Get stuffed!

It's not PC, but taxidermy is cool.

Maybe not zebra and giraffe, but quirky applications of the old techniques, or even modern interpretations of the classic stag's head.

Take Emma Hawkins - a young, attractive taxidermist with waiting lists for penguins and items costing £60,000. It's macabre but fascinating, and Hawkins boasts celebrity clients and a high end London address.

Starck is at it of course - see his lit acrylic deer head - and the traditional stag heads look best set in contemporary surroundings. A well preserved deer head set against a crisp white background and some cool styling, softens and humanises a modern interior that can often seem a little clinical and unloved.

Sometimes it's art, comic or dark.

I'll work on the next appropriate hotel client and let you know if I convince them that stuffing can be sexy!

Springtime

Spring has sprung and the green shoots are coming through. This is a great time to inject some new life into an interior with a shot of green.



Whether its a stack of spider plants in the bathroom or an innovative 'Normann Grass' vase - be playful and enjoy your interior.

Looks fresh with white and grey.

Posts

First post and it's about posts. Or at least a structure/sculpture formed from posts...

An 'interior' that's been created to add interest to a corporate hub off Euston Road, it plays with light and makes a bold linear statement.

Each element is formed by 50 x 50mm steel square posts, with the dimensions fixed and used to aid construction. Posts are sunk into floor level, with tiles repeating the 50x50. The repetition creates a forest or 'room' that you can sit in and watch the world go by. And our eyes like repetition. On a bright spring day this is just the kind of place that can take your mind off work and make you look to the sky.

I want to appreciate these attempts to enrich spaces in the public realm. They can create a sense of place and add interest to homogenous office blocks in central London.