Well, who knew?
Archives for category: decoration
Turning a liability into an asset.
British designer Ilse Crawford goes for gold in old Colonial precinct of Hong Kong.
The infallibly transformative effect of the right door hardware, London.
There’s a lot to love about this house. The seriously sexy powder room builds to bathrooms with quite a different feel. But the opportunity to bring a touch of sensuality and delight to the ritual of the everyday isn’t missed here either.
I love the easy elegance of these bathrooms, designed for a consciously unfashionable and decidedly authentic mountain weekender in Brazil. The architect, in his notes, makes a point of talking about the way materials were selected to highlight the contrast between natural and ‘technological’ finishes.
Rule: in life (and design), imitations are never better than the real thing. Though I suspect hi-res wallpaper ‘Scrapwood’ by Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek might just be an exception.
I love the feel of this smart small hotel by Stuttgart architects, Naumann. Never folksy, but brimming with a big sense of place, and with just enough whimsy.
I love the slightly disarming effect of a diminutive desk towered over by an oversized floor lamp in the Venice flat of artist Anita Sieff. The contents of the house finely balanced between the essential/functional and the composed, the eye of the artist is everywhere to behold (right down to the fringed linen handtowel). And yet nothing – to my mind at least – looks the least contrived.
The much-vaunted and rigorously colour-free workplace for London fashion ‘etailer’ Net-A-Porter has got me thinking.