Recently I was asked to contribute some thoughts about bricks for ABC RN’s ‘Blueprint for Living’. My chat with Jonathan […]
Tag Archive for ‘Frank Lloyd Wright’
A proper hello
I’m a fool for a doorway. Thankfully, there are several Instagram sites that feed my addiction so I can peruse […]
Sunshine and playing favourites
Recently my friend, writer Victoria Blake, recommended my blog for a Sunshine Blogger Award. I was very touched, especially as […]
Natural balance
You know the thing – a postcard showing a view of a town or a building and in the corner […]
Standing for something.
What do you think of the word iconic? Rather like the word luxury, it’s thrown around with abandon: I can […]
Utopian dreams and reality
2016 was not exactly a year filled with inspiration and it says something that many of us are greeting 2017 […]
Talking Japanese
When I was a boy in the 1960s, anything that said ‘Made in Japan’ meant cheap and nasty. We used […]
The appalling world of design
This week’s Design File is about Ron Arad and his Bookworm. He’s one of those designers who always grabs my […]
Windows for the soul
This week’s Design File is about Willow Pattern china. If ever there was a design that symbolised a cosy, bourgeois […]
Chicago 2013
In June this year I visited Chicago for the first time. Having studied its buildings at university all those years […]
