Flower arranging the David Hicks way Design My father thought that going out and buying your furniture was terribly common (you inherited furniture, you did not buy it, for Goodness sakes)…
The Long Room Design This is one of the rooms I grew up in. The Long Room it was called. At the far end of the house, where…
Big Red Heart and Some Very Sticky Tape Design Domino drew a big red heart, cut it out (all of my children have handled scissors dangerously from an early age) and taped it…
Sitting Pretty Design I was invited to the second Annual Lyford Cay Design Weekend, to interview the photographer and film maker Bruce Weber, who was showing his…
Wrappers Delight Design I can’t cook but I can wrap. And I do mean wrap, not rap. I must have inherited this from my mother. The gift…
Radio Reciver Design You know what, as David had to fly to the UK and did not join me at the wedding I decided to go ahead…
Bed Time Stories Design Sometimes on a lazy Sunday I think I’ll be super relaxed and leave my bed unmade. Yeah, that’s cool. The pillows thrown everywhere, the sheets…
HICKS ON HICKS Design Looking back my father must have been a little eccentric right from the start. As a child he would invite Queen Victoria to tea…
That’s Entertainment Design Occasionally we celebrate a birthday with a barbecue on the beach. A mass of pastel colored paper lanterns flutter in the wind as indolent…
TEA AT FOUR Design We entertain quite a bit. Sometimes it might be dinner for six and other times its dinner for thirty six. I do many things…
MISTER MARVELLOUS Design I was not used to art deco hotels with over sized Alice in Wonderland furniture or valet parking or inflated lips and I was…
BLOGGERS Design BLOGGER. Imagine actually having to introduce yourself as such “Hi nice to meet you, I’m a blogger” BLOGGER. Its just such an ugly word.…
ORANGE PEEL Design My father was a colour junkie. Could not get enough of it. Growing up in our London home we would eat breakfast in a…