by James Balston | Sep 27, 2013 | Blog, The Triangle SE19, Workplace
Renée Thornley not only provides beauty treatment for her salon’s clientele, but is campaigning to beautify her rundown street. Read more on the Triangle blog. 
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 | Feb 6, 2013 | Kitchens
I remember my grandmother’s farmhouse kitchen fondly. As children we were regularly roped in to help with chores. If we weren’t outside weeding the garden, or feeding the pigs, we’d be at the kitchen table podding peas, while she busied herself at... 
by James Balston | Oct 17, 2012 | Cafes, Crystal Palace, The Triangle SE19
On the Triangle SE19 today 
by James Balston | Jul 9, 2012 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Homes
Before Barbie, there was Lilli. Lilli started life in 1950s Germany, as the heroine of a comic strip in the tabloid newspaper, Bild. So popular was she, that they eventually produced a doll which no doubt influenced Ruth Handler from Mattel, who went on to create...