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 furnit...

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 c...

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. Lik...

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 an...

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 thoughtfull...

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 tr...

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 o...

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...

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...

Meet The Maker - Sophie Marshall of This is Incense

We sat down for an exclusive Q&A with Sophie Marshall of new brand to Love After Love, This is Incense.

Permission to Roam

“If the body has to cope with confinement, then all the more reason to have developed a mind that knows how to roam.” – Jeanette Winterson