The Telegraph
Like many lockdown artists, the back garden became inspiration for their work. This can be said for renowned artists Francis Hamel. Click here to read Tim Richardson’s review and how Hamel has captured the spectacular gardens of Rousham.
Stuart Ovenden urges Telegraph readers to discover their inner pagan with his superb Wassail recipe using cider and damson gin. Perfect for those cold November evenings. To read the recipe, click below.
Once more the Telegraph turns to Stuart Ovenden’s outstanding book to review his soused mackerel with pear juice, rhubarb and ginger. The gift which keeps on giving…to read the recipe, click below.
Click below to take a look at Alex Michaelis’ extraordinary home in West London in this article by Talib Choudhry in The Telegraph Magazine.
Friends and business partners Alex Michaelis, 51, and Tim Boyd, 57, co-founded their firm in 1995. Their projects stretch from Botswana to Battersea Power Station, where they are currently designing 265 apartments.
“Rarely is an excuse needed to eat chocolate, but since Chocolate Week begins on Monday it seems fitting to enjoy an extra square (or bar) in celebration.” Amy Bryant
When Alex Michaelis and Tim Boyd, the design duo behind Michaelis Boyd, installed a wind turbine on David Cameron’s roof in 2006, they captured a mid-noughties zeitgeist for modern middle-class living.
But it wasn’t their £600,000 eco makeover of the Cameron family’s North Kensington home – which included the installation of a 660-gallon rainwater tank under the garden to provide water for flushing lavatories and washing – that made Michaelis Boyd a byword for boundary-pushing living spaces. In the previous decade, the pair had created chic interiors for the London members club Soho House, Somerset spa hotel Babington House and the Electric on Portobello Road.
The morning we speak Mikkel Karstad posted on Instagram a petrol-blue sea below ominous clouds. Water temperature, 1C, wind chill, -20C, according to the caption.
This is the Danish chef’s dawn swim, which he undertakes every other day in the Oresund strait, between Denmark and Sweden, after sharing the view with his 34,500 followers.
The rest of his feed comprises extraordinarily beautiful images of barley soup, ginger tea and blackcurrant-stained lamb (his latest dishes), and the occasional golden-haired child (he has four, aged between four and 16).
