If life hadn’t thrown the curveball of a pandemic, I should have been arriving in Switzerland around now to spend […]
The secret service of style
Where does our personal taste come from? I reflect on this occasionally, especially when I see new buildings going up […]
Defying the darkness
The Danish idea of hygge – cosiness – might well be a noughties fad that’s come and gone but surely […]
The shock of the new
The past weeks have been shocking. The sight of churches in Italy filled with coffins, the scenes of manically busy […]
The Tao of lock-down living
It says ‘writer, traveller, broadcaster’ in my by-line (and after the past few weeks I’m thinking of adding ‘expert hand-washer’). […]
Penguins and politics
In the late 1980s I decorated two display homes in a housing development near Marbella on the Costa del Sol. […]
Le Corbusier’s house in Argentina
A few years ago, I watched a film called ‘The Man Next Door’. It was about an industrial designer living […]
A Glasgow kiss
I’m posting my pieces on two rather wonderful buildings in Glasgow, which were part of the Lost and Found: Glasgow […]
Ponderings from Patagonia and beyond
I haven’t blogged for a while because I was away, trying to soften the blow of turning sixty. It worked, […]
Looking at the stars
I’m always falling down memory holes. One minute I’m minding my own business, the next I’m hurtling towards another dimension, […]