York Minster was wall-to-wall grass last week for the York Minister Rose dinner to raise funds for the restoration of the building. The living grass – called Wow!Grass! because that’s what people say when they see it – is grown in felt made from recycled textiles rather than soil. It can be rolled up afterwards without leaving a mess. Developed by York-based specialist Lindum for the events industry, it has been
Forget the dreaming spires, this psychedelic fun palace is what Supermachine Studio came up with when asked to design a Creative Centre for Bangkok University. The two storey student village is housed in the university’s already cutting edge Landmark compound and is conceived as a stimulating environment students will want to hang around in after lectures are over. There’s a karaoke hut, music rehearsal room, pole dancing area and snooker
Kay Wang was a strong-willed grandmother who was reluctantly taken to a StoryCorps booth by her son and granddaughter. StoryCorps provides Americans with recording facilities in an airstream caravan so that they can share and preserve the stories of their lives. Though Kay resisted, she still had stories to tell—from disobeying her mother and rebuffing suitors while growing up in China to late-life adventures as a detective for Bloomingdale’s department
David Gandy smouldered, Millie-from-Made-in-Chelsea glowed and host Alexa Chung looked properly beautiful as Avocado Sweet watched the talented and the trim trip down the red carpet at the 7th Annual Scottish Fashion Awards in Glasgow last night. Top honours went to Christopher Kane (below) who was named Scottish Designer of the Year, Karen Gillan, named Scottish Fashion Icon, and Tali Lennox, daughter of Annie Lennox, who was judged Top Scottish Model
Back in the late 1970s and early 80s, amateur photographer Owen McQuigan took pictures of his hometown of Clydebank near Glasgow. They’re just shots of ordinary people doing ordinary things in an ordinary town but they have a certain rain soaked, Gregory’s Girl vibe that makes them poignant to those of us have grown up in Scotland. You can see McGuigan’s extensive photo collection on his website My Clydebank Photos. There
Interesting story this – and one that is surprisingly little known or mentioned in this country. In 1968, Petula Clark was a big star in America with a recent string of 15 number one hits and her own show of which her husband was the producer. She invited Harry Belafonte to duet with her on the show and, at the end of an emotional performance of On the Path of
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What would you say to your 16 year-old self apart from buy shares in Google, go easy on the recreational drugs and avoid stonewashed denim. Dear Me is a collection of letters by celebrities to their teenage selves. Journalist and former editor of GT magazine, Joseph Galliano has edited this book with a foreword by JK Rowling. Celebrities include Alan Carr, Alice Cooper, Gillian Anderson, Emma Thompson, Stephen King, Hugh
Shiny new super smart travel site Wander commissioned their favourite illustrators to create inspirational, journey-themed postcards which they are putting up on site at a rate of one a week. The results are pretty good.
It’s an accepted norm that women in middle age and beyond become invisible to all but dutiful grandchildren. The great appeal of New York photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s new book Advanced Style is that it places ‘women of years’ right in the vanguard of fashion. The way Cohen sees it, these women have been at the style game longest and know exactly what they are doing. The book, like Cohen’s celebrated