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cool things

Anthony Bourdain

May 19, 2011

Anthony Bourdain, who I met last night for dinner (thank goodness for this incredible job of mine), chats about food writers and food critics. Insights into food reviewing, the current cooking and celebrity chef craze, his views on AA Gill, and the Sydney Writers Festival. ShareTweet

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Wonder years

May 10, 2011

Loved interviewing six women – Yumi Stynes, Sandra Sully, Margaret Pomeranz, Fleur Wood, Margaret Fulton and Nicole Trunfio – for the Sunday Life cover story on the weekend. Having fun in your 20s, rearing a family in your 30s or getting wise in your 60s – at what age do women feel most fulfilled? Kate [...]

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Boy crush

April 12, 2011

Bit of a professional crush on Brendan Maclean, who can sing and is funny. What’s not to like. He wrote on Twitter recently.. “@macleanbrendan If you watch 127 Hours backwards it’s an uplifting story about a disabled man finding an arm in the desert #moviesbackwards” ShareTweet

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Illustrations & walls

April 8, 2011

Beautiful things by Arian Behzadi. Trying to figure out where I can buy these images to hang on bare walls. Love the newspaper clippy montage thing he has going on. ShareTweet

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The Makers

March 23, 2011

Just love this photo documentary by Jennifer Causey, who’s The Makers project involves photographing people who make things. She says of her undertaking “I soon realised I was also photographing people who make things happen”. As the project evolves, so does the adventure and pleasure of documenting the people behind the products, she says: to learn [...]

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Cavalier essentials

March 21, 2011

Oh spare us the unrelenting, delicious cool. This gorgeous line of vintage products is designed for the rugged, yet sophisticated gentleman. “If Steve McQueen carried a beat-up leather duffle bag on the back of his motorcycle; what would be in it and how would the products look?” Well, like this. ShareTweet

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This & that

March 2, 2011

1. Blahblah cushion: Maybe it appeals for its literary cool, but the graphic is also quite quaint. 2. Missoni Home cushion: scatter-worthy in the most pretty colours ever. Pick up at Missoni or from Selfridges, as with the other cushions, online. 3. Some days you just need a pillow that says it all for you. 4. [...]

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Summer long

January 26, 2011

The wedding over and the real thing beginning, a friend just returned from her amazing and looong honeymoon to south and central america. Long catch ups over the remnants of summer to do. We used to do backflips into the pool all summer, now it’s more cocktails by the pool, with chaps in tow. Love [...]

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Things and anthropologie

January 9, 2011

This time last year I was in the extraordinary New York City. Today, a year ago, I was making chocolate souffles at the Institute of Culinary Education, perfecting my beating and work with chocolate, then tasting other groups’ apple and calvados variations, wondering how cointreau would go in mine.. Cooking magical things in the snowy [...]

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Gastronaut

January 3, 2011

Belatedly discovered Stefan Gates, a British food writer. His culinary adventures are as fascinating as they are revolting. ShareTweet

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The first decade

December 17, 2010

Incredible installation at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane. Real finches flock in a hanging knotted scramble of metal coat hangers. The exhibition, 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, opens tomorrow and lasts until 26th April next year. The ambitious exhibition will occupy the entire Gallery of Modern Art and focus exclusively [...]

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Stole my heart…

December 16, 2010

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Ma + Chr design

December 13, 2010

Love these things from creative design studio Ma + Chr, who have done restaurant and bar interior designs as well as their own happy little pictures you can buy. It’s based in Paris and was founded by Mathilde Aubier and Christine Delaquaize. ShareTweet

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Le premier noel

December 13, 2010

Window decals, cards, tea towels and other lovely Scandinavian-inspired Christmas things from Attik72. ShareTweet

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