...at surround us have stories, of places we have visited or presents we have bought each other, or from friends.
If you could only save one thing, what would it be?
The landscape collage that hangs above the wood burner in winter and moves around the house in summer. It is from the year I was bor...
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...the collection came out. I still have it; still use it.” Some plates she bought as a kid. A penguin lamp that she brings with her whenever she travels and places by the bed. “I love being at home, wherever I am,” she explains.
Ettore Sottsass's Treetops floor lamp creates a bold color palet...
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...d welcome gift of bespoke objects we normally only give to people who have bought a home through our agency. Also included in the prize is ten litres of Farrow & Ball paint in a colour of the winner’s choice. Click here to enter. Good luck!
Watch Tom’s film here.
,转载自:The Modern Ho...
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...ve years ago became so narrow for dwellers for three generations that they bought a piece of land neighber to their house to build an annex.
The house consists of two small rooms at the first floor, one big room in the second floor and the roof. It is two stories with box shape construction with ...
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... Photos, books etc. – I would save that.
,What was the last thing you bought for the house?
,A classical column from Brownrigg which is the proud home to a miniature bust of Handel.
,Where do you shop for your home?
,I love Fiona McDonald, I can always find something there. For vases a...
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...ey living to two and why they are advocates of no-dig gardening.Mel: “We bought our last house in the centre of Bath in 2010 shortly after we had got married and I had just opened my first salon on Walcot Street. It was the perfect two-minute walk commute. The house was tall and thin, with five st...
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...with limitations is incredibly refreshing.
What was the last thing you bought for the house?
Plants and plant pots.
After downsizing to this space, I’ve had to be very strict about bringing new things in. It’s been both frustrating and calming at the same time. I’m a real sucker for co...
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...glish Modernism a little bit, and mix it with my Japanese heritage.
We bought this house two years ago, just before Noah started school. The walls were papered, so we stripped them off, skimmed them, and decided to leave the plaster raw. It really works.
The kitchen was so tiny. Phil is quite...
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...turally, her home, a converted loft space in a former Methodist chapel she bought via The Modern House in 2014 and extended in 2019, is the product of a great deal of introspection and emotional reckoning. Asking questions such as what she wanted from the space, how it could support her and also be ...
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...ng was part of the gin distillery in this area. What was remaining when we bought it was a brick box with no windows and very small floor to ceiling heights.
“It took six months to buy, then two years to design and get planning for. Although the site’s historic entrance was where the back of ...
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...use in little over a month. We got very lucky because good friends of ours bought it off us, and we could move quickly. Then, we had our dream house.”
,Monica: “We are the third owners, after the people who commissioned the house and the people we bought it from. When we first saw the house i...
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...tural light.
Adaptive Reuse: Aesthetics & Function
Before our clients bought the warehouse, it was used as an auto repair shop. The one-story brick building was a dark empty shell with minimal interior walls, timber bow trusses, a solid concrete floor, and overhead garage doors providing access...
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Anne: “Well, yes, and Im not sure we realised how different until we bought it.”
Bruce: “We bought it as John Penn had designed it, nothing had been changed.
“There was electric underfloor heating, which was installed when the house was first constructed. It was a pioneering idea a...
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...
Peter: “We were originally going to move into the Barbican before we bought this. We decided against it, but now we’re ready for a bit of Brutalism in our lives!”
Eleanor: “It’s part of a plan we’ve been dreaming about for a long time. We want a small, modest dwelling outside Lond...
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When designer Alison Lloyd bought her flat in 2004 she was four years into running her bag and accessory company, Ally Capellino, which she began after her marriage and clothing brand ended in 1999. Sixteen years later, shes at the helm of a successful handbag and accessories brand, best known fo...
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...ed watercolour paints which remain, for the time being,
untouched; we have bought a puzzle which only my partner has attempted so far;
and I hand drew and wrote an Easter card to send to my grandmother which still remains
unsent (there will be another attempt!). I have been meaning to make my own
cl...
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...om my grandfather, who was a cabinetmaker.
What was the last thing you bought for the house?
Of larger pieces it would be the farmhouse table, which is a circular round table in solid oak resting on two oak trestles. The design is chunky and compact but also light in the expression, because of ...
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...half-moon windows make it feel airy.
“It was a total white box when I bought it, with the original 1970s kitchen and bathroom still intact.
I often take on interior design projects for clients, alongside writing about design, and have deliberately built this interior up slowly. I like earthy...
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...eorgian, was being used by a religious order as a silent retreat before we bought it. There were 22, cell-like bedrooms and industrial kitchens, so it took a bit of imagination to see what it could become.
“We were in Primrose Hill before and had spent time living in Ibiza too. That was ten yea...
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... had only one owner before us, who hadn’t done anything to it. Before we bought it, the house had lain empty for 10 years, so it was an ideal project.
“It was a very ordinary, straightforward house, built using brick block cavity walls and a timber-framed roof.”
Anna: “But I think what...
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...ocation near the beach was part of the draw. (The first such place Siriano bought eight years ago is further inland in Danbury.) “Full vacation mode,” he says of what was intended to be a weekend escape.
Christian Siriano in the kitchen of his Westport, Connecticut, home, where he’s been qu...
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... and Klein’s touch. At their most effective, these three components were bought together in sublime fashion, like in the main living space where Italian travertine, idigbo and obeche hardwoods form both the backdrop and the constituent parts of the room, such as the bespoke in-built furniture and ...
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... important. With every collector I know, including myself, everything they bought in the early years were mistakes, more or less. Ive seen that with so many collections – the first things they bought compared to the things later when their taste had, not matured, but become their own.
“And, f...
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...storing her 1960s Modernist home in Wiltshire, Ansty Plum, which, when she bought it, was so badly insulated it was uninhabitable in winter and took a week to warm up.
“As a practice, Coppin Dockray finds great enjoyment in protecting buildings that we feel are very important but whose environm...
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...st of the living room furniture, which has a European midcentury vibe, was bought on two trips to Paris, with approvals all done over text. “Everything showed up looking fabulous, and they love it,” says Forsblom of the finds. The custom biscuit tufted sofa is in washable blue velvet by Manuel C...
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