by James Balston | Apr 14, 2016 | Architecture, Art, Brighton, Colour, Crystal Palace, Decoration, Design, Gardens, Leisure, Lighting, London, Parks, Shops, Still Life, The Triangle SE19
About a year ago, I succumbed to the lure of Instagram, or Instacrack as it’s sometimes referred to. It’s certainly highly addictive, but also a very useful way for photographers, designers and other creatives to get their work seen. Once in a while I post... 
by James Balston | Nov 29, 2013 | Blog, Shops, The Triangle SE19
A toyshop with a great back story on the Triangle blog. 
by James Balston | Oct 28, 2013 | Antiques, Art, Blog, Restaurants, Seaside, Shops
Rather like Brighton & Hove, or even Ant & Dec, Hastings & St. Leonards are inseperable. I would say indistinguishable, but unlike the northern celebrities, the Sussex towns have plenty that sets them apart from each other. While St. Leonards was... 
by James Balston | Oct 12, 2013 | Blog, Seaside, Shops
The plan had been to go to Berlin for my birthday last month, but for reasons I can’t quite recall, we ended up in Hastings and St. Leonards. Why there? You might well ask. Well actually I was born there and spent my first ten or so years in the town, and now... 
by James Balston | Apr 22, 2013 | Fashion, London, Shops
Vienna in the 1920s was a cultural hothouse. Since the turn of the century, the creativity emerging from the city’s artists and designers had heralded a new age, and the seeds of modernism were being sown. At the vanguard of this renaissance was the Vienna... 
by James Balston | Jan 9, 2013 | Architecture, Cityscape, London, Shops
The Central Line is effectively now “The Shopping Line”, with Oxford Street at the centre, increasingly overshadowed by London’s two largest shopping malls. White City in the west, recently joined by Stratford in the east. The economic effect of...