Photos by Peter Hunt
We didn’t do it, but we think we saw who did.
But then again, if you’d been freaked out by a red queen, you might need a quiet puff to calm down too.
We found Alice at Antony, a grand old house in Cornwall that Tim Burton used as a location. After we’d partaken [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive,” wrote the Scottish novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson in an age before Easyjet and Ryanair. These days, it is, generally, better to arrive, along with one’s luggage, than it is to travel; except when one is touring in a Bentley.
I don’t even like cars, [...]

This month I had the opportunity to experience Target’s First Sunday’s at The Brooklyn Museum. I attended the opening of Andy Warhol’s: The Last Decade and as someone who is a sucker for Mr. Warhol, it was quite an evening. My favorite pieces of his career, which can be seen at the museum, [...]

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 [...]

In London, the National Gallery does a range of great artists as finger puppets! Collect van Gogh, Monet and Michelangelo!

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 [...]

Ok, you can download a city guide on your iPod, pick up one in a swanky colour by Wallpaper* or one of those (rather fab and so handy) pocket sized fold-up Luxe guides. But nothing beats a real, human guide.
Guided tours used to be judged the opposite of stylish; a long hangover perhaps from the [...]

You might wonder why there are no visuals with this post. That’s because the exterior of Stephen Walters & Sons doesn’t look that promising and unless you are a nosy journalist like me, you can’t go inside the main building. The adjoining mill shop, which is open to the public, looks like nothing much really.
The [...]

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The country hotel, the roaring fire, the delicious food, the snug, warm room, the fluffy duvet…these are the things I want to tick for a festive break in “Ye Olde Englande” - but until recently, the search too often ended in a rather soggy disappointment.
So it is with regret, really, that I [...]

Any film buff will tell you that the Griffith Park Observatory has appeared in more movies than most modern-day stars.
From when it was first used in a James Dean-led film, to the recent ‘Yes Man’ film starring Jim Carrey, the observatory building and grounds are a landmark in Los Angeles culture.
Unfortunately the day we checked [...]