Photography credits: © Frank Gehry courtesy of Michael Blackwood Productions; © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos; National Trust Images/James O. Davies; © Lo Parkin

Cracking eggs with Frank Gehry

In the obituaries that swiftly followed the announcement of Frank Gehry’s death in December, we read about Gehry the “titan of architecture”. We read former US President Barack Obama describe him as a man who “spent his life rethinking shapes and mediums, seemingly the force of gravity itself". And we read the 1989 Pritzker citation that compared him to Picasso. But the snippet we kept coming back to was a clip from the early '80s of the architect at his home in Santa Monica, cooking an unholy mess for dinner. “You think it’s all gonna come out right? You’re wrong!” he chuckles while frying eggs and other indeterminate ingredients as his two young boys watch him from the window above. It’s a scene that shows us Frank the dad, giving his kids an alternate view of domesticity in every sense.

"There's something very interesting about boring" - Martin Parr

We have FOR SCALE ​to thank for pointing us in the direction of Signs of the Times – a docuseries made in 1992 that examines perceptions of good and bad taste in the home. It was directed by Nick Barker with cinematography by the inimitable British photographer Martin Parr, who also died at the end of last year. In this five-parter, people living under the same roof rationalise their décor choices while struggling to understand those of others. (One “normal” mother laments her teenage daughter’s “death hole” of a bedroom; a husband criticises his wife’s penchant for “fake old things”.) It’s a crucial study of taste and the relationships we have with objects and each other. It has the potential to get nasty, but through Parr’s lens, it carries all the hallmarks and humour of his singular approach to image making.

Two modernist icons to appear at London art fair

This month, The National Trust have partnered with London Art Fair to bring together the collections of Ernő Goldfinger’s 2 Willow Road in Hampstead and Patrick Gwynne’s The Homewood in Esher. Artworks from both houses will be shown together outside their modernist settings for the first time. The curated display will feature surrealist and post-war abstract works by Max Ernst, Rita Kernn-Larsen, Avinash Chandra, Prunella Clough, and Henry Moore, alongside original furnishings and design objects from the homes themselves.

Taking a line for a walk

On a recent mosey around St James’ Piccadilly Open Art Market, we discovered the work of Lo Parkin. Lo is an artist and illustrator who documents her observations through 35mm film. Inspired by brutalist architecture, nature and pattern, her photographic compositions are often rendered into sensitive line drawings that fill the page with impossibly accurate details of weathered concrete, pebbledash façades, satellite dishes and curtains hung every which way. We were especially drawn to the mesmeric repetition of Lo’s sketches at the Barbican, which has recently announced a £240m renovation.

Matilda Goad goes rifling

Designer Matilda Goad has started a new monthly series called What's in my Junk Drawer. In each episode, she visits the homes of admired creatives (Cath Kidston and Sarah Jossel have already featured) to discover the disparate items they can't be without. Obviously, we’re on board with this idea. For more from Matilda, listen to our co-founder’s latest podcast, Homing.