Posts From Michelle McWilliams
Remade Home is a new show and marketplace for people with an interest in 'eco chic design and sustainable home style'. There's a laidback, vintage vibe and a chance to meet artists and local craftmakers who create treasure from trash. Exhibitors include Edinburgh based mid century specialists Bra Bohag, restylers Dear Old Blighty and Trash Furnishing, Mini Moderns from London, jeweller Tarnish and textile makers Alphabet and Clarabella Unique Textiles. The show
Plus stackable armchair in green, £69 from Dwell Since our feature on affordable garden seats on 5 May British company Dwell has launched some modern, stylish and inexpensive outdoor furniture so we've featured the best in the range. Southsea Deckchairs are also mentioned with the wideboy deck chair and their more expensive teak cruise chair. Finally, we featured two benches from Fermob, a French garden furniture company that provide a really wide choice
We are delighted to bring you the work of Hilltop Cottons. Avocado Sweet is the exclusive online stockist of this tiny label based in the West Of Scotland. They design and hand make fantastic limited edition cushions, including the great vintage tablecloth ones pictures below, as well 100% cotton children's bedlinen and a range of other items. All their work is of the highest quality and just that bit different from anything else around.
Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta, Ukraine designed by Igor Vasilievsky. Photograph by Frederic Chaubin The cult of the super-architect has grown in the west as countries commission internationally-famous, often wealthy architects to lend their status and fame, as well as their considerable design talents, to new flagship buildings. Not so in the old USSR where these exhuberant and striking buildings were designed by architects who were civil servants and received little recognition
One time Marine Girl and now Caught by the River, the wonderful Tracey Thorn is one of the contributors to On Nature, scheduled for publication by Harper Collins at the end of next month. The book is a guide to country pursuits with contributors sharing their particular outdoor passions such as life on remote islands, watching the seasons through a Welsh kitchen window, boy’s own adventures and urban naturalist daydreams. Caught by the
by Nicki Slater, Imagination Workshop Set off earlier this month for my first day of allotmenting proper, VERY excited and with hoe in hand. Imagine my heartbreak when I arrived to see ALL fruit bushes, apples trees, nets and rhubarb completely gone. The previous tenants had showed up and removed the lot. I know it was theirs and they could take it if they wanted but I must admit a
This Saturday sees the start of the 3 Harbours Festival in East Lothian which is located in and around the harbours of Prestonpans, Cockenzie and Port Seton. The strapline for the festival is 'art in unusual places' and it describes itself as the largest and most diverse arts festival in East Lothian. It includes visual art, music, murals, literature, dance, photography and traditional crafts and runs from the 28 May to
From when you were rocked gently on your mother's knee to when you used to tip your cheap plastic school chair back as far as it would go – there's something irresistible about a chair that you can rock out in. Pictured above is an attractive Scandi looking design from The Futon Company, reasonably priced at £179. Below left is the classic Eames rocker which not only looks great but is a practical,
James Boswell: 18th century literary giant, father of modern biography, startlingly frank diarist, reluctant lawyer, party animal and one in a long line of significant Scottish figures revered around the world and largely unsung at home. The first ever Boswell Book Festival was held over the weekend at the gorgeous Auchinleck House in Ayrshire which was the home of the Boswell family for generations until it fell into disrepair in the middle of the
We say a reluctant farewell to San Francisco with our last post featuring two restaurant recommendations: Betelnut Pejiu Wu on Union Street which serves south-east Asian cuisine and Perbacco on California Street. Described by one customer as having 'an air of a 1920s expat hideaway in Asia', Betelnut has exotic crimson decor with lacquered walls, bamboo fans and period posters but as a very busy restaurant is certainly not hidden
