Finally after many years of working and even living in Milan, I have found a hotel that I would recommend! Antica Locanda is a boutique hotel that has been open since 1926 with 11 rooms that are all different, some with beautiful planted balconies. With buckets of rickety charm and being located in [...]

Usually the flight from London to Milan and then Milan to London is the easiest part of my route to the Furniture Fair which begins in New Zealand.  This year, however, the volcano in Iceland with the unpronouceable name changed that.  Initially we were all a little bit blase about the impact of the ‘dust cloud’ on [...]

Next to each other these two little spots are my new favourites in London. I would recommend a large milk coffee and the fried eggs with sage from the cafe and to order a weekly box of organic local vegetables from the shop.
Leila’s Cafe & Shop, 17 Calvert Avenue , Bethnal Green, Lodnon [...]

Adelaide is a city that I have to say didn’t feature on my list of ‘must sees’ but I found myself pleasantly surprised. Khai Liew’s furniture showroom on Magill Road was a highlight as was the superbly curated Museum of Economic Botany. In fact the museum alone made the trip worthwhile …and I [...]

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