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Wallace & Gromit… Fashionistas?
For my twelfth installment of All Things English… let me break down my Wallace & Gromit obsession for you.  As a child I enjoyed their antics but when I was in college I found a W&G alarm clock that rang with “Morning Gromit!  Time for walkies!” in his famous English accent.  At that moment, [...]

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For my tenth installment of All Things English…

English supermodel Kate Moss has officially earned her weight in gold thanks to English artist Marc Quinn’s latest sculpture called Siren.  His sculpture of Moss is said to be the largest solid-gold statue to be made in the world since the time of Ancient Egypt.  Quinn estimated the value of [...]

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Le Cool Publishing is a completely independent publishing company that is dedicated to creating guidebooks filled with the most awesome underground experiences that reflect the city’s true flavor rather than the “hippest or latest” lemming crap.
I am excited to report that as of this May, the London version was published… putting it in my ninth installment of [...]

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For my ninth installment of All Things English…
It is all about the Royal College of Art Show.  On display is silversmith designer Kathryn Hinton’s great bowl & fork set.   The prongs of the forks correspond with the words imprinted in the bowl as though stamped during a feeding frenzy.  Brill!

And Freddie Yauner’s exit sign that comes [...]

I’ll Drink to That!

This weekend is the 20th Annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) at the Javits Convention Center in NYC.  If you go (which you should), check out designer, Reiko Kaneko who will be launching a new line of English fine bone china with real gold detailing.  Sounds fancy, huh?  Well it is but it really isn’t… her take on this fussy [...]

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For my eighth installment of All Thing English…
It seems that punting is a quintessential past time for English University students and… tourists alike.  So how do you tell them apart aside from the cameras slung around their necks and slightly-louder-than-necessary voices?  Their punting skills, of course!

Cambridge University, worried its undergraduates have lost the knack, has come [...]

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My fifth installment of All Things English…
For me, shopping isn’t just about spending money and in return collecting things to take home.  I am more about the experience (maybe if I had more money to spend it would be different… who knows) which includes the sights, sounds and tastes!  That is why I cant wait [...]

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My fourth installment of All Things English… 
I had a feeling this would become a trend given peoples reactions to my previous post Tide Chandelier…

This, my friends, is literally glowing trash art… a.k.a. another trash chandelier.  And once again, it looks pretty cool. 

This design is by David Batchelor, who although actually Scottish, lives his life as a sculptor, artist, [...]

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My third installment of All Things English…

I can’t wait to check out the East Beach Cafe in the small seaside town of Littlehampton.  This extraordinary fish ‘n chips hut looks like nothing you have ever seen before… or have you?!?! 

This restaurant was designed by Thomas Heatherwick, a British renaissance man who takes credit for designing loads of things [...]

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My second installment of All Things English…
I bring you Estelle.  For those of you hip cats that already know of her, bravo!  For those of you who don’t, catch up!  (And that goes for me too.)  I just learned of her a couple days ago when she was doing a radio interview for Alice in [...]