My grandparents' home in Kuala Lumpur

I've just got home from two weeks spent in Malaysia catching up with my grandparents and family in Kuala Lumpur, 'backpacking' to Singapore and relaxing by the sea in Penang. I wanted to document their house and the wonders it contains, with beautiful midcentury furniture in abundance and more tropical plants and succulents than you can count. Whilst we were there we celebrated by Ah Mah's (grandma) 88th birthday, a particularly lucky one due to the superstition in Chinese culture for the number eight. My Ah Kong (grandpa) turned 90 in January.

Modern living

All images from The 1960s Home by Paul Evans.

Modern life

Today Dulcie and I visited the Midcentury.Modern Fair at Dulwich College and proceeded to spend most of our morning lusting after amazing furniture with price tags that were ever slightly out of our reach...

There was so much to take in, not least the setting itself, the aptly chosen midcentury modernist building one of the most beautiful examples of British Brutalism I've seen.

With so many amazing things to look at it was hard to walk away empty handed, and tempted as we were to splash we were content in the knowledge that our thrifty ways will see us seek out some equally exquisite pieces but for a tenth of the price...

Glass

I spent the day wandering around East London today to check out the Sheela Gowda exhibition at Rivington Place and also the John Stezaker show at the Whitechapel. Somewhere inbetween the two (Redchurch Street to be precise) I found this really great home ware shop called Labour and Wait. If you're in the area or are looking for something nice for your home it's definitely worth checking out, they have an array of products for all rooms of your house, and even a few breton shirts too! It's a really nicely laid out store with products that are all about functionality and classic design. I bought these two 'school' glasses for a mere £2.50 each, they're identical to the ones we used to drink milk from in nursery.

Good living

Yesterday I picked up a copy of Apartamento magazine, which I'd been lusting after for a while. Describing itself as 'an everyday life interiors magazine', it features numerous interviews with designers, architects and others about their lives and their homes, with an ethos centred around good design and living solutions. Beautifully printed on various paper stock it is a really nice publication full of great photography and inspiring abodes. Issue 06 even contains activities for kids drawn up by LA artist Miranda July.