Interiors editorial

J.K. PLACE Designed by Michele Bonan, J.K.Place has an interior that embodies all that is great about modern European design. An eclectic combination of styles this luxurious hotel combines town house grandeur with simple colonial touches and glamorous Italian furnishings.

Located in the Piazza Santa Maria Novella in the historic centre of Florence, J.K.Place offers an opulent oasis beautifully furnished with a graceful combination of antiques, bespoke furniture designs and contemporary art.

Each one of its 20 rooms has been created to truly indulge the senses, Italian linens adorn the beds and exquisite marble bathrooms add to the experience. Modern designs sit comfortably alongside historic artefacts and the hotels air of relaxed elegance is completed with a splash of Florentine glamour.

Piazza Santa Maria Novella, 7, Florence, Italy Tel: 00 39 0552645181 www.jkplace.com

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TSUNAMI Tsunami, with their design partners Minotti Cucine, has spent ten years perfecting the art of kitchen design, culminating in a union of exceptional designers and outstanding products.

Over time the company has built on experience to tailor products to lifestyle, not lifestyle to products.

Through this approach, Tsunami has arrived at a style that transcends fashion, favouring timeless materials and classic fittings.

Tsunami has built a formidable reputation as some of the finest designers of luxury, bespoke minimalist furniture. All visible elements traditionally associated with the kitchen have been removed to allow the exquisite detailing and clean lines of the furniture to dominate.

Working in some of the most prestigious homes around the globe Tsunami creates innovative and stylish interiors, a harmonious balance of function and form.

27 Wigmore Street, London W1U 1PN Tel: 0207 408 2230 www.tsunamiuk.com

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FIRED EARTH Fired Earth is renowned for its beautiful, handmade tiles selected from artisans around the UK and Europe. Alongside its striking tile collection the company is also known for its sophisticated paint range, developed in collaboration with writer and television presenter Kevin McCloud.

Fired Earth also offers an extensive range of bathroom products including luxurious roll-top baths, classic and contemporary showers, and superbly designed cabinetry. Handcrafted freestyle kitchens have been a popular addition to the collection, and are very much in keeping with the company philosophy of offering customers craftsmanship, originality, creativity and inspiration.

Offering its customers the very best service Fired Earth also provides a nationwide installation and home design service, including tile installation and bathroom design advice.

There are now more than 60 Fired Earth showrooms throughout the UK, Europe and Hong Kong.

Tel: 0845 366 0400 www.firedearth.com

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BERNARD THORP & CO Located in central Chelsea home to the capital's most prestigious fabric studios Bernard Thorp & Co has built an enviable reputation for supplying the finest custom made fabrics.

Committed to producing the finest range of furnishing fabrics and customised bespoke wallpapers, all fabrics are created to suit individual requirements and personal tastes. The company’s showrooms in London and Paris hold an incredible library of fabrics including numerous historical patterns alongside more contemporary designs acting as source of inspiration for many interior designers.

With a committed team of highly skilled employees the design and print production of the fabrics takes place at the London factory showrooms with the woven fabrics produced in Suffolk and Wallpapers in Norfolk, Bernard Thorp & Co Ltd takes great pride in producing all its fabrics within the UK. Innovative and imaginative, with a dedication to producing the highest quality bespoke fabrics, Bernard Thorp & Co Ltd produces exceptional standards of design, quality and service, both in the UK and internationally.

London Showroom, 53 Chelsea Manor Street, London SW3 5RZ Tel: 020 7352 5745/5457/1022 www.bernardthorp.com

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MADE TO MEASURE LUXURY True to the typical Octagon irrepressible pioneering spirit, the company are introducing a brand new division called Octagon Bespoke. After nearly three decades of luxury housebuilding Octagon have gathered considerable knowledge about the aspirations and expectations of discerning clients who are buying at the very top end of the property sector, and decided the time had come to maximise on their expertise. This new service has already attracted a number of enquiries from fortunate individuals with a build budget of £1.5m upwards.

There are three Bespoke projects already underway, where Octagon’s multi-award winning in-house design team are working in close co-operation with company’s highly experienced building director, John Pope, who comments, “Bespoke clients often include people who live in an excellent location but in a rather uninspiring or tired house. They are itching to replace it with their dream home, and the Octagon style seems to be at the top of their wish list. They like our way of working classic understated exterior designs with the very best of construction techniques and latest interior innovations” An added assurance is that all bespoke properties enjoy the same unrivalled after sales support given to all Octagon homes, provided by their super efficient customer care team.

To discover more about Bespoke call Octagon on 0208 481 7500, check out the website www.octagon.co.uk or email johnp@octagon.co.uk.

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COOTE AND CO. Combining ingenuity and exceptional craftsmanship Coote & Co creates beautiful, bespoke furniture, for private individuals and designers. Products are specifically developed with the client to help create a comfortable and inviting environment suitable for a 21st century living and entertaining. By reinvigorating classical designs for modern aspirations Coote & Co offers a completely novel approach to interior design and decoration.

The origins of Coote & Co date from 1998 when international designer John Coote decided to refurbish his Palladian Villa, Bellamont Forest in Co Cavan, Ireland. Disillusioned by the lack of suitable items available on the open market, he decided to design his own furniture and create pieces that would complement the splendour of the house.

Coote and Co has developed over time into a thriving bespoke furniture and accessories business providing international clients with highly distinctive and personalised products created specifically for individual settings.

Bellamont Forest, Cootehill, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland Tel: 07748 703 589 www.cooteandco.com

PAUL BARCLAY DESIGNS Paul Barclay is one of those artists who can magically capture the essence of a place, property or moment in time quite perfectly in a striking and truly unique way.

Creator of a unique lifestyle brand the ‘Barclay’ style is evident not just in his paintings and illustrations of yachts and buildings (from Dartmouth, St Tropez, London and even Sydney Harbour & Venice) but also throughout the collection of painted furniture and soft furnishings. Most recently his range of nautically inspired sailing jackets and shirts, all decorated with the easily recognisable ‘yacht’ image have proved to be a hugely successful addition to his range of lifestyle goods.

Paul Barclay’s beautifully presented gallery ‘1 Oxford Street’ in Dartmouth is home to both the studio and shop giving customers the opportunity to discuss in detail specific commissions or design requirements. The Paul Barclay brand inspires both designers and yacht lovers alike and its popularity is growing both in the UK and overseas.

1 Oxford Street, Dartmouth, Devon TQ6 9AL Tel: 0781 4901460 www.paulbarclaydesigns.com

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MERIDIAN AUDIO Sports car legend Ferrari and Meridian Audio, the world’s finest high-end audio and video manufacturer, have jointly developed the ultimate all-in-one digital sound system. Designed to awaken all the senses, the Meridian F80 combines some of the best technology from both companies.

The result is a beautiful piece of contemporary design that delivers superb room-filling music.

This transportable digital sound system carries both the Meridian marque and Ferrari prancing horse insignia. The body of the F80 features high-tech lightweight mineral-filled composites as used on Formula One and road-going Ferraris. It provides astonishing rigidity and high-dimensional stability to maximise the performance of the built-in loudspeakers. The level of technology and innovative nature of the design delivers astonishingly fresh audio quality with an unsurpassed clarity, pure and without distortion.

Industry experts, Meridian design, engineer and manufacture ultimately stylish state-of-the-art audio and video home entertainment systems.

Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 6YE Tel: 01480 445678 www.meridian-audio.com

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OLIVER HARE INTERNATIONAL Designers And Manufacturers Of Bespoke Furniture And Interiors.

Based in our design studio in prestigious Chelsea Harbour London the Oliver Hare Team has become synonymous with top quality design, manufacture and supply of bespoke furniture and interiors, for the homes of discerning clients around the world.

Meridian F80. Listen closely.

The Meridian F80, developed in collaboration with Ferrari, represents 30 years of audio research and manufacture condensed into a small and beautiful shell. It’s a complete system: a CD and DVD player with iPod® connectivity and AM/FM/DAB digital radio. You’ll be amazed that something so compact allows you to hear more of your music, recovering buried information from the recording and producing a sound full of detail and depth. But then it shares the same technologies as Meridian’s flagship components and loudspeakers: sound systems so advanced that if a microphone can detect it, the system can reproduce it. Hearing really is believing.

Call 01480 445678 to arrange a demonstration of the F80’s outstanding performance.

“a brilliantly designed and made compact music system” — HiFi World “truly unbelievable performance” — The Robb Report “there is nothing available elsewhere that compares” — AVReview.co.uk

www.meridian-audio.com

Whether your requirement, is for one special chair for your study, a luxurious sofa for your sitting room or a complete home interior designed, manufactured and project managed, we are there to smooth the way.

Exciting in house furniture design or complete interiors, our dedicated professional and experienced team of interior designers are available to advise interprete your ideas and turn them into reality.

If you wish to find out more about our furniture, and the interior design services we can provide, in the first instance, call or email our London studio where our Design Director will be delighted to discuss your initial enquiry in the strictest of confidence.

214 Harbour Yard, Chelsea Harbour London SW10 OXD T: (0207) 351 5522 www.oliverhare.com E:info@oliverhare.com

Produced under license of Ferrari SpA. FERRARI, the PRANCING HORSE device, all associated logos and distinctive designs are trademarks of Ferrari SpA. ‘iPod’ is a trademark of Apple Inc.

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FARROW & BALL The Farrow & Ball brand is synonymous with classic English Interiors and the company’s trademark paints represent the ultimate in depth of colour and elegance of finish, whilst its wallpapers are quite simply unique. Renowned the world over as colour experts and suppliers of quality decorative paint, Farrow and & Ball are the only manufacturer which actually makes all of the paint and wallpaper sold under its name.

A small team of skilled craftsmen produce a range of stunning wallpapers in a variety of traditional and modern designs. Unlike many other papers Farrow & Ball wallpapers are made using the company’s own environmentally friendly paints, producing papers with a sensuous texture and delicacy of appearance.

The Farrow & Ball paint and wallpaper collections are of the very finest quality and are a popular choice with many leading interior designers and the colour co-ordination from paint to paper and paper to paint is simply superb.

Uddens Estate, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 7NL T: 01202 876141 www.farrow-ball.com

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