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SALAD DAYS ! Bonjour! I am currently visiting my French Home as the factories of Europe are closed for their summer vacation so I have a week to enjoy some R&R before I head off to Stockholm to meet with 900 Scandinavian design companies to search out bold and beautiful minimalism for the new season! It is currently a roasting 39 degrees in Carcassonne ( be careful what you wish for!) and quite impossible to do very much from lunchtime onwards so I am forced to read and swim - a hard life but someone has to do it! Have just returned from the beach at Leucate and am preparing dinner with a glass of delicious rosé helping proceedings. In these temperatures when one is supposed to be relaxing the only food that I crave is a variety of fresh salads that need minimal prep time, are healthy and light and look fantastic in their bowls. Buy Now - Shallow Stoneware Salad Bowl - £39.95 I like a choice of sa...

I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside! I spent last w/e in St Leonards-On-Sea with some friends who have bought the most beautiful Georgian house on the seafront. I took them a gift of our striped mugs in pale grey as Sam is an architect and I guessed that this would suit the interior perfectly. The theory is that they will think of me when they drink their morning coffee from these stylish pieces  however as their view is a complete panorama of the ocean I very much doubt it! We walked into Hastings and spent an afternoon rummaging in the second hand/antique shops in the Old Town and had a thoroughly wonderful time. It was absolutely baking - in fact my friends took a dip in the sea at 9.30am which is virtually unheard of in the UK!  Buy Now - Large Ceramic Mug In Grey Stripe - £16 On my return to RW, I was reminded by a thoughtful customer( my thanks to you Nathalie) of the practicalities of wearing scent...

Flexible Design, Hot Leather,  Figs & a Fish Dish!     "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful" I'm sorry but I think that William Morris was mistaken !  I like a product that is both beautiful AND practical, they are not necessarily mutually exclusive! Above all I love design that works hard in the home, that can multi-task, and something landed on my desk this week that got my heart beating a little faster! Buy Now - Stoneware Wine Cooler- £27.50 This stoneware Wine Cooler can be popped into the freezer for a couple of hrs and then it is ready to chill your White Wine or Rose to the perfect temperature. It is also a thing of beauty with it's matt black, body peppered with slightly glossy markings that remind me of  a leopard. And this is not the end of its abilities - when not chillin', it makes a beautiful vase or a kitchen ute...