search I did two minutes ago, which revealed that Paris cool […]

Folky feel at Habitat

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 […]

Trend or travesty?

You know how it goes, you’re good at knitting, and it’s soothing, and creative in a way, and you start wanting to take your knitting everywhere with you, and suddenly you’re producing so much knitting you haven’t got enough relatives for the number of mitts you’d like to knit… It looks cosy, and crafty, but […]