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Accidental tourist. Executive hair-wrangler. Writer at @thetimes, @natgeotravel, @wallpapermag... Editor of TheSpaces.com ellen.h@mac.com, ellen@thespaces.com
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The daybed is back, and it wants to sweep you off your feet

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By Ellen Himelfarb Verified
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So you’ve bought yourself a daybed. Where do you put it? The office? The guest room? How about at the centre of the action, where you drink, gather and entertain? Daybeds are some of our most versatile furnishings, yet rarely do we make them work as hard as they ask to be worked. Today’s covetable daybeds do not resemble your great-great-grandmother’s fainting couch, that stiff-backed Victorian relic that never saw actual melodrama but rather sat idly in a rarely visited parlour.
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Pub design is going back to basics

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By Ellen Himelfarb Verified
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Recently I had a bizarre experience walking into one of my neighbourhood pubs — one of the more fashionable neighbourhood pubs — shortly after a change in ownership. It was unrecognisable, yet weirdly still very recognisable. Small, round iron tables replaced the large wood sharing tables. Velvet stools lined the bar, antique beer merch sat atop doilies on the wall panelling — and there was wall-to-wall carpet replacing the bare hardwood floors.
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The ‘creative director’ has entered the chat

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By Ellen Himelfarb Verified
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A few weeks ago our correspondent Jasmine Jackson spoke with Es Devlin, an artist, multimedia designer and scenographer on the eve of her new commission at London’s V&A Storehouse. The installation, called The Everythingists, is a 3D mural animated by lights and an orchestrated soundscape. It responds to another of the V&A’s treasures: the gargantuan Firebird backcloth designed by Natalia Goncharova for a performance at the Ballets Russes in 1926.
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