Yangon Post

How do we support our makers within the most challenging of contexts? We have recently launched our HRDD & Environmental Sustainability Manifesto to walk you through it. 

Sophie sat down with Tom at Monocle to chat about how Kalinko came about and the challenges it is overcoming. Listen to the episode here. 

Oooooh it's getting chilly. Did you have socks on in bed last night? If you have a fire, presumably you had it stoked. This morning, there are smiley faces in...

Last week, as part of the London Design Festival, Sophie joined the panel at Inhabit Hotels for a discussion around design and wellbeing, alongside Richard Holland from Holland Harvey architects and Marie Carlisle...

Coriander is the king of the herbs in Burmese cooking. It goes in everything; Mohinga noodles in the morning, curry for lunch, fish for dinner. So it makes sense that...

When I first moved to Yangon in 2015, I worked in an office on one of the busiest streets in the heart of downtown. I lived about half a mile...

Yesterday morning it rained in London. Proper rain. Big, splashy, drenching rain. Rain that carried on plopping off the leaves for ages once it had stopped. And for 20 minutes,...

This is Aung Myat Lin and Jack from IDEA Woodsmith. They've been reclaiming teak from downtown Yangon buildings since 1999. Well, that's not quite true. They're too young for that,...

This is a new collection that celebrates three ideas close to our heart: 1 - homegrown, sustainable, reclaimed materials 2 - timeless design 3 - IDEA Woodsmith, an extremely skilled carpentry...

Let us set the scene for you: it’s 4.30pm and you decide to shut your laptop. The sky has turned an oceanic blue, inky in fact, and a candle is...

I've been writing words for Kalinko for the past year, but I also spend my weeks and weekends cooking, eating and writing a tri-weekly newsletter called Since No One Asked, where I...

Every year on my birthday, I take a minute to think about what's changed since the last one. Sometimes they're big things; maybe a new child has appeared, possibly a...