interior design

Friel and Williams surround themselves with curvilinear furniture in Me Without You

20th Century furniture and design specialists 20th Century Marks have been in touch to let us know they supplied much of the furniture for...

Events: Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair, London, 20-25 Jan

Interiors and antiques lovers will be descending upon The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair which opens at Battersea Evolution in Battersea Park, London SW11 from 20-25 Jan 2015 This thrice-yearly event...

Commodus has a tête-à-tête with a striking bust in Gladiator

A short and sharp post to answer a question sent to us recently via twitter: I spent some time fondling this rather fine bust recently. It features in a...

The Tulip Chair in Star Trek – putting the record straight

Updated July 2022 As many a book or website will tell you, the Tulip Chair was heavily featured in Star Trek The Original TV series (1966-1969). The original and best...

The Hunger Games featuring DS 600, the longest sofa in the world!

I popped into the Mayfair Design Studio, London recently - the three floor luxury furniture, decoration and accessory showroom, and bumped into a rather stunning DS 600 'Non Stop'...

How Blade Runner combines a multi-cultural past with a retro-fitted present (plus details on those iconic whiskey glasses)

Blade Runner Guest Feature By Matt Cole, Creative Director at Branded Content agency Drum,...

The Incredibles – Mid Century Modernism exemplified

The Incredibles (2004) an action-packed story of a family of superheroes living an incognito suburban existence, may be animation but the attention to detail in the sets and production...

KnollStudio Platner chairs & tables take an unusual star turn in Bond, Quantum of Solace.

Guest Feature: Justin Pratt, Manager KnollStudio UK and InternationalAs Mies once said “it is almost easier to build a skyscraper  than a chair”. There...

All the fun of the fair in film

Many great movies have captured the allure of funfairs: Disney's Pinocchio (1940), Brighton Rock (1947), The Third Man (1949), Saturday Night Sunday Morning (1960), Big (1988), Despicable Me (2010), Take This Waltz (2011) and...