Web Watch: Patternity

Nothing to do with fathering children, this site is a glorious look at pattern.

In their own words, seeing pattern everywhere — from the mundane to the magnificent. I couldn’t find much mundane in my browsing but on my, so much of the magnificent! Divided up into Research, Studio and Events, you can feast your eyes on everything from lunar landscapes to a Bjorn Dahelm lighting structure. If you click into Events, you’ll find out they led a pattern spotting photographic tour through East London recently. Maybe they’ll come to Ireland if we ask them nicely.

¦ www.patternity.org

My Little Orangery

Patricia lives in Belfast and this site is all about interiors, colour, food, friends, fashion, flowers and family.

She writes about her visits to galleries, how to cosify your living room (hide the ugly things apparently, that’s my portrait of great-aunt Martha gone to the attic) and she’s mad for Diptyque candles which she cleans out and uses as pretty jars once the wax is gone. Patricia has a knack of spying interesting things like an amazing Trentanove light and loves to share her treasures and experiences. A nice site to have a peep at.

¦ www.mylittleorangery.com