A conversation with Clare Gilligan, co-founder of Australia-based Makers Lane.
In a world full of indiscriminate consumption, mass-production and throw-away culture, there is, thankfully a tide-turn of considered purchasing and a quest for authenticity and truth, where discerning consumers eschew the ‘cheap &…
A conversation with James Eden, CEO & owner of Private White VC.
‘Local Boy turned Hero, Saves the Day’ sounds like the plot of a good book, but in Private White VC’s case it is a true story… twice over, one could loosely say. Picture…
A conversation with Marina Bolin, co-founder of Bolin Webb.
Shaving to most men is a necessary evil; nothing can halt the androgen-induced sprouting of facial hair, which, if allowed to continue unabated, would lead to a thirty foot beard! To remain fresh-faced…
A conversation with Sophie Miller, co-founder of Skinflint.
In this transient world of throw-away culture, encouraged and perpetuated by planned obsolescence, the word ‘skinflint’ should be celebrated as a notion of saving and conserving resources. Thankfully, there is a tide-turn in…
A conversation with Deborah Moore, CEO of Dents.
A good pair of gloves protects our hands from the elements and look fabulous, but they are beyond warmth and fashion. Gloves have been around for millennia, and have symbolised, over that time,…
An interview with Marjorie Taylor & Kendall Smith Franchini of The Cook’s Atelier.
Good food & fine wine lovers enjoying making real food, from scratch, sourced from the local area, in great company, in a stunningly historic building brimming with conviviality and bonhomie was the vision…
A conversation with Justin Hall, CEO and owner of Pantherella.
When it comes to socks we must learn to think beyond black and blue boring Christmas presents from unimaginative relations, or worse – wacky novelty pairs; a good pair of socks are an…
A conversation with Ann Ryley, Sales & Marketing Director of Begg & Co.
Hammering looms and mighty machines, soft Scottish water, miles and miles of yarn and artisanal expertise of generations of weavers creating colour palettes reminiscent of heather, loch, sea and sky, the cacophony of…
An interview with Robert Ettinger, Chairman, CEO and owner of Ettinger.
Let us fast forward the history of leather – the ultimate raw material of millennia, when since prehistoric times each evolving civilisation has enjoyed both its durability and aesthetic qualities, in terms of…
Interview with Andy Oldfield, Founder of The Fringe Workshop, Derbyshire.
Ever since reading the romantic, yet brutal, novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy at school, I had been fascinated by, one could say, the similarly romantic, yet brutal, craft of stonemasonry. The…
