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Inside Fictional Homes: The End of the Land
Throughout 2011, I will be quoting passages from contemporary fiction, as I come across them, on kitchens and interior spaces, selected for how they encourage emotional engagement with kitchens and...
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Best Food and Garden Books of 2011
Literature is very much a source of inspiration for the kitchens we design at Johnny Grey Studios, whether to conjure creativity or explore how the latest neuroscience research might affect kitchen...
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TED NOTES – emotional entertainment with an edge.
OBSERVER TEDx MARCH 10 I really enjoyed sitting down being entertained for a day. The element of surprise, the emotional impact and mix of different contents are intoxicating in a way that most design...
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MESS PLEASE. WHILE I’M TALKING KITCHENS, OTHERS PHILOSOPHISE IT..
Messy kitchens, happy living? I think so. The first time I go into a house the sight of the kitchen reveals much about the owner’s world view. Exaggerated tidiness can mean little cooking, too much...
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The re-enchantment of the kitchen
‘Enchantment’ is a slightly quaint word to use in connection with kitchen design. When recently judging the Kitchen Bedroom and Bathroom (KBB) Design Awards, it nevertheless came into my mind as the...
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A writer’s kitchen table
Andrew Solomon’s new book Far From the Tree: Children and the Search for Identity is book of the week on BBC Radio 4 and all over the review pages, here and in the USA at the moment – excitingly for me...
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Time to go veggie with Elizabeth David?
Historically, not a great many people wanted to emulate vegetarians. They were seen as cranky dinner party pests, also sentimental, moralistic, and only attractive to each other – the men with their...
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Elizabeth David: the cook, the runaway, the shopkeeper and rebel
I think we all know she was a cook – or it’s very easy to find this out. I would like to remember some other things about my aunt. She could not bear being told what to do. I’m not sure what led to...
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It starts with a table
I found myself happily agreeing with the comments reported in Saturday’s Guardian by American food campaigner Michael Pollen. The table, according to Pollen, is the birthplace of sociability and...
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SITTING ROOM V KITCHEN
So, it seems that the kitchen’s relatively newly-found role as social hub of the house might be under challenge. A recent survey by Ofcom has highlighted the rise of the new, media-dominated sitting...
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