honey bee

Liv: What would you like for your birthday?
Rachel: Your visual knowledge for a year.
Liv: seriously
Rachel: Well, could we go beekeeping
Liv: seriously?
Rachel: YES! Local honey helps hayfever. Not that I get hayfever.
Liv: Well, I know the beekeeper at Hackney City farm..
Rachel: Of course you do. I don't want a whole course or anything. It might just be an afternoon fad. Or I could well become a beekeeper.

(looking forward to 30 candles)

Wedding

My wonderful friends Katie and Ollie are getting married at the Villa Ephrussi in July and I can't wait!
(the villa was recently profiled on the always pitch-perfect SeaSaw Designs)

A Bowery lift

Foster + Partners have designed a 12 by 20 foot moving gallery room in NY.

Be still my heart

Forget Black Swan's swirl of melodramatic trash. In fact, forget all preconceptions about dance. Watch Wim Wenders' Pina.

PINA - Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost - International Trailer from neueroadmovies on Vimeo.

Are you sitting comfortably?

Henry Wilson's designs play with classics. Visit his website for an anglepoise glass blown lamp.
(via Vogue Living Australia)

Space

High and low. Basement versus rooftop. If the office context changes, do we have radically different ideas? I'm a freelancer nowadays and I ponder things from my kitchen desk without my co-workers to give me answers.
(via Black Eiffel)
p.s Hello again.

A curated bookshop

Literary agency Lutyens and Rubenstein have a Notting Hill bookshop. It's glorious. Go west just to peruse.