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Architecture
Maggie’s Centre wins top Wood Award
This article was published 10 years Judges voted unanimously to award the top prize to the Maggie’s Centre at the Robert Parfett Building at the Christie Hospital in Manchester, commenting that the structure “brought together the best in engineering, fabrication and architecture.” The single-storey building is constructed from a natural…
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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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Tandem’s space-saving furniture hangs from the walls
This article was published 10 years Comprising four individual pieces – a wardrobe, a desk, a shoe rack and seat, and a storage shelf – the Hanging Collection combines birch plywood with different facing materials including oak, melamine and desktop linoleum in a range of colours for a personalised look and feel. The…
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Norway to showcase inclusive design at London Design Biennale
This article was published 10 yearsPioneered by Norway, Japan and America, inclusive design – also known as universal design or ‘design for all’ – differs from accessibility in that it seeks to find solutions that might be needed by some, but are good for everybody, avoiding the stigma associated with special…
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Day Design Co’s ceramics are imprinted with wood grain
This article was published 10 years Forest of Ceramics is a collection of vessels made from semi-porcelain casting slip and decorated by hand. Because Daisy uses locally-sourced timber to create the grain pattern in the clay, each piece is unique. When the collection is arranged in a group, the reason for…
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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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interview :: nikki kreis
This article was published 10 yearsYou can find out more about Nikki’s work and buy her products at The Maker Place. This article was published 10 years
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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 11 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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Boex turns Porthleven bike shop into take-away café
This article was published 11 years Cornish interior design firm Boex worked with ‘Nauti But Ice’ to turn the bike shop next door to their Porthleven ice-cream parlour into ‘Go Nauti,’ a take-away café. The 60-square-metre reclaimed timber-clad space features breakfast bars, shared tables and both high and low seating…
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Anna Hart Design creates first London outpost for Cornish coffee company
This article was published 11 years Penryn-based Anna Hart Design has created the interior for Origin Coffee‘s flagship store – a combined training space for the baristas that use their coffee all over the capital and further afield, and coffee shop for locals. The 60-square-metre coffee shop on Charlotte Street,…
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pinterest :: grey
This article was published 11 years Grey is my favourite colour. It is the colour of concrete, and brutalism, and nerdy things to love. It can be a safe colour, but it can also be rich, warm and exciting. My current top tip is combining it with wood or tiny…
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pinterest :: white
This article was published 11 years I find white incredibly calming. Given that I’m surrounded by colour and pattern all day, it’s perhaps no surprise that my bedroom is, and always has been, all white. But even all-white schemes need a little something – lots of different textures and perhaps…
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pinterest :: black
This article was published 11 years So, we’re out of proper colours and onto “the absence of light.” This is actually a board that Pinterest asked me to create for Halloween last year, and one of the triggers for the idea of arranging boards by colour. I have a couple…
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out and about :: morag myerscough
This article was published 12 years I went to an event at the RCA called Talking Interiors with Morag Myerscough last week. It was really inspiring. I love Morag’s bold use of colour and her hands on approach – she often hand paints entire interiors with just a small team….
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interview :: ilse crawford (pt 2)
This article was published 13 years I posted the first part of my interview with British Elle Decoration founding editor, Ilse Crawford almost a year ago. Somewhat belatedly, this is part two, where we talk storytelling, Elle Decoration, and advice for design bloggers… You talk about design being a three…
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explore :: san francisco
This article was published 13 years Welcome to the third post in the newest confessions of design geek column; explore. Each month I will ask a fellow design blogger or someone otherwise tapped into the design scene to show us around their home city, letting us into some local design…