...gazine with this visit to Studio Nicolson founder Nick Wakeman’s east London home – a place of quiet, peaceful sanctuary for its occupier. Make sure you head to our online shop and pick up your copy of the magazine, where you’ll find many more features covering everything from interiors to foo...
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...rence between the interior and exterior is deliberately in contrast so you don’t know what to expect from outside. When people come to visit for the first time, I always tell them that it is the one that looks like a prison! But when people come in, they tell me how it looks so different from what...
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After showing us around their self-renovated family home in Croydon, Simon (aka Cookie) and Sophia Cook share their house style.
Youre happiest at home when?
Having a long slow soak together in our huge double-ended bath in the morning. There’s not much space for mummy and daddy time when y...
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...t a title that sits comfortably with Australian-born Skye Gyngell – “I don’t relate to it,” she says, “I’m a cook”. It’s a slight but revealing distinction and one that speaks to the pared-back simplicity of her approach, which first won favour in the low-key charm of Petersham Nurse...
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...表演
酒香萦绕,别上一杯
去发现不同角度不同的美吧
Don't miss the wonderful song and dance performance at night.
Don't have a cup of wine.
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...phone all day, trying to persuade people to give me interviews. At home, I don’t ever call people. If I want to talk to somebody, I invite them over or I meet them somewhere. Home is a place which I need to be quiet.“It’s just how I like it – it means there’s a cut off to the day. During t...
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...Lee Levy's decorating strategy is simple: “Look at what you have. If you don’t like it, just change it,” she says. It doesn't have to break the bank. Since she moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles with her boyfriend, Seth Powsner (he's also a set designer), that has been their guiding principle ...
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...stablished by Barny Read and Becky Nolan in 2008. Its shop in Bow, east London, holds a covetable stock of mid-century and late 20th-century pieces sourced on the continent; a visit there might feature an original 1960s Olivier Mourgue Djinn chair, a Mario Bellini sofa or a sculptural lamp by an unk...
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...re stacked on top of each other, so we began thinking about upsizing in London to get a bit more space.
“We positively didn’t know the area well before we moved here. South London has always been a bit of a mystery to me.
“It still is, to be honest. But the Canton Arms is very good – i...
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...e didn’t want to give it back.
Where do you shop for your home?
We don’t.
Not anymore, we try to borrow now through Harth when we want something new – it’s a way of testing our own service, but also it’s really addictive! When we do buy new things it’s usually because we’r...
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... Roman and Williams created a dreamy home with such an eclectic mix of...I don't even know. Gothic? Neo-classical? French country? Whatever it is, it's pretty spectacular.
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... Here, we speak to actor Siân Phillips about her long love affair with London at her home just off Brick Lane, currently for sale.
Siân: “I fell in love with London the second I set foot on the platform at Paddington. I had arrived from Wales to start training at RADA and I remember thinking ...
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...Peter Pritchard, about moving to a former Victorian flour store in east London, working with burgeoning architects Al-Jawad Pike and their dreams for a flat in the Barbican.
Peter: “Before moving to east London we were living in a 1930s apartment block in Hammersmith. I own my own lighting desi...
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This building was one of the first gay pubs in London back in the Seventies, which my housemate Dan’s uncle used to drink in. The main saloon bar was up on the first floor. Dan went to the library and looked into the history of it all when he first bought it. He found one photo where next door h...
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...i. I think the architects description of how it all came about is great.“Don’t kill the tree!” A gnarly pepper tree formed the planning challenge of an addition for a young family to their Victorian era home. A pool, small block, desire for light, space and ‘room to grow’ rounded out the b...
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... four sides. Most old warehouses around here are part of a terrace, so you don’t get the same sort of views or natural light.
“The first thing we did was to take out all the walls to just appreciate the lateral space and the quadruple aspect. We lived here for about a year and a half without ...
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... to them about their life in the space. Here, we meet Archie and Tricia MacDonald at their contemporary seaside house on the coast of the Firth of Forth, six miles from Edinburgh.
Archie and Tricia moved back to Scotland from Winchester, where they had raised their children, in 2007 to be closer ...
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...d there’s so much stuff—almost too much now—that I find things and I don’t have space for them. The fact of the matter is, people aren’t using keywords, so I honestly go on every day and I set my radius for 10 to 12 kilometers. I just search the furniture section and save things that pop o...
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... it off had used it to store hot air balloons. In fact, he saw what we had done with the tower and put in a planning application for a Miami-style beach house complete with ocean-liner handrails. It didn’t go down very well with the planners.
“Now, Experimental Station is where I spend most o...
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The hills surrounding Pitlochry
For most Londoners with a second home, the Friday evening drive out of the capital hopefully ends in time for a late dinner in a place not far beyond the reaches of the home counties – the just-far-away-enough-yet-easy-to-get-to appeals of Wiltshire, Nor...
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...o with the empty room in the warehouse and how we could make some money. I don’t have a problem with commercialism, but making a quick buck was all that seemed to matter to these people.
“Jermaine had
been buying wine from me for the last decade and when he suggested we could do
something, it...
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...ds: “We had never imagined designing a place to live and work outside London. It was 2001, and we had just been to visit Derek Jarman’s house and garden in Dungeness. We were on our way back to London and it was a beautiful day, so we wanted to stay away from the motorway.
We were exploring l...
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...d a development project. We had a really wide search area – mostly in London, but not exclusively.”
Leo Wood: “Completely by chance, we ended up finding this site on a commercial property website, minutes from where we were living.”
Rupert: “Historically, the building was part of the...
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...dam Hall, Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat and famous figurines by Brian Donnelly, known as Kaws. The expensive Italian lighting stands as a competent illumination for each exhibit. Above the kitchen bar — Makivka lamps, handmade ceramic lighting by Sergey Makhno Architects. They set off the cla...
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...changed my life”. At her flat on a quiet mews in Brockley, south east London, Harvey, a hairstylist to the likes of Frank Ocean and FKA Twigs, reflects on the psychology of home, taking time with interiors and why she’s got a thing for silence.
Cyndia: “I’m so not a city girl. I can barel...
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