Design, News & Lifestyle Blog - July 2012

Frederic Aranda is a self taught photographer who has shot everyone from the Vogue editors (all in one room – pictured above) to Baroness Margaret Thatcher to Pharrell Williams. His vast array of portraiture always communicates its subject in an overtly human and beautiful way. Engaged and inspired by the people around him, Frederic speaks to us about his family, his fascination with the Japanese and his interest in the Californian woman at the heart of his latest work.

The studio scrapbook’s taken a turn for turquoise; this collection is all about colour. Edging on green, tinged with blue, probably somewhere between the two, this blue-to-green colour goes from light-to-dark, from delicate-to-deep.

Head chef at Polpetto, the young and very talented Florence Knight talks us through everything from bread hedgehogs to seasonally inspired dishes served on mismatched, traditional plates.