Hints and tips:
...Once a thriving industry used to make ropes, carpets and fishing nets, its production halted with the introduction of plastics....
...“What we’re walking on is a kind of soft carpet of moss, but [the ground beneath] this all should be frozen. The permafrost is melting,” our guide is explaining....
...These days, they look as natural as any royal corgi, lounging on the leather sofas and Turkish carpets of America’s top hotels....
...Grace Ndiritu kicks off her shoes and pads across a thick carpet....
...to “convert” detailed silk carpets into a never-before-attempted miniature form, where each framed earring is composed of 1,600 tiny silken knots....
...“The house needed a lot of work,” says Ilias, the former executive vice-president of art and design at Manhattan’s ABC Carpet & Home....
...Carpets are thick and vividly coloured. A small gym has Peloton bikes. The beds, if mine was typical, are well padded and comfortable. It isn’t even just a “hometel”....
...Mugler-esque gowns that evoked red carpet robots with ballgown skirts and articulated bodices strayed into costume territory....
...Konig has used wallpapers from Soane, lamps from Antoinette Poisson and tweed carpet by Tim Page, and no two bedrooms are the same....
...Underfoot is an exquisite carpet of beetles, ants and dragonflies by Regina Silveira that is said to represent the lost forest but also the state of Brazilian politics....
...A small blue Smythson notebook, two dark-red Moleskine sketchbooks, my diary and an extremely pretty handmade Minnieolga pad that I bought in Paris a few years ago and haven’t yet unwrapped....
...It was true: the grandeur of the dining hall, the carpets, the staircases. By now the voyage was almost at an end....
...It might be a millennial’s city pad in 2021. “That’s right,” he says. “The cultural continuum. And that’s the picture that sums up what for me became an ideal sensibility....
...Many of its pieces are made from Econyl, a stretchy fabric made from recycled fishing nets, scraps of carpets and other plastic waste....
...Other key early pieces on show in the lower gallery include “Recommend” (2013) made from cotton wool pads and the pink polystyrene tower, “Don’t Depend” (2006)....
...We hung it with adhesive pads, which are useful if you cannot make holes in your walls. Arket is an excellent source of inexpensive, useful and colourful bits and pieces....
...Even the shower floor had a lily-pad design cast in bronze....
...We walked in the Ourika Valley and discovered an amazing carpet warehouse, La Source de Tapis, on the side of the road.”...
...Make sure that higher items are dusted first (paintings, mirrors, light fixtures, etc).Use felt pads (furniture pads) to protect flooring from scratches....
...His most recent cosmic creation unveiled at PAD, London’s design and art fair in Berkeley Square, is the Spider Laguna chandelier – an alien arachnid with elongated bronze arms, diverging from his earlier...
...Its first building opened in an old carpet factory off London’s Brick Lane in 2014 and presented a kind of built manifesto for how different things could be....
...“I don’t know how intricate they can make their marble finishing and how deep they can make their silky shag pile carpets....
...I keep my favourite incense there in an antique Japanese wooden box that I bought from the dealer Peter Petrou at PAD London last year....
...The natural world is an accidental theme at PAD London this year....
...Soak & Sleep stocks comfortable microfibre pillows, while John Lewis offers synthetic cushion pads. Simba is an award-winning supplier of mattresses that contain no animal products....
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