Denna Jones Sometimes it’s worth explaining a detail that might otherwise be overlooked. Simon Goff is Director of London-based rug company FLOOR_STORY. The detail is in the company logo. The “underscore” between the two words isn’t the ubiquitous symbol used for...
Denna Jones Wool blankets – cream with red or aqua stripes and yellow with red stripes and green borders - are stacked on a flat bed sleigh behind a harnessed reindeer in a snowy landscape. Clad in red with a fur framed yellow hood, the sleigh’s driver holds a receipt...
Denna Jones British textile designer Lindsay Alker's second collection of hand silk-screened textiles made in England and printed on natural linen, launches September 2013 at London's prestigious Decorex International design show. Titled "House of Bertoncini", Alker's...
Denna Jones "Pop! pop! pop!" Daniel Beckford positions his arms to hold an imaginary rug tufting gun, pumps his hands, and delights in providing verbal support for his impromptu demonstration of how he placed scattered pot shots of wool across a quadrant of his degree...
Over the river, and through the woods, but your scribe isn't going to grandma's house. A visit to the British Museum's African Textiles Today requires perseverance to cross multiple galleries, wend through crowds, until Gallery 90 is reached by fleet feet up four...
Begone earworm! Valentine's Day is nigh and Tainted Love is on loop in your scribe's frontal cortex. Soft Cell's nonpareil cover of Tainted Love featured in the first series of one of your scribe's favourite telly shows Being Human. Although nominally about a ghost,...
News of the recent make-over of famous chef Julia Child's childhood kitchen made your scribe eager to try out a new recipe. But rather than consult her favourite cookery book (not alas one by Child, but rather The Kopan Cookbook), your scribe browsed her groaning...
Apartment Therapy asked their readers the interior design $64,000 Question (inflation adjusted maybe half a million): What do you think is the next big thing? While your scribe hankers for Edgaroso's "trilobites and burlap", more realistically your scribe has selected...
Snow is falling for the sixth successive day in London. So many snowy days that denizens of the Big Smoke are beginning to lose count of when it started. In doing so we have achieved what your scribe calls "the Dylan Thomas snow conundrum". The Welsh poet and writer...