olden hour
This has hardly been the start to the summer we were all expecting, has it? Like many around the country, the Livingetc team has gone virtual, sitting at breakfast tables to put this issue together, making video calls while children and cats chatter away in the background, changing our email sign-offs to variations of ‘stay sane and safe’. And we really do appreciate how lucky we are that we get to carry on looking at incredible imagery and talking about design while front-line heroes do the heavy lifting for us all. What has struck me most during this time is the huge amount of optimism managing to stay alive in the most unlikely circumstances, like a flower peeping through a crack in the pavement. I sense it in the way we’ve…