I was delighted to contribute my thoughts on the trend for ‘Luxury Loos’ to The Sunday Times yesterday. In this great article, The Times’ Interiors editor Katrina Burroughs pulled together the latest innovations and current thinking around the interior design of these spaces. There’s no doubt that the loo is an important place, so it’s […]
Wow another interesting year! New projects, lovely clients, awards, some work for myself even… a bit of everything. And still feeling blessed for being so busy in these challenging times. Excited about 2022… with projects in London, Hampshire, East Sussex and Hertfordshire to get cracking on… But before then, a well-earned rest! We wish everybody […]
I’m thrilled that we’ve been voted an award-winner in the United Kingdom Property Awards 2020/2021. Part of the International Property Awards, they’ve been running for over 25 years now, judging the very best in architecture and interior design around the world. We’ve won our award for Best Interior Design Website in the UK. We’re […]
The passing of designer Terence Conran this week was a sad moment. A fabulous innovator across design, home retail and architecture, who has been a great influence on me, although I didn’t realise at first. Conran founded the habitat chain of high street home stores, which had a branch in Sheffield where I grew up […]
You might already know that I don’t believe in interior design trends as a major influence on the residential design projects that I undertake for private clients. Sometimes new needs arise as a result of changes in the world though, and lately that’s been a very big and very sudden need in response to Covid-19. […]
A great product design article was published by Fortune Magazine recently – The 100 Greatest Designs of Modern Times. It’s a wonderful journey through some of the design products and services that have shaped and influenced our lives, and it’s a fascinating read. It’s full of products I admire, and many that I already own […]
For the special edition of kbbreview magazine this month I wrote the first of the articles in this Design Trend special. I wrote about a design approach for our homes that I believe so strongly in… how it works… and that what results from this… Longevity. “Our homes can have a profound effect on our […]
I’m always interested in famous architecture and interior design projects, as they can provide so much inspiration. Reading about them isn’t the same as visiting and experiencing them for myself though. Not just to soak up the building and its interior first-hand, but also to get a feel for the setting and wider context of […]
Great news from the Houzz community – we’ve been rated at the very highest level for client satisfaction for our interior design projects! Here’s our Best of Houzz 2019 award… Best of Houzz 2019 – Client Satisfaction We were rated at the highest level for client satisfaction by the Houzz community …and here […]
We’re producing design presentations for our interiors projects all the time, so it’s wonderful to see similar design presentations from other industries. I loved seeing the presentation and specification room for Aston Martin’s ultra-exclusive Valkyrie project in the press last week. No, I wasn’t there specifying my own! Here you can see the options that […]
