Colour after the fire
CoBrA, Stockholm Design Lab, and Rotterdam's public art route as a postwar argument about colour, freedom, and civic repair.
May 2026Taste takes time
Cloth, proportion, weather, and the slow education of the eye.
May 2026Boat at night
Old skills, cold water, and the private architecture of continuity.
May 2026Paraboots in the rain
French shoes, useful ugliness, and the difference between admiring an object and living in it.
April 2026Ease takes work
Apparent ease, hidden rules, and the small operating system of getting dressed.
April 2026Oxford cloth shirts
Pima cotton, laundering, supply chains, and why the plain shirt is rarely plain.
April 2026Jackets that behave indoors
Workwear, outerwear, and the jacket that can behave indoors after meeting weather.
April 2026Regent's Canal in weather
Regent's Canal, coffee, weather, and the civilised art of making a day habitable.
April 2026House style without costume
The site found its way back to the saturated Dutch and Scandinavian visual language that had been in the room all along.
February 2025Britain's war story
As a Dutch person, my relationship with the Second World War begins with absence. British war culture lands differently from the continent.
February 2025England's rentier economy
A conversation about Britain, immigration, class, housing, and the rentier economy left one sentence lodged in my head.