It fascinates me how one can immediately like a place, whether it’s a city or a whole country. I suppose […]

It fascinates me how one can immediately like a place, whether it’s a city or a whole country. I suppose […]
Recently I was asked to contribute some thoughts about bricks for ABC RN’s ‘Blueprint for Living’. My chat with Jonathan […]
Recently my friend, writer Victoria Blake, recommended my blog for a Sunshine Blogger Award. I was very touched, especially as […]
The recent spate of terrorist attacks and the horrific Grenfell Tower fire made me realise just how much I still […]
You know the thing – a postcard showing a view of a town or a building and in the corner […]
What do you think of the word iconic? Rather like the word luxury, it’s thrown around with abandon: I can […]
Recently I recorded a programme for Radio National on the future of skyscrapers (podcast here, article here). Researching the subject […]
My first months of living in Australia in the mid 1990s felt like inhabiting some kind of parallel universe. Everything […]
At the moment I’m writing a novel set in Paris. Although I’m dealing with the Paris of the past, my […]
This week’s Design File is about Willow Pattern china. If ever there was a design that symbolised a cosy, bourgeois […]
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