Art & Shopping: The Artists of Spitalfields Life
As design shops go, architect and interiors guru Ben Pentreath’s in Bloomsbury is one of our favourites: a treasure trove of beautiful finds for the home, from colourful chairs to Chinese teapots. And...
View ArticleShopping: The Fourth Floor Corner Shop
Ultra hip Clerkenwell hairdressers Fourth Floor, the cult split-level salon residing at the top of a 1930s industrial building and accessed by a goods lift, is setting up shop this winter – a corner...
View ArticlePrize draw: win your wish list (150 Euros’ worth) at lovely homewares & gifts...
Back in the late summer we discovered and wrote about Cachette, a lovely website set up by an Anglo French couple with fabulous taste, selling useful and really well designed things – homewares,...
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Shopping: two great pop-up fairs this weekend, Lovely Merchants & The Hand Sale
Two more shopping fairs this weekend that need to be perused. Well, ’tis the season. The Hand Sale is the fair where we’ve picked up some of our very best Christmas presents, and it’s a really hard...
View ArticleChristmas shopping: Cressida Bell’s open studio & The Social Christmas Market
If you’re looking for a present for someone difficult to shop for and want something you can’t get anywhere else, then we offer you two destinations. The first is artist Cressida Bell’s studio, which...
View ArticleChristmas ideas: Ros Badger’s Christmas & Festive Decorations book
We are big fans of the designer, stylist and author Ros Badger, so are thrilled that she has just produced two new books in a series called Homemade. One, Sew, Knit and Crochet, is, as the title...
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Shopping & Interiors: Friends & Family Sale at Tom Dixon
Quick! It’s started! Tom Dixon – the hugely influential furniture and lighting designer – is having a mega sale! The bargains range across all his stock, and include new pieces as well as ex-exhibition...
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Holiday Rental: wonderful house by the coast in Kerry, Ireland
It gives us both pleasure and pain to share the news that one of our favourite houses anywhere is now available to rent. It belongs to a friend of ours and we stay there every summer, and sometimes in...
View ArticleInteriors: Førest London – a great midcentury modern furniture shop
As regular readers will know, we are huge fans of Scandinavian midcentury modern furniture and our eyes are always peeled for great quality, good value pieces. We bought a Danish rosewood chest of...
View ArticleArt and shopping: Dulwich Festival – Artists Open House
Here’s something for the weekend – The Dulwich Festival. This year’s event was brought to our attention by quiltmaker extraordinaire Cassandra Ellis, who is throwing open the doors of her home as part...
View ArticleBook: The Set Table by Hannah Shuckburgh
This is one of those books that you think you’ll dip into, while mainly enjoying the photos, but end up reaching for until you’ve read it from cover to cover, because it’s so well written. It’s about...
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Shopping: the best linen & bedding
Revelation time. We’ve always known the importance of a good bed and how, for reasons obvious, you should buy the best you can afford. We’ve always bought good pillows too, and a couple of years ago...
View ArticleTalk: John Pawson on Shiro Kuramata
Calling all design junkies: the great minimalist designer John Pawson is giving a talk on the work of Shiro Kuramata (1934-91), Japan’s leading 20th-Century designer. Interviewed by Design Museum...
View ArticleShopping: Colefax and Fowler auction at Christie’s
Colefax and Fowler, the interior designers who have come to epitomise a grand, English style for over fifty years, have been responsible for some of the finest houses in the land. And now, we can all...
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