...首席建筑师:Tomás Swett Amenábar y Gabriel Díaz Riadi,Category: Houses,设计团队: Aquiles Segura,Technical Team: Carolina Vargas,Engineering & Consulting > Structural: Ernesto Hernandez,Engineering & Consulting > Mep: VY Ingenieria,总承包商: Montevarchi,项目国家...
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Our Open House series gives you a glimpse into some of the homes we represent ahead of their sale. Here we speak to Chris Illingworth, owner and director of Loft Furniture, and his wife Sophie about restoring their brutalist family home and the joy of being bold when it comes to decoration. Check ou...
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“My friend Nina Tolstrup from Studiomama found this – she has a house two doors down and she knew we were looking for something when she saw a ‘for sale sign on a neighbouring house.
Our son was quite young at the time and we were trying to find a way that we could get outside a b...
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...ich, projects around the world, including private residences, several Soho Houses and Cantonese restaurant Duddells in London. Here, at his playful family home, he tells us how his signature style was applied to a fun-filled living space for him, his wife Susanna and their combined seven children, c...
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...with stations so it wasn’t regarded as a desirable residential area. The house was previously used as a clothing store but when I bought it the accommodation above had been unoccupied for about 25 years.
“I moved in after the structural work was done but I lived without a kitchen for a long t...
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...s lived in a one-bedroom flat in Hackney. She moved into this 1930s rental house on the Isle of Dogs in 2009, when her 12-year old daughter was a baby. Eleven years later and she has a successful perfume brand to her name, which she launched in 2016 from the house’s loft. Her fragrances, which bal...
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...ed here for almost 11 years, having bought the property through The Modern House in the early days of the agency. A good friend spotted it whilst it was under offer.
“At the time we weren’t really looking to move or leave London (we were living in a lovely Art Deco apartment in Stoke Newingto...
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...ey, east London, graphic and interior designer Rhonda Drakeford shares her house style.
How would you describe the interiors of your house?
Bold, on a budget. Colourful (with compromises).
Mine is
temporary, rented space made into a cosy home with a combination of favourite
furniture, art, p...
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... countryside, it provided just the spot to create a contemporary barn-like house. Here, she talks to us about how her ideas found form and why she can never quite commit to furnishing the space.Gina: “I grew up in north London, but I’d always wanted my children to experience the countryside grow...
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...like Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody – open the doors to their 1960s townhouse in Forest Hill to talk life, work, interiors and gardening. View the sales listing here.Shaida: “Modern living has been the same for centuries: it’s about creating a home that you feel comfortable and yourself in. H...
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... almost 20 years in Bath, Mel and Tom Calver swapped their five-storey townhouse for this 1850 cottage in the village of Westcombe, Somerset, near to Toms family farm. The couple craved a more rural setting to bring up their two children, and this ticked all the boxes, as well as being close to West...
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“We’re on a street of what I figure were quite experimental Victorian houses. Ours is a purpose-built maisonette, and opposite there are cleverly laid-out cottages. It feels like it was a bit of a testing ground for small-space living.
“It’s not a huge space but we were really drawn to t...
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...ed really badly and looked run down and overgrown. I saw it was a detached house, so I decided to take a punt and see it anyway. As soon as I walked through the door into the hall I fell in love with it. And that was that!
I think the hallway might still be my favourite part of the house actually...
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Our ‘Open House’ series brings our sales listings to life with a visit to the current owners of some of the homes we have for sale. 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 wit...
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...counter tops
Light well courtyard
Jessica in the Lost House
Sunken cinema room
Threshold leading to the bedrooms beneath the adjacent building
Master bedroom
Bedroom
Swimming pool
Office and showroom
Entrance ...
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,Step behind the front doors of some of our listings in our ‘Open House’ series, for which our sellers share their story of living in their homes. Here, architect Jonathan Nicholls of Hayhurst & Co. architects and lighting designer Alex Randall share their experience of converting a Victor...
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When it came to creating his own home, a refurbished Notting Hill mews house, Thomas drew from these two areas of expertise to repurpose an existing 1970s structure into a light-filled courtyard home that is comfortable to live in, while also housing Thomas collection of modernist furniture, art...
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...e in Peckham, BBC Radio producer Smita Patel had stood staring outside the house in admiration and considered putting a note through the door, asking if the owners would sell it to her. When it appeared on to the market in 2012, she made an offer without seeing inside – a gamble that has landed he...
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... catch up with them about the joys they’ve found from living at Wisteria House, currently for sale.
Kenny: “Our last home was a typical Edwardian semi in north London and we had done everything we could to maximise the potential within that space. At that point our two boys were both going to...
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Earlier this year, The Modern House made a trip to Edinburgh to take the pulse of the city’s creative scene and step inside some of the best homes in the capital. So far, we’ve shared our visits to Eilidh Izat and Jack Arundell’s classic Georgian flat in the heart of town and Gemma and Kesti...
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Ze Arquitectura have sent us images of the Ze House they’ve designed in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
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...oast. Here, we ask them to reflect on the significance their self-designed house has in their lives. Read their thoughts on memories, landscape, home and creativity below.
Rachel: “A friend of mine, years ago, made the point that people always buy the house, or the car, for the stage of life t...
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A number of years ago, The Guardian included The Modern House in its list of specialist agencies that offer an alternative to Rightmove. More recently, Ed Cumming wrote a profile piece about us in The Observer that once again compared us directly to the country’s biggest property portals: “Wh...
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... Street, close to our design studio in Clerkenwell, but we needed a larger house to fit our expanding family. We have three children, Pip, Kit and Marni, so we narrowed the search down to postcodes near good schools that would still allow us to walk to work.
It was pretty run down and had been va...
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...s, koi-filled lakes and blossom trees, down to the minimally furnished tea house nestled in the grounds. When we got to the tea house it had just started to rain, and we had almost the whole house to ourselves. Floor-to-ceiling windows framed the views of the garden, looking across to the mountains ...
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