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Spring in my step
Mimosa in bloom in Holland Park Early in the week, on my way to recce a location, I was trudging along with my head down, trying to stop my eyes from watering in the arctic wind when a sweet scent...
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London’s Calling
Most of this week has been spent on ‘go sees’, going from one side of London to the other looking at locations that might make features for The Times Magazine. This part of my work takes me to...
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Teas and coffees
A week of beverage taking: Monday’s shoot at the 1950s home of designer Jennifer Newman was enhanced by a dash of spring sunshine and delicious coffee stylishly served with a morsel of frozen chocolate...
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Out and About
I’m planning a trip, at the end of May, to the West Country so have been on the phone and email to some interesting folk with nautical connections and have accommodation booked at the wonderful...
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Art and Architecture
As well as the usual round of recces I’ve recently managed to get and bit of art-house and architecture under my belt. The art house was an interesting black and white film by Sarah Pucill called Magic...
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Books and Blooms
On Thursday evening I went to The Photographer’s Gallery for Jane Hilton’s book signing ( the home Jane shares with her husband Nick Lee and their son Johnny featured in the April 27th issue of The...
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No two days…
When people ask me about my job as The Times Magazine Interiors Editor I often say that no two days are the same and this week was a good example. It started with a shoot in north London with...
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On The Road
Its been a busy couple of weeks, first to Devon for a couple of shoots. We started in Salcombe, where we stayed at the lovely South Sands Hotel. The view from my bedroom window was spectacular and ever...
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Sunshine and signs
A sunny start to the week with a breakfast meeting at The Modern Pantry in Clerkenwell with Habitat’s Creative Director Polly Dickens. The company is launching an exhibition focused on contemporary...
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How others do it
Since I took up blogging I’ve browsed quite a few other sites to see how the rest of you are doing it and to pick up hints and ideas. Some blog sites are directly linked to my work, so it’s really...
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Shoreditch to Stockholm
I have long admired the work of Freida Gormley at House of Hackney so it was a pleasure to meet her at the opening of the flagship store on Shoreditch High Street where the unusual fabrics, wallpapers...
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Faeries and feasting
The arrival of summer has seen me travelling from one part of London to another and meeting up with lots of interesting people. There was a trip to Farringdon to have coffee with architects Annalise...
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The things I see…
On my way to a meeting with Penny Little of The Little PR Company about her new client Trunk Home I walked through Covent Garden and found a Pearly King and Queen playing hide and seek with their...
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Food for the mind and body
I visited the home of Baukjen de Swaan Arons the entrepreneurial business woman behind the fashion labels Baukjen and Isabella Oliver even on a hot, hot day their home is cool because the whole of the...
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Being a bit Silly
In the last fortnight I have been from Shepherds Bush to Normandy and back. It started with afternoon tea at the home of Johnny Blueeyes, performance artist and stylist. At his colourful apartment in...
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All C-ing
C1. Coffee at Claridges with designers George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg of Yabu Pushelberg to talk about their new ‘out of town’ home in Amagansett, a really amazing cantilevered house with walls of...
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A French interlude
The Joy of Stanstead Monday morning at Stanstead, in text contact with photographer Alex James. “Will meet you at Ryanair check in desk”. An hour later “Will meet you at the departure gate”, sometime...
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A Life less Ordinary
Life this week was less ordinary. Our shoot with Brendan and Vanessa of Mineheart was full of deception and guile, rooms that seem to disappear in to the distance were just the result of cleverly...
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Cavalli’s parrot
The week started with a shoot at the home of French gallery owner Loic Le Gaillard with photographer Jefferson Smith. Le Gaillard is one of the two founders of the uber trendy Carpenters Workshop...
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Back in harness
Two weeks of sun and snorkelling in Greece, but now it’s back to work again. There were a couple of features to write up after the busy late August, early September period so that was a focus; then on...
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