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My Cultural Life – Jamie Seaton
TOAST co-founder Jamie Seaton tells Elle Decoration what he is reading, watching and downloading this month. My favourite piece of music is (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For? by Nick Cave,...
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EARLY MORNING AND THE LIGHT PALE AND CLEAR OVERHEAD
Jamie Seaton Leaving the bustle of the medina, through the jostling traffic around the rosy city walls – and eventually out into the quiet, shaded lanes of the Palmeraie. Dappled light, birdsong. A...
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SEVEN A DAY
Orlando Gough Whoa! Seven a day! And I’m not talking about Shane Warne. The new 5-2 diet: 5 portions of vegetables and 2 of fruit. It’s a tough one. Like most middle-class people I feel instinctively...
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SPIRIT OF PLACE / DUNGENESS
In his new column Michael Smith responds to the essence of a place Escaping the Big Smoke for the weekend, we drove to Dungeness, a world away. I first stumbled upon the place 10 years ago, and it’s...
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SEAWEED
Kate O’Brien My interest in seaweed was reawakened last month, a madeleine moment with a seaweed chip summoning salty sea air, concrete jetties, weathered hands and brown paper bags filled with dulse....
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SPIRIT OF PLACE / KETTLE’S YARD
Michael Smith I was happily lost in Cambridge, enchanted by its gothic backstreets and Georgian terraces of dainty yellow brick, taken by a college green with an apple tree in the middle, which turned...
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SPIRIT OF PLACE / PORT ELIOT
Michael Smith As we drove over the water, above Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s rail bridge of 1859, straddling the epic sweep of water that is the border of Devon (or perhaps England) and Cornwall, I felt...
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SPIRIT OF PLACE / ARMORICAN BEAUTY
Michael Smith At the end of the summer I spent a week at my brother-in-law’s family home on the Côtes d’Armor, an enchanting stretch of the Brittany coast. Imagine the lush, dramatic green and the...
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ART OF PLACE / DOMINIC CLARE’S SNOWDONIA
The first piece in a new series by Catrina Davies exploring the relationship between art and landscape I take the path through the old forest. An extended family of oak, ash, beech, birch and holly,...
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TALTSY MUSEUM
Sara Wheeler An oval portrait of Tsar Alexander III hung uncertainly on one of the larch-log walls of the schoolroom. Wintery sun sliced onto an abacus, a row of low smooth desks, and a blackboard...
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Twyman’s Coffee
James Seaton. It’s a relief to leave the intense heat of Kingston and head up into the mountains behind. The climb goes on and on, winding up precipitous, heavily wooded slopes – perilous falls below,...
View ArticleGUIDE TO SYMI, GREECE
Sailing into Symi’s amphitheatrical harbour is like drifting into a pastel impression of the picture-perfect Greek island. But there are no sugar cube houses or blue and white clichés: neoclassical...
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