Text and images by Cyrus Artisan Rugs Selecting a carpet or rug for your home can be daunting, especially if you’re not much of an interior designer. Nowadays, homeowners have access to a wide variety of floor coverings, from modern and contemporary to antique and...
Long gone are the days when the floor was the ignored dimension of a room, a neutral offset to enhance other design elements. Today, handmade rugs have staked out their claim as effortless centrepieces of an interior. They frequently form the starting point for...
Denna Jones Lovers of wool are legging it around the capital to catch events, workshops and exhibitions allied to Campaign for Wool’s fifth annual UK Wool Week (6-12 October 2014). Knit-a-thon at Brora (and a Twitter auction to win the blanket outcome), meet the Maker...
Denna Jones Knees and elbows planted on the stone floor, head down, a young man's attention is focused on a small square of paper where he draws or perhaps makes notes. Found in the lower left corner of Cornelis de Man's 1664 painting of the interior of St Lawrence...
These fun seating designs are the PomPom stool and the PomPom pouffe, made from recycled sari silk, and designed by Studio Avni, based in Mumbai. They are being sold by new green online marketplace Moorbi, which stocks a whole range of sustainable design including a...
Guy Fawkes night is past; the crypt is closed on Halloween; Alla helgons dag is no more, and the Day of the Dead is buried. The annual commemoration of failed political skullduggery; the celebration of ghouls, witches and "sexy" Halloween; and remembrances of the dead...
"Give me a beach, something to eat, and a couple of broads, and I can get along without material things." The Santa Monica bus driver who expressed his basic but base view of the sublime to city sage Reyner Banham (who included it in his 1971 book Los Angeles the...
'Scopophilia' means 'the love of looking' and is the name of a chair designed by Australian artist Fiona Roberts. The chair is upholstered in red velvet which also folds around the embedded eyeballs to look like eyelids. Rather creepy! Roberts adds: "a chair is...
Hush us a seating pod by London-based designer Freya Sewell made from 100% wool felt with cushions stuffed with recycled wool fibres, making it a very green product. It can either be sat inside, creating a womb-like environment, or turned into a chair to be sat upon....