My life is all food stains and dead pot plants – no wonder I dream of beauty and good taste | Emma Beddington
I’m tired of the dull, drab and mundane. Bring on the gold lamé dresses and pomegranate-scented potpourriI devoured the journalist Hamish Bowles’s recent account of his recovery from a severe stroke, not just because good writing on life-altering events is my favourite genre, but for the way it explored the role of beauty in his recovery – and his life.Bowles, who is World of Interiors’ editor-at-large, was pondering buying a “1930s gold lamé Lanvin dr