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 […]
