Dan Mobbs

Insightful writing, clever humor, and meticulously developed characters made Frasier renowned as a sitcom like no other. Set in Frasier Crane’s aspirational bachelor pad in Seattle, his apartment is a beacon of modernist design that combines luxury with a distinct mid-century modern style to mirror Frasier’s personality – and replicating that aesthetic is more attainable than you might think. Quite simply, Frasier isn’t like most sitcoms.

Dubbed ‘the people’s painter’ by the British press, Jack Vettriano’s nostalgic and sensuous paintings of femme fatales and enigmatic men resonated with an audience smitten with his glamorous sense of romance and lust. Self-taught and self-made, Vettraino died at the age of 73 in March 2025, but not before gaining recognition as an artist renowned for an ability to encapsulate the public’s desire for sex and old-Hollywood romance on canvas. Life could have been very different for Jack Vettriano.

From the moment a young German alchemist called Johann Friedrich Böttger created white porcelain for King Augustus The Strong in 1710, Meissen’s ‘white gold’ has been at the forefront of fine European porcelain. Fast-forward more than 300 years and the revered Dresden ‘white gold’ is once again at the height of fashion and the current kitsch trend with a series of exciting collaborations. Up until the 18th century, the production of fine porcelain was China’s domain.