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Last week I was honoured to spend a day with the legendary fashion designer Zandra Rhodes at her glamorous home and studio above the Fashion Museum in London. Zandra was an inspiration! Fresh off a plane from Los Angeles the night before, she was busy putting together...

I was on a shoot recently and although the house was full of incredible art, I came away determined that one day I would be able to own a print (or two) by this man, Massimo Vitali. Born in 1944 in Italy, he studied photography in London and began photographing...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h96KTDUCRE4] I was surfing the web this morning, supposed to be doing some research for my book, when I stumbled upon this video about the home of the Swedish interior designer Marie Olsson Nylander,...

These are Google's new London head quarters in Convent Garden. It's great to see the designers, Penson, having a bit of fun and creating office spaces that treat people as human beings. The interior of the Renzo Piano- designed Central St Giles building is a nod to...

  This lovely house in Paris, photographed by Jeremy Wilson, features in the September issue of Elle Decoration. I love the soft, elegant colour schemes and the mix of old with the new. These are images that didn't make the magazine so check out the latest issue...

Following on from yesterday's post about injecting a bit of glamour into your home, I thought I would share these images of Josephine Gintzburger's super glamorous apartment in Paris. The reason it works, as I was saying yesterday, are the contrasts between the clean,...

We all like a little bit of glamour in our lives. Well, I do, and if you're reading this blog the chances are that you do too. Our homes need to be comfortable, practical, safe, cocooning and full of personality, but I also like interiors that ooze glamour. I just...

Today I met the utterly fabulous David Carter while on location in his extraordinary Queen Anne house in East London. David is a feted interior designer and is the ultimate flamboyant, creative genius.  A true dandy with an impressive intellect, an acerbic wit and an...