...with a view of Prague Castle and the busy main railway station. Anyone who comes to the office can use it. People come here to talk, enjoy, and work. Spaces can be easily adapted, mainly thanks to flexible furniture. As a result, over a hundred people can fit here. There is also a practical room for...
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...to the purest forms and express them simply, as the Modernists did, the outcome cant really date because, you know, does a circle, triangle or straight line get old? Modernist design is timeless because it used simple, timeless forms.
“Im not saying you need to pick pieces with right angles or ...
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... warehouse, housed in a 19th-century cork factory.
How did Lant Street come about?
Coco: “Lant Street is a more grown-up, refined version of the sort of parties me and Jermaine did when we were younger. We worked on Peckham Hotel with Frank Boxer, Hannah Barry and Practice Architecture, among...
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...he owner, and my stomach was doing backflips the whole way round. I had to come clean and declare that we couldn’t represent it for sale because, well, I wanted to buy it myself.
After moving in, we discovered all of those little things that you don’t know until you live in a place. In the mo...
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...st updates from the worlds of design, architecture, interiors and more – comes in. Here we’re turning our attention to the question of how to buy art for the home, combining our insights with top tips from those in the know.
Building an art collection isn’t all that different from acquiring f...
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...nt the last year finding a slower pace of life in the city. Life in London comes with a strange sense that we always need to be participating in something or seeing people because we fear missing out. But, we’re actually missing out on the freedom, the happiness, that comes with slowing down!
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...的煮面手推车。
In front of the KIKI door, the first thing to welcome you is the lightly sloping white eaves, the warm and simple KIKI tea bar and the old Taiwanese street cooking cart parked at the entrance.
走近细看,手推车上面琳琅面目摆放着各种出自KIKI的食品杂...
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...he flat having its own front door was a big draw because it means you dont come into a narrow hallway.
“Instead, you come into a big wide hallway and you have rooms on either side, giving a sense of brilliant lateral width, which is quite unusual in London.”
Milly: “And the garden goes a...
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...ington, who still own the same house here, suggested that we might like to come as they were going elsewhere. We found that it was absolutely heavenly. I can recall the beautiful sunshine even now – lovely.
“It was a revelation for the south of England. I had been living in South Africa. When...
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...y 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 they expected.
“The house blends in well with t...
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... Standing out from your neighbours will appeal to design lovers when you come to sell. Photo: Office S&M's Salmen House in Plaistow
Be inventive and economical. Office S&M used a cost-effective spray-on rubber material, most commonly used on oil rigs, for waterproof cladding at Janus Hou...
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...There’s a house for rent next door to us in Shingle Street, you should come and have a look.’
“We came and saw it on a sunny day in September. It was beautiful and clear, and there wasn’t a soul around. We walked in and thought ‘yeah, we could do something with this.’”
Martin: ...
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...ing affordable, quality and community-focused homes for London’s lower-income renters outside the benefits net – a demographic he believes is badly served by the traditional private rental market. We met Charlie at home in Holland Park to talk to him about renovating a mid-century house with the...
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...y through the house: you enter into a dark cavernous corridor and then you come into a bright, light-filled space with this brilliant shining blue and greens from the garden foliage.
“We also wanted to make our house as ‘natural as possible. We chose clay plaster for its textural and non...
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...ll end up in the freezer or somewhere.
“I also have the need to be welcomed, to have a reveal when I come into a space. The reveal here is me opening up this flat, immediately coming into my texture and colour world. So, I like details like the flat weave rugs, the fabric wallpaper folded into ...
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... quick introduction on yourself? When did you first decide you wanted to become a photographer and what path led you to where you are today?Well the starting point is the basics, I guess – I live in Fitzroy and work out of my studio which is located in Cremorne, Melbourne’s most seemingly unknow...
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... to a new house we’d live in a caravan on the drive and my parents would come home from work and spend the evening doing up the house.
“They’re 80 and 85 years old now and still driven by that sense of making a space your own. I think I inherited the feeling that there’s more fun to livin...
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...n space that still respects the building’s Victorian fabric. As her home comes onto the market, Daisy talks to us about combining old and new, why theatricality is vital to the space, and her garden lockdown project.Daisy: “Before I bought this house, I lived out of a suitcase really. I’m a bi...
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...of this sprawling family home in Kew is surely the envy of every child who comes to play, being accessed via a slide. It is the work of renowned architect Stuart Piercy, whose masterful conversion of a Victorian stable was shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year award in 2015.
Sherriff Road, L...
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... fair bit of. I started a book club for collectors at Flow, who have all become friends. Initially, we were going to only read art and design books, but now we cover everything.
“Not many people have direct access to their workspace like I do. It’s a blessing in one way, but it means it can b...
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...is for us, we should consider other people who might live here in years to come.
“We thought about three people. One was an individual who wanted to live and work here, so they could have the studio but all living spaces too – and thats how we use it.
“The other scenario was one where th...
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...r photographic equipment, printing and studio space. In fact, people still come down the alleyway asking where Silver Print is.
“It wasn’t a very desirable spot when we first came here, almost 20 years ago. In fact, it was well-known as a no-go area. You could get quite a good deal at that ti...
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...3am from the police, telling us we were being burgled. So, that was our welcome to Dalston!
“We were in a big warehouse space near Old Street roundabout before. We have two children, now 21 and 22 years old, and they learnt to ride their bike in the flat because it was so huge.
“When the c...
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...ces from her in-house line and a catholic approach to materials, manage to come off with such ease.
,The truth is that Beata’s is a studied eclecticism, born from a fascination with history, culture, art and colour that was first cultivated over the years she spent working under famously outré...
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...the story of your life … I’m always amazed when I see these homes that come together in an instant because I wonder how much they express their owner’s style. Homemaking is done bit-by-bit in a process that you form and layer with your own aesthetic over time.” The lesson here is that your h...
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