I simply can’t get through life without a beautiful notebook, and as it’s the last day of the year it seemed fitting to show you one of my favourites. This leather case comes in a variety of colours with two…
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Objects Of Design #305: Hammered Brass Bowl
There are so many uses for this pretty brass bowl. Standing a few candles in it will bounce the light softly around. Fill it with nibbles for a party or with fruit the rest of the year. Or what about…
Objects Of Design #304: Breakfast Set
Breakfast is, they say, the most important meal of the day but for many of us it’s about standing in the kitchen shoving in toast with one hand while packing children’s schoolbags with the other. Or slurping a cup of…
Objects Of Design #303: Ototo Spaghetti Tower
By this stage in the proceedings (post-Christmas-blow-out-pre-January-diet) a little pasta is probably feeling like a great thing to eat. I just love this Israeli-designed spaghetti tower. Stores the pasta and then you clip open the part of the lid depending…
Objects Of Design #302: Missoni Noah Towel
So how are we doing with the Christmas marathon then? By this stage you’re probably thinking of venturing outside for the first time in a few days and for many of you that will mean a trip to the sales.…
Objects Of Design #301: Vintage Platters
Ah Boxing Day. That really is the morning after the night before. If you have planned it right you will be heading off to someone else’s house where a drink will be handed to you on arrival, and a succession…
Objects Of Design #300: Sanders and Wallace Wine Glasses
HAPPY CHRISTMAS So it’s Christmas. Some of you will have been up for hours and already desperate for a little stiffener by the time you read this. Some of you will be basting turkeys, fending off relatives and small children…
Objects Of Design #299: Bella Perle Glass Crockery
The sharp-eyed (and kitchen-obsessed) among you (and yes I count myself in the later category) might have spotted these on the latest series of Nigella when suddenly a glass, or pyrex, mixing bowl was no longer just a glass, or…
Objects Of Design #298: Clear Platform Flower Stand
Well you never know, it’s at about this time of year when someone might turn up with flowers. Or you might decide to buy some for the centre of the table, in case, you know, anyone’s coming for lunch over…
Objects Of Design #297: Absolutely Everything Wire Rack
I find it hard to imagine a place where this wouldn’t be useful. Perfect in the kitchen: give each member of the family a shelf, handy in the bathroom for all those lotions and potions that seem to accumulate, tidy…