...use is a listed building in a Conservation Area, so there’s not a lot of changes I could actually make. I couldn’t add a big extension at the back, as it was completely protected. I loved the challenge of being able to create a contemporary lifestyle within a historical building – it was about...
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...chitect Christian Sintes, who runs Luv Architecture & Design, to make some changes. He’s a family friend and has worked with my family on a few projects before, but this was his first go at doing the interior design. The building is Grade II Listed, so we couldn’t make any major structural chang...
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...iors and Miles Redds The Big Book of Chic.
If money
was no object, what changes would you make?
Expansion.
Our house is semi-detached, and if we had the opportunity, I would buy the neighbouring property and expand into it. I would love to have the room for my own bathroom and dressing roo...
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..., where a mattress sits on the floor beside a glass table filled with ever-changing objects. It looks casual and cool, but it’s also styled just so to suit Lauren’s mood.
“It was a tired room with old white paint throughout, so as a facelift—due to limitations on being able to do major im...
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... want to be doing?
“We are now ten years old but in the second year I changed the whole set up. I started my own rooftop garden, I started to work only with biological produce from our farmer, I became a beekeeper, I started working with local producers and, actually, I started resembling somet...
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...g enough light into the house. The house uses materials that could age and change over time in accordance with the growth of our children, traditional construction methods and natural materials, Japanese paper with a touch of handiwork and plaster finish. This design allows us to live in the house a...
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...actices.
My training was predominately French but one thing I think has changed dramatically in the last five to ten years is the level of ingredients that are now accessible – it means we dont have to rely on heavy sauces and can let the ingredients speak for themselves. Also, as I get older, ...
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...enting, and Joshua admits he rearranges things constantly: “My apartment changes probably every week in some way.”
[size=2]⚒ Do It Yourself
Buy used Joshua scours the internet for secondhand pieces. His favorites are Kaiyo and eBay, as well as Lichen in Brooklyn for in-person finds.
Opt f...
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...h a few incarnations as my taste has evolved.
“The main architectural change I made was to extend the kitchen. It was kind of clunky and awkward before and we turned it into a more lateral space, opening it out so now the patio doors are directly opposite the entrance to the kitchen and the lig...
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...tchen, which is why the table folds up. You want to be able to make spaces change, without doing a lot. I think that whole thing of walls moving is unnecessary, you dont need all that. Just a couple of moves can shift a whole space.
“One of my friends said it looks a bit like a kitchenette or d...
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...ady feels like home thanks to Jasmine’s touch. “We haven’t made many changes since it’s such a unique space, but I’ve put a lot of energy into decorating and hanging art throughout the house,” says Jasmine. “To me, my style is kind of all over the place because I love so many different...
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...nt of the door, for example?“The magic for a designer is when you really change something, but it still feels familiar, or not too unfamiliar – that’s where the surprise element is so important. I guess that’s what modernity is about for me.”,转载自:The Modern House,语言:Engli...
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...tency is very crucial, whereas most furniture makers or
design brands will change their products at least yearly – whether that be
form, material, colour – or discontinue lines, in an endless cycle of new
things. We’re interested in things that are a lot more permanent and
long-lasting than th...
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...icated Italian cooking, where, after nearly ten years, the only thing that changes is the menu – daily, in fact.
In our series ‘The Modern Menu’ we’re exploring home cooking with some of our culinary luminaries, from chefs to cheesemongers, getting advice, tips and recipes that can be mad...
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...r versus on the sofa versus on my cushions, meeting all the graphic colour changes – that calms me.
“And storage. Storage is key and it’s also ridiculously underrated. Storage is key to order. Order is key to calm, which itself is about discipline. Yeah, I hear myself talk! I sound like...
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... you define modern living?
Having a home that is adaptable to our rapidly changing environment, that allows my family and I to be the focus, but evolves as and when we do, to keep us all happy.
If you were to move, what would be the first thing you’d take with you?
It would have to be my mums...
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... obsession for me, as did how the sun’s orientation would result in ever-changing tones and shadows within the building.
If there was a fire and you could only save one thing, what would it be?
Family aside, it would have to be my original Charles and Ray Eames EA217 Soft Pad chair, which date...
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...were fortunate enough to feature in recently. If money was no object, what changes would you make?
I’d buy the field next to the house!I grew up on a smallholding not far away and would really love the chance to run a small farm again. My children enjoy visiting their grandparents farm and I woul...
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...y, it was when Terence Conran started rethinking things that it started to change. I still think hes one of the godfathers, responsible for the resurgence in restaurants and good food in this country.
“His restaurants, like Bibendum, opened at the same time chefs like Rowley Leigh, Alastair Li...
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...ook’s job as treating the food we buy with as much respect as we can and changing it as little as possible.
“There’s a real crossover, then, in terms of the food I make at home and what we do here. I used to make a spelt dish for my first-born as something nutritious for her to eat. And the...
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...ence
Chanati: The Vision of Donald Judd
If money was no object, what changes would you make?
I would buy my neighbours’ garden so I could have chickens and a vegetable patch.
Less is more or more is more?
Less is more. I like rotating key pieces at home by taking a few selected objects ...
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...m tables and chairs to crockery, so that all comes up. It’s like a scene change.
I started out at MTV, doing client booking. I was also a PA for Kelly Osborne for a year…that was interesting. She called me the other day, frightened the life out of me! And then I worked at House of Holland for...
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...s very established to the point of being stagnant.
“There is constant change here and people are out and about, trying new things, talking and engaging, which I love. There’s stuff going on all the time and theres an energy thats different from north-west London.
“My husband, Chris, and ...
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...u can’t have a lot going on around you.“My favourite spot in the house changes depending on the season. In the summer, it’s on the decking that runs alongside the wall of glass in the kitchen-dining area, which essentially becomes another room of the house. We had the decking specially made fr...
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...aul Goude. The House Book, Terence Conran.
If money was no object, what changes would you make?
Sinks, taps, radiators. The things landlords always scrimp on.
The two main gripes of rental living are the kitchen and bathroom – I have to mentally block out the sinks and taps and built-in cab...
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