...as craving a rural escape to spend homey summer weekends with friends that felt well-loved and lived in, as if had been there for a while.
“I had a vision. It was a house full of people squeezed onto a couch for game night,” she says. “On one of my first trips there, it happened. I ...
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...th all the residents names, one of which said GamFratesi, at which point I felt a slight loss of sensation in my legs. “I cannot believe this is happening. We are having breakfast with GamFratesi. In their home. In Copenhagen. This is insane. I am SO EXCITED!”, I said to Nick. As per usual, he ...
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...d by vivid gold lines on both side walls. Despite the tackiness, I kind of felt envious of such hyper-excitement of the time. It seemed to me that they spent full energy and really enjoyed making this building, and somehow these grand and flashy features felt extremely rich because they were not dec...
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...eriors.
Sheena: “When we moved back to London from New York, it a bit felt premature in some ways. My husband and I had planned to make that step a few years later, but I came here to be closer to my family, and have actually ended up feeling really comfortable being home.
“And moving bac...
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...alk past an estate agent’s office when something clicked. “Suddenly, I felt an energetic pull towards this home.”
Until then, she had pictured a detached finca with sweeping views and a large garden. Then she spotted this townhouse on the north side of the island among the agency’...
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... which I had for 10 years, before moving here. Moving around meant I never felt settled or that comfortable in the places I’d been living in.
“I was going through a kind of stagnant period of my life, and I just knew I had to switch places. I was stuck in a rut of going to work and coming hom...
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...well looked after. A lot of the rooms hadn’t been used very often, so it felt unlived-in and unloved. I remember when we first viewed it the curtains were drawn in most of the rooms, so natural light was limited and it felt like a bit of a shell.
“Although the house wasn’t on the High Stree...
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...the previous owner and we still see each other to this day. In that way, I felt like I was taking over the guardianship of the space, rather than just moving in. She gave me briefing notes to everything, not just functional things like ‘this is how you use the boiler’, but really lovely little d...
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...much that I can't see世间有太多不可明了Who knows?谁又能明了I felt it from the first embrace I shared with you我感觉到自你我初次拥抱时That now our dreams所怀有的那些梦想They've finally come true都已一 一实现
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...actories and their relationship to making and manufacturing. Living in one felt like a way to celebrate what it was. I just fell in love with it.
“The apartment is spread over two floors and the living space spans the full width of the building. The previous owner had divided it up with a plywo...
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...from the day-to-day “madness” and the intense movement that is usually felt in this type of towers.,From the first moment you enter the office, you can feel as if you are in a bubble, an island of silence, a womb. White, bright, bathed in natural light most of the day due to its southwest orie...
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...g. “After years of living between Los Angeles, London, and São Paulo, I felt a strong pull to anchor our family life back in Brazil,” de Santi explains. “We have many friends here, and much of my work and sourcing also takes place in the city.” The apartment he chose is in the Jardins neigh...
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...of these chairs to make a pair but Gin made me put it in the studio as she felt we had enough seating already :( ‘Virginia responds – At the time we counted seating for 35 ppl in our living room!’. Outside on the balcony, a glimpse of the Totem Hanging Pots by Scott and Virginia’s dear fri...
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...eel. I’ve been there once and it was like a pilgrimage – everything I felt to be true about design, architecture and beauty was manifested in reality there.
“So maybe something influenced by that will be next. But the interesting thing is to see how the layers build on each other over your...
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...eauvoir Town really drew me in.
“But, and perhaps most importantly, I felt this house had a soul to it, with a lot of character and a homely feeling from the start.
“I moved here about eight years ago and have put the property through a few incarnations as my taste has evolved.
“The m...
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...aftsmanship. “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 this type of home,” he recalls. “I thought, ‘I cou...
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...talent in the UK, so I think they saw that there was a resonance there and felt I would be a good fit as one of the mentors for the 2020 Lexus Design Awards.Have you done much mentoring in the past? How have those experiences compared to LDA?I have done quite a bit of mentoring actually. As Head of ...
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...d a pristine hill, and just beyond it, the sea stretches wide and free. It felt like the perfect setting to create a peaceful place of retreat—where one could simply sit still and breathe deeply.
We stayed true to using recycled materials—rusty steel, the old corrugated iron roof from the...
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...Greenwich as being out of the way, outside of London. But for me its never felt like that, its always felt more central. And I think as time goes by, as London moves eastward, this area is becoming even more central.
“The flat had an antiquated heating system when I arrived that would heat up t...
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...nctional. After we moved in I reconfigured the space several times until I felt it was right and working to an optimum.
I loved working on this project as House of Grey, because it was a rare opportunity to work with other other creatives that I had always admired. We had full creative control, a...
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...l do whatever it takes to own this.’ There was something about it that I felt was so liveable, even though it was in a crappy condition and the previous owners hadn’t been sensitive to the modernist fabric at all.
“It was an elderly retired couple who lived here before, which I always found...
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...over a year with not much luck, but as soon as we walked into this flat it felt like home.
I always love walking into our road. It’s a set of Victorian mansion blocks on a really quaint cobbled street with lamp posts and shared gardens.
Our flat is four storeys up on the top floor, with lots...
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...om the Victorian terraced house I lived in before but I loved how the area felt relatively untouched. People walk down the crescent and feel like they’re in suburban London.“Since it’s a rental, I’ve had to work with the space and be pragmatic with what I can change and so on. I have ripped ...
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...ur-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 around. It’s all about street culture for me, that’s where I draw my inspiration. I need to see the guy crossing Hackney Road in bondage trousers and a wig...
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...Market and Victoria Park. So, it feels like a sanctuary anyway, and I’ve felt a greater sense of community here than anywhere else I’ve lived in London.
“I havent done a huge amount. Ultimately, its just white walls and black painted floorboards, and then these shapes that Ive painted in mo...
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