“I’ve had a fascination with Brutalism ever since I was at school. I was brought up in Hampshire and we would regularly drive past the famously bonkers concrete Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, designed by Owen and Rodney Gordon in the mid-1960s.
Its weird geometry and bad angles were so extra...
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Interior designer Martin Brudnizki, the man behind some of Europe and North Americas most resplendent, big-budget signifiers of contemporary luxury, including the apotheosis of unabashed interior extravagance, Annabel’s nightclub, has a home that you might not expect.
,Away from overhauli...
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“I kind of like being a jack-of-all-trades, being able to move throughout the design world organically,” says Jonny Ribeiro, a designer, collector, and dealer. He’s pictured here in his Brooklyn apartment, with a 1960s metal lamp, a 1970s stone sculpture by Bernice Dritz-Epstein, and an impres...
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Illustrated book editor and collage artist Eszter Karpati saw moving to a new flat in a 1920s apartment building in Highbury as a chance to hit reset on her interiors, leaving her old furniture behind and acquiring new pieces to match the space. As her flat in Highbury comes on to the market, Karpat...
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The Peanut Vendor is a vintage furniture and design dealer established 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 Dj...
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Stepping into Rosa Park’s flat in a Grade I-listed Georgian
mansion block in Bath, we can’t say we’re surprised by the feeling of calm that
greets us. Like the pages of the magazine she founded and edits, Cereal, Rosa’s space is a soothing mélange
of muted, natural tones, fine design and ...
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Courtney McLeod smiles, seated atop her custom upholstered orange velvet sofa from Lee Jofa.
Take one look at designer Courtney McLeod’s work and you’ll understand why she’s known for her bold, confident use of color. Her one-bedroom apartment in Harlem is saturate...
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For Cyndia Harvey, moving into her own place three years ago signalled a welcomed transformation. Sent to the charity shop were her old things and a new chapter began, one in which a sense of ownership and feeling settled has, in Harvey’s words, “changed my life”. At her flat on a quiet mews i...
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On one of the walls at curator Oscar Humphries‘ flat on the northern edge of Hyde Park, which he shares with his wife Sophie and their young daughter, there is a small drawing that was given to him as a young boy by a friend of his dad’s. At first glance, it appears naive and child-like, m...
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“My style of vintage interior design is about finding objects that have meaning and a story to tell. I like the idea that buying vintage things comes with the responsibility that you have to look after and preserve what you have bought – its so much more valuable.
“I think Ive always had ...
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Wilton Way, London E8
Osier Court, Osier Street, London E1
Darnley Road, London E9
Caversham Road, London NW5
Fairbairn Hall, Barking Road, London E13
Nicola Loughton
In our new series, were getting to know The Modern Houses team by aski...
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本期还原的是Gaetano Pesce在纽约的look like you的公寓项目,文末有惊喜。
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Gaetano Pesce被称为设计鬼才,他50年的职业生涯横跨建筑、室内设计、城市景观及工业设计等多个领域,他一直都试图发掘这些...
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At their airy, light-filled Georgian flat in Edinburgh, Eilidh Izat and Jack Arundell tell us of how their home supports their multifaceted lives, which at any one time sees them run an architecture practice, a design studio, a series of supper clubs and their holiday let, Porteous Studio, in the c...
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The day before yesterday I evoked the warm and zen interior of Irène Mertens. Today I give you to see the renovation of this apartment in Barcelona by Katty Schiebeck. It is also beautiful, zen, but a colder atmosphere, because much more contem...
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In our Open House series, we talk to sellers about what makes their home a special place to live. Here, at his Barbican flat for sale, architect and co-founder of shedkm Dave King reflects on the contemporary relevance of Brutalist architecture, what the Chamberlin Powell & Bon-designed estate got...
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For Japanese-born ceramicist Kaori Tatebayashi, connecting to nature isn’t just a way of offsetting the pace of city life, it’s an essential process of her sculptural work, which renders vegetables, fruits and flowers in ultra-lifelike clay compositions.
At her flat in a converted Victorian...
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Weve partnered with premium paint manufacturer Farrow & Ball for a four-part film series, ‘Living with Colour’, in which were exploring the use of Farrow & Ball paints in a range of modern living spaces. You can watch the second episode here.
This instalment of the series takes us to...
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Neil at work in his home studio
Westcombe Court in its Brutalist glory
Light pours in from the large windows, which give the building its visual identity
Exterior shots published in Architectural Design magazine, November 1965
Neil's small hammer-like sculptu...
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Our ‘Open House’ series takes us into some of the homes we have for sale to meet the current owners. Here, we speak to multidisciplinary architecture and design studio Suprblk founders Michael Putman and Sara LEspérance about designing flexible architecture that stands the test of time at the...
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We talk to interior designer and Sigmar design shop co-founder Ebba Thott about the role of an interior designer, how to observe your needs and wants and the importance of having somewhere to put your keys.
Ebba: “The best part of being an interior designer is when you can see that you have c...
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Celio Apartment in Rome Oozes Magical Designhttp://www.decoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Celio_4.jpg
Italian architect Carola Vannini thinks like a magician. Take a look at the beautiful construction designed by Vannini and you too will agree. It is notable that this Celio Apartment is realize...
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“We’ve lived in this apartment for just over two years. It was by chance that we came across it; my fiancée Joel was refurbishing a property in the same building and it became available. We instantly fell in love with the 1930s Art Deco features and large Crittall windows. It’s a really cha...
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Set and spatial designer Robert Storey, head of his eponymous studio, has built his career designing spaces for brands like Nike, Prada, Hermès and, more recently, the show Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk at the V&A. A typical Storey Studio project synthesises bold colours, expressive forms, crisp detai...
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For designer Rhonda Drakeford, moving into a stopgap rental flat was never going to come at the price of not leaving her mark and making the place feel like home. Since selling up in the Barbican and taking lease of a smaller place near London Fields, Drakeford has transformed her new home with her ...
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Enter Zoe Cohen’s Brooklyn apartment, and you’ll find a curated collection of midcentury classics blended with contemporary quirk. After living in a Chinatown apartment with three roommates, the born-and-bred New Yorker needed space to breathe and—like most Manhattanites looking for more squ...
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