This episode is brought to you by Fully Gemstones.

Do you ever sort of lament that that glamorous life has gone?

Oh yes, totally. Absolutely all the time.

Everything is exactly the same now, isn't it?

I mean, nobody really looks different to anybody else. Nobody has a

kind of stamp anymore. You can't wear jewels anymore. People steal the difference. It's a whole

different world. Welcome to If Jewels Could Talk. I'm Carol Walton, the voice of jewelry, an author,

broadcaster, and the woman who initiated the role of Jewel at magazines like Tapper and British Vogue.

This is a podcast for everyone.

For people who do like jewelry, for people who don't realize they like jewelry,

and anyone intrigued by fascinating facts, new ideas and forgotten histories.

So please join me as I tell sparkly tales meeting all sorts of people

delving into four centuries of jewellery culture

and investigate what's happening now.

I'm so happy today to be talking with Nikki Haslam, who is the legendary English interior designer and writer and arbiter of everything that is good taste.

So I'm lucky enough to come over to his house this morning and take a little look around.

And later on, we're going to talk about

the tea towel. It's what we call in England a tea towel, a dishcloth in the States. Basically,

it's printed once a year with everything that Nikki thinks is no longer good taste. In fact,

it's common. So stand by and do have Google handy for this conversation because

Nikki drops names and you'll need to know who these people are. He tells us mostly, but there are some

figures, some very glamorous and well-known figures of the 60s that you might want to look up. And we mention ear-pissings and the Duke of the Dura.

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