Pierre Hermé’s memories: ‘I knew I wanted to be a patissier from the age of nine.’ Photograph: Ola O Smit/The GuardianPierre Hermé’s memories: ‘I knew I wanted to be a patissier from the age of nine.’ Photograph: Ola O Smit/The GuardianA taste of homeFoodChristmas at his parents’ home in Alsace, with the aroma of traditional sablé biscuits baking, is master patissier Pierre Hermé’s taste of home
Coming from a family of baker-patissiers, I grew up with the smell of baking bread. Read More...
The 10 best ...SculptureThe 10 best busts in art – in picturesFashion designer turned artist Nicole Farhi chooses her favourite portraits of heads
Nicole Farhi presents her series of sculptures, From the Neck Up, at Bowman Sculpture, London SW1, from 17 September to 3 October, bowmansculpture.com
Photograph: Tate Images Photograph: The Tate1 Eduardo Paolozzi Shattered head (1956)
I was tutored by Eduardo. He would teach me every Wednesday after we first met at the RCA Foundry in Kensington, London in the late 80s. Read More...
The StavesReview(Atlantic Records)
On their third release, the Watford trio’s beautiful songwriting thrums with frustration at powerlessness and passivity
On the surface, the Staveley-Taylor sisters embody a kind of staid girlishness: their sound composed of celestial three-part harmonies and gently finger-picked folk; their long unstyled hair and sensible blouses evoking a wholesome, homely air. Yet the Watford trio’s lyrics thrum with frustration at patriarchal ideals of female passivity and patience. Read More...