This article was published 10 years Fuglen is the brain child of Norwegians Einar Kleppe Holthe, Peppe Trulsen and Halvor Digernes and combines coffee, cocktails and vintage furniture in a winning combination. It was Einar’s passion for coffee and a lucky coincidence that sparked a chain of events that led…
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Inside the studio of the Moomins creator
This article was published 10 years Born to artistic parents, Tove’s first illustrations were published when she was just 14 years old. “I’m working” was a phrase that cropped up frequently in her diaries, even at this young age – and referred to anything from drawing to actively seeking ideas….
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Trifle Creative design new office space for MOO
This article was published 10 years Moving offices can be a daunting prospect, especially when your employees adore their previous home. Trifle Creative turned a drab, corporate shell into a warm and welcoming creative space that MOO’s London team couldn’t help but fall in love with. How do you move…
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New CitizenM hotel offers co-working spaces
This article was published 10 years The business model of CitizenM is different from that of other affordable hotels. As CMO Robin Chadha put it when I met him at the London Bankside CitizenM ahead of Tower Hill’s opening, “The rooms are small but posh and everything is in the…
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Tom Dixon creates co-working space in Clerkenwell church
This article was published 10 years “One of the conundrums of St James, Clerkenwell is that it has a very imposing outside but a very welcoming inside,” he says. “All sorts of people live in Clerkenwell, but still one [group of people] alluded us – and one that is more…
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Soho House launches co-working spaces for creative industries
This article was published 10 years I’m sure not everyone gets quite as excited about good interior design as I do, but there is definitely something about the space you work in that affects the way you work. I spent a very production afternoon working at one of the many…
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creative spaces :: the tribes
This article was published 10 years The way we work is changing. 95{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} of medium sized businesses now offer flexible working – and evolving technology combined with cost effective travel enables us to work from wherever the business is. People are also more likely to set up independent ventures and…
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creative spaces :: eley kishimoto
This article was published 11 years I was recently invited for a behind the scenes tour of Eley Kishimoto‘s London studio – what a treat! The label, which initially made its name in fashion but is increasingly making waves in product and furniture design, was founded in the early 1990s…
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creative spaces :: foldability
This article was published 12 years I’ve been wanting to visit the East London studio of folding fanatic Kyla McCallum for absolutely ages, so I was delighted when I finally managed to squeeze a trip into my schedule last week. Kyla’s design studio Foldability is based in the Limehouse Art…
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creative spaces :: sagmeister and walsh
This article was published 12 years If you’re going to install a video camera in the ceiling of your studio and use the live feed as the homepage of your website, your studio better be pretty damn nice. And Sagmeister & Walsh’s studio is certainly that. I have been cooing…
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creative spaces :: hector & haddock
This article was published 12 years Justine Wall aka Hector & Haddock has a studio in her 1650s thatched cottage on Salisbury Plain, from where she creates linocut, letterpress and screen print designs inspired by, and often incorporating, paper ephemera and traditional printing methods. She describes her cottage as looking…
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creative spaces :: james uk
This article was published 12 years I bumped into the ever lovely James Harrison at Clerkenwell Design Week and as we got chatting we discovered that I spend two days every week in the building right next door to his studio! So I couldn’t not pop in and have a…
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creative spaces :: emma alington
This article was published 12 years I discovered Emma Alington‘s work at Pulse in May this year and was intrigued to find out more. I’m hoping to write about her making process (which involves blowing bubbles with a straw in a mixture of liquid clay and washing up liquid), but…
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creative spaces :: custhom
This article was published 12 yearsCUSTHOM is RCA graduates Nathan Philpott and Jemma Ooi and they design innovative high quality wallpapers, ceramics, textiles and stationery. I went for a snoop around their Peckham studio and here’s what I found… Gorgeous, isn’t it? I interviewed the lovely Gemma while I was…
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creative spaces :: sarah hamilton
This article was published 12 years Having talked it about for quite some time, I was excited about finally seeing printmaker Sarah Hamilton‘s studio, but nothing quite prepared for me the stunning 1950s house it’s inside. You come in through the front door, stairs lead down to the bedrooms and…
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creative spaces :: studio aalto
This article was published 12 years My last creative spaces post was about Aalto House, where Finnish architect Alvar Aalto lived from 1935 until 1976 and worked from 1935 until 1956. As promised, this is the follow up post on the space he moved to in 1956, which I was…
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creative spaces :: aalto house
This article was published 13 years Way back when I started writing my blog in April 2010, I worked on an old school desk in a corner of my bedroom. I had space for two or three inspirations pictures stuck on the wall above it. One of those pictures was…
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creative spaces :: tom raffield
This article was published 13 years I have been a fan of Tom Raffield‘s work for as long as I’ve known anything about design. I think I first came across his work the very first time I went to 100{ff546b69e23b1524d799f96c6ba7a638e1f677053b0a2a1568b05315fd5f8fc7} Design, a long time before I started writing this blog,…
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creative spaces :: sebastian cox
This article was published 13 years I met Sebastian Cox at Tent London and was so moved by his passion for the material he works with that I had to feature his woodland studio on creative spaces at the first possible opportunity. He says: “I am so in love with…