Linen is a wonderful material that we gravitate back to every year as the summer days approach and the light pours through the windows and onto our tablecloths and curtains. There is something comforting about linen as a fabric – something that shows us the high quality of the material along with a nostalgia for the linen shirts of our holidays and the linen tablecloths … Continue reading Linen Tablecloths are on-trend for rustic comfort
The Pritzker Prize has gone to an architectural practice that prefers to understand and reimagine buildings rather than bring in the demolition team and wipe away the past – and the results have been beautiful and successful for the communities involved. Often architects, as do consultants of all industries, come into a space and want to start from new; they want to demolish what’s there, … Continue reading Pritzker Prize celebrates reduce, reuse, recycle
Seeing Margate on film with Gucci made us re-evaluate our local coastal hotspot as recently the filmmaker and new Margate resident, Tom Dream, brought a bit of Gucci Gold to the Isle of Thanet through his collaboration with co-director Arlo Perks and their video Knotted Gold. We take a moment to appreciate the spotlight being thrown on the buried treasure that is the real Margate. … Continue reading Margate on film with Gucci: Knotted Gold
Why has it taken us so long to apologise for the mistreatment of the Congolese captives, of the boys we enslaved, of Ota Benga? Why does it take us so long to say sorry for the horrific racist crimes we have committed in the past? Famously, Sorry is the hardest word, but why on earth can it take a century to recognise and publicly acknowledge … Continue reading Ota Benga: The Caged Man of the Bronx Zoo
We love documentary films at Copse Magazine and although there are many top ten documentaries lists or top 100 documentary films lists, don’t worry – we have the definitive list of the top documentaries to watch before you die and this list is regularly updated. Rather than rank our list by popularity or worse by rating (and make you wade through pages of adverts to … Continue reading Top Documentaries to watch before you die
I asked the Oracle (I typed into Google) “How to find purpose in your life” and sighed deeply. I know how to find purpose, I know what my personal mission statement is – I’ve been through this exercise many times before but for some reason, on a grey rainy day when the stresses of the world seem to bit that little bit deeper – I … Continue reading How to Find Purpose in your Life
