So who… is best friend with Min Hogg, legendary founder of WOI was getting down with Tallulah Bankhead age 15 (in between Eton College term times) was a stalwart companion of Diana Cooper née Manners had reclusive star Greta Garbo … Continue reading
How do you decorate for Christmas? I have decided it’s a version of: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. yes – the wedding custom. Well Christmas is all about making your own customs and wrapped up in the … Continue reading
How do you indulge? Nothing like a spot of time out over frothy cappuccino – I find. Simple Pleasures. In fact my coffee got rather cold over House and Garden’s November issue, NOW rather well thumbed . The home on … Continue reading
Of all the images I have from Provence the one that fizzes in my my mind is: Is it how damn edible they are? Is it the diagonal? the array? the green. Well – whatever it is – it is … Continue reading
Provence glows in my mind I have visited it whilst growing up with my family and now en ‘grand famille’ – including ‘chien’. We have our favourite spots, restaurants, shops, markets and memories, layered over time. During the past weeks … Continue reading
I am a land-lover, when the sea floor disappears from view I mildly panic… where has land gone? Mine was not a childhood messing around on boats. But for one Greek dynasty this has been the case for generations and … Continue reading
The Elements of Decoration – Baldwin takes us through each element of the decor itself from furniture, to colour and lighting. He starts out, as he always does by making the obvious necessary: you do need that room plan and … Continue reading
I was totally taken with this exhibition stand for a trade show in ‘ AW 1913′: the clash of prints, intense colour, graphic interplay - really struck me as masterful . I also thought ‘AW 2011′. Most particularly Jonathon Saunders: … Continue reading
In every life there are the rites of passage that define and shape it, from the joys of falling in love … to the vicissitudes of moving house. These two events are united in the case of Cecil Beaton, aesthete … Continue reading
