...ple over for dinner: what do you cook?
Endless possibilities…
My love
language is definitely food and I’m very extra with it. I have multiple paella
pans, multiple tajine pots and I could go on. I love making foods from all over
the world with the methods and tools as would be used local...
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...nd all the things you have just accumulated. In my life, I realised that I love my books, and I need them. I need most of my art around me.
“You just need things that fit how you live your life. So, if you’re a house mouse – which I am – you do need somewhere comfortable to sit an...
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...rt of London, that’s what, six miles away? But it feels so far away.“I love east now. I feel like one of the oldest people here, though. I still drive a four-by-four and wear make-up, so I’m not sure if I exactly fit in. I’ve felt a whole new lease of life, and I feel energised just walking ...
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...ally when I have the doors to the balcony open in the summer.
“I also love the area. I’d always lived in west London, previously in Holland Park and Notting Hill, but De Beauvoir Town really drew me in.
“But, and perhaps most importantly, I felt this house had a soul to it, with a lot of...
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...ding together right down to what type of screws you need.
Lyndsay: “I love the houses sense of potential. Theres still more we want to do and we really enjoy that process – its part of who we are.
When you live in a building that you’re doing up, you get a sense of every space and angle...
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...I much prefer it – it’s edited to the more classic pieces I really love.
My boyfriend, George, and I have lived here for seven months, having bought the place from The Modern House in 2017. We’d been renting around the corner and looking for somewhere for over a year with not much luck,...
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...g people. You can explain to her what you want in your house, and what you love, and what you dont like and she can almost take a feel of your personality and help you express it in your house, which I think is such a skill.
“She knew that we wanted this house to be a really calm space. It had...
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...nding a lot of time travelling to east London!”
Fergus: “But it’s lovely to pass by the river in the morning.”
Margot: “Yes, and we see the Houses of Parliament every day; all the great, iconic buildings are right there.
“At first I thought it was going to be terrible leaving Co...
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...n no rush; I would rather wait until I come across products that I fall in love with as opposed to rushing a purchase to fill the space.
Top three coffee table books?
Always a mixture of art and design and my wife, being an art consultant, has an abundance of great books. Currently, we have out ...
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... it didn’t look like this when we bought it. It wasn’t built with much love: it was full of corridors, the ceilings were low, there were lots of bedrooms and not much living space, and there was carpet everywhere.
“Before buying it we had come very close to purchasing The Framehouse via The...
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See more from BOLON on Yellowtrace here. Fun and frivolity during the loveliest morning spent with these two amazing women, Marie & Annica Eklund. Marie was super inspired by our morning treats and had to take photos before we were allowed to eat. I was teasing her that she was such a millennial, an...
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... to a miniature bust of Handel.
,Where do you shop for your home?
,I love Fiona McDonald, I can always find something there. For vases and tableware, you can’t go wrong with Svenskt Tenn, a great department store in Stockholm.
,Top three coffee table books?
,I like scrapbooks so anythi...
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...hat idea, then it starts to make sense.
“It’s actually the thing I love most about weaving: that the pattern and the structure are the same thing. It’s not like printing or something where you apply the pattern afterwards; with weaving, its all the same.”
How do you come up with new des...
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...thing looks like, because of the nature of what I do. And the street is so lovely as well. It has that thing of being really quiet, but you cross the road and youre in crazy Broadway Market and Victoria Park. So, it feels like a sanctuary anyway, and I’ve felt a greater sense of community here tha...
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...aurant, or do shoots or big dinner parties or press dinners. People really love coming into your home and being in that environment. Dan’s so generous in letting me use it.
We’ve done some pop-up events here, where we move all the furniture out and turn it into a restaurant – a Christmas pa...
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... which was crazy expensive – I saved up for it for over a year. I really love it, and I had wanted it for years. My friends boyfriend has a company called Diagonal Furniture, dealing in mid-century stuff, and Ive been getting quite a few things off him over the years. I would love an Eames Lounge ...
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...ng people over for dinner, what do you cook?
I’m not much of a cook, I love to host snack dinners with friends so we eat crudités, olives, cheeses and wine! Less fuss more fun.
What are the best things about the neighbourhood?
Proximity to great local restaurants and bars whist remaining i...
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...d. And I think that is an antidote to what else is out there. As much as I love London restaurants and people in them, there arent that many places you can come for a glass of wine and a salty snack in a beautiful space for £4.50.”
Jermaine, there is a sense of fun and irreverence that runs th...
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... the high street to the butcher, the baker, the greengrocer – my parents loved shopping and finding things. There was a wonderful amassing of ingredients and produce to take home and mum cooked for us every night.
“It was a very remote place and there was not much else to do so you could get ...
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...t me my first hamster!’
“I’m a bit of a manic control freak, so I loved the idea of turning this place around from scraps. It was scary at times – when the floor was removed it was like building up from bare earth.
“I put in poured-concrete floors and painted the place white. The kit...
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... the main room, which goes into the kitchen and has doors that open onto a lovely little balcony.
“As the sun falls and the lights come on it’s a very beautiful space to relax in. In the summer it’s incredibly light and there’s a balcony at the top, which catches the sun all day long. You...
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...ten over being so sentimentally attached now. The fact is, I can do what I love because people buy, and if they didn’t, I’d just be broke at home with lots of nice stuff, and where would that get me?!
“As you get older you start to care more about things like toasters. As I went from my twe...
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...completely rubbish at shooting on the go like that and found that I really loved the total control of the scene that you got in the studio. Studio, and particularly product became a zen thing for me, lots of tiny little movements and working in my socks, that seemed to work just fine.The path to sho...
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...g a new family bathroom when we moved here, everything else has evolved. I love that the pieces that surround us have stories, of places we have visited or presents we have bought each other, or from friends.
If you could only save one thing, what would it be?
The landscape collage that hangs a...
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...ly thought of his father, who had always admired such craftsmanship. “He loved homes like this,” says Saab. “For him, a home felt enhanced when there was wood and beautiful doors. The moment I saw them, I knew this was the place I wanted to live in. I felt as though my father would also enjoy ...
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