Stone and shell in Somerset-shire: Belinda Eade.
Flanking the chimney in Malplaquet House - the home of Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe Gowan - are shell candle sconces in the Baroque taste made by Belinda Eade almost 20 years ago. As a... 
New Years greetings from the bible of british taste 2015
The Eynsham Morris, boy novices at the first stop on their local Boxing Day four-pub fixture. NB Green Man. Photo credit my sister Lizzie who was standing next to me. Thank you for subscribing. A...
Dingles Fairground Attractions.
A dozen times a year I drive down the A303 to Cornwall. Just before Launceston, when I am thinking of stopping for a cup of tea, I flash past a brown tourist sign that...
Peepshow in London E2, Simon Costin’s Museum of British Folklore by Adam Richards Architects.
At Unit 1, Cremer Business Centre, 37 Cremer Street https://architecturediary.org/london/events/4970 there's a peepshow that you can visit for the RIBA London Open Studios / London Festival of Architecture this weekend. Peepholes set at intervals...
In Somersetshire, kiln from John Piper, ceramics by Prue Piper.
The Old Laundry in Somerset. This is the house that Prue Piper and her husband Edward found in the 1960s. Built from the local oolite limestone, it was once the laundry for a large...
Glynn Boyd Harte, painter, author, post-Pop young-fogey-bohemian and genius,1948-2003.
Glynn Boyd Harte was born in Rochdale in 1948. He met his wife Caroline Bullock (herself an artist and historian) in the foyer of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1968, when he...
Trematon Castle : “Escape culture all day & night at Bannermans.”
The postcard advertises Bannerman's Bar in Cowgate, Edinburgh Old Town, Julian Bannerman's legendary first venture in 1979, the place where he met his wife Isabel Eustace (it is still there). This is a tour...
The real thing, Tanya Harrod, essays on making (and Peggy Angus).
Tanya Harrod published 'The Real Thing, essays on making in the modern world,' this week. Its essays are about art, craft and design, and the shifts and spaces in between them.These are subjects she has...
New year, new build, Bavent House in East Anglia.
Lucy, Clea and Richard Turvill have been here now, in the house they built, for about 5 years. While they lived in London their countrified alter-egos had been well disguised. I thought they were truly...
The Way We Live, Now.
'Nothing much has happened to our house for about 20 years in terms of its look,' says Christina Moore. 'It's not designed although I guess when we first put it together it was. We moved...
