The Best Christmas Window this year goes to my favourite vintage furniture store in Sydney, Ken Neale’s Twentieth Century Modern. There’s not a snippet of tinsel in site.
Twentieth Century Modern, Unit 3, 138 Darlinghurst Rd, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia. +61 2 9331 2033

A few days in Sydney and one excellent Olympic window seen.

I usually go to London and end up only seeing London, but this time a friend invited me to go with her to see the Ipswich Museum , the traditional Victorian Natural History Gallery and then on to Pinmill, a small seaside community of house boats and huts on stilts. Absolutely worth a visit. [...]

I had carried an article about the Parisian Natural History Museum in my notebook for years and finally managed to get there on my latest trip.. Always a lover of all things stuffed this museum displayed its specimens in such a way that they seemed to interact with the architecture. A playful mix [...]

Visiting Tokyo for my first time I was expecting my head to be filled with ‘Geisha’ or ‘Tokyo Pop’ imagery, for everything to be either super modern or super traditional. I loved these garage doors in Asakusa - Tokyo’s traditional market area as they are practical, beautiful, traditional, modern and unexpected all at the [...]

Global Village Antiques and Collectables, The Regent Cinema, Helensville, Auckland, New Zealand

After reading Peggy Guggenheim’s autobiography I was determined to visit her Palazzo turned art gallery the next time I went to Italy. And it didn’t disappoint - her collection was diverse and set in what was her very elegant residence in Venice. It is not often that you can get this close to [...]

Regal Enterprises in Greytown, Wairarapa are the producers of 54mm hand-painted full-gloss metal figures. The two Farley brothers re create scenes from the First Maori War, the American Civil War and the New Zealand Army and also offer a small range of Victorian figures all beautifully detailed right down to the polka dots on [...]

Andrew Edmonds
Andrew Edmonds in Soho, London is my favorite little restaurant. Little being the operative word here. With its wooden pew seating upstairs and closely packed tables in the dark basement it feels like you are eating in the vicars kitchen cupboard. Amazing seasonal ingredients add to the rustic bistro feel but [...]

The Rarotongan aesthetic is all about symmetry and colour. In fact their use of colour was so unusual I found myself in the local paint shop asking for a paint chart. As it turns out the most popular colour this year is Taubmans ‘French Mauve.’ This aesthetic combined with the simplicity of [...]