Love Stories

Meet the Maker: Jean-Christophe Miquel of Merci Louis

My mother was in love with antiques. As a small boy, I was inevitably with her when she went to Mr Vichard’s old workshop to find a piece of furniture or an old painting. I wandered within the alle...

Meet the Maker: Jenifer Green of Greentree Home Candle

"I think of our candles as sculptural renderings in wax because they are objects that evoke beauty and serenity with graceful sophistication. The collections represent objects that inspire us, make...

Great Feeling Wants a Container: Thoughts on Space and Home

A house then is also a kind of body. Just as our ‘soul’ clings to organs and bones and blood, we attach ourselves to walls, floors, and things. Like matryoshka dolls, the house contains the body, w...

Meet the Maker(s): Mathilde & Charles of CARRON Paris

"Art is in all things. My work is an integral part of my life. I think about it all the time and I could not live without art, without seeing it and creating it."

Meet The Maker - Heather Taylor of Heather Taylor Home

"There is an element of storytelling every time you sit down for a meal and invite people to join you around the table. When considered thoughtfully, all of the details - from the lighting and deco...

Jack, Rose & a Stork in the Night: Defining & Defying Romance

"In recent years, my impression of romantic love has experienced a kind of death. Though, I do believe it’s a generative death – the corpse of a tree that continues to feed the understory long afte...

Meet the Maker - Miranda Berrow

"I spent many months at the beginning asking myself why I was making and who would want these weird and wobbly looking things, talking myself out of the studio. When things really did take a turn f...

The "I" Who I Wear

"I saw outfits and thought: THAT IS A ME. I was, and am still, something of a Chimera – that hybrid creature from Homer’s Iliad; “a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body,...

Meet the Maker - Rami Mekdachi of Lola James Harper

"At 5 years old I understood that the world is more than we think, big, diverse, open and full of surprises..."

On Motherhood in Life & Literature

There isn’t anything closer to my heart, than Motherhood. Be it treasured memories of my gorgeous Grandmothers, who only seemed to see, the good in naughty old me and who taught me, amongst other t...