... ,摄影 @ Nick Hughes/ Yellowtrace. DTH: Please introduce yourself and what you do.MK: My name is Michael Karakolis and I am the Founder and Director of Fibonacci Stone.I am very product-centric, so much of my time is spent sourcing raw materials, creating prototypes and spending many hours on t...
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... be challenging!
If there
was a fire and you could only save one thing, what would it be?
My
diaries.
Growing
up, I kept sporadic diary records that I still treasure to this day. It makes
for pretty cringeworthy reading, but it does provide a real insight into what I
was thinking and feeli...
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...y but worth it!)
If there was a fire and you could only save one thing, what would it be?
Art.
After the girls favourite bears, my favourite dresses, and the photo albums…
What was the last thing you bought for the house?
The Hemghar rug.
We rented it and fell in love with it...
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...iality is quite a timeless quality because a piece of oak, for example, is what it is, now and forever. And so our projects should, we hope, feel fairly natural.
“The timelessness of things like quality of space and daylight aren’t contemporary ideas – they’ve been used by architects and...
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...r than just be functional.
I think people are realising that meaning is what matters. In design terms that means finding connections with objects, people, the past and present.
“That idea also extends to our definition of luxury. Bespoke might not be the right word but heritage, story and me...
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...welcome to Australia and WELCOME TO YELLOWTRACE! Could you briefly explain what your jobs look like as CEO and COO of BOLON respectively? What do you love the most about what you do?Marie: Both of us are responsible for all parts of the company. We are involved in a lot of things, as our visions nee...
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... of community. Its important to me to create a sanctuary, but also to know what’s going on outside my walls.
“People say that on a street like this in London theres no sense of community, but I think it comes down to how much effort you make. It gives me a sense of wellbeing to know the names...
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...cumulated over the
years. In a funny way I think we are still figuring out what we want our
interior to be and probably only just coming to terms with that fact that we
have the opportunity to dictate the aesthetics of our space without the
influence of adolescents, now that our children are fully g...
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... Edge, where Wonderglass is available exclusively in Australia.Read on for what he had to say about working with nendo, and his opinions on what constitutes exceptional design. See more from WonderGlass on Yellowtrace here. Melt Collection by nendo for WonderGlass. + Can you please tell us a little ...
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...]摄影 @ Lisa Cohen.Portrait of Bruce Rowe. Photo by Tatjana Plitt. + At what point did you decide to pivot in the direction of product design and ceramics etc?In late 2010, I began to think about the possibility of translating some painting studies I had done into ceramic surfaces. I hadn’t bee...
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...nd got excited by. It’s a rental, so when we moved in we were limited by
what we could do. As it’s quite small we knew we couldn’t go mad with colour
and concepts, so kept continuity throughout the flat with white walls, linen
curtains and the concrete floor.
If there was a fire and you cou...
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...wildlife go by.
If there was a fire and you could only save one thing, what would it be?
There is an old barn on the site in which we found a lifetime’s worth of books that are now on a bookcase within the house. An amazing collection, almost impossible to replicate today. We’d save those. ...
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...ent from acquiring furniture: it’s important to take your time, consider what goes with what, and buy pieces that bring you pleasure. Although turning a profit is often a consideration, it shouldn’t be the guiding principle – above all, art should resonate with you. It’s no coincidence that,...
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...ian myself, although my husband is; for me it’s more about re-evaluating what you’re eating, particularly how often you have meat, and the quality of it. Agricultural rearing has a massive impact on the environment, so I try to eat meat maybe once or twice a week when we go out somewhere lovely,...
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...ck block cavity walls and a timber-framed roof.”
Anna: “But I think what we liked about it was that sense of ordinariness. The challenge we set ourselves was, how do we take something quite standard and bring it into the 21st century?
“What we wanted was a special, beautiful space, witho...
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... to have lived here before we went at it. We knew the dynamics and we knew what we wanted: a living room upstairs, three double bedrooms, to retain the original core and for it to be simple, unfussy and not expensive.
“Originally, the plan for the extension was to do what everyone does when the...
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...in a lateral loft space, why Soho still retains its independent spirit and what modern luxury means to her.
Alex: “A lot of what we sell in my shop enters my life through my home first. If I find that I always use a particular glass, for example, I order them for the shop. When we first opened ...
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...ommissioned everything for our home from makers because you couldn’t buy what they were after in the shops.
“We had things like handmade furniture and rugs, and my mother would go to Bohemia and East Germany for beautiful lighting. She was a dentist but was also really interested in design ...
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...the get-go. Here, we talk to Ab about the two projects and get his take on what constitutes modernity in design today.
Ab, what was your brief for Balfron Tower and how did you respond?
Ab: “Well we developed the brief with the client, which is something we like to do as a studio. It was about...
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...
“I grew up with parents who renovated everything – that’s sort of what we did as a family. My dad was a university lecturer and my mum ran her own business selling woodburning stoves. When we moved to a new house we’d live in a caravan on the drive and my parents would come home from work...
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... House? Or pretty much everything Peter Womersley put his name to.
,But what makes a home a masterpiece of the era? Well, Monica and Simon Siegel’s home in Nottinghamshire, designed by architect David Shelley in 1970, may have the last word on that. The Case Study-esque house comprises a stealt...
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...e and help delineate
different areas.
If you could only save one thing, what would it be?
A box of photos documenting family, friends and fun times, from birth until digital cameras put a stop to my printing.
Also my two new rescue cats, Barbara and Beverley. So much of what I own has deep se...
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...d curation of a covetable range of fine craft, from pottery to quilts. So, what does her home look like? We were intrigued to find out, so paid Catherine a visit in Blackheath to talk about modern living, the importance of cultivating a personal interior style and what home means to her.
Catherin...
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...or certain reasons we want to live with them.
“Its a little bit like what we do in the studio is the investigation. Then, we can try things out in the house – its a constant dialogue. We have the opportunity to leave our work very easily and go home, in a few seconds. For me, thats a great l...
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... at the time.”
Eilidh: “It turned out to be quite representative of what we do now, which in one part is about architecture and design, and the other about food and cooking.
“I’m a trained architect and run our practice, Izat Arundell. And complementary to that we run private dinners...
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