...he sweetest, warmest people… ever? Well, as far as I’m concerned, that right there is Miss Jessie Webster (you may remember she held down my SFMW post last week, and totally and completely killed it). And this right here is her home.
When I stumbled upon it on Design*Sponge not long ago, I simp...
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... little moment from the beautiful Artek stand, designed by Kuehn Malvezzi. Right: Entry to Aper stand. 图片 © Nick Hughes/ Yellowtrace.Left: Hot shelf action by Pietro Russo at Baxter. Right: Bolon’s small by striking stand by Doshi Levien. 图片 © Nick Hughes/ Yellowtrace.Arflex stand. Note ...
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...with palm trees and a distinctive Mediterranean feel, awash with intense, bright sun. Bright central courtyard at Expormim, and Sarah & I trying to pump ourselves up despite feeling extremely fragile. 图片 © Dana Tomic Hughes/ Yellowtrace.Distinctive Mediterranean feel at Expormim. 图片 © Dana...
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...airs by Pierre Paulin on the left, and Junior range of the classics on the right. 图片 © Dana Tomic Hughes/ Yellowtrace. Today I am sharing the experience of visiting the amazing Dutch brand Artifort and their two factories in Schijndel in The Netherlands and Lanaken in Belgium. Saying that I was...
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...because thats what I thought mightve been a bit predictable. I think I was right on the whole except most of my friends are designers now…
“That was 44 years
ago. I bought a pretty, derelict farmhouse and did a little work to it, and
then we were able to buy part of the barns next door, a nic...
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... our community to get their thoughts on what a good meal can do for morale right now; hear what food they are leaning towards and learn how they’re making ingredients go further to minimise waste. Check back in the coming weeks for Tomos Parry, Nicholas Balfe, Seppe Nobels, David Gingell, Shaun Se...
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...by Shanghai-based Studio Tame, which was the first prize winner this year. Right: Kinky version of the Ming Chair by Li Haiming from University of Technology in Chao Yaing, which expresses the young designer’s awe and respect for women. 图片 © Nick Hughes/ Yellowtrace. I think it would be fair...
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..., I was at the end of my search in east London. I went online and thought, right I’m going to give this one more shot. I went to see a converted pub near Tower Hill, which I loved except for the no-man’s-land feel of the area, and then this.
“I got off the bus, stood outside and just went, ...
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...“I worked for two organisations supporting indigenous and tribal peoples rights and learned about many cultures from around the world, like Lakota Sioux Native Americans and the Yawanawa from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
“I began working in ceramics through evening classes after work and ...
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...ke Elliott, shares his thoughts on the small pleasures to be found at home right now.
Jake Elliott: As our ability to move around, socialise and interact with each other was abruptly curtailed in March, I decided to keep a short diary of the experience. I rent a flat in Nunhead with my partner Geor...
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...rgain bins because I didnt want to spend loads of money.
“The flat is right on the street, so privacy is an issue, but when I moved in the front window had frosted vinyl covering it. I took it off and put up these scaffolding planks, painted them and then put plants in. Its a natural screen, an...
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...list architecture, what the Chamberlin Powell & Bon-designed estate got so right and why he’s not moving that far.
Dave: “I’ve thought a lot about why the Barbican has endured as a piece of
architecture. In fact, it hasn’t just endured, because it’s more popular now
that it was at the ...
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...reas as well as a kitchen. The amount of space is amazing considering were right in the centre of the city.“I loved that the flat allowed for such an easy open plan lifestyle. When I bought it in 2014, I was just about to launch my jewellery brand and I was working from home. The large living area...
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...ghtly addicted to the website. We really could have moved anywhere for the right house, and didn’t know Suffolk or anyone here when we came to view the house. We loved it immediately, though. It just made sense to us and had so much potential.“We didn’t want to change it too much and didn’t ...
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...sforms Martina Gamboni PR agency’s meeting room for another year. On the right is the spectacular view from the office terrace back towards the Duomo, with Masquespacio’s Land for Poggi Ugo terracotta planters in the foreground. 图片 © Nick Hughes/ Yellowtrace.Masquespacio’s site-specific i...
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...2,000 sq ft), inexpensive and had good potential.
“The warehouse sits right next door to an empty lot of land, destined to be houses, but which is currently mostly gorse and blackberry bushes; the birds like it. We are also close to the train station, and the cycle trail that leads to the city....
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Left: Space Frames by Studio Mieke Meijer. Right: Entry to the show “Maybe blue would have been better” by Studio Mieke Meijer and Studio Jeroen Wand. Photos © Nick Hughes/ Yellowtrace.A series of conceptual lights by the magician of glass that is Pieke Bergmans. Top image shows her PHENOMENEON...
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... we really connect with.”
“This was a corner that I could never get right,” Lauren says of the dining nook. “So when I let go of the idea of a traditional dining room setting, I considered different shapes and scales to fill the space.” Putting together a smaller table, upholstered acce...
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... near the entrance to the property. Benech was invited to join the project right at the beginning, which he says is ideal, adding that “about 20% of my clients ask me where I think they should place their house in the landscape.”
Describing the process, Benech speaks enthusiastically. “I pl...
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... is always evolving, as it depends on what I’m currently obsessing over. Right now, they are: Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection,The I Ching, translated by Richard Wilhelm and Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory.
If money was no object, what changes would you make?...
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...d when it was first built. It still had a good energy about it that I felt right away.”
Smyth’s 1970s ranch, built by the custom prefab company Deck House, is painted in Benjamin Moore’s Wrought Iron. The designer had previously owned an 18th-century Colonial in the nearby town of Sharon. ...
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...s go!”. ,摄影 @ Nick Hughes.Ahhh, snowy Stockholm… You’re all right, you know. ,摄影 @ Nick Hughes. Sooooo….. We finally made it to Stockholm this year, you guys. Can you believe it? Except, at this point, the whole trip already feels like a distant memory, but boy was it real whil...
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...’t imagine the long-held laments about social media have many proponents right now, nor much of an audience. In fact, it seems that, for the most part, this is a time when technology as a force for good, as a way to bring out the best in humanity, rather than the worst, is coming to the fore. Just...
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...08, we quickly started to outgrow my one-bedroom flat in a Victorian house right next to Victoria Park. I wanted to stay in Tower Hamlets but rent prices were going up and I decided to look a bit further afield. I’d always valued space over location.“I ended up visiting Mudchute on the Isle of D...
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...ter we moved in I reconfigured the space several times until I felt it was right and working to an optimum.
I loved working on this project as House of Grey, because it was a rare opportunity to work with other other creatives that I had always admired. We had full creative control, and that was ...
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