I can’t even remember what I was looking for yesterday, but I ended up on the website of Calvert Avenue shop Soboye. It’s a (mostly fashion I think) boutique that’s big on African prints and to get straight to the point, here are some pretty fabulous beaded cushions from there, which were inspired by the Ndbele Tribe.

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London orbital: a kitchen odyssey

Despite having edited a kitchen magazine and written features about lovely kitchens for years, I’ve never actually bought a kitchen before. I have replaced a kitchen once, with a school science bench that someone had lying around and gave it to me for free. Times have changed. For Margate all I needed to do was […]

My knackered sofa

My sofa, aged around eight years, is quite a classy number from Twenty Twenty One upholstered in what used to be a nice blue-grey wool from Kvadrat. Then it faded into more of a nondescript dirge. The light today coupled with my photographing makes it look even more dirgy.  

Public spaces, North Korean style

Quite a while ago we did a post here about the decor style of North Korean homes. I had my curiosity sparked by something or other, and posted what little I could find via Google. In the few years since that post it seems that North Korea is becoming the most photographed totally-closed-to-journalists country in […]

Moodboard: Knackered sofa chic

I’m going to share a photo that spoke to me from a Frieze film that I haven’t managed to watch yet, called There Goes the Neighbourhood. It’s about artists in the 70s and how they survived London. Possibly the picture tells us the answer to that question.