I don’t know if I have mentioned it (I have) but we live in a flat, well actually to be accurate an apartment, as it is on two floors and not flat, like a flat. We have always got on with our neighbours in a typically English kind of way, polite nods when passing on … Continue reading THE DISARMING URGENCY OF FIRE ALARM DIPLOMACY
Why are humans so much smarter than they need to be? It is something that I often think about, because I can, because for some reason I am able to consider the human condition. What is that about? Does it make me happier? I doubt it. You won’t find a dog having an existential crisis. … Continue reading THE FEATHER AND THE CANNONBALL
I have spent years believing in the absolute uniqueness of the individual. That all of our experiences are singular, subjective and altered via perspective. When a ball hits the ground is it falling, stationary or rising? The truth is often open to interpretation. It is why I didn’t have a wedding video because I didn’t … Continue reading THE TRUTH IS WHAT I SAY IT IS
My alarm goes off at 6.00 am… well actually my wife’s alarm goes off, I don’t have an alarm. Libby gets up to do all sorts of secret stuff for and with the kids, I roll over. At seven I awake again, mostly because a six year boy is slapping me about the face. I … Continue reading A DAY IN THE LIFE OF RICHARD BAKER, INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE GURU
So okay, in my other capacity as occasional furniture designer in a world where very little that is original is allowed enough oxygen to catch fire, I give you the Session. It’s a chair and by extension a sofa. I can’t pretend that chairs are original, they are everywhere, and the more successful ones tend … Continue reading A HEAVY SESSION
Okay yes it is true, I have been away. I could pretend that it was only a matter of days, just casually pick up where I left off but that would seem disingenuous, a bit like the guilty emails I send to my mother that read as a seamless spontaneous outpouring but actually take three … Continue reading SUGS AND THE BIRTH OF A NOTION
The leader who said he didn’t want to leave but said he wanted to lead even if we wanted to leave because he expected to win, lost, and then left, and the man who didn’t want to leave, but said he did because he wanted to lead, won, but felt like he had lost because … Continue reading THE GORDIAN KNOT
THE ACCIDENTAL HUMAN 