If Madonna's lyrics are a chapbook, guide or vade mecum, then her famous lyric line "life is a mystery" summarises the human conundrum. Just what does "it" all mean? Whether or not you question the meaning of life, a life lived well should be our common goal, and...
Rugs & Carpets
Cakes, crumbs and carpets
The combination of carpets and cake give most hosts the nervous tizzies. The wibble wobble transfer of a poorly engineered wedge of triple layer Red Velvet cake from platter to plate is an anxiety pinpoint for many hosts. With good reason they imagine icing granules...
Celebrate magical masterpieces with Parris Wakefield Additions
Expect magic not mayhem when the Mayan calendar ends tomorrow. Dystopian doomsayers who cooked the books to make the calendar falsely predict finality and fatalities, might have put their time to better use by joining lovers of number patterns to celebrate the...
Stomp all night on Limited Edition’s “brick wall” rug
Banksy is an urban legend; a famous (and infamous) graff artist, immortalised (amongst other output) for his opening sequence for The Simpsons. But he might might want to take a break from banging heads against brick walls, and instead Stomp! all night across an...
Pantone Color of the Year 2013 is Emerald Green
The winning pony in the 2013 Pantone Color of the Year horse race was not bookie favourite blue, but Emerald Green. On the surface a soothing, optimistic colour, did the jury not realise Lucifer first popularised the green gemstone? The red horned, van Dyck bearded...
Stark beauty of nanimarquina Global Warming polar bear rug
"Kill him, or die, but do not wound this animal." This command slingshotted through the mind of Alvah Simon. The Roger Henry, painted white rather than traditional high visibility red, was wedged against an Arctic ice island. As far as the polar bear staring at Simon...
Wild dreams of a Josef Frank rya rug for Svensk Tenn
"The richness of decoration cannot be fathomed so quickly", wrote designer Josef Frank defending his colour and pattern profusion against the ascendancy of Le Corbusier's diktat that a home was "a machine for living". Maybe it's the hallucinations of cabin fever and...
Tobacco may be “filthie” but the colour creates an American classic by Rose Tarlow Melrose House
The ascetic aftermath that follows Thanksgiving feasting inspired your scribe to riffle her Colonial American literature and read contemporary accounts of hardship and survival before the New World's fortunes waxed with tobacco. James I of England blasted tobacco as...
Carpetalogue exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers: final fortnight & special late night invitation
The portmanteau word "carpetalogue" is the delightful moniker created to describe the ‘pages’ – i.e. carpets - in the current exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers, London. Celebrating art and design studio M/M (Paris), the singular exhibition title is interpreted by...