Talking Shop – Design, lifestyle and inspiration

Here is a lovely soothing image to accompany a beautiful product with a fascinating back story: Felicity Irons is the UK’s last full-time rush worker and the founder and owner of Rush Matters, a company that makes, you guessed it,…

Shrove Tuesday (on the 21st) is a great excuse to round up a bunch of mates and have some messy fun making piles of pancakes and seeing who can flip theirs flawlessly and who proves to be a fantastic flop….

First, a quick reminder that it’s your last chance to get free delivery on the furniture and lighting in our sale – our offer ends at midnight tonight!* Now, if you’re anything like us, how a new restaurant or bar…

The way we live is changing – where work, rest and play would once take place in different locations, increasingly they are occurring under one roof and sometimes in one room. Research indicates that by 2016 21% of the working…

Leaving the torrent of tumultuous global events to the experts (from the Arab Spring to the Euro’s woes and the UK’s riots, have you ever known a year when competition for the front page was so fierce?), here’s a review of…

While we’re usually pretty much clean lines/form follows function kind of people, there are certain times of the year – Christmas, Easter, Halloween – when we are happy to have a little fun with our cookware:

Just had to show you this pic: we were flicking through old magazines and supplements this weekend – prior to culling them before they colonise the space entirely – and came across this opening shot… …from a feature in the…

Is a great desk the sign of a man’s success or does a great desk engender that success? Either way, Josh Moore believes that every man needs one: ‘Women are allowed plenty in this day and age. A nice big…

Josh Moore on the Eames lounge chair’s only serious rival and Terence Conran’s favourite armchair, the Karuselli: ‘I wrote a blog for Talking Shop in what now seems an age ago, about the Eames lounge chair being the ultimate man chair,…

Josh Moore on the problems posed by ceiling lights and the sheer brilliance of the Arco floor lamp: ‘You ever had the conundrum of popping t’big light on, to find a large shaft of light emanating from the ceiling, directly…