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Harry Truman said it was like living in a big white jail. How will the new first family cope with their new home? Will they change the...

She never boasted about her cooking, always analysing it thoughtfully, eating small quantities and encouraging me or other guests to eat as

Pace, pleasure, provenance. Three words that sum up the Slow Food movement, which currently attracts 80,000 people and food producers...

It’s finally happened; as house prices fall, home ownership is no longer about making money. As people stay put out of necessity, this...

...based on the role of neuroscience in design, a topic I have explored with John Zeisel, an American environmental sociologist.

The Dexter showcase kitchen provided a wonderful opportunity for creative collaboration. We saw it as an umbrella for bringing in an...

Designing kitchens for many is quite a boring process. The results often reflect this. Question: how do we unlock creativity, and unblock...

Why does design always have to be so serious? Our UK design team went to the Design Museum in London last week and saw the Richard Rogers...

If there isn’t a war inside your head you are in trouble. The art of cultivating inner voices maybe a sign of madness to some but for...

(Johnny ran a housing conference in July 2007 at RIBA) Modern British housing hardly checks it customers into heavenly paradise. Genuine...

The word eco attached to an article, product of service has become a turn-off, a moral obligation to read rather than a pleasure...

One advantage of the reduction of house prices now happening is that it makes us think more about connecting with our homes again – they...

Why do we have to have named activities for the spaces in which we live? What would happen if we did not have labels for rooms? Would we...

I was talking with my wife over the w/e. She mentioned that she is making a discipline of not knowing the time – whenever possible and...

Grayson Perry was interviewed by Rebecca Rose. He talked about there being ‘too much slapdashery’ in Art.