place of the week: Café Kick
Working just off Exmouth market means we are super lucky to be surrounded by lots and lots of lovely bars, restaurants, cafés and pubs….
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
I was away over the New Year seeing family across Asia and the Middle East. One of my favourite experiences of the trip was visiting…
POLPO – a venetian word to describe a humble restaurant serving simple food
To most people, a crumbling concrete pillar in the middle of a room would be a turn-off. Not to Russell Norman. He’s scanning…
Moroccan Adventures
About a week ago I returned from my trip to Morocco. We managed to pack in a fantastic 10 days of travel including a…
Cool, Ethical, Dutch
I’d been wanting to revisit Holland for a while, after being inspired by Dutch designers like Droog on my design degree (see Emily’s blog…
Hotel Droog, Amsterdam
Last week I took a trip to Amsterdam with some good friends and I was very excited when I learnt that Droog, the Dutch…
Jon, Sri Lanka, a cookery book!!
Tom our workshop manger here at deVOL introduced us to his mate Jon Lewin, a really lovely and very cool guy who always wears…
Glastonbury A World of Creativity
Instead of the traditional chilled out, hot holiday abroad, this year a group of friends and I decided to take some time off work…
Barcelona
I took a short trip to Barcelona a few weeks ago. There is so much to love about Bacelona; great food, museums and Gaudi’s…
Heritage style – Elizabethan manor house Canons Ashby
I had a little history lesson this weekend during a visit to the house and gardens at the National trust property a stones throw…
Happy Hoildays
Made in England
I’ve had a bit of a ‘Made In England’ weekend with a visit to the John Smedley factory shop in Derbyshire to stock up…