Getting Primitive

>> The combination of cult Soho shop Machine-A's closure and having come back from Tokyo inspired and brimming with excitement over the finds there, visiting Primitive London, a relatively new shop set-up buried in the arches in Hackney was a pleasure indeed.  It has the scatty opening hours that you'd expect of a hole-in-the-wall space,… Continue reading Getting Primitive

Blueprint Jewels

I don't want to delude myself into thinking I have *ahem* fame woes, but at Blueprint's tradeshow in Singapore it did quite literally take fifteen minutes to walk less than ten metres in a space that isn't even that vast to begin with.  It was purely down to people stopping me to say hey, ask… Continue reading Blueprint Jewels

United Bamboozled

>> Did I not say in my last post that I knowingly turn into a pathetic sodden potato in the rain because I catch myself out deliberately by not bringing an umbrella (I'm telling you, ten-plus lost umbrella track record here…).  Lo and behold, we emerge from lunch (I heart you, oh juicy pork and… Continue reading United Bamboozled

Rain on Me

>> I don't like rehasing posts in general but I trust that a good lot you might not have caught this going up on Glamour and with brooding clouds in the sky that have replaced scorching sunshine, looking set to the bring the sort of schizophrenic weather that I come to expect out of British… Continue reading Rain on Me