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Eight interiors styles Eight interiors styles – as seen inside designers' own homes

The guesthouse's kitchen bears many hallmarks of López-Quesada's style, chiefly functionality, conveyed by open shelves ...
03/11/2022

The guesthouse's kitchen bears many hallmarks of López-Quesada's style, chiefly functionality, conveyed by open shelves on which all utensils are visible and accessible. It also has an earthiness mixed with romanticism in the form of robust, rustic furniture. Her style makes a virtue of improvisation, too: other elements in the cabin-like guesthouse include a wooden console rescued from the street and an old trunk used to store kindling for the fireplace.

Industrial meets rusticMadrid-based designer Isabel López-Quesada's projects prove that the humblest structures can be c...
03/11/2022

Industrial meets rustic

Madrid-based designer Isabel López-Quesada's projects prove that the humblest structures can be converted into stylish environments, even when largely furnished with discarded furniture and salvaged materials. One particularly challenging project for her was transforming some concrete henhouses near her home – a former pheasant farm in Biarritz on the French Basque coast – into a guesthouse that provides extra accommodation for guests, not least for numerous family members (she has three adult children and six sisters).

Overall, the living room has a 1980s hotel-lobby feel, more stagey than homely. Its furniture is at once stark and pop: ...
03/11/2022

Overall, the living room has a 1980s hotel-lobby feel, more stagey than homely. Its furniture is at once stark and pop: a sofa upholstered in fawn sheepskin resembling teddy bear-fabric with a fire-engine red frame stands opposite a grey marble-patterned coffee table. The apartment is also furnished with a bespoke blackened steel dining table inspired by his collection of Swedish designer Hertha Bengtson's streamlined but curvaceous Blå Eld (Blue Fire) tableware, created in 1950. Meanwhile, battleship grey Venetian blinds fronting a row of regularly spaced, floor-to-ceiling windows once again conjure up the 1980s.

Scandi reimaginedThe Copenhagen apartment of Danish architect and designer David Thulstrup puts a fresh, playful spin on...
03/11/2022

Scandi reimagined

The Copenhagen apartment of Danish architect and designer David Thulstrup puts a fresh, playful spin on the famously functionalist Scandi aesthetic that has proved so popular over the past two decades. When the designer, who created the interior of world-renowned Copenhagen restaurant Noma, bought his flat, he changed its layout, radically converting a warren of small bedrooms into a large, open-plan, loft-like space. The sparsely furnished apartment features some of his designs, many of which depart from the standard, mid-century Scandi aesthetic.

This approach is no different in Salci's home where he opted for warm tones of brown, hazel, ochre and dusty orange." In...
03/11/2022

This approach is no different in Salci's home where he opted for warm tones of brown, hazel, ochre and dusty orange." In his home, Salci has mixed designs from Dimorestudio's product line, Dimoremilano, including a leopard-print carpet in the hallway and a cocktail table in the living room, with mid-century pieces, such as an oval mahogany table by the US designer George Nelson. A wall-hung triptych depicting a Madonna and child adds another opulent touch, as do purple satin curtains eccentrically wrapped around Salci's wardrobe.

EclecticThe Milan home-cum-studio of Emiliano Salci, co-founder and creative director of Italian design outfit Dimorestu...
31/10/2022

Eclectic

The Milan home-cum-studio of Emiliano Salci, co-founder and creative director of Italian design outfit Dimorestudio, mirrors the studio's intriguing, moody, almost louche aesthetic. Salci lives in an apartment in a 1940s building that overlooks a palm tree-filled garden. Dimorestudio designs atmospheric interiors with a decadent vibe for fashion boutiques, private homes, restaurants and hotels. The book accurately describes the shared, lavish aesthetic of Dimorestudio and Salci's home as follows: "The firm's designs emit an amber glow that lends a theatricality and lounge-like sexiness to the rooms clad in sumptuous velvets and gleaming satins…

However, an organic rather than rectilinear version of modernism was uppermost in her mind when it came to furnishing he...
31/10/2022

However, an organic rather than rectilinear version of modernism was uppermost in her mind when it came to furnishing her new home. "This 1960s house was like living with a Barbara Hepworth sculpture or a Lucie Rie white pot," she muses in the book. The house incorporated some warm elements, including a wall clad with vertical wood slats, and Toogood further softened the interior by covering dressing-room doors with clotted cream-coloured felt, and made curtains out of raw canvas. She also furnished it with her new designs in mainly white or ecru tones, including her chunky Roly Poly chair with a generously curved seat that cradles the sitter and a sculptural white plaster coffee table.

Warm minimalismMoving to a modernist house in Highgate, North London influenced designer Faye Toogood to adhere to its a...
31/10/2022

Warm minimalism

Moving to a modernist house in Highgate, North London influenced designer Faye Toogood to adhere to its aesthetic when it came to the interior. She had previously lived in a Georgian home, much of it painted shades of blue, redolent, she said, of some of Vermeer's paintings. Her husband, Matt Gibberd, co-founder of estate agent The Modern House, discovered their home – a boxy modernist building, designed by Swiss architect Walter Segal. Toogood decided not to tamper with its original, clean-lined layout, and opted for a restrained monochrome palette.

Exactly fitting one wall in his sitting room are 24 framed maps of London produced by the French-born, British 18th-Cent...
31/10/2022

Exactly fitting one wall in his sitting room are 24 framed maps of London produced by the French-born, British 18th-Century cartographer John Rocque, which form a dramatic, surprisingly decorative backdrop. Elsewhere there are colourful, abstract, pop-inspired works by British artist Robyn Denny, Morris's Willow Bough wallpaper, Wedgwood jasperware, a mint-green armchair and cushions bought on his travels to Stockholm, Paris and New York.

English eccentricArchitectural and interior designer Ben Pentreath's affection for classic, hand-crafted British designs...
31/10/2022

English eccentric

Architectural and interior designer Ben Pentreath's affection for classic, hand-crafted British designs – from Marianna Kennedy's lamps with colourful, candlestick-like bases, sold at his Bloomsbury shop Pentreath & Hall, to classic William Morris wallpapers – pervades his London home. Appropriately, he lives in the Art Workers' Guild building founded in the 1880s by followers of Morris. Pentreath is known for his cosy but stylish aesthetic and comfortable interiors, with offbeat colour combinations.

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