Return to Lilliput: Great Furniture Design For Children
Thereʼs something about furniture designed specifically for children that always catches my eye in a passing shop window or a furniture show. It is the Lilliputian proportions, the grown-up world rendered small in…
Walnut Grey Design: Emotional Interiors
Itʼs all in the name: Walnut Grey Design – a name that conjures up the warmth and comfort of natural wood, particularly American black walnut and the calming effect of neutral grey. A…
Love London: Barbara Chandler’s celebration in photos
In Love London design writer and photographer, Barbara Chandler’s, celebrates London in 180 colour and black and white images of London’s cultural, economic and historic diversity. 180 colour and black and often matched…
Ella Doran: pattern, pattern everywhere
Where most of us would see a pile of pebbles, or a shelf of dusty old books, a stack of old vinyl records that should have gone to the charity shop a long…
GAS art agency: the bold and the beautiful
“I think it’s funny that something I’ve doodled in front of the telly becomes a talking point,” says artist Gordon W Robertson of his designs which he etches on to limited edition metal…
Michel Froment: plastic fantastic
Is it art, is it sculpture or is it furniture? Or is it just a pure flight of the imagination? Michel Froment’s work can be sat on, sat at, lit up or just…
The Living Room: giving the traditional a hefty tweak
The Living Room exhibition at Luna and Curious boutique in Shoreditch, part of the London Design Festival (LDF), showed that British design could be both useful and beautiful. Curated by Jonathan Krawczuk and…
Furniture you can take with you: flat frame bicycle
‘A piece of fine furniture on wheels’ is how the publicity material describes the wooden bicycle designed and made by Flat Frame Systems. It certainly looks different from other bicycles. Where other bikes…
Chairs at Tent London 2011
Being a little on the short side I often find I have a problem with conventional chairs: they are too big for me. Sitting down on a park bench or in a lounge…
There is fun to be had with a wall lamp
Ever fancied an arrow that lit up and pointed the way to the kitchen or the bathroom in the middle of the night, saving you from switching on the lights and blinding yourself?…
