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5 days ago | 
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Kemp-Habib |Laurence Ellis
One might assume that Emily Frances Barrett, known for elevating everyday detritus into wearable art, perceives beauty in all things. This is not the case, as I discover when visiting her studio in east London. ‘I don’t pick up any old bottle top,’ she quips, presenting me with a recent acquisition, a crushed blue cap adorned with a scratched-up star.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
For 37 years the kaleidoscopic tesserae of the Equality–Harmony mural presided over Broadwater Farm, a sprawling Corbusian housing estate in Tottenham, north London. Affixed to a five-storey bin chute on the Tangmere House block, the mosaic was commissioned in the wake of the Broadwater Farm riot in 1985, sparked by the death of Cynthia Jarrett, a Black woman who suffered a heart attack during a police raid on her home.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
The south London home of lighting and furniture designer Gareth Devonald Smith is a tribute to the maxim ‘art for art’s sake’. Its breeze-block-lined corridor alone immediately signals to the visitor that here dwells someone with an urgent desire to create. Thickly applied squares of ready-mix plaster have been daubed on to each brick, and it’s an approach that extends throughout his three-storey live/work space.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
Within minutes of arriving at Leap Year, the first major British survey of South Korean artist Haegue Yang’s work, through a noisy curtain of bells and past a room full of clothes horses adorned with electrical cables, I witness an ‘activation’.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Alice Inggs |Ariadne Fletcher |Alice Kemp-Habib |David Lipton
These emerging designers are ones to watch, handpicked by the WoI team. Take your pick from sinuous glass to vibrant beaded tapestries, or boldly geometric lighting to tableware-with-a-twist. Sanaa Gateja has been dubbed the ‘Bead King’ in Uganda, thanks to his pioneering use of waste paper – transforming books, brochures and all manner of paper waste into beads.
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Sep 20, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Alice Inggs |Ariadne Fletcher |Alice Kemp-Habib |David Lipton
These emerging designers are ones to watch, handpicked by the WoI team. Take your pick from sinuous glass to vibrant beaded tapestries, or boldly geometric lighting to tableware-with-a-twist. Sanaa Gateja has been dubbed the ‘Bead King’ in Uganda, thanks to his pioneering use of waste paper – transforming books, brochures and all manner of paper waste into beads.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
Cicely Aspinall has been promoted to publishing director for crime and thrillers at HQ Fiction. Aspinall joined HQ in 2020 as senior commissioning editor and was promoted to editorial director in 2022. During that time, she has published J L Blackhurst’s first foray into crime, and launched number one ebook bestseller Faith Martin’s new cosy crime series in hardback.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
Rights Orbit has acquired three cosy fantasy titles from Heather Fawcett in a six-figure deal. Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter follows a widow whose cat shelter "inadvertently becomes a front for a thoroughly disreputable Dark Lord magician’s shop". Orbit published Fawcett’s title Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries in January and a third book in that series, titled Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, will be publishing in February 2025.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
A group of independent UK retailers have today (7th June) filed a £1bn damages claim against Amazon over allegations that the retailer illegally misused their data to increase its own revenues and profit. The claim is being brought by the British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA) on behalf of approximately 35,000 UK retailers who sell on Amazon at the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Alice Kemp-Habib
Kate McKinnon © Jackie Abbott HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, the middle-grade debut from US comedian Kate McKinnon. Editorial director Tom Bonnick bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in three books from Stephanie Thwaites at Curtis Brown on behalf of Ted Malawer at Upstart Crow Literary.
