If you love Carlo Scarpa or Olivetti typewriters then this will be your thing. A small space in Piazza San Marco (Venice) was transformed by Carlo Scarpa between 1956 - 1959 for Olivetti as their showroom. For some reason in the late 90s Olivetti moved out and a novelty shop moved in! Luckily, last year [...]

A recent visit to the Eames house (or Case Study house #8) in Pacific Palisades made me want to build my own house! A short drive from West Hollywood the home of two of America’s most important designers is a must see if you are in Los Angeles. Contact the Eames Foundation to arrange a [...]

Photos by Simon Bracken
We do love a stopover, and better than that, we love a “two-location-in-one” stopover, so you can do most of your exploring on foot. Off we go to Penang.
Check in first to the snazzy Rasa Sayang (get them to send their driver to the airport). Then, once relaxed after a few days [...]

These hellish little poupées, writhing in purgatory on their cardboard mounts or thrown into wicker caskets, are not some macabre instillation by Jake and Dinos Chapman but instead just toys for sale at the Saturday market at sun-kissed and heavenly Antibes, on the French Riviera.

Photos by Peter Hunt
A curled-up koala, a micro monkey with its hands up, a Victorian sweet jar filled near to the brim with preserved moles, their splayed paws and elongated noses seeming to press against the glass semaphoring “Let us out of here!” - the cabinets of curiosity at The Grant Museum, in London’s Bloomsbury [...]

Photos Courtesy of La Sultana
Exhausted. Need to get away. Need to be pampered. Need delicious food. Need to just sink into a bliss of having everything PERFECT.
Now that the commute to Morocco has got so much better again (from the UK, British Airways have reintroduced the London-to-Marrakech route, meaning –Hallelujah — no more Royal Air [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
The current it-girl in London? Esther. That’s the name of the marvelous painting by John Everett Millais (1829-96) which is attracting fashionable attention as the star piece in the V&A Museum’s outstanding Cult of Beauty exhibition.
You will note the word “outstanding.” We do not usually gush. We do now. The V&A has [...]

Q: What do you need for a sandcastle competition? A: A beach and an audience. So where better than the South Bank of London, where thousands of people promenade on the weekends, when the tide of the mighty Thames is low? There’s a beach, right there, with a view over to St Paul’s Cathedral. [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt

Photos by Marion Hume
Let’s go to Lecce. Yes let’s, because although it is dubbed “The Siena of the South” it’s a lot less crowded and, in the spring, before the tourist hordes heading for their trulli arrive, it’s actually rather cheap.
They say it’s like an oven in summer, down here in [...]

There are places that we describe as being “paradise” and then there are places that are actually called Paradise. This Paradise is an hours drive out of Queenstown, New Zealand and certainly matches my definition of paradise.
Candle light, open fire cooking, mountains as neighbours, $30 a night.
Paradise Trust, Glenorchy, New Zealand; www.paradisetrust.co.nz