Jill and I have both, at different times, worked at illustrious interiors title Elle Decoration. I was only there for a month, filling in for someone, and my job quite literally involved looking at photographs of amazing homes every day, deciding which ones were really amazing enough to be included. The real core of the Elle Dec team however are the style editors, who give seasonal themes, colour palettes and trend predictions life each month by realising them as full-scale photoshoots.

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Intriguing chair-making event at LDF 2014

There are thousands of emails coming in about the next London Design Festival, which starts on the 13th September. Ros and I are nearly booking holidays while it’s on just to avoid trying to whittle down the events that we’d like to visit. Anyway, this live installation at the V&A involving Ella Doran making a […]

What if this was your weekly shop?

Earlier this year my mum started volunteering in a foodbank in Cornwall. She was telling me about the process, exchanging vouchers given to the attendees by local agencies for boxes for a family, a couple, a single person. People are allowed to swap up to five items from their box. Consumer choice in action!

Address book: classic chairs

When I was a little girl I remember my Mum spotting a chair in a skip. She hauled it out and made me sit on it by the side of the road while she walked home to fetch the car. Obviously I was mortified, but now I find – as so many design lovers have […]

Shopping in the middle of nowhere

This time three weeks ago I was on holiday by Loch Tay, Perthshire and it looked like this. Those big oversized cow parsley looking plants are, I think, wild Angelica. They were everywhere, I wanted to get my spade out to bring one home, but we were flying to Italy from Scotland so it didn’t […]