Tat London Journal

At Tat, we like to keep a few small pleasures on the horizon — a perfectly mixed martini, a meander through a museum, or, more often than not, a night away. And just because the summer holidays have had their swansong doesn’t mean the chance for escape has vanished.

I used to think my bucket list began and ended with the Orient Express. Not very imaginative, I know — but I am, after all, a woman who loves to laze, imbibe beauty, and drink on public (and not so public) transport, so it always felt like the perfect fit.

Wales is a poetic place, offering everyone a home—whether in the height of summer or those weekends that crawl into autumn. As Dylan Thomas put it, “Wales is a land of sea and castles, of mountains and miners, and of small coal-black towns huddled under the wings of the hills.” The coal may be mostly gone, but the castles, the sea, the mountains, and the endless hills remain.

A few months ago, I popped into Colbert, that cafe which takes up much of the corner of Sloane Square. I was there to meet the Spanish interior designer Marta de la Rica. We covered the usual ground one does on a first meeting. I, of course, opened with the weather — Madrid had apparently been having a very wet spell, which gave me a brief opportunity to enjoy that smug British pastime of claiming superiority over continental climates, a pleasure we get to indulge perhaps onc

This feature was so well received last time, we thought we’d continue with good cheer. The people below are true connoisseurs of taste: antique dealers, designers, and writers whose eye for the beautiful and unusual I trust implicitly. They’re the ones I turn to for advice on all things aesthetic — and, if I’m honest, on most other matters too.

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Interior Designers Homes To Rent

We've been conducting a lot of research.

Pulitzer Prize: A Dam Good Stay in Amsterdam I don't know about you, but one of the best things about England is its proximity to Europe....

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