“I have met quite a few architects around the world over the years, and few appear to be dog lovers … Perhaps it’s because dogs are messy and chaotic creatures, while architects are generally tidy and ordered?
“Le Corbusier had a dog during his purist phase. It was called Pinceau, or “paintbrush” in English.
“When Pinceau died, [...]

Willem Dafoe’s rubber pad is up for sale according to the celeb real-estate website The Real Estalker and rather nice it is too. If rubber is your thing that is.

It’s only rubber clad, so it’s not strictly a rubber house … that’d be silly. It’d wobble around far too much and smell like an inner tube. Not [...]

Recently I wrote about the ultimate in avian accessories, a Richard Meier inspired birdhouse, the apogee of modern living for birds.
Or so I thought.
Apparently that’s just not good enough for our feathered friends.
“Inspired?” choked my friend Sid the sparrow as we shared a seedcake the other day, “Inspired?!? That’s not flappin’ good enough! I spent [...]

No, I’m not talking about John Belushi in a toga. Instead I’ve got pictures of hedgehog houses, bat belfries and ladybird towers dancing before my eyes.
Relax, dear reader, I haven’t eaten magic mushrooms and ended up in a psychedelic Beatrix Potter world.
All the above abodes are available to the great British gardener to encourage wildlife [...]