The St Pancras Hotel in London is about to be re-opened after a major £150 million transformation.
A landmark to us Londoners, this Victorian Gothic monolith has been empty for the past 23 years, after several decades as the offices of British Rail, and it will be good to see…
Cut metal designs from Susan Bradley.
…..“Susan Bradley successfully takes contemporary interior decoration to our balconies, patios and gardens with wit and beauty”
Wayne Hemmingway
Susan is best known of course, for her award winning outdoor wallpaper but I’m rather taken with her creep shelves and tables.
Aren’t they beautiful?
I also wouldn’t mind…
Andrew Martin has always been a favourite source of furniture for me, and I’ve always loved their stand at Decorex, but somehow their website was kind of uninspiring.
Well not any more. I don’t know when it was re-designed but I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find it now has lots…
This is where I’d definitely like to be this weekend…
The Madada Mogador in Essaouira.
Built right on the ramparts with sweeping sea views…
this restored merchants house with it’s sleekly smooth tadelakt walls and restrained colour palette could be just the place to wind down after a hard week.
With just the right amount…
I seem to have been drawn to the surreal today. We’ve had lampshades and chandeliers on this blog before but nothing quite like this…
First, Penelope Batley and her collection called Light Humour. Enormous over-scaled glass and ceramic beads intended to add grandeur and suprise and a fairytale effect.
Now, while the earring…
Inspired by this week’s sunshine and blossom…
…and blue skies and budding leaves…
Sources: Sunshine and Blossom 1.Bodie and Fou.2.3.5Debenhams.4.Amara.6WallpaperDirect.7.Dwell.8.Cushlab.9.Base Furnishings.10.John Lewis.
Sources: Blue Skies and Budding Leaves 1.i.e wallpaper.2.3.Designers Guild.4.John Lewis.5.Debenhams.6.Barker and Stonehouse.7.Lorna Syson.8.Tile Click.9.Debenhams.10.Art Republic.11.Debenhams.12.Heals.
Created using the mydeco moodboard tool.
I am always in awe of designers and artists who develop their own ways of using traditional techniques to create beautiful, contemporary works of art.
One such designer is Michelle Griffiths. She uses Shibori to create these beautiful ethereal pieces.
Shibori is a Japanese term, from the verb root “shiboru” -…
Another little gem from 1st Option.
Now this apartment is a very good lesson in how to turn an old, industrial building, with all of it’s hard edges and vast spaces into a stunning and frankly glamorous home.
Lesson 1. Import even more over-sized architectural elements. I’m assuming these iron gates are not…
London Design Week did not disappoint. A real highlight in the calender for anyone interested in fabrics and wallpaper and anything, well, design… Chelsea Harbour was fragrant with the scent of hyacinths…the sun was intermittently shining through the domes…and all of the shops were displaying the best of their…
