It’s been a while since the last Weekly Window Shop, hasn’t it" And I have no idea why, because I’ve been spending just as much time as usual looking at stuff online, creating fantasy furniture wishlists and obsessing over items of clothing that are a) inappropriately expensive and b) absurdly irrelevant to my current life situation. I mean, am I really going to wear a faux snakeskin pencil skirt and over-the-knee suede boots to drop Angelica at pre-school" Never mind the fact that I have to park the car on a grassy slope and then wade through a quarter mile of overgrown meadow.
But I have to say that – for the last six months at least – fashion shopping has been entirely overtaken by interiors shopping. And the interiors preoccupation of the month, this month, is pattern.
(photo: House of Hackney x William Morris, Heart Home Mag)
More specifically dark, dramatic, floral pattern. The sort of thing you’d expect to find in a Dickens novel – Miss Havisham’s parlour, perhaps, or the boudoir of a successful East End Madam.

(photo: House of Hackney x William Morris, Heart Home Mag)
It’s part gothic, part romantic, bold but at the same time rather pretty. And ooh, so sexily enticing! It’s what you’d expect to find lining a secret corridor in a castle on the windswept moors, it’s peekaboo bras in the time of Jack the Ripper. It’s candle wax dripping down the necks of empty absinthe bottles an...