...idn’t really know if we could do anything good with it. Now its a lovely place to work because its so light and you can see the sky overhead. As a bedroom, its fine, but you do wake up at 5:00 in the morning.”
Steve: “Eye masks are definitely needed! IF_DO brought in plywood, timber and woo...
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...-year-old son. Check out the listing here.
Lina: “I came across this place during a Harrods buying appointment in 2004, when I came to see the work of some fashion students who were living here. It was a total wreck but I was really drawn to it and found out from the students that it was actua...
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... think it was because we wanted something that was a total contrast to the places we had been living. It was a real shot in the dark though because we didnt have any friends or family here.
“We fell for this apartment because the location was so amazing – it’s right in the middle of town....
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...or up to 300 people!
“There’s more of a community in Soho than most places I’ve lived in London. What’s nice is that everyone knows my son, Jack, and he’s charmed his way into never paying for anything. He gets free breakfast at Bar Bruno, the flower woman on Berwick Street loves him an...
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...it up.”
Kristin: “One of the flats was to have a two-metre wide fireplace in the bathroom. It was just nonsense; extraordinary.”
Nicholas: “They had no idea how to keep it going, so they came up with a solution that gave them a bit of money and took the house off their hands.
“...
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...rters in Louisville, Kentucky.The task for this project was to comfortably place multiple workplaces in a relatively small space and provide enough conference rooms and areas for socializing. Also, an interior had to reflect the reasonable consumption principles and the topic of recycling, that are ...
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...ew up in France, the sight of one by Ettore Sottsass in the kitchen of the place he was viewing was an omen of sorts, one that told him he was on to something– “it sounds irrelevant but it was just a sign,” he says.Since moving in, Raphael, who works in finance, has whipped the interiors of th...
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“When I first saw the place it was basically a squat. The bathroom downstairs was a dark, damp, rotting hell hole! Within six months of buying it, the house was transformed. Ive been creating plant-filled interiors in the different rooms since then – I always envisioned having a bit of a jungl...
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... in contrasting black and white - white L shaped cabinets and worktops are placed along the walls, while in the middle of the space stands the kitchen island, fully covered in black. Next to the kitchen the architects placed the dining table, which faces another large window and overlooks the yard. ...
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... house of her dreams. Here, she reflects on what home means to her, from a place to slow down and switch off, to a way to connect to food, friends and her passion for flea market finds.“I’ve worked at BBC Radio for nearly 30 years, making documentaries for Radio 4 and the World Service. It can b...
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...skill front.
Pulses, legumes and pasta (tinned or dried) are a good place to start, along with a decent spice cupboard. I try to buy spices in bulk; small jars won’t last five minutes. I make a big batch of a good spice mix and keep it in a jar, or infuse an oil to drizzle over roasted vege...
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... month, pretty much. Jack was living with people from uni and I had my own place, so we spent most of our time at mine.
“I remember we were walking one day, and you said, ‘Do you actually mind me staying at yours every single night?’ I was like, ‘It’s fine.’ So, it was an unconscious ...
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... and two workshops. An embroider mother and her ceramist daughter wanted a place where they could live and work. They named this project ‘10M4D (Ten months, Four days)’ as they desired to be free of any commitment for two months a year, and three days a week. We sought to represent the multiplic...
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...o swapping furniture and why they started Harth.
Henrietta: “Our last place was a warehouse apartment in Clerkenwell. It was fun when we didn’t have kids but we also had a lot of ‘nature moments, as I call them. I remember at one point a squirrel extended its nest onto our roofs and the...
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... good garden.
“I spent ages and ages looking, and eventually saw this place near Hackney Downs with its high ceilings and big garden. I was the first person to see it and offered the full amount, but then the owners started to dither as they thought they could get more for it. I ended up bribin...
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...his.
“The Modern House was only a few years old when we bought this place. Our search actually started at Long Wall in Suffolk, designed by Philip Dowson. We saw it on the website and when we got to the viewing day there were around 30 cars there. It was 2007 and the market was booming.”
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...out of the ordinary enough that it had the potential to be that.
“The place we lived in before was a houseboat, moored in St Katherine Dock. That was such an experience for us; as a family, it changed everything. The houseboat opened up a completely different lifestyle, and we decided that this...
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...rs prior, Pollock and Pierce decided to call in reinforcements to give the place a light refresh.
“When we bought it, we figured we might end up doing some work, but neither of us knew exactly what it needed,” says Pollock of the apartment, which occupies a little over 1,000 square feet. En...
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... eat out?
Nicholas: “Probably once a week. This weekend we ate out at a place called Ombra in Hackney, but we try to mix it up. I try to go to places that specialise, like having Thai food, or Turkish, which I love, especially salty lamb chops.
I think its important for chefs to eat out as its...
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...a plan that we, and they, were happy with.”
Deborah: “Coming from a place with a garden, which we sold via The Modern House, and me being a landscape architect, it was really important to us to have outdoor space here.
“Originally, we had plans to build a conservatory on the other side o...
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...ough its nice to invite people over for dinner, our home is a nice private place to have the family come together to eat.
Ben: “My dad worked as a chef while we were growing up, and I think I developed an appreciation of good food from a very early age because of that. I remember when I was fiv...
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...ream.
Cut a piece of baking parchment that’s larger than the fish and place in the bottom of a heavy roasting dish (this will make cleaning and getting the juices from the pan easier).
Rub oil and salt on to the fish and place in the tray with a couple of smashed cloves of garlic and the tor...
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...I was a filmmaker when I bought the house, which I thought would be a cool place to shoot in. Back then it was much more of a warehouse-type space, with only ladders up to mezzanine levels and no interior walls.
“The story goes that there was a couple, who lived on Camberwell Grove, got divorce...
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...tial thing, so the car jumps over a few more road craters and stops at the place where the meeting was arranged. The informal environment with the odour of the cigarette past and the sour beer presence will be a good test of the courage of the people who decided to build a house with him.,Kilian r...
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...s nice for me and my wife to get out together. I like to eat out in Asian places in Soho, and Turkish restaurants in Dalston.
“Now is a great time to have a restaurant in London as the scene is booming – there are no two ways about it. As long as youre smart, don’t make it intimidating and ...
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