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 […]
This year marks the centenary of the Bauhaus Design School. Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, the school had a profound and lasting influence on design, architecture, and here I touch on a few highlights – the people and their design work. The school brought together art and architecture, creativity and construction. Pursuing this combined […]
It’s wonderful to see the launch of ‘The Holt’ in Winchester, Hampshire. It’s a magnificent development of four luxury properties on Sleepers Hill – one of Winchester’s prime property locations. We’ve been working with the developer – Millgate (Winchester) – since the very early stages of the project. We started by advising on interior plans […]
Another big development at the upcoming London Design Festival this month is the relocation and expansion of Design Junction. It started in a basement in 2011, before moving to London’s Old Sorting Office on New Oxford Street in recent years, and now the show is expanding to take over four locations in Kings Cross as […]
I was in London’s Conran Shop in South Kensington last week. It’s always been a great place to go for interior design products, and the quirky mix of furnishings and lifestyle items has never really been matched elsewhere, even in London. I thought you’d like to see some of the stylish and fun design products […]
I was lucky to be able to visit Uppark in West Sussex recently. Not far from our design studio in Hampshire, this National Trust property is a fabulous country house with a magnificent interior that has been decorated, restored and maintained beautifully. The House The house was built in around 1690 for the first Earl […]
To get me in the mood for returning to the studio today, the final day of the holidays was spent with Lego’s model of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, from their Architecture range. Another wonderful gift from an inspired wife! At the risk of turning this into a Lego blog (see also the Architecture Studio), […]
Small is often beautiful too, as shown in this lovely video of an apartment refurbishment in Paris. Well, apartment could be an overstatement. I’m sure many of us could downsize, but eight square metres might be pushing it! But this interior design project by Kitoko Studio in Paris shows that it’s at least theoretically possible. […]
I visited the new London hotel from the Mondrian group last week, on the Southbank between the OXO Tower and Blackfriars Bridge. As it’s located in the existing Sea Containers House building, the work of designer Tom Dixon is focused mainly on the interior design, but even from the outside his renovation of the […]
I was recently lucky enough to be invited by Benchmark Furniture – the furniture design and production company set up by Terence Conran and Sean Sutcliffe – to the first of their professional development days, called “The Love of Making”. We listened to talks from a number of different producers, including Benchmark, and I […]
