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A House Tour of the Private Home of Piero Fornasetti

Come With Me To My New online House

The Househunter: Colour Drenching

Bloom! My Floral Carpet launches at Decorex

Beautiful Rooms For Monday

The Househunter: Codebreaking Interior Design

Beautiful Rooms To Start The Week

The Househunter: Small Flat Big Storage

Is AI the Future of Interior Design?

Objects Of Design #129: Serving Platter

7th July 2012

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Add a splash of colour Add a splash of colour to all that white crockery with this gorgeous Italian serving platter. Imagine it piled high with pasta and prawns or a beautiful dark green leafy salad. There's another one in shades of blue too. www.rice.dk £50

Objects Of Design #128: Candles

buy these candlesticks from nordicbliss.com Nothing says atmosphere like candles and no-one does candles better than the Scandinavians who are obsessed with candlelight. Maybe it's

Objects Of Design #127: Taste Expresso Cups

Designed to stack so they take up less space Moving onto coffee, these cups were designed by Rikke Hagen and won the prize for the

Eight Of The Best Contemporary Shops Part II

So, it turned out that there are just too many really great contemporary design shops in the UK to fit into one post. Here, then

Objects Of Design #126: Chunky Glass Candlestick

Bring a little atmosphere to the table Are you picturing the scene yet? The Portmeirion plates laid on the table, the Jamie Oliver jug filled with flowers

Design Classics #28: Kenwood Chef

3rd July 2012

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Top of the Wedding Present Pops. Image from flickriver.com In 1948, Kenneth Wood gathered together £800 of capital and 20 members of staff and moved into a factory in Woking where he set up a manufacturing company. Two years later he launched the Kenwood Chef (A700 model) at the Ideal Homes Exhibition and began a

Objects Of Design #125: Rimple Tall Jug

Use for wild flowers or water Inspired by those lovely old stoneware jugs, this holds 1.5 litres and would look pretty filled with wild flowers

Mad About . . . Books

Shelflife by Charles Trevelyan As much as I love my Kindle, I am incapable of throwing books away. Every book is a memory, a souvenir.

Objects Of Design #124: Sophie Conran for Portmeirion

Nothing is completely symmetrical in this set Yes, another member of the uber-talented Conran family pops up. This time it's Sophie, daughter of Sir Tel,

Objects of Design #123: Alessi Fat Tray

Fine Dining? Or Posh Picnicking? The word "fat" has become rather demonised in our society and for that reason alone, I love this tray. For

Objects Of Design #122: Grey Wally

30th June 2012

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I know, I know ridiculous name but hey it's a good product so we'll overlook that. Following the principle that if there's no more floor space you have to go up, this is will fix on a hall, bedroom, landing wall and you can stuff all manner of things into its pocket. Probably wisest to

Objects Of Design #121: Ptolomeo Bookshelf

Perfect for small spaces The invisible bookshelf If you love the unstructured loft feel of big piles of books but fear for your safety, then

Objects Of Design #120: Moose On The Loose

Moving on from the ubiquitous stag's head, this moose is not just decorative but practical too as it's actually a coat rack. But as it

Design Tourism: What To Buy On Holiday

from janetcropper.com Summer holidays are mostly booked by now and if you need a break from the beach, the trekking or the constant round of

Objects Of Design #119: Shoe Storage

Hands up who opens their wardrobe to find a shoe graveyard every morning. Hands up who hasn't spent several minutes with one shoe in one

Design Classics #27: Arco Light

26th June 2012

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The original and the best: Arco Floor Lamp It was, in the end, perhaps the Lamp wot won it. Following the revelation that Samantha Cameron had bought a fake Arco for her new kitchen at No 10, Michelle Ogundehin, the editor of Elle Decoration, was outraged. Writing on her blog, Ogundehin called Cameron "cheap, hypocritical and

Objects Of Design #118: Large Oak Shelf Ladder

Of course you can build shelves in your alcoves but that will cost the same as buying these (at least) and you can't take them

How To Hide The TV Cables and Clutter

The sliding door can hide the tv completely from cambellwatson.co.uk. There's nothing

Objects Of Design #117: Alfabeta Glass Shelves

Sold in pairs these reinforced, toughened glass shelves can be hung in any direction you fancy and there's also an option to have a completely

Objects Of Design #116: Happy Stackable Crates

The issue of children's storage is a tricky one, not least because searching for the best storage for all their toys and plastic tat is