Inside Prague’s Opera Houses

During a recent trip, Tim took his pencils and paper to Prague to sketch the interiors of three of their stunning Opera Houses.

Happy New Year! Gosling Newsletter…

Press: Gosling Desk featured in ‘How to Spend It’ Magazine

One of our bespoke desks was featured in the bureaux de change article, page 53 of How to Spend It magazine this month. Writer Nicole Swengley explores how bespoke desks are answering our modern day need for flexible working spaces around the home.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Preview Party 2011

The Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy was launched last Thursday with another wonderful party, wonderful because it really is such a melting pot of art, people, press and Britishness.

Horse Guards Parade Buildings, Whitehall

Just before the Royal wedding I was shown around the Horse Guards Parade buildings with the Athenaeum Club and learnt much to my amazement that this is the official entrance into the court of St James’ and the Royal Palaces .

A Private View of the Ashmolean in Oxford by Dr Christopher Brown, The Director

First of all I would like to point out that I have never stopped to consider the design and way in which we walk through and are given the artefacts to see in a museum. I was also hard pushed to begin telling you what the museum was all about – I had never been but I knew it held some amazing drawings and old masters.

100 Years of Ownership: The Goring Hotel celebrates its Centenary

The Goring Hotel opened its doors on Wednesday 2nd March 1910 and since then four generations of Gorings have nurtured the hotel. I have been lucky enough to have created a large amount of work with Jeremy Goring , the present owner of the hotel.

Amanda Wakeley’s Fashion Show at Somerset House

There’s nothing quite like the buzz of a fashion show and this week was London Fashion week fizzing away at Somerset house. It was staged in the courtyard fountain area just under the Courthauld Galleries where last week I was at the launch of the Michelangelo exhibition.

Michelangelo’s Dream

Last night was the opening of ‘Michelangelo’s Dream’ at The Courtauld Gallery which was truly amazing and focuses on the drawing that Michelangelo did as a ‘show’ work for a young man that he fell in love with, called Tommaso de Cavalieri.

Sycamore House

I gave a talk on 10th Feb for the Clapham Society which had a wonderful turn out – It was also great to be able to do so much research into a rather magical home ‘Sycamore House’