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Yearly Archives: 2018

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An interview with Richard Parry, director of Glasgow International 2018

The curator and writer is the director of Glasgow International 2018, and previously worked for the British Council and the Hayward Gallery

This Life: Jeanetta Rowan Hamilton

A talent for upcycling combined with a good eye for a vintage find have helped the cashmere entrepreneur to create a wonderfully unique home in the Highlands

Trendwatch: The colour purple

Revitalise with the season’s hottest hue

Surf Shacks by Indoek

The book began life as a blog – over a period of four years, homes (shacks, huts, cabins, even converted buses) were posted on surf-centric website Indoek.

I love this: Talla Na Mara by Craig Hill

East Kilbride-born comedian Craig Hill discovered this Harris venue by accident, but it ranks amongst his favourites now

Fine line

There’s no stopping Alasdair Gray: the 83-year-old Glasgow artist mounts a new exhibition of line drawings at Edinburgh’s Open Eye Gallery this spring that...

This designer used her experience when she took on her new home in Edinburgh

With three projects complete, designer Anna Atwal knows how to turn a house into a home

Faraway/Nearby by Jan Töve

Photographer Jan Töve returned to his Swedish hometown over a ten-year period, documenting how the landscape has changed.

Animal magic

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is a must-see for those lamenting the end of David Attenborough’s Blue Planet. Head to the National...

Indian takeaway

When Queen Victoria’s eldest son went on a lengthy tour of India in 1875, he received an astonishing 2,000 presents. Many weren’t just magnificent...

Must-read

Inside the £1m transformation of new Glasgow restaurant Zhima

The new contemporary Chinese restaurant Zhima opened its doors on Friday 19 April. If you have a hankering for Chinese food this weekend then you're in luck; the latest addition to Glasgow's culinary scene is sure to tempt your tastebuds. Zhima, a new contemporary Chinese restaurant on St Vincent Place, promises to deliver 'taste on every level', with Cantonese, Hunan, and Sichuan influences underpinning the cooking style

Neat and tidy storage solutions to streamline your kitchen

What good storage looks like in your kitchen will vary from person to person. Most like to hide everything away behind uniform cabinets, but that can make it easy to forget what you have. A mix of open and closed storage is a good compromise. Organise by frequency of use, either displaying pieces you’d like to use more often (fancy dishes, that ice-cream maker that doesn’t quite fit in the pantry) or keeping those things you’re always reaching for close at hand.

East Neuk Seaweed founder Jayson Byles on sustainable foraging

East Neuk Seaweed founder Jayson Byles holds workshops celebrating Scotland's abundance of health-giving seaweed. Along the shores of Fife’s East Neuk, come rain, wind or sunshine, you’ll find Jayson Byles in his element. After a move to Scotland from his native New Zealand over a decade ago to work in the seaweed-harvesting industry, he launched East Neuk Seaweed, a community conservation and foraging business, focused on exploring sustainable ways to connect with nature.
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