...did a City & Guilds course in woodworking and bought a machine in order to make the furniture himself. It took a long time, and it was definitely a labour of love.
“When we first moved here, when I was a baby, we slept in camp beds under the stairs.”
Beth: “There was scaffolding all over...
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...contemporary two-bedroom apartments have ~75sqm to work with, so we had to make our own 62sqm floorplate work as hard as possible.
- Engage with the ocean views and landscape
- Clearly delineate between private spaces and public spaces.
CLIENTS
My wife and I had been living in this 1960s sin...
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... seven, five and seven months, so its very much a family house. We had to make the space work a bit harder for us than it was. But I didnt want to blast it apart and make it huge, because it didnt feel right. We wanted to maintain some integrity and the nice bits of the Victorian house, like the fi...
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...ge throughout the year.
“Both rooms have two large windows located to make the most of the morning and evening sun, and to give specific views onto the garden. The building is oriented towards the weather, so there are no south-facing windows.”
Helen: “The layout of the space changes thr...
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...snt really a sense of ‘this could fail’, it was more ‘we have to make this happen and make it work’.”
Gemma: “I think that theres a huge range of people in Scotland who want to follow their dream, want to do it themselves, and there is almost a freedom up here where you can try so...
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...e and with Hugo having recently qualified as an architect, they decided to make the project their own.“It definitely had not been on our agenda until we saw the plot,” Grace, a managing editor at The World of Interiors magazine, tells us as we drop in on her, Hugo and Isabel – Hugo’s wife an...
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...aker dad informed his decision to become a chef, tells us what he likes to make on the weekend and shares a recipe for a summery sea trout crudo with peas, horseradish and ponzu.
Nicholas, what were your formative food experiences?
Nicholas: “Ive was surrounded by good food growing up. My dads...
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...hilanthropist Helen Storrow gave Gropius four acres of land and $20,000 to make-real his architectural philosophy. As such, the house is an uncompromising execution of the Bauhaus movements tenets, possessing elegance through functional, simple design.
Eames House, Los Angeles, California, USA
M...
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...d then is able to bring that exuberance into a three-dimensional space and make it cohesive. The result is one happy, happy workspace! -Amy
Studio designed and styled by Emily Henderson
Sr. Designer/project manager: Samantha Gluck
Photography: Zeke Ruelas
Image above: I have so many talented ...
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...a modern home without it feeling like a museum.“We changed the layout to make some of the bedrooms bigger and gain a family bathroom – it has a double shower and big bath so you can lie with the door open to the garden, listening to the birds singing and watching the sunset – it’s bliss. ...
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...een numerous renovations by previous owners, there was still work to do to make it the couple’s own. Coming from a small, railroad-style Brooklyn apartment, Lisa and Jonathon craved simplicity and room to breathe—both mental and physical. They started by painting the floors and walls white (a de...
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...e, they reflect on the high and lows of the renovation and what, for them, makes a good family home.
Sophia: “I’m starting to go down the Instagram hole of looking at other peoples’ houses, and theyre all great and brilliant. But it can sometimes become a very sterile catalogue and I look at ...
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...cterful underneath the bad 1980s conversion.
“It was not difficult to make improvements! Everything we now celebrate about the flat was masked: the lovely glazed bricks were covered with plasterboard, there was a dropped ceiling and one of the windows was blocked off with a storage cupboard.”...
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...an. In her years of working in the beauty industry, she has learned how to make a client happy. This understanding became the basis of the interior solutions delivered by balbek bureau. To get on the same mental wave with the client is perhaps the most important aspect while working on a project. Ou...
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...nd walkways. I grew up on an estate and the sense of community it has just makes me think of being a child back in Sweden.“I’ve collected posters and photographic prints from shops and fairs over the years, but some have inevitably just ended up sitting in their rolls. This year, though, I decid...
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...al in the process. Read on to discover why this former manufacturing plant makes for the perfect home for the couple and their two-year-old daughter, Juniper, as well as for their design studio, Index.
Amy: “Jonty, my partner, and I were living in Sandringham (10 minutes from Auckland central) in...
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...lusive interview with yatzer and find out about all the small stories that make a place really unique.
Ryan we are totally amazed by the particular universe you created for Adee Phelan’s salon. What was the main idea behind it? Was it clear from the outset or was it more based on intuition?
Th...
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...han perhaps in the past. It’s much
more about the simpler pleasures that make living more comfortable and truer to
yourself, and less about external appearances.
“When
buying for our home I think we used to be a bit ‘style over substance’ but
these days comfort, practicality and quality a...
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...a happy medium. “We’ve figured out how our styles can mesh together to make something that really works,” says Page. This comingling of tastes is best displayed in the couple’s main bedroom, a stunning space with cathedral ceilings, exposed wood beams, and an original fireplace with jade-col...
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The Baker’s House – an intimate and deeply personal installation by Färg Blanche presented inside the house Emma Marga Blanche’s great great grandfather built 140 years ago. ,摄影 @ Nick Hughes.The Baker’s House installation by Färg Blanche. ,摄影 @ Nick Hughes.Outside Note’s s...
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...ng coffers with a blend of Simply White and Palladian Blue, which not only makes the room seem taller, but draws attention to the elegant molding itself. Even more color was added with the addition of bright orange leather armchairs from Oly Studio, and coordinating throw pillows made with Robert Al...
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... from Exhibit A. I must admit, it’s the overall experiences that usually make me cry in Milan (and elsewhere) – not usually from observing an object, or a collection, so this experience definitely breaks new ground for me. 图片 © Nick Hughes/ Yellowtrace.Left: The stunning Exploring Eden coll...
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