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Fancy picking up some lettuce and a few tomatoes for your lunch while waiting for the bus? Well, thanks to guerrilla gardeners Chelsea Fringe and local residents in Stockwell empty spaces are being t...
Not only is it one of the most beautiful buildings in Britain, the V&A has just opened a newly refurbished fashion gallery. It’s breathtaking redesign, by 6a Architects, melds a modern mezz...
Well this sure beats sitting on my sofa at home watching the telly…… This exquisite taste of paradise is the W Retreat and Residences Koh Samui, the first W Retreat in Southeast Asia. Loc...
US textile designer Amy Butler never fails to inspire us at Livingetc. Here’s a sneak preeve of her new Cameo range of quilting and fashion fabrics, voiles and laminated prints. Sweet, huh?
Just because it’s ANOTHER grey Monday, here are some brilliant balloon fruits to cheer us all up! Balloons, coloured paper, some tape and a bit o’ string is all you need to make these fan...
Vidal Sassoon The Movie - check out this lovely homage to the cult snipper who changed the face of hairdressing as we know it – sadly no longer with us.
Buy this incredible, wonderful set of desktop accessories from Plant & Moss.
We are not easily spooked here at Livingetc, but the Phantomenal III Lamp created by French design studio Guesner sent a collective chill up our spines. Giving the illusion it is floating through the...
We love this stunning collection of prints by Still Life Stylist Sonia Rentsch with photography by Scott Newett entitled ‘Dinner Etiquette’. If these characters walked off the page, I can...
Beautiful collages by the brilliant designer, Sophie Duran. And we’ve always loved those vegetables-styled-up-as-creatu res images. Mo, acting news ed.
You may remember we blogged about Melbourne based artist Liesl Pfeffer last year and her beautiful mountain range art works collaged from photographs. Her latest works are just as covetable; giant se...
Like brilliant Expressionist paintings, these prints strip back the Olympic games to mere geometry. Life.Style.etc really loves. Mo, acting news editor.
This edible lasagne cookbook is brilliant – simply layer your filling between its pages. Food for thought from It’s Nice That. Mo.x
Pont Max Juvenal, Aix en Provence (Patrick Blanc) Quai Branly museum, Paris (Patrick Blanc) We’ve been inspired recently by the ultimate urban gardening – living walls. More like artworks than the gr...
It goes without saying that here at Livingetc we’ve a passion for all things furniture related, and it’s no secret that as soon as the clock chimes 3 (okay, sometimes before) we’re ...
It may be raining outside, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream of sunnier climes. It doesn’t take much but the photography in Helen Tsanos Sheinman’s new book, Love, Laughter...
Although we enjoy shouting at the TV as much as anyone when The Apprentice contestants make bumbling business decisions, we feel less qualified to pass judgement on Facebook’s recent acquisitio...
These beautiful ‘sketch sculptures’ by Julieann Worrall Hood have just been unveiled in the window of The Conran Shop in Chelsea. They have an amazing animated quality, as if someone has ...
Who needs to paint a mural when you can use staples? There was certainly no other medium in sight when Baptiste Debombourg took on this amazing project titled Aggravure. Baptiste has created a series...
Coming to Sadler’s Wells this May, Angelin Preljocaj’s ballet interpretation of the classic fairy tale Snow White is a far cry from the cheerful Disney animation most of us know. Dark, dr...
I’ve danced beneath a few in my time, but they never looked quite like this… Check out these ‘melted glitterballs’ I found on Yatzer, as reinvented by the artistic group Rotga...
We love our feathered friends here at Livingetc – but even more so when they’re photographed in all their avian glory against the most stylish of backgrounds. With their bright blues, radiant yellows...
Who would have thought the humble coat hanger could be such a focal point? At Merci, the ultra chic lifestyle boutique in Paris, the walls are currently adorned with this impressive collection of han...
Oh we do like a day out at the seaside at Livingetc, especially with a bit of art thrown in. So on a recent trip to Hastings (see our June issue for more on the loveliest, most serene B&B in town...
The Livingetc team has been marvelling at this magical artwork by Holland based artist Berndnault Smilde, titled ‘Nimbus II’. Created at the Hotel KMK in Amsterdam earlier this month, the...
The sun is starting to stay up that little bit longer now and I can’t help but daydream about the great outdoors and the idea of pitching a tent in a couple of months time. Even better would be...
There seems to be a baby boom amongst my friends just lately and I’ve been struggling for gift inspiration! So I’m loving Ruka-Ruka‘s gorgeous, bold, retro prints that can be custom...
Jamie Hewlett Quentin Blake Design from the library’s Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorative Papers Think The British Library is just for dusty academics and clever clogs? The Spring Festival, fr...
With its sensuously curved roof and gorgeous larch-clad exterior, we already knew the outside of the Olympic Velodrome was a thing of beauty – and now that they’ve opened the doors with the Track Cyc...
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