... the centre of town.
Eilidh: I said to Jack on our first date, ‘I have just bought a flat, but it’s got a really crappy kitchen.’ ‘I’ll build you a kitchen,’ he said, and that was the deal!
“We met at the Edinburgh Jazz festival in 2014. We moved in together the following mon...
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...be honest. But the Canton Arms is very good – it’s a big persuader, to have a good pub serving good food.”
Margot: “We’d been here to visit our friends, who live up the road. We’d had many happy times with them and I think that it’s enough to pull you to an area, to have even just a...
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...ignByThem on Yellowtrace. It’s been quite the journey… and although we have had many and what often feels like never ending challenges it has been incredibly rewarding. We started the brand with the goal to become net exporters of Australian design and we are on our way to achieving that.We’re...
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... huge amount of engineering and design. And light was a big thing, too. We have tried to let in as much light in as possible, and that redefined the space as you can see the lines, the shapes and materials. I think you have to emphasise those details in a house.
“The only thing the first conve...
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...ike the River Cafe book, which was really inspiring. To think that I would have been seven years old when their first book came out, when you couldnt go to the supermarket and buy cavolo nero, or Datterini tomatoes, it shows you how way ahead of their time they were.
“Also, I think the restaura...
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... London as an investment in their future.
Seamus: “We knew we had to have it as soon as we left for the first time – there was no question.
Lucy: “We were at a wedding, staying not far from here and, actually, we spent a lot of time in Scotland even before we bought this place. Seamus w...
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...gners say that doing your own home is more difficult than a clients, but I have to say that I dont agree. I found it quite relaxing because with clients we have to present a whole vision – basically everything that will go into one room.
,In your own home, you can just let things evolve over ti...
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.... Celebrating overseas makers has always been the brief here.
“So, we have a lot of Japanese and Scandinavian makers whose work is clean and understated. I like handmade objects that have imperfections, and we sell very few sculptural ceramics – I like pieces to be useful. And, I only ever sh...
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... be hard to live in, especially with small children, because they normally have lots of stairs and narrow floorplans.
“What finally got me was how prescriptive it was to have the kitchen in the basement, with the living space upstairs; you’re constantly running up between the two.
“So fo...
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...been married for 45 years, and worked together for 47.
“The houses we have lived in have always been historic houses, beautiful houses, usually a building site until we get them finished. We have never really lived in a modern house, or what youd call a modern house.”
Nicholas: “It wasnt...
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...ing their GCSEs at the time.”
Tracy: “God, it was the worst time to have done it; we’re terrible parents!
“Then, our eldest daughter, who had been living in Peckham, borrowed an old American fire truck and moved on site too. We looked like a complete and utter set of raggle-taggle gyps...
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...-bash-bosh something together when you’re working with these houses. You have to take your time and really listen to what the building has to offer.
“We recently dug out the rear studio to create an additional level. It was a back-breaking project, in many respects, because we had to take out...
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...s Yard to buy sacks of God knows what to make our own muesli. We’d never have Angel Delight, but we might have had elderflower jelly made by my mum.
“You could call it snobbery, but it wasn’t. They genuinely loved making things with raw materials. They spent hours at it, going to the countr...
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...ay from bare-walled, neutral-hued and decoratively simple interiors, which have been the style du jour ever since the financial crisis of 2008 rendered flamboyance at home a gauche indulgence, to something more expressive. Now, as maximalist interiors have well and truly made a comeback, we’re ask...
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...cture, in which questions about how spaces will be used by their occupants have driven the design approach from the get-go. Here, we talk to Ab about the two projects and get his take on what constitutes modernity in design today.
Ab, what was your brief for Balfron Tower and how did you respond?...
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...n, art and lifestyle scene in Ghent and Antwerp it’s that they appear to have an in-built aversion for defining things too strictly. At Valerie Traan, the boundaries between art, architecture and design, as well as home and work, are left amorphously open – in just the way gallerist Veerle Wenes...
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... tried to establish a connection to as much as
possible from the house. We have doors from the kitchen that open up to
beautiful ferns and then there are bigger doors in the bedroom, which, when opened,
bring in the smell of lavender, rosemary and honeysuckle.
“In the summer,
the scent travel...
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...ly to do work, plus we didn’t want to be too far away from the family we have there so this village, which is 45 minutes away from King’s Cross on the train, ticked those boxes.
“But, more
than the location, we just fell in love with the house. We put in a search
stretching from north Lon...
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...n we started The Peanut Vendor. We were in our early twenties, we didn’t
have any commitments and just liked the idea of doing something for ourselves.
“I don’t think we thought about it that much, we just bought
and sold stuff we loved or were interested in and I dont even think we had any...
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...e energetic cycle, before picking up work again later. It’s just nice to have a bit more freedom in the day, without a rigid routine. Running and cycling and all that stuff is way more pleasant out here because it’s so much less stressful and hectic. I’ve found that so refreshing.
“Over a...
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...been bought.“Unusually for London and in an apartment this size, we only have two bedrooms, which means they are a really good size. The flat is essentially spread over three main rooms – two spacious bedrooms and the large main living area, which incorporates dining and seating areas as well as...
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...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 above the wood burner in winter and mov...
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...is project. If we had not found this particular plot of land we wouldn’t have had the idea to build rather than buy. It felt like a lovely way to spend the money our mum left us, but also sensible that we do it together.”Hugo: “I had the skill set to design and manage the build, and with Grace...
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...nd quality are essential. I often see stuff
that I love but know I don’t have the space for it, and it won’t serve a purpose,
so I’ve learnt to let things go.
“I
like to think of myself as a minimalist but I’m really not. It helps that Misha
and I have similar taste. Furniture-wise it...
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...ith your partner, or with your children with you, I think its important to have somewhere thats safe, comfortable and inviting, and familiar … somewhere that feels like home. Although its nice to invite people over for dinner, our home is a nice private place to have the family come together to ea...
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