Cooking and Dining

In the last few decades, the kitchen has reemerged as the heart of the home and the hub of household activity in modern decor. Depending on ...

Luxury With a Twist

A kitchen with generous square footage that's open to other living areas demands special treatment, such as this modern decor kitchen. I...

modern decor , Room With a View

For many, the ideal modern decor includes spectacular views of sparkling city lights by night. Low furniture won't block your beautiful ...

Modern Decor Ideas , Inviting Color

Crisp, clean styles common to modern decor can be eye-catching, but it's nice when their colors are inspiring, too. These living rooms a...

Unexpected Alphabets No 7

Spotted in Holt, Norfolk. If I hadn't been so keen to start making a damn nuisance of myself over a pair of high rise herringbone trouse...

If You Would Conquer Unruly Hair, Use the Brush Curl!

(Click on the images and they get bigger.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, June 1942

Wings of Fashion - a Convertible Mode

(Click on the images to see larger versions.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, November 1951

For here, or to go?

Most of us know how to prepare for an emergency when we have to stay at home for several days. But what if the opposite happens? In emergen...

Norfolk Nuances

Out across Norfolk to try on some trousers in Holt, and thence to Wells-next-the-Sea to eat fish 'n' chips in that place that gets a...