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Welcome DON’T MISS THESE MUST-SEE EVENTS
Kate Burnett Editor
Where you’ll find us in October
MARVELLOUS METAL 01 Rebecca Hoh, assistant editor Collectable
sculptor Thomas Lemut is exhibiting in London for the first time, from the 13 October at Gallery Fumi in Hoxton. Inspired by mid 20th century, fellow French designers Jean Prouve and Pierre Chareau, he has hand-made eight one-off pieces in metal, including a footless lamp that defies gravity and an armchair constructed from 51 individual pieces of metal. I am officially intrigued.www.thomaslemut.com
BATTERSEA PERK 02 Allison Boehm, editorial assistant I’m going to make a
special trip to the alwayspopular Affordable Art Fair hosted at Battersea Park during the 21st through 24th October. With prices ranging from only £150 to £3000 combined with fun activities and creative
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SUPERLATIVE 03 Kate Burnett, editor
Super Design is back for its fourth year this month so I will be popping over to London’s Bloomsbury Square, ready to admire some impressive craftsmanship. Under the guidance of Patrick Brillet, a series of galleries including Vessel and The Apartment will fill over 1,500 square meters of space with intriguing pieces of 21st century furniture/design/art – whatever you decide to call it, these are truly talented individuals. www.superdesign-london.com
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Congratulations to our award winners who are celebrated in a ten-page feature in this month’s issue. This is a real tribute to teamwork which comes in all shapes and sizes. We had the privilege of a great panel of judges who gracefully overcame their differences (thankfully not too daunting!) to select ten deserving winners. As they came up to receive the beautiful trophies made by allê, it really brought home to me the impressive achievements of these talented teams of professionals that work to create such amazing projects. And while we don’t spend millions on every issue here at idfx (sadly!), we do have a really great team working hard to create each issue and, importantly, having fun while we’re doing it. I’d like to thank everyone who entered the awards this year, and if you didn’t enter this year I hope we will see your names on the shortlist in 2011. And I’d also like to thank the wonderful team here at idfx who made it all possible…
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Editor’s letter In recognition of teamwork Pulse Our regular round-up of the best new products Diary Design-related events around the UK and worldwide News The PO launches a new insurance scheme for interiors professionals Company profile Construction company Mivan expands with a luxury
residential interiors branch Mivan Prime
FEATURES 20 Gold stars We announce the 2010 idfx award winners for excellence in residential interior design 34 Profile: Hella Jongerius The Dutch designer continues to experiment with both traditional and industrial techiniques with outdoor pieces for Kettal 39 Hot stuff Today’s wood-burning stoves use clean-burn technology to provide eco-friendly heating while making a style statement 44 Green and pleasant plans Designers will benefit from improving their environmental awareness in these eco-conscious times. In the second of two eco features, three specialists offer their advice on skilling up 50 New horizons What’s the best way to expand your business? We talk to designers who have diversified and to clients who supported them 59 Autumn colour The brightest and best pieces from Maison et Objet
BEDROOM FOCUS 66 And so to bed... Four leading designers reveal their different approaches to tackling three types of bedroom — small, large and basement 76 Sleeping rough A bedroom in the hip Hoxton Hotel is a study in dishevelled chic that pays homage to the urban grit of Shoreditch 81 Polished performer The clever use of polished concrete gives six ensuite bedrooms in an Ibizan villa a streamlined and holistic look 85 Table talk Bedside beauties offer discreet and stylish storage 87 Head masters Subtle or spectacular, these headboards set the tone
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PORTFOLIOS 106 Over the rainbow Daring colour combinations and sumptuous finishes give this London townhouse a crazy fairytale elegance 112 Feminine charm Belgium’s Montagna Lunga won our Best Budget Project award for this contempory take on a ‘girlie’ apartment 116 Muppet show Target Living has transformed the old Jim Henson factory into a space for chic, but warm, loft living 119 Heritage Haven US architect Kathryn Scott has created a harmonious whole from a wide range of historical design references 121 Practice profile London designer Charlie Grieg and her team shake up the UK’s eco and ethical living options with Cub Homes
CLOSE 131 Showrooms New places and spaces around the UK 132 Eco news A two-week course promises to give designers the perfect introduction to sustainability in the built environment 133 Interior adventures The ups and downs of a typical month in the life of an interior designer 133 Making it Exciting new material Zelfo® inspires a quirky new furniture range 135 Pulse kitchen and bathroom The best kitchen and bathroom products 136 Number-one fan Kit Kemp, co-owner and design director of Firmdale Hotels, extolls the virtues of Ashley Cartwright’s Chevron Oak bench
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1 Acajou’s crasmen hand carve each Belle Epoch style Nouveau mirror from solid mahogany and gild the frame in gold or silver leaf using the traditional Bolle method
3 100cm x 180cm of black and white frosted blown glass make up Christopher Guy’s Octopussy chandelier (also available in translucent white with so black) www.christopherguy.com
www.acajoudesign.com
6 Jeux de Tables is by French designer Jose Levy and is playful system of simple shapes in
that slot together, currently on show at the Serge Bensimon Gallery in Paris www.joselevy.fr
4 Interior designer to Sir Elton John and 2 Stuart Ferris of the Damn Good Furniture
Company has unveiled the Rocker, a rocking lounger in English oak and leather, handmade to order to a limited edition of 100 www.damngoodfurniture.co.uk
Christina Aquilera, Martyn Lawrence Bullard has designed a range of furniture now available at Guinevere Antique, including this side table with ivory detailing www.guinevere.co.uk
5 The Oscuro Collection, by American designer Jason Phillips, employs sweeping fibreglass forms, finished in black lacquer. Oscuro includes a console table with matching side and cocktail tables www.jasonphillipsdesign.com
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03 Module has been added to Aestus’s Hotech
available in highly polished alluminium and or with a gold finished produced by anodising the metal tube themselves, rather than a coating
collection. The super sleek design is in an 8mm sheet of brushed aluminium, also available in gold and copper leaf
05 J’N’J Bathrooms have created Medusa from a large mesh of flamed copper or brass finish rails in 22 colours such as pearl grey as shown here
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02 Crocus patterns adorn this ornate cast iron radiator from the Old Radiator Company. It is painted in silver with nickel thermostatic valve
04 Aeon’s classically inspired Grandeur also doubles as seating for the entrance hall or bathroom and is brushed stainless steel.
06 The sharp angle s and mirrored effect of chromed steel used on Features Radiators’s XL, give s it both a art deco and contemporary feel
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Design Event North East, north-east England
Vienna Design Week 1–10 October, Vienna, www.viennadesignweek.at A 10-day programme of
more than 80 events transform the city of Vienna into a celebration of product and furniture design, craft, art and architecture. Design Week showcases Austria’s home-grown design talent as well as big international names such as Konstantin Grcic. Dutch Design Week 23–31 October, Eindhoven, www.dutchdesignweek.nl Exhibitions, awards,
workshops, launches and seminars take place in Eindhoven during Holland’s largest design event, which is now in its ninth year. Highlights include exhibits from Iittala, Studio Job, Tom Dixon and Floris Hovers plus the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show.
DESIGN EVENT NORTH EAST 22–31 October, venues across the north-east of England www.design-event.co.uk This event, now in its sixth
year, shines the spotlight on the design scene in the north-east of England. The programme comprises 30 exhibitions, talks, events and workshops covering everything from architecture to furniture. Highlights include the third Design Event Mart at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, where visitors can buy or commission work directly from exhibitors such as Deadgood, AFID Design, Kate Usher and Ayme Fitzgerald. Mart drew around 37,500 visitors last year. Another feature of the festival will be an outdoor exhibition entitled the Modern Art of Conversation, which will use the streets of Newcastle as a gallery space.
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international exhibition for the natural stone and marble sector explores design and technology and showcases the best of the important Italian trade. Last year’s event hosted more than 1,500 exhibitors and attracted 53,000 visitors.
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01 Super Design 12–17 October, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London WC1 www.superdesignlondon.com London’s leading exhibition of
03 Multiplied: Contemporary Editions Fair 15–18 October, Christie’s South Kensington, 85 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 www.christies.com
contemporary design art returns for the fourth year as part of Frieze Art Fair 2010. It shows brand new pieces from pioneering designers and top international galleries, including Vessel, the Apartment and D&A Lab.
A collaborative show involving more than 30 London galleries, collectives and institutions. The fair will show prints, photographs, books and 3D work from eminent and emerging artists. Prices range from £50 to £10,000.
leading international galleries exhibit an unusual and prestigious selection of design art, sculpture, painting and furniture. The event is an impressive showcase of fine art, including impressionist, modern, post-war, old-master and contemporary works.
02 Ben Pentreath’s Cabinet of Curiosities 13–30 October, Ben Pentreath, 17 Rugby Street, London WC1 www.benpentreath.com The shop, which
Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair 28 September–3 October, The Marquee, Battersea Park, London SW11 www.decorativefair.com Known for its
04 Paola Petrobelli: Inside Out 18 September– 8 October, Wilmotte Gallery, 133 Oxford Gardens, London W10 www.perimeter-artanddesign.com
opened last year, will sell an eclectic range of products under the theme of Astronomy, Astrology and Geology, including rare and exotic shells, rocks, corals, crystals, stalactites, plasterworks and prints.
diversity, including traditional English and European furniture, Gustavian and Swedish design, 1950s lighting and stunning mirrors, this specialist fair draws around 140 exhibitors to its relaxed and scenic location.
Paris-based gallery Perimeter Art and Design is collaborating with the Wilmotte Gallery to present this colourful collection of architectural pieces made in Murano glass by renowned designer Paola Petrobelli.
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News MAKEPEACE MAKES THE SHORTLIST Furniture maker
PO LAUNCHES INSURANCE FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS
John Makepeace is among the designers shortlisted for the annual Prince Philip Designers Prize which is coordinated by the Design Council. Two female architects – Eva Jiricna and Zaha Hadid have also been named for the shortlist which includes Dame Vivienne Westwood and Neville Brody. www.designcouncil.org.uk/ppdp
The Post Office now offers a policy specifically tailored to the needs of interior designers and decorators
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he Post Office has spotted a gap in the market and launched a dedicated insurance package for interior designers and decorators. The policy, which can be purchased online or from any of its 12,000 branches, provides a wide range of cover for interior design professionals. This includes legal liability cover for negligence in connection with work undertaken; cover available for up to ten employees; option to cover more than one trade; theft or damage to stock in transit; theft or damage to your tools and equipment, and accident or injury to you or your employees. Liability cover includes public liability insurance up to £1m with the option to increase to £2m or £5m depending on the company’s business activities. For more information go to www.postoffice.co.uk
DIXON EMBARKS ON E-COMMERCE Tom Dixon is entering the world of online trading with a new website which will eventually offer customers around the world the chance to buy his products. At present the website is only open to UK customers who are able to access detailed product information, a blog, news and sign up to a dedicated newsletter. Exclusive products will be launched on the site throughout the year. Customer service also includes a one-day response promise for enquiries, which can be downloaded at www.tomdixon.net
Archello – networking for architecture Architecture professionals have a new online networking platform which offers information on products as well as a forum for discussions related to the built environment. www.archello.com Rupert Bevan – new site, new name A website has been unveiled for the recently renamed Rupert Bevan, formerly Bevan & HelyHutchinson. The company continues to work from its London showroom and workshop as well as its studio and workshops in Shropshire. www.rupertbevan.com
ENDLESS INVESTS IN AMDEGA Amdega, bespoke conservatory manufacturer, has been acquired by UK-based private investment company Endless LLP. The investment represents the tenth deal from Endless LLP’s highly successful Fund II, and adds to the firm’s strong track record of backing well-known British brands in the home improvement and building products sector, such as Crown Paints and Neville Johnson. www.amdega.co.uk
MORADA TO MANAGE GRADUS FABRICS Contract interiors specialist RIBA CPDs for Kaldewei German steel bathroom products manufacturer Kaldewei has received CPD accreditation for two new presentations either in its Cambridgeshire UK headquarters or in its German factory. www.kaldewei.com
Gradus has announced a new future for its fabrics business, which will now be under the management of Morada, a fast growing North West textiles business, with over a century’s tradition in fabrics. The complete range of Gradus fabrics will now be available through Morada, which plans to introduce new ranges in the autumn and extend the fabrics offering to maintain the appeal of Gradus to the contract fabrics market. www.morada.co.uk
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HIGH DESIGN LUXURY VINYL TILES FOR HOME INTERIORS Visit FACEBOOK.COM/CAMAROFLOORING for a large collection of inspirational installations or see POLYFLOR.COM for general product details.
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Company Profile & People
SOLID FOUNDATIONS Mivan Prime is a new brand with ambitious plans to strengthen its position in the luxury residential market Words REBECCA HOH
PEOPLE AND MOVERS Martyn Lawrence Bullard wins the Andrew Martin Award for 2010; Will Chelsom is named a director of Chelsom; Robert McCalla moves to Tufenkian
Bespoke residential construction and interior fitout company Mivan has launched a new brand, Mivan Prime, specifically catering for the luxury residential market. The company has over 30 years of experience, with a solid reputation and a £100m turnover business. Mivan has seen the world of property rise and fall a handful of times and is now feeling it on the rise and expanding once more, particularly at the high end of the market. So it feels like the time is ripe to launch Mivan Prime, a tailored service for architectural and interior design projects, targeted at £2m to £10m contracts in single unit projects around Notting Hill, Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Kensington. Based in the City of London, in St. Dunstan’s Hill, EC2, the team is 16 strong and ranges from construction managers, design coordinator, planning and project managers, who will also work with commissioned interior designers
Robert McCalla has been named as showroom manager for the new Tufenkian showroom at
its position as a supplier of lighting to the contract market. Managing large prestige contracts has given Will a solid understanding of the industry. www.chelsom.co.uk
Design Centre Chelsea Harbour. He will report to John Erkelens, European sales director of the leading US artisan carpet brand.
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www.mivanprime.com
The Andrew Martin International Designer of the Year Award has announced its winner, Martyn Lawrence Bullard. ‘Martyn brings an exhilarating fresh talent to the world of interior design’, says Martin Waller, head of Andrew Martin Design Company. The British designer, who now resides in LA, is known for his glamorous interiors and high profile clients, ranging from rock stars to royalty. www.andrewmartin.co.uk
Will Chelsom has been appointed as director of Chelsom Ltd as it strengthens
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on certain projects. An additional part of the Prime team is a group of highly skilled craftspeople who can create a raft of bespoke structural elements and fittings. This includes its own architectural metalwork and FSC and PEFCcertified joinery. Having these skills in-house means they can be in complete control of the finished product and management of the entire build process. The new company is ambitious but realistic in its outlook for Mivan Prime, expecting an annual turnover of £30m by 2012, which may not seem so pie-in-the-sky considering they are currently tendering for a £25m scheme and already have a £60m project underway. ‘Prime is a new brand, but it’s not a new experience for us, it’s more of an extension of the knowledge we already have,’ says Stephen Mills, Mivan’s Business Development director, ‘We are taking a proactive approach and are confident it will succeed.’
Gorenje the Slovenian kitchen appliances manufacturer, has announced the appointment of Neilan Scrooby as the company’s new regional sales manager, south. He has worked with a variety of well-known brands including Sharp and Electrolux. www.gorenje.co.uk
Taps, showers and accessories. Beautifully handcrafted in Britain since 1820.
Showroom now open at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour
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idfx awards 2010 the winners are... WINNER BEST DESIGNER - NINA CAMPBELL
Nina Campbell’s contribution to interior design shows no sign of diminishing, more than 40 years after she first set up her own practice. Trained at the Inchbald, she works on a huge range of projects from private residential to large-scale commercial, with current projects including a hotel in Cheltenham and a private residence in China. Her first shop was launched in Pimlico in the late 1960s with Mark Birley, specialising in ‘unashamed luxury’. Currently running a studio of 15 in the same Knightsbridge street – Walton St – as her eponymous shop, she has also enjoyed success in product design, turning her hand to furniture, tableware, fabric and wallpaper, home accessories and fashion, with collaborators such as Smallbone, Osborne & Little and Ted Baker. She is also an active member of the UK interior design community, making regular appearances in the pantomime and other charity initiatives. www.ninacampbell.com
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FINALISTS Helen Green Kelly Hoppen Martin Brudnizki Mary Fox Linton Tara Bernerd
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The winners of the ten idfx award categories received their trophies at a ceremony at last month’s 100% Design at Earls Court, London. We list the winning designers, projects and practices here alongside the shortlisted entries Words JENNY BREWER, KATE BURNETT, LINDA CLAYTON, REBECCA HOH, ANNA LEWIS
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WINNER BEST RESIDENTIAL PROJECT - NUNSWITHGUNS
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Warehouse apartment, Nile Street, London N1 The transformation of this eight-year-old warehouse conversion in Nile Street, London came out on top of a prestigious shortlist for its innovative and eclectic mix of materials and highly original detailing. Exposed brick walls, large timber floorboards and metal frame windows exude an authentic industrial aesthetic, contrasting to the high gloss kitchen, sleek bathroom fit-out and new sofas. Details such as the zinc topped dining table, reclaimed church pews, an antique mirror and salvaged theatre light fittings show the company’s flair for unusual product placement, while a creative response to the expansive floor space uses timber crates as additional rooms and storage. www.nunswithgunsdesign.com
Atelier Maia Charlotte Crosland Interiors David Billinkoff Architects Frederica Delrosso Gilt & Gloss Intarya Interior Desires Interiormotive Design Moxon Architects Nunswithgunsdesign Simone Micheli UXUS
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WINNER BEST PRACTICE - JOANNA WOOD
With a wealth of experience at the highest level of interior design and a formidable reputation to match, it is no wonder the judges chose Joanna Wood from a competitive shortlist. Her interior design empire covers five different businesses – the interior design practice itself, Lewis & Wood fabrics and wall coverings, Philips & Wood lighting, Lawson Wood upholstery and the Joanna Wood home accessories shop on London’s Pimlico Road. Having grown exponentially since 1982, the practice currently employs forty people across five businesses, with sixteen interior design staff and impressive projects in the pipeline. These include the largest restoration project in the south of England excepting St. Pancras Station, plus a new build country house in Sussex, a penthouse on the Thames and a Victorian restoration project in Cambridge. www.joannawood.co.uk
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FINALISTS Honky Intarya Staffan Tollgard Todhunter Earle Taylor Howes
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WINNER BEST BUDGET PROJECT - MONTAGNA LUNGA
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Apartment, Limburg, Belgium This compact apartment was designed for a young Italian woman with a liking for exotic colours and typically girly needs, so plenty of space for clothes and shoes was incorporated! At 70 sq metres the apartment required creative and customised space planning from the designers, which certainly caught the eye of the judges. Since the space was a newbuild in a contemporary buiding, Montagna Lunga was given the freedom to start from scratch, aiming for a ‘Sex and the City look mixed with a Floridian feel’. The client trusted the designers completely, so once the design was finalised the work took only four months to complete. You can explore more of this property on page 89 in our Portfolio section.
Laura Bohn Design Associates New i.d. Interiors Quirke McNamara Consultancy
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WINNER BEST UP AND COMING DESIGNER - INTERIOR DESIRES
Interior Desires – Rebecca James
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London townhouse Following successful careers as a ballet dancer and professional model, Rebecca James turned her hand to interior design, studying at Chelsea School of Art. From the outset her determination was evident, as she chose to gut and rebuild her own house for her coursework. In 2006 she founded Interior Desires which, by 2008, had become a limited company with three full-time staff. The company’s flair for the individual won the judges over, with every detail reflecting the client’s personality, including the sourcing and designing of much of the furniture for projects. James describes the unconventional style as ‘structurally masculine and internally feminine with strong Asian undertones’. www.interiordesiresuk.com
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Maurizio Pellizzoni Gilt & Gloss (Anouska Anquetil) Peter Phan
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WINNER BEST KITCHEN - COCHRANE DESIGN
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Family home, SW London The striking vaulted double-height ceiling and careful planning of 80 sq metres of floor space in this kitchen project won the judges’ attention. Skylights flood the space with natural light and the final design is highly functional for the diverse needs of a large family. At the heart of the redesign of this seven bedroom Victorian villa in Clapham, South London, this kitchen needed space to cook, eat, entertain guests, relax and provide an area for formal dining. Featuring a vast seven-metre hardwood island as the focal point, painted wood storage, granite worktops and polished steel details, the aesthetic cleverly mixes contemporary and traditional influences. www.cochranedesign.com
Nila Design Vincent Bentham, Earle and Ginger Hill House Interiors Murray & Murray Ltd Studio Octopi
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WINNER BEST BATHROOM - LINLEY
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Private client, Oslo, Norway British design company Linley was hired by the owners of this home in Oslo, Norway, because of its reputation for producing bespoke furniture. “The brief was to create a range of bathroom pieces to complement the bespoke macassar ebony furniture elsewhere in the house,” says Linley’s head of interior design, Charlie Robertson. Carcasses were constructed from marine plywood topped with veneer and then finished in marine varnish, are both durable and beautiful. The freestanding bath is particularly striking with open shelves under the bath provide storage, and each vanity unit has been lined with veneer-clad shelves which add to the glossy sophistication of the scheme as a whole.
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WINNER BEST LIGHTING PROJECT - JOHN CULLEN LIGHTING
Alexandra Fry at John Cullen Lighting
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Barn, Devon Lighting experts John Cullen certainly know how to play to the strengths of a property, one of the reasons it stood out to our judges. Designer Alexandra Fry hoped to retain the character and charm of this renovated upside-down barn in Devon using the latest technologies and energy efficient solutions. At night skylights are brought to life with halogen Starlights, while elsewhere, niches with LED linear lighting show-off the client’s art collection around the house. A calm but dramatic space was created in the bedrooms with down-lighting, while motion-activated uplights make clever use of the mirrors in the dressing room. Every detail of the property is lit according to its individual ambience. www.johncullenlighting.co.uk
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Clifftop pad, south of England Maven’s solution for a fully automated home provided the client with complete convenience and control without being intrusive to the interior dÊcor, hence why it came out on top with our judges. The small in-house team created a system including control of the lighting (with preset lighting scenarios), intercom (with open/close control over the front door), heating/air conditioning (including radiant walls), a fully kitted-out cinema, audio and video distribution and security, covering every eventuality with discreet style. An intuitive Crestron control platform links the whole house, allowing easy access to all aspects of the system from each room using touchpanels and keypads, or an iPod.
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WINNER BEST BESPOKE COMMISSION - DECIBEL DESIGNS
Sarah Wodehouse at Decibel Designs
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Textile designer Ptolemy Mann and Kensington Home Technology This colourful blind was the designed to conceal a television screen, and was chosen by the judges for its intelligently sympathetic design in keeping with the layout of the room and the Arts and Crafts style of the property’s interior. To this aim an original artwork was commissioned for the piece, with the client selecting textile designer Ptolemy Mann to design the blind’s surface. Drawing on the colour scheme set by the room’s existing artwork, Mann hand-dyed the fibres for the design, using an ikat technique to weave the fabric on a pink warp. Working with Kensington Home Technology, the blind was installed with the television into a recess in the chimney breast. www.decibeldesigns.co.uk
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Hella Jongerius This Dutch designer’s work is deeply rooted in craft and making, something she remains dedicated to, shown in her latest collection with outdoor specialists Kettal Words CLAIRE BARRETT Photography LOUISE BILLGERT
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h nitting circles might be the latest fad amongst today’s hipsters, but Hella Jongerius has been spearheading the artisan revolution in design for years. Her work has always had a deep fascination in craft and making. Indeed in previous interviews she herself has sat crocheting while talking. Not today, when we meet at the recent Maison et Objet exhibition in Paris to discuss her latest collaboration with Spanish outdoor furniture company Kettal. Jongerius has designed a range called Bob, which includes a garden club chair, footstool and side table. The chairs are rather architectural, yet their squashy cushions give them a familiar, homely look; indeed they wouldn’t look out of place in many interiors. She’s created a sort of armchair for the outdoors. With a metal frame, the integrated cushions – ‘I can’t stand to have loose cushions,’ she says – are in a sober grey, yet her trademark craft-based ‘signature’ is on the arms, which are wrapped in coloured yarn. ‘The armrest is a collage of thin, wound ropes. I was inspired by the look of those plastic indoor/outdoor chairs we all know,’ she says. ‘It’s a sort of updated, softer version.’ It’s a typical move by Jongerius, delving back into the
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past, into a collective heritage, and creating something new that is imbued with the familiar. Her trademark fascination with the handcrafted goes right back the beginning of her career. In 1993, she graduated from the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven in product design, and was included in that year’s Droog Design exhibition at the Milan Furniture Fair – it launched the collective and Dutch design on to the international scene, a witty two-fingered response to the then current vogue for design as consumer product. She set up her own company, Jongeriuslab, which she now runs from Berlin while her team remain in Rotterdam. Her work has always been about celebrating the individual. Early editions were, therefore, one-offs, limited runs or batch production – much of it initially ceramic, but Jongerius’s career (as her fame has risen and she has increasingly been solicited by big-name manufacturers) has seen her tread a interesting line between creating unique products and mass production. Her big breakthrough was with her B Set porcelain dinner service for Royal Tichelaar Makkum in 1998. Deliberately fired at an
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ANIMAL MAGIC Above and left: Jongerius’ 2005 Polder Sofa for Vitra, based on views of Dutch landscape; 2009’s avant garde Frog Table from an exclusive collection for Gallerie Kreo in Paris, in walnut with a blue semitransparent coating
incredibly high temperature, every piece is slightly deformed, making each one unique. The tiny flaws give the ceramics a hand-made feel. Jongerius found joy in the imperfections and celebrated the process of making these designs. The headline was that she achieved the individual on a mass-produced scale, a theme that continues to dominate her work. For American textile company, Maharah, she went on to create Repeat, an unusually large repeating pattern that meant that no two pieces of furniture upholstered in the fabric would look exactly the same, once more achieving an element of randomness within mass-produced design. Others came knocking. By 2005 the global brands of Ikea and Vitra had approached her and that year she designed a set of four large vases for Ikea’s PS range that are handdecorated with perforated patterns, an idea taken from her early one-off embroidered ceramics. For Vitra she created the incredibly successful Polder sofa, her first mass-produced piece of furniture, a slouchy design with large, odd-shaped cushions and mismatched buttons that has the feeling of being an old family heirloom. The connection with Vitra is one that she has fostered: ‘I am very strict with who I work with,’ she says. ‘I prefer longer relationships.
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You go more in-depth and create a feeling for a collection that is made from the chemistry between the two partners.’ Polder was the beginning of a deep relationship with Vitra. She developed five colour and fabric palettes for that sofa, which led to them asking her to develop colour palettes for future collections, and her 2007 ‘Inside Colours’ installation for the My Home exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum. In 2006 she designed The Worker chair and sofa for the company, which included her trademark handcrafted textile panels, and she will show new designs at next year’s Milan Furniture Fair, all firmly under wraps for now. But the big question is what do these multifarious companies seek from collaborating with Jongerius? From her past sales, it’s clear that they’re chasing an audience – one with similar values to her, and a desire for authenticity. Jongerius’s work – and success – is that it taps into the current vogue for the handcrafted, something that has recently been coined ‘emotional design’ by interiors guru Ilse Crawford, code for designs that invoke memory and history, and delight through their use of colour, pattern and texture. But her fascination is for producing them on such a huge scale, exploring whether it’s possible to maintain her ‘handwriting’ in thousands of identical products.
INSIDE OUTSIDE Below and left: Another creation for Galerie Kreo from 2008 - Swatch table in American walnut with resin blocks; her latest design, an outdoor longer and footstool for Barcelona-based Kettal, called Bob
In a world so fast paced, where the media is on a persistent quest to discover the ‘new, new, new’, as Jongerius puts it, she places value on slowing down. ‘My work represents the longing for slowness,’ she says. It’s the same reason that she loves working with materials rather than solely computers. ‘You lose “the blood” of the material and product with a computer. You can only get this from building a physical thing, something with tactility. Computers do take this away.’ Looking to the future, will she work with Kettal again? ‘We’ll have to see what the response is like!’ she laughs. For now she’s preparing for an exhibition in Rotterdam that will include new ceramic pieces in November, the same time as her second book, Misfit, is released. She has been experimenting with 150 recipes for new mineral glazes, taking inspiration from old, traditional methods. ‘I am very much into the recipe, the chemistry of how something is made. The process is much more important to me – I get bored quickly at the end of the process, with something that is ready. Which is why collaborations are good, such as with Kettal. When I have finished, the company take in on and do what needs to be done to bring it to people!’ Leaving Jongerius to do what she does best, which is create great intuitive designs. www.jongeriuslab.com
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Hot Stuff Nothing beats a real fire when it comes to creating a cosy atmosphere. Modern wood-burning stoves, with their clean-burn technology, provide eco-friendly heating while making a sleek style statement Words KAY HILL
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ood-burning stoves have been around since the 16th century, so it might seem surprising that they have become an indispensable part of modern living once again. Humans seem to be drawn to the flickering beauty of flames but open fires — which create draughts and smoke and are only 15 per cent fuel efficient — seem a wasteful extravagance in these days of eco consciousness and austerity. The stove, on the other hand, offers a vision of real flames combined with up to 85 per cent fuel efficiency and savings on fuel bills. It’s a winning combination. When British Gas announced a 35 per cent price rise two years ago, sales of stoves soared. Richard Hibben, national sales manager for flue company Specflue, estimates annual sales increased by around 30 per cent, while Aga, which launched a range of stoves shortly before the gas price hike, reported 300 per cent growth. Overall sales have slowed slightly due to the recession but contemporary stoves are one area that is still strong. ‘They are very fashionable, especially the modern stoves from Europe that are freestanding,’ says Hibben. ‘Homes with wood-burning stoves are now seen as very desirable and the cost of fitting one can be recouped in three to six years.’ It is possible to get the look of a woodburning stove using gas — and electric versions are becoming increasingly realistic — but the biggest growth is in multi-fuel or log-burning
Stûv 30 Compact Designed for small or energy-efficient homes, the 30 Compact, made by Belgian company Stûv, emits 3-9kW of heat and is more than 80 per cent fuel efficient. It has three separate turning doors that enable the fire to burn openly, behind a glass plate or behind a solid door for slow burning through the
night. The stove can be rotated to face different areas of the room, while an optional barbecue kit means it can be used for cooking. Available in the UK at Jetmaster. www.stuv.be www.jetmaster.co.uk
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STOVES | 41 5448 from the 5400 Series Danish company Morsoe’s 5488 wood burning stove is inspired by a heavy machinery aesthetic, in heavy cast iron and given a contemporary edge with a large, flat black glass front which has been likened to the iphone in
Devon The Yeoman Devon may have a country look but its technology is far from vintage. This multifuel stove, which will run on anthracite, smokeless fuel, peat turfs or wood, burns so cleanly that it has been government approved for use in smoke-control areas.
appearance. It has passed the strict requirements for the Nordic Swan Eco-label by recycling the air in the room; gently warming this, ensuring the entire space is heated, rather give out hot blasts www.morsoe.co.uk
It has a heat output of 9kW, is 81 per cent fuel efficient and has an optional back boiler for heating water. Yeoman, part of the Stovax group, is a UK company. www.yeoman-stoves.co.uk
versions. David Knox, spokesman for Stovax, says burning wood in a modern, high-efficiency stove is completely carbon neutral: ‘When burned cleanly, wood releases into the atmosphere the same amount of carbon dioxide as the tree absorbed in its lifetime — and no more than if it were allowed to rot naturally.’ Given that wood is usually grown locally, there is little in the way of transportation involved and its production is important in creating local jobs, Knox adds. The Building Research Establishment supports the eco claims of wood burners. Its figures show that while 0.422kg of carbon are produced for each kW hour of mains electrical heat (0.265kg for oil) wood produces just 0.025kg of carbon to generate the same amount of heat. Of course, there are a few complications. Gas and electric stoves light instantly, produce no waste, require no storage space for fuel and are not subject to smoke-control legislation. Logs, on the other hand, need a little more forethought. In some parts of the country, logs can only be burned in specially certified clean-burn appliances (visit the Defra website at http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk for details of restricted areas and approved products). Then there’s the question of where to buy and how to store the fuel. ‘In rural areas, logs are readily available — sometimes for free — from tree surgeons, saw mills and farmers,’ says
Alpine Chesney’s latest range of stoves has a retro 1950s feel. The Alpine comes in a range of matt and enamel finishes, such as this claret enamel version. The wood-burning version gives out 4kW of
Nemofocus The curvaceous Nemofocus is the latest design from French designer Dominique Imbert, whose company Focus specialises in unusual contemporary stoves and fireplaces. The Nemofocus, which is 85 per cent fuel efficient
heat, while a multi-fuel option goes up to 6kW. All are suitable for smokeless zones and have a fuel efficiency of up to 84 per cent. www.chesneys.co.uk
and has a heat output of 15kW, comes in a black or grey finish and is distributed in the UK by Diligence. www.diligence international.com
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42 | STOVES Contura 590T Made by Niebe of Sweden, the Contura 590T has a highlevel design that provides a good view of the flames. The stove surround is made from soapstone, which retains and radiates heat after the fire has gone out, while an optional heat storage tank can be added in the chamber above the
Skylon Platonic Fireplaces, which is known for its gas and electric fires, launched its first log burning stove, the Skylon, at 100% Design. Skylon comes in black or five vibrant colours, such as the
Gate The tricky problem of log storage is addressed by the Gate stove, designed by Carsten Gollnick for Conmoto. The size and shape of the anthracite-coated steel stove is mirrored by a matching log holder. The combustion chamber of the fire is suspended and
yellow shown here. It has a heat output of 7.5kW and is 80 per cent fuel efficient. www.platonicfireplaces.co.uk
T-Line Eco2 Swiss company Tonwerk describes its T-Line Eco2 stove as ‘the intelligent heating miracle’, promising up to 20 hours of heat from a single firing. The stove is clad in a variety of natural stones or concrete finishes and is also available with a module for hot water. The manufacturer says it can be
fronted with large glass panes to give it a light look. It has a heat output of 10kW and is 76 per cent fuel efficient. Gate is available in the UK from Encompass. www.encompassco.com
Q-bic The minimalist Q-bic wood burner from Danish company Rais has two glass panels for good flame visibility, a built-in turntable for moving the direction of the fire and integral log storage underneath. Available in
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fire, adding an extra four hours of heat retention. Below the stove is a log storage cupboard. The stove has a heat output of 3-7kW and an efficiency of greater than 80 per cent. www.nibe.eu
black or grey, this stove delivers 2-6kW of heat and is 80-85 per cent fuel efficient. It is available in the UK at retailers including Robeys. www.robeys.co.uk
the sole heating appliance for a highly insulated home. It has a heat output of up to 6.5kW and is 83 per cent fuel efficient. Available in the UK through Anglia Fireplaces. www.twlag.ch/ www.fireplaces.co.uk
Knox. However, freshly cut green wood needs to be dried or ‘seasoned’ to produce a clean and efficient burn, so will need to be stored in a dry place for two years before use. Given that it takes around 5m3 of wood to run a stove for a year, a substantial amount of storage space is required to make the most of bulk purchases. Ready-to-use kiln-dried logs can be bought in bags but this is an expensive option. Although stoves burn logs more cleanly than open fires do, there will still be ash to dispose of plus the bother of lighting the fire and remembering to feed it with logs. The thought of having to get up in the freezing cold on a winter’s morning to light the fire is probably the main reason why most stoves are used for supplementary or ‘shoulder season’ heating rather than as the sole heat source for a home. However, a really efficient stove, such as those from Tonwerk available at Anglia Fireplaces, can prove to be very effective heaters for well-insulated modern homes, while an increasing number of manufacturers make stoves that also heat water. Graham Vialls, managing director of Tonwerk, explains that the vertically stacked logs in a Tonwerk stove burn for around three hours but the heat is then stored in the stove and radiates out for a further six to 12 hours. ‘Its not only a nice piece of furniture, it’s a very efficient heat source,’ he says.
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CHANGING TIMES Far right: sustainability has made a big impact on architecture, such as this new-build eco house, but has yet to significantly influence the world of interior design
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Green and Pleasant Plans In these eco-conscious times, designers will benefit from improving their environmental awareness. In the second of two features, three specialists share their tips for sustainable design WORDS LOUISE BATEMAN
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y 2016, all new homes will have to be zero carbon and building regulations are tightening to ensure energy and water efficiency are improved and carbon emissions reduced in the UK’s housing stock. These changes are already creating new business opportunities for design professionals as products and services are launched, old houses are upgraded and new homes are built. But huge challenges remain for architects and interior designers. As well as needing to keep track of new regulations and product development, the changes require upskilling in environmentally responsible design. Then there’s knowing where to source environmentally friendly products — separating the genuine from the ‘greenwash’ can prove tricky. How to incorporate sustainable products and systems into homes is another issue. This is particularly true of retrofit projects, where properties are either listed or have historic features that the owner wants to retain. In all cases, clients have to be briefed about the choices they face and compromises then have to be reached, if not
on the level of efficiency then on the aesthetic appeal of the end product. Here we talk to three design companies that have put sustainability at the heart of what they do and have sought various ways to address these challenges.
Heath Design Designer, writer and TV presenter Oliver Heath set up Heath Design in 2005 to create beautiful designs with minimum impact on the environment. ‘Sustainability has grabbed hold of architecture but its impact is much smaller on the interior designer,’ he says. Heath’s interest in sustainable design stretches back to 1998, when he set up his first design practice, Blustin Heath Design. His latest book, Urban Eco Chic, promotes the balance of technology, nature and vintage to create functional, sustainable dwellings that are also beautiful and aspirational homes. ‘I have plenty of books on my shelf about how to make a “box” more efficient but not about the psychology behind sustainable homes,’ he comments.
Heath may be at the cutting edge of sustainable design but he relies on a number of sources to keep him informed and inspired. ‘I talk to BRE [the Building Research Establishment], the Energy Saving Trust and Wrap [the Waste and Resources Action Programme] on a regular basis’, he says. He also gets ideas from magazines and the architectural journals and attends shows, such as 100% Design. When it comes to sourcing products, there is one place he cannot praise highly enough. ‘Advisory company Scin is a brilliant resource for designers and it’s increasingly being asked to find sustainable materials,’ he says. Heath points out that for all the interest in sustainable design, it is still very much a developing market that cannot yet compete with the traditional ways of designing and refurbishing: ‘We have to bear that in mind. So prices are higher and there is less choice.’ Heath is also aware of the compromises we will have to make if we are going to embrace more sustainable homes. He’s just given his own 1960s home in Brighton a green
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makeover, which took a year of planning and six months to build, cost £100,000 and yet only marginally increased the usable space. ‘A lot of designers are keen to promote sustainable architecture in buildings and the clients seem to want it but it’s quickly ruled out when they want more space,’ he says. ‘We took out all the windows, heating, electrics and floors, had the walls insulated and sealed whole joints. I increased the usable space by converting my garage into a kitchen but I spent most of the money making my home a better space within the existing footprint.’
Living In Space A ‘one-stop-shop’ for those looking for an initial concept right through to completion, London-based Living In Space has positioned itself squarely in the eco design bracket. The practice is underpinned by a ‘green living’ philosophy that includes sourcing its own electricity from renewable sources. It has even built up a library of eco-friendly products and services, ranging from sustainably sourced furniture to renewable energy installations. Director Ryan Kohn, who joined Living In Space three years ago after working in
LIVING THE DREAM Above: Living In Space has built up a library of eco-friendly products and services, ranging from sustainably sourced furniture to renewable energy installations
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property development, is the driving force behind the company’s green design credentials. He says it’s not only important to keep abreast of latest green building developments and regulations, but to keep up with the latest products and trends by reading and networking — and not just within the design and building sectors. ‘We go to [informal networking event] Green Drinks once a month,’ he says. ‘It is always good to cross over with other industries because of the work we do in people’s homes,’ says Kohn. Kohn has no formal training in environmentally sustainable design but has gained his knowledge from books, magazines, websites and seminars, making it his business to find out what there is to know. For anything to do with building regulations, he goes straight to the government’s Planning Portal. For more general literature on sustainable building, he recommends Zed Factory’s Zed Book and The Green Guide. For places to go, he suggests BRE and the Energy Saving Trust but he also recommends trade shows and says there is no better place to start than at London’s
Ecobuild, the largest sustainable built environment exhibition in Europe. For good all-round information, Kohn suggests joining the UK Green Building Council. ‘You pay a subscription but its 100 per cent worthwhile. It does very good work on sustainability in the home. It has stands at trade shows, seminars and offers training. It’s the best we’ve got in the UK,’ he says. The biggest difficulty with being green, according to Kohn, is establishing what it really means. ‘That word “green” has a broad meaning,’ he says. ‘How green is green? How green do clients want their homes to be? And how green is green in terms of suppliers?’ Living In Space has attempted to clarify some of these issues by developing a Sustainable Refurbishment Report. Much more detailed than an Energy Performance Certificate, this 40-page document evaluates the existing energy of the home and how to improve on it. ‘It goes through the options, such as insulation, triple glazing and renewable energy and provides a costing, sets out how much CO2 will be saved and states the payback period,’ explains Kohn. The process enables Living In Space to devise bespoke solutions to individual sustainable design problems, which in the case of a listed building is an absolute must, says Kohn. ‘You need to be very sensitive. There are many conservation areas and I would recommend getting in listed specialists if you are dealing with a listed building because you could be prosecuted,’ he explains. When refurbishing a grade II listed, five-bedroom house in Hampstead, Living In Space had to redesign the conservatory to enable the roof to carry solar PV panels. Another problem with green design, according to Kohn, is the choice of sustainable products on offer — and nowhere does he see this more than at the high end of sustainable furniture products. ‘Some companies, such as David Edwards, are making strides but there is still a lack of really high-end pieces that are sustainable.’ Kohn says suppliers are missing a trick here. ‘Now it’s a great story but in 20 years’ time, everyone will be doing it,’ he says.
‘A lot of designers are keen to promote sustainable architecture in buildings and the clients seem interested but it’s quickly ruled out when they want more space’
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HPW Established in 1986 from offices in Southampton, HPW operates in the commercial and residential sector, providing industry-leading sustainable architecture and interior design. Creative director Gary Wilburn has just completed an Msc in sustainable building performance and design at Oxford Brookes University. He believes formal training is going to be required not just at the professional level but at all levels of the construction industry in order to future-proof UK homes and businesses. ‘We need to educate everyone from the architect and designer to those laying the bricks and digging the trenches. It’s going to require a massive effort and commitment,’ he says. As well as investing in their own education, though, he believes the design professionals also need to be willing to share information with one another. Wilburn is the chairman of the Sustainable Construction Network for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The network keeps him updated on the latest building regulations and sustainable developments but it also demands an open-minded approach to networking. ‘We collaborate and choose to share information,’ Wilburn says. ‘It’s very easy to be nervous about sharing learning but if we want to be exemplary we need to share our information.’ For inspiration on product development, Wilburn recommends lots of travelling — preferably overseas. ‘You need to attend exhibitions and travel to the continent,’ he insists. When it comes to renewable energy systems, Wilburn believes we have a lot to learn from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. To see good examples of the Passivhaus construction standard for buildings, he recommends visiting Holland and Belgium, while Sweden’s Hammarby, a district south of Stockholm that houses 20,000 people completely self-sustainably, he describes as ‘a must see’. Closer to home, Wilburn recommends the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) near Machynlleth in north Wales and the Ecobuild
exhibition in London, although he warns the latter has been ‘flooded’ with products that are merely ‘greenwash’. When it comes to sourcing sustainable products, Wilburn says building merchants such as Jewsons and Bradfords are making strides but adds that the choice is ‘nowhere near as good as it could be and you need to search hard for products that aren’t run of the mill’ and that are truly sustainable. ‘These products are just like any commodity so suppliers will “expand” the truth to make them more appealing and most architects don’t have time to check,’ he says. The Green Guide does offer help in this area but Wilburn says it’s a case of building up a trusted network of suppliers that offer unusual and innovative products, from rammed-earth materials to insulation and green roofing. HPW’s own network of suppliers has served it well on sustainable projects. The company recently refurbished a 46m2 York stone barn conversion near Harrogate in North Yorkshire. After carrying out dynamic thermal modelling of the building, HPW recommended super-insulating the stone property using an internal 10m-thick ‘multifoil’ plasterboard — a material developed by NASA — to meet the space limitations of the family home. Under-floor heating powered by a ground source heat pump was designed to replace an antiquated central-heating system powered by oil. Wilburn describes the refurbishment as a ‘thermal delight’. He is keen to point out that reducing a building’s energy requirement should be the starting point of any sustainable building design. ‘Super-insulate the building first then think about renewable energy systems,’ he says. But he also warns that adopting a generic approach to sustainable design is ‘enormously dangerous. There is no single solution, everything has to be site specific.’
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Intarya. ‘Very simply, a client asked us whether we would design a yacht,’ she recalls. ‘The client had seen some of our work, liked our style and wanted their yacht to have a residential feel so they were looking outside the normal list of yacht designers.’ The yacht, Celestial Hope, was completed in 2009. It has picked up four international awards and prompted the creation of Intarya’s Life on Board division. While hotel and yacht design are a natural progression from interiors, Green’s HG Living furniture packages came about after she spotted an opportunity. ‘The packages are a direct response to changes in the economic environment,’ she says. Not only are they competitively priced, they can be installed
Below: the hotel interior at Andaz Liverpool Street, designed by Wilsdon Design Associates. www.andaz.com
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rapidly in sales and rental investment properties. Zoe Egerton of EL Interiors has also spotted an opportunity to provide services to the property market. ‘I think the recession has encouraged most of us to think about diversifying,’ she says. EL Interiors offers home staging to developers keen to sell or let their properties to maximize income. ‘It might be as simple as moving furniture around and decluttering or it could involve designing an entirely new interior scheme,’ she says. While this line of work has provided a useful source of income, fitting around longer-term and larger projects, Egerton offers a warning. ‘Be aware that it takes time to get a “dress to sell” service going: you have to be persistent, especially in the current market,’ she says. Another example of successful business expansion is Living in Space’s environmentally friendly design service, which is offered to eco-conscious clients. ‘It came about because it’s something I feel passionate about and is also a way of driving the business forward,’ explains Ryan Kohn, director of the company. ‘It opens up another avenue and allows us to grow.’ Kohn says the venture has been successful, judging by the number of clients who seek out the company specifically for its expertise in this area. Kohn is now considering developing Living in Space’s own eco houses and is looking for opportunities to purchase land around London. And what do clients, such as hoteliers and property developers, look for when commissioning an interior designer? Arnaud de Saint Exupéry of Andaz Liverpool Street, one of Hyatt’s boutique hotels, says: ‘We focus on delivering a personal and uncomplicated service but in a sophisticated way, which is crucial for the designers we work with to understand. A
Above: Intarya’s interior for yacht Celestial Hope. www.intarya.com Right: home staging by EL Interiors. www.elinteriors.co.uk Below: the interior of Bar Boulud in New York, designed by Adam D Tihany. www.barboulud.com
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Left: the interior of a flat in the Parkwest development in Hillingdon, designed for St George by Roomservice Designs. www.park-west.co.uk Below left: an interior by eco-conscious Living in Space. www.living-inspace.co.uk Bottom: the show apartment at Forum House, the first residential phase at Quintain’s Wembley City scheme. The interior is designed by Claude Hooper. www.wembleycity.co.uk
hotel is a very complex structure so it is important to understand the service industry and how a hotel functions.’ Pierre-Yves Rochon, who has designed some of the world’s most luxurious hotels, including the newly refurbished Savoy, says: ‘I approach each project with a fresh perspective, taking into consideration the location, the exterior architecture, the owner and, of course, the hotel brand and what guests would expect from it.’ Paul Hogarth, head of residential at Quintain Estates and Development, looks to interior designers to create memorable show homes. ‘People will go home after seeing our property and perhaps one or two others. It’s important that they remember ours,’ he says. ‘A show home is an aspirational marketing tool: it must be representative of the lifestyle and appropriate to the market we’re trying to attract so it needs to be exciting and cutting edge.’ For a new scheme, Hogarth will give his interior designers a brief, look for a storyboard presentation, take up references and ask detailed questions about how they work with subcontractors to a timetabled programme. ‘Strong creative ideas are essential,’ he says. Martin Hodgson of Tusk Developments agrees. ‘If you want a premium price for your property, you’ve got to make people fall in love with it. That’s about interior design with individuality, created with your buyer in mind,’ he says. So how do interior designers adapt their businesses to ensure their expansion into new market sectors is viable? To gear up her business to deal with its expanding markets, Green created a department of architectural designers to compliment her interior design services. ‘We found we were becoming increasingly involved in the design and specification of hard interior finishes,
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SIX TIPS FROM MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT RACHEL SMART 1 Design is not just about style, it is about understanding the brief and presenting solid solutions. Every sector will have a different brief so a hotel will be about brand and capacity while an office developer will be interested in maximizing the floor area. Understand the requirements of your potential new sector. 2 Do your research. Make visits to completed projects in that market and understand how and why they are successful. Review case studies, read books and visit websites. 3 Research industry standards, building regulations and specification guidelines or team up with a specialist consultant. You need to be aware of best practice, whether it relates to weight restrictions on a yacht or
private jet or fire regulations in a hotel or restaurant. 4 How can you show your credentials to a new client if you haven’t done that type of work before? Use your experience and research to tune your portfolio to demonstrate how a domestic bedroom design might be adapted for a hotel or to show how you have reconfigured a house to enhance its space. 5 Build up contacts relevant to the new sector — including specialist suppliers — by studying magazines, journals and websites and by talking to your existing network of specialists. 6 Be patient and listen — there’s a lot to learn. Smart runs professional practice courses at the British Institute of Interior Design. www.rachelsmart.com www.biid.org.uk
Top left: a bedroom at the Savoy, designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon for Fairmont Hotels. The refurbished hotel reopens this month. www.the-savoy.com Top right: a bedroom at the new Hotel Verta in London’s Battersea. The interiors were overseen by the creative director of von Essen hotels. www.hotel-verta.co.uk Above: the Petrus restaurant interior, designed by Russell Sage Studio. www.gordonramsay.com/ petrus
bathrooms and kitchens for many of our projects,’ she explains, ‘so we needed a team with experience of working alongside architects, mechanical and electrical consultants, lighting designers, AV suppliers and contractors throughout. Their input is particularly valuable at an early stage, working up to and commenting on concept designs for tender.’ Ezralow admits that being asked to tackle the entire redesign of a yacht — from its panelling, marble surfaces and ironmongery to tackling weight restrictions and learning how to carve out as much space as possible from the heavy amounts of piping and ducting — involved a steep learning curve. But the project also had elements that were similar to her residential work. ‘Ultimately, it’s all about space transformation. Whether this is in the air, on the water or in a hotel, our skills are relevant,’ she says. Now Intarya has two strands to its business and there may soon be a third. ‘We’ve now been approached to do a hotel,’ she says. Kohn believes extensive and effective research is the key to the success of any new venture. ‘You must be confident that you can deliver,’ he says. ‘You have to know what you’re talking about or you’ll get found out.’ Get it right and there are more yet opportunities, advises Green. ‘We’ve also launched a fabric collection, which naturally complements our interior design service. A move into the consumer market with a sumptuous collection of soft furnishings could be next,’ she says. ‘The sky’s the limit!’
Contacts »Andaz www.andaz.com »EL Interiors www.elinteriors.co.uk »Helen Green www.helengreendesign.com »Intarya www.intarya.com »Quintain Estates and Development www.quintain-estates.com »Living in Space www.living-inspace.co.uk »Pierre-Yves Rochon www.pyr-design.com »Tusk Developments www.tuskdevelopments.com
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01 Scandinavian brand Muuto launched its Unfold pendant lamp, designed by From Us With Love, at this year’s event. A new interpretation of an industrial design classic, the piece is made in soft but strong silicone rubber, allowing it to be folded flat. www.muuto.com 02 The Big Bang chair has been designed by Studio Sandonà for Italian company Gaber and is available in a range of bold contrasting colours. Using a graphical image of pixel layers, the chair references the digital technology used to produce it. www.gaber.it 03 SCP and designer Donna Wilson have developed the Sundara rug collection. All the pieces, including Fair Isle (pictured), are hand loomed, tufted and woven in India. www.scp.co.uk 04 Siirtolapuutaraha, meaning ‘allotment’ in Finnish, is a fabric print by Maija Louekari from Marimekko’s spring 2011 interior decoration collection. www.marimekko.fi 05 Turned M is a pine coffee table by Portuguese Miguel Vieira, showing traditional methods combined with a contemporary high gloss finish. The drawer has a blumotion system www.miguelvieira.pt 06 Jean Boggio created this hand-made and hand-painted Three Door Buffet cabinet for Franz. It features a peony and bamboo motif and stands 173cm long, 61cm deep and 87cm high. www.jeanboggioforfranz.com
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13 Harbour Outdoor, a young Australian company based in Sydney, staged its European launch at this year’s Maison et Objet. The Balmoral customizable sofa system has 12 possible configurations, such as the L-Chaise, shown here. www.harbouroutdoor.com 14 The Paddo parasol, designed by Lieven Musschoot and Mathias Hennebel for Sywawa, features an unusual underbelly of fabric layers designed to move in the breeze. Sywawa is the outdoor furniture accessories and parasol brand from Belgian company Symo. www.sywawa.be 15 Designed by Patricia Urquiola, the Maia collection from Kettal uses an intricate braided aesthetic in Porotex and chenille. Standout pieces include the table and this dining chair in a monochrome palette. www.kettal.com 16 Ramón Esteve collaborated with DeCastelli to create the Código collection, a range of striking outdoor pieces that use strong linear frameworks to create seemingly lightweight structures from corten steel. www.decastelli.com 17 Vondom’s latest collection boasts an impressive list of collaborators, including Karim Rashid, who has designed the Vertex table and chairs. www.vondom.com 18 B&B Italia has extended its successful Charles collection to outdoor furniture, applying its minimalist forms to a slim aluminium frame and a weatherproof woven surface. www.bebitalia.com
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66 And so to bed... Four leading designers reveal their different approaches to tackling three bedroom types small, large and basement
76 Sleeping rough A bedroom in the hip Hoxton Hotel is a study in dishevelled chic that pays homage to the urban grit of Shoreditch
81 Polished performer The clever use of polished concrete gives six ensuite bedrooms in an Ibizan villa a streamlined holistic look
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AND SO TO BED... We asked four leading interior designers how they would go about designing three types of bedroom — small, large and basement — and their varied approaches reveal very different bedside manners
Greg Kinsella ‘Large bedrooms give you a free rein with design ideas but it’s surprising how often large expanses of space in the centre of a room can look terrible. The bed should always be the focal point of the room so a dramatic headboard is one way of making it a feature. Combined bedrooms and bathrooms are a big trend at the moment so it is important to balance the design of the room, including both the bed and a luxurious freestanding bath.’ www.gregkinsella.com
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Charlotte Crosland ‘It’s important to divide a very large bedroom into areas for different functions, including the bed area, perhaps two sofas for reading or watching TV, and a desk or dressing table area. This is much cosier and stops the room from seeming cold and empty. I work with colour and pattern a lot but this is one room where I might use neutrals if I were asked. If you
start putting lots of pattern in a very large space, it can look messy. A bedroom needs to be calming — too much going on isn’t relaxing. A large bed, possibly a modern four poster if the ceiling is high, creates a focal point. A lot of people are scared of using over-sized pieces but often they create grandeur and fill the room, giving it a glamorous feel.’ www.charlottecrosland.com
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Justin Van Breda ‘Exercise restraint. Don’t be tempted to fill the space — the last thing you put in, you take away. The thing about large spaces is that you have a distance from which to view things so save your best pieces for the biggest rooms. And, while there is practicality to be had from built-in storage, you need to be clever with it so the room doesn’t look like a joinery workshop. I like to create ‘pods’ for sleeping, sitting and writing to create intimacy in a large room. And each area is lit separately. The sitting area might have a pair of sofas and a coffee table with reading lights while the writing area will have a desk.’ www.j-v-b.com
Sandra Drechsler ‘There tends to be a big expanse of wall behind the bed. Everyone does tall headboards so, instead, we often upholster the wall as a way of adding extra luxury. Don’t forget that, if the wall is upholstered up to the ceiling, the bedside lamps need to be tall to suit the scale and small bedside tables look absurd beside a 6ft or 7ft bed. Instead, I might go for one chest of drawers at 1m wide on one side of the bed and another at 60cm wide on the other side. Too balanced a set of bedside tables can look boring. His-and-hers dressing rooms would be my choice for storage but, if that’s not possible, the answer might be a pair of tall armoires. Extra large rooms need large-scale pieces so that means we often have to go bespoke. For dressing tables I prefer quite a simple design, perhaps with a slim drawer in the middle for cosmetics and jewellery and a fold-up mirror, which looks modern and uncluttered.’ www.taylorhowes.co.uk
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Greg Kinsella ‘Dark feature walls and bulky furniture are complete no-nos for petite rooms. I prefer to keep the walls and floors light, with neutral hues to enhance the feeling of space, and to use well-placed mirrors opposite the window to give the sense of more space. I like multi-functional furniture to provide storage and sometimes I might inject some colour with bright bedspreads and curtains or with a bold bedside table to give the room a lift. But so much depends on the individual space in the individual property and how the client will be using it. As a designer, I don’t really believe there are too many hard and fast rules.’
Sandra Drechsler ‘Scale is very important: you don’t want anything too big to overpower the scheme. But I often like to be bold with colour in small rooms, which are often the last priority and can be rather disappointing. To detract from the size of the room, I try to create a surprise, which might involve a feature wall, a photographic wall, some funky, colourful bed linen or an amazing piece of art. For storage, I might include a boldly lacquered chest of drawers in a strong colour but I wouldn’t be tempted to squash in too much furniture or the room will appear even smaller.’
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Justin Van Breda ‘I like to use intense colour, mixed materials and beautifully soft ambient lighting to create an inner shell so that you focus on the objects, curtains, fabrics and finishes before you realise it’s a tiny space. I also think that using overscale, organic-shaped objects adds fun and draws the eye away from the square, straight lines of a small bedroom. Concealed lighting does not take up space but throws light around the room as well as creating all-essential depth. So does careful window dressing, such as using a Roman blind, a linen sheer curtain and then heavier drapes.’
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‘Of course, it all completely depends on who the room is for but one thing I have noticed is that people do tend to treat a small bedroom with small things, which just makes the room seem even smaller. I wouldn’t be scared about using big pieces in a small bedroom — I would just use fewer of them. I would then use colour and pattern to create an interesting and cosy room rather than use neutrals, which can seem gloomy or dull. It’s much better to create a room full of atmosphere so you forget about the fact it is rather small.’
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Greg Kinsella ‘The key is to project enough light around the room so that the space feels neither dark nor dingy. Cream walls and varnished wooden flooring are a good combination in spaces that lack natural light because they open up the room and I like to use light and airy fabrics, such as sheers or printed sheers. Mirrors, varnished floors, light-coloured and pearlized wall coverings, glass tiles and polished concrete are all good ways of encouraging reflection and increasing the sense of brightness, which is enhanced by a careful lighting scheme.’
Sandra Drechsler ‘Lighting is key — it needs to be very good in a basement bedroom. The more low-voltage downlighters, the better. And keep the decorating as light as possible. For the walls, I might choose some sand-coloured grass paper with a metallic sheen for its light-reflective qualities. It’s the same thing with curtains and blinds — keep them very light and soft. For the bed, choose sumptuous fabrics such as silk, velvet, mohair and cashmere in soothing colours to enhance the luxurious feel. And I’d definitely consider deep under-bed storage.’
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Justin Van Breda ‘Generally, basements are quite gloomy and cold so you want to warm them up with lighter, warmer colours, not greys and darks. A basement bedroom in England often has a bay window so it’s good to accentuate the architecture with sheer drapes and perhaps a bijou desk and chair to create a striking focal point. Often the ceiling isn’t particularly high in a basement bedroom so you might want to create a sense of height by using a panel above the bed, upholstered in fabric with vertical stripes. And don’t forget high or raised beds, which can be dressed to look like a fabulous cake in the middle of the room.’
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‘Basement bedrooms are so tricky. You can never really make a basement lighter than it is, so painting it all in neutrals is not the answer. I prefer to bring in really soft colours to add warmth and cosiness, so I might use pinks and faded floral linens, for example, and contrast them with a dark carpet for a sharp finish. I like to use lots of lamps in all bedrooms, including basement ones, to create a warm glow and I like wall-mounted bedside lights on arms, which can be moved keep the bedside table clear for books.’
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This Ibizan villa boasts six ensuite bedrooms, which owe their streamlined good looks to an ingenious use of polished concrete WORDS CAROLINE EDNIE PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES SILVERMAN
cast in-situ, appearing as if they have been carved out of the hillside. Set against this smooth, reflective cement backdrop and providing an anchor to the light, transparent and floating style of the house is a series of robust furniture pieces and elemental works of art from Bali — a favourite travel destination of the home’s owner. A bamboo theme features prominently and a collection of lava stone figurative sculptures, chosen for their ‘strength and presence’, add another eastern twist to the modern Ibizan villa, with reclining figures giving the master bedroom an exotic focus.
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BALI HIGH A subtle built-in level change separates the ensuite bathing area from the main bedroom, while a large stone reclining figure from Bali, one of the owner’s favourite holiday destinations, makes for an unusual and exotic headboard
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BOARD ROOM Top: Project Orange worked with Key Joinery on all the cabinetry and the bed casing, which uses reclaimed boards SCREEN SELECT Far left: a bespoke printed plywood screen doubles up as a sliding window shutter SHADY DEAL Left: smoothed, rough-cast concrete shades in the shape of traditional lightbulbs were made by Swedish designer Tove Adman and are available from Caravan
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PATCH-UP JOB Below left: the faux vintage patchwork quilt is from Aubin & Wills, which also supplied the cushion fabrics
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Antron Invista has brought recycled and renewable content together for the first time in a carpet fibre with Invista’s Antron Lumena® carpet fibre with TruBlendTM fibre technology. Recently launched at the NeoCon exhibition in Chicago (June 14-16), the largest office and commercial interiors exhibition in the USA, Invista’s TruBlendTM fibre technology received the “NeoCon carpet fibre Gold Award” for new developments. ENQ 385 Junckers The Aktis Gallery in London’s Mayfair becomes one of the first to install Junckers’ new Single Stave Block parquet floor in solid oak. The elegant and contemporary space created by Waind Gohil Architects is the perfect back drop to the striking works of art on display. Junckers’ new Single Stave Block is an updated version of the parquet floor. Entirely geometrical and angular like a classic parquet floor, Junckers uses slightly larger wooden pieces for an updated style. ENQ 306
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Loomah Loomah specialize in the design and supply of bespoke handmade carpets and rugs. They have an extensive design portfolio of both traditional and contemporary designs - see their new website, a very useful first stage tool for designers and clients alike to be inspired by. Whether for large commercial projects or residential interiors Loomah’s comprehensive service makes it a competitive and reliable company to work with. ENQ 314
Vorwerk Carpets With an astounding 55 strong colour palette, Vorwerk Carpets’ Forma broadloom carpet is ideal for designers and specifiers looking to give interiors a twist. Available in shades ranging from shocking pink and vibrant red through to oceanic blues and delicate off-whites, Forma encompasses an entire spectrum, offering more conventional shades of anthracite and charcoal too. Available in a four-metre width, the carpet achieves TÜV and GUT standards and is part of Vorwerk Carpets’ Projection collection. ENQ 437
Artwood Artwood’s Design Oil collection features the stunning Greystoke finish. Hand-applied, Greystoke captures wood’s natural beauty, adding a beautiful grey blue tone to the grain that delicately plays with light to bring a striking look to wood flooring. The Artwood concept uses only the very best finishing products to create a spectrum of possibilities with enduring beauty. Made in the UK, Artwood floors are available in Classic, Design Oil, Design Lacquer and Design Paint collections. ENQ 435
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Axminster The Ready to Weave concept from Axminster Commercial has led to a significant rise in the popularity of semi-bespoke carpet, fulfilling the needs of contractors, hoteliers, restaurateurs and publicans, and it is now set to offer even more scope with the introduction of another 16 colours. Now with a total of 32 colours, Ready to Weave is one of the most flexible semi-bespoke services on offer today. From the spinning of yarn at Axminster Spinning Division, to the dyeing and final manufacturing, Ready to Weave is produced entirely in the UK. ENQ 436
Forbo Flotex from Forbo Flooring Systems goes from strength to strength with a new sheet collection offering exciting designs and more than 100 new colourways in line with current interior trends. Already in a league of its own as the only flooring that combines the properties of both textile and resilient flooring, the latest enhancements to the sheet collection will see Flotex firmly established as both a practical and design minded choice for many projects. The entire Flotex collection can be viewed at Forbo’s London Showroom in Clerkenwell EC1. ENQ 368 IDS IDS has taken into stock the newly upgraded Krono Original laminate flooring range offering the flexibility of 24-48 hour delivery nationwide on the twenty seven designs in the collection. Retailers have the flexibility of ordering single room sets or full loads to suit their installation schedules. Krono Original is the competitively priced, mid-range laminate flooring brand in IDS’s extensive portfolio and has been re-launched in August with 18 brand new designs. ENQ 447 Forbo Forbo’s newly revamped London EC1 showroom in the heart of Clerkenwell showcases the manufacturer’s full range of design-led products. Designers seeking textile flooring products will find an exceptional range of innovative tufted and fusion bonded carpet tiles in the Tessera and Westbond collections as well as additional flocked solutions in the new Flotex portfolio. ENQ 382
Milliken Contract Milliken Contract’s ability to deliver the ideal blend of sustainability, design, performance and value has resulted in its modular carpet being selected for Manchester City Council’s new headquarters, located within the prestigious First Street development in the city centre. Relocating to the BREEAM Excellent rated office space of Number One First Street; Manchester City Council selected three designs from Milliken Contract’s portfolio to cover 12,500m2 of office space over two floors. ENQ 386
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Flooring & Wallcoverings Blue Butterfly Flooring Blue Butterfly Flooring Ltd specializes in innovative photographic flooring. International artist Emily Campbell creates magical scenes where dragonflies hover, lobsters lurk and small animals hide. Blue Butterfly flooring aim to create beautiful living environments where senses are stimulated and the imagination awakened. Their product range includes industrial grade carpet and rugs, vinyl, tablecloths and welcome mats. ENQ 343 Kährs Kährs has launched its new Avenue Collection - the third collection of wood floors from its exclusive Supreme Range. Crafted from fine walnut and maple, the new collection includes six one-strip wood floors offered with a variety of stunning surface treatments, and with a durable natural oil or UV lacquer prefinish. The introduction follows the earlier launch of Kährs one-strip Supreme Grande Collection and Tapis and Croix patterned Elegance Collection. ENQ 425
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Devon Stone (Decorex: J318) Devon Stone has introduced a new decorative walling solution called Stoneskin. Suitable for applying to indoor or outdoor walls, the effect created is dramatic and durable, adding both colour and texture. Stoneskin is available in a wide range of natural stone finishes including Slate, shown left, Granite, and Limestone. Visit Devon Stone at Decorex to discuss your flooring,walling and exterior landscaping projects. ENQ 361
Tile of Spain As part of its new ‘D-tiles’ concept, Tile of Spain member Unicer has recently launched ‘Eclipse’; a range of 20x20cm ceramic wall tiles that were inspired by the pop art era. Available in a wide range of colours which feature reflective, matte and metallic finishes, these tiles create a striking 3D effect when installed on large surfaces. ENQ 465
Bluebell Eco Paints & Plasters Bluebell Eco Paints & Plasters provides innovative decorative seamless wall finishes with function & durability in mind. The company works closely with architects, specifiers & designers to create bespoke collections, suitable for residential & commercial use, in applications including high traffic corridors, restaurants and swimming pools. All finishes are environmentally friendly, free from toxic solvents, low in VOC, and fully compliant to Breeam Hea 9 with European certification. ENQ 464
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Christopher Hyde Christopher Hyde, the lighting Designer, is a keen advocator of furnishing the period home, as much to suit the homeowner’s taste in décor, as to reflect the era of the building. His new Cheltenham eight-light chandelier is inspired by the styling of the Regency period, and complements most period properties featuring high ceilings and classically elegant decorations. Each light is unique and handmade in Bohemian crystal and cast brass, using the fine skills of Italian artisans, acclaimed for their fabrication of light fittings for decades and skilled in traditional crafts. ENQ 469 John Cullen The Manhattan, our new Part L compliant energy efficient 1w LED angled floor and step light, is ideal to help you achieve lower energy consumption. An architectural slim slot, it is ideal for low glare lighting to corridors or stair treads or can be recessed at high level and used as an uplight. It is dimmable and uses a warm white LED which gives a warm light similar to tungsten sources we are used to. ENQ 338
Andy Thornton Disco Gloss is an exciting new lighting collection from Andy Thornton, which features in the company’s eagerly anticipated Lighting Catalogue, which has just been launched. The collection is perfect for modern hotel interiors and style-conscious bars and indeed would suit most contemporary commercial applications. The Disco Gloss collection also includes a single pendant, semi-flush pendant, wall light and matching table lamp. ENQ 470 Modiss Tower is a new floor lamp by Alfonso Fontal for Spanish manufacturer Modiss. Tower is made of gloss lacquered glass in white or black with a metal base in satin gold or polished chrome. It uses a halogen R7s 118 400W bulb which can be adjusted by a dimmer button. It measures 185h x 45Ø cm. ENQ 471
Hacel The iMod Trim boasts an aesthetically pleasing design, class leading photometric performance and a comprehensive range of high frequency gear types including dimmable, DALI and integral self test emergency. The high quality refractor is subtly ribbed with micro-linear prisms on the outer surface with a smooth inner surface for easy cleaning. The iMod Trim, with its impressive LOR of 0.83 is particularly suited to areas requiring high levels of ambient illuminance and is suitable for use with 15/25mm T-bar grid ceilings. ENQ 323
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Abode The unparalled simplicity of the clean lines and smooth drainer of this stainless steel, Abode Maxim sink, creates a unique contemporary design. When complemented with tempered glass sliding covers, Maxim coordinates perfectly with other appliances within the kitchen and is an unobtrusive, yet stylish addition to the overall kitchen aesthetic. There are a number of unique Abode sink accessories available which make the Maxim into a full work station. ENQ 352 SplinterWorks SplinterWorks have an affinity with developing work that re-thinks how we prepare, cook and experience food. Casting aside preconceptions, they reconsider visual, ergonomic and practical considerations and offer a new resolution. Their work facilitates a new environment for living, a sociable platform which centres around the participation and pleasure of consumption. They bring the activities of the kitchen out into living areas creating works to be enjoyed socially, physically and visually. ENQ 472
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Victoria + Albert Baths Freestanding bath specialists Victoria + Albert have launched a new model called Toulouse. Made from QuarrycastÂŽ, the naturally white material rich in volcanic limestone, it is set to become a modern classic as the bateau bath without the cold surfaces of old fashioned metal. The new 1,815mm long model is now centre stage at the Victoria + Albert Specification Showroom at the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour. ENQ 449
Roca Roca has launched a new furniture collection, Diverta, bringing all-in-one practical and innovative solutions to the modern bathroom. The Diverta furniture line is a new addition to the existing Diverta basin range. It uses sharp, minimal lines, along with simple square shapes to create a stylish, contemporary feel. Accessible and affordable, the furniture line comprises a basin unit and a column unit. The unit includes two drawers that are fitted with inside trays offering different storage compartments. ENQ 304 Smeg The Marc Newson for Smeg range combines Smeg’s philosophy, technology with style, with the extraordinary creativity of the worldfamous Australian designer. The range, including ovens, gas hobs and induction hobs is characterized by a distinctive use of colour and by surfaces in stainless steel or glass. The pyrolitic FP610 ovens are available in a stunning array of colours, from monochromatic stainless steel, black and white finishes to bright shades of blue, yellow and green. ENQ 313
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Shaws of Darwen Egerton is a British made double bowl, ceramic sink from Shaws of Darwen. With a unique patterned front and offset dividing wall the sinks come without overflows but include 3½” waste outlets to accommodate basket strainer or waste disposer. Basket strainer wastes are available in chrome, brushed nickel, gold and antique bronze which co-ordinate with our range of traditional and classically designed taps which are the perfect choice to complement the full collection of ceramic sinks. ENQ 333
Bellissimo At a stroke, concave curves have reached the wider UK market thanks to Bellissimo. UK retailers and fitters are at last offered a genuine choice of concave doors in vinyl, now that Bellissimo has launched a range of concave curved options in 50 colours and woodgrains. These are complemented by a similarly comprehensive series of S-shapes. Up until now, the market has offered only a limited choice in concave doors: typically just a handful of finishes. ENQ 384 Bristan Bristan’s Pick and Mix collection offers plenty of flexibility when it comes to specifying a shower. The collection features a choice of contemporary and traditional valve designs which can be mixed and matched with a kit, pole or fixed head to create a bespoke shower system. Some valves also allow you to divert the water flow to both a fixed shower head and handset, or an alternative outlet such as a bath spout or body jets. ENQ 466 Just Taps Plus In modern day bathrooms, contemporary styles dominate the brassware market. But, as the consumer becomes more sophisticated, the market for traditional brassware remains substantial. Classical brassware is being found to be used as statement pieces, acting as somewhat of an investment to the economy conscious consumer. Just Taps Plus supports this fine craftsmanship with their Victoria collection of traditional brassware. ENQ 467 Air Uno New to the UK is a stylish range of hoods from Air Uno that answers the latest consumer demand for discreet technology. Each F-Light hood, designed by Italian maker Faber to look like a chic pendant light fitting, creates a stunning focal point and is available in 7 models in glass and / or stainless steel. The Nest extractor, for example, features an ovalshaped hood of sparkly luminescent glass that elegantly hides away its stainless steel motor when not in use. ENQ 357
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Tuttobagno Mister is an elegant and well-proportioned freestanding washbasin, where character and elegance are highlighted by elements comprising a dial, flared column and a bowl that delicately tapers into the drain. Mister is a worthy partner of Miss, an architecture washbasin with style. Mister is made of Living Tec and is available in white, white & black gloss, black painted and gold or silver leaf finishes. ENQ 360
Tuttobagno With curves in all the right places, Miss is the attractive washbasin from Hidra. Its ergonomic form is a true pleasure to use. The flowing lines and sleek Icetek fabrication are rendered in clean white for best effect. The sinuous sink speaks for itself, with nothing to detract from its stunning form. Supporting wall or floor mounted flush system, the Miss washbasin from Hidra makes a minimalist statement in the most sensual tone. ENQ 359
Aston Matthews This beautiful freestanding cast iron bath is from Aston Matthews. The Epoca bath has a high quality white enamel interior and hand polished aluminium exterior. Measuring 1700 x 700mm it is big enough for two and the gently curving ends provide excellent back support. Complete the traditional look with an Astonian 272 thermostatic bath/shower mixer featuring generous 10inch shower rose and authentic china handles. A ceiling mounted curtain rail and lined shower curtain can be added. ENQ 468 Tuttobagno As multi-faceted as the human personality, the Sharp washstand from Artceram resembles a precious gem. Imbuing your bathroom edgy personality, Sharp is an attention seeker. Eight triangular surfaces are made from a web of points, formed when the basin is rotated on its base. Artceram is known for engaging top designers to product pieces that refuse to compromise on style. Rendered in crisp white, the glacial elegance of the Sharp washstand is a sight to behold. ENQ 358 Kaldewei On Thursday 8th July, Kaldewei held an Open Day to officially mark the launch of its new UK headquarters in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire. Around 100 guests turned out to meet the team and tour the new purpose-built premises. The stunning new showroom displays 19 models of Kaldewei baths, shower trays and working whirlpool baths and a fullyequipped training facility allows Kaldewei to host a variety of seminars for selected target groups. ENQ 448
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Skopos Joining blue chip organisations such as M&S, Hilton, Dyson and 3M – Skopos Design Limited, manufacturers of contract fabrics, based in Yorkshire, have been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. Skopos are one of few textile manufacturers to achieve this standard – driven by a consistent carbon footprint reduction involving initiatives throughout the business. Skopos is an ISO9001 accredited company and has over 30 year’s specialist experience in the design and manufacture of high performance FR contract fabrics. ENQ 415
Prestigious Textiles Prestigious Textiles continues to develop its portfolio of wallcoverings with the launch of ‘Fusion’, the company’s first collection of vinyls and non-wovens. Fusion is a selection of stylish contract-quality wallcoverings featuring fascinating glitter-spangled corals (Focus), abstract ogees with an architectural elegance (Embrace), pearlised relief motifs (Profile and Matrix) and a tactile spongedeffect plain (Glimmer). The ‘Fusion’ book is completed by two vinyl mini-mosaics – the random all-over Mood and the broadlybanded Review. ENQ 326 JAB International Furnishings Fabric house JAB International Furnishings Ltd is delighted to announce the take-over of the exclusive distribution of Alcantara® branded materials in the UK and Ireland from May 2010. The collaboration between these two renowned brands will see a new and fascinating Alcantara® collection offering 73 modern colours. The new collection book will also include a flame retardant offering and upon request, this is also available in all 73 colours. ENQ 475 Parapan Parapan, the original high gloss acrylic, is proving increasingly popular in the commercial market for many innovative and distinctive design solutions. Broadway Malyan, a leading practice of architects, urbanists and designers have used sleek, white Parapan to create a vastly reflective entrance that will pick up all the design details of the models on display in the area. The bright shiny gloss is truly contemporary and complementary to the studio’s stark white laminated ceiling and pillars. ENQ 355 Veritas Veritas is a highly versatile, decorative resin panel which offers designers and architects total creative freedom. The five key elements which go to make up this material are a textured or plain front panel, a decorative inlay that can be taken from any digital image, a choice of colour and a backing sheet all encapsulated to the thickness required. More durable than acrylic, Veritas can be used successfully for curves, backlit panels and canopies. ENQ 356
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Black & Key The Black & Key collection of furniture and accessories brings together luxurious designs and the finest craftsmanship. Featuring a large choice of elegant designs in three luxurious veneers - noir, sable and macassar ebony - the collection offers pieces for all rooms of the home, executive offices and hotels. ENQ 406 ThinkingWall A frameless modular magnetic whiteboard system, ThinkingWall is proving a solution of choice for discerning design professionals. It delivers the functionality of a traditional whiteboard with a high quality, thoroughly contemporary look and feel. All panels are bespoke with finishing details to match and enhance the environment. Exact sizes are produced, either as single panels or multiples configured to form continuous surfaces with tightly butting, tensioned seams of virtually limitless size. An exclusive innovation from creativity and visual planning specialists, Logovisual, ThinkingWall is backed by a full service from specification to installation, as well as an extensive range of standard and custom accessories. ENQ 476 Bisque Made from wood, Leaf is a major innovation in radiator design from Bisque, the company that pioneered designer radiators. This eye-catching electric radiator is beautifully constructed and engineered, with gently curving horizontal fins that create a sculptural, organic shape, contrasting with the detail of visible wood grain. The fins are heated by an electric circuit embedded in between wooden layers and the smooth surface provides an even, comfortable, heat distribution. ENQ 350 Holloway White Allom Fabulous finishes are part of every well designed home and Mayfair contractor Holloway White Allom recommends the use of only the very best craftsmen. In this townhouse, Holloway White Allom worked with marquetry specialists Weldon who design, manufacture, install and maintain such surfaces, to create highly decorative hardwood floors. Their geometric design of squares, stars and leaves includes hardwoods such as walnut, English sycamore, oak and African wenge. ENQ 477
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INSPIRATION FROM FOUR OF OUR FAVOURITE RECENT INTERIOR PROJECTS To submit your project for consideration in idfx’s Portfolio, please contact Rebecca Hoh (rhoh@idfxmagazine.com)
OVER THE RAINBOW Winner of the idfx Up and Coming Designer award, Interior Desires, go crazy with colour in this London townhouse
NEW HORIZONS Montagna Lugna won the idfx Best Budget Project award for this chic and feminine compact new-build apartment
LOFTY IDEALS Tara Bernerd brings classy urban style to these industrial loft apartments, once home to the London Muppet factory
HERITAGE HAVEN Architect Kathryn Scott restores many historical features in this New York home filled with multicultural influences
OVER THE RAINBOW Words AMELIA THORPE Photography MIKE GUEST and STEVE PERRY
Rebecca James of Interior Desires, winner of the idfx Up and Coming Designer award, has used daring colour combinations and sumptuous finishes to give this London townhouse a crazy elegance reminiscent of fairytales
SITTING PRETTY The bespoke curved sofa and coffee table, upholstered in silks by Lelievre, Designers Guild and JAB Anstoetz, take centre stage in the sitting room. The polished plaster walls with gold leaf motif are by Rima & McRae
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SPLASH OUT Left: James commissioned the 5m high mirrored water wall from Darke Water Sculptures to reflect the limited light on to the terrace at the rear of the property IN THE PINK Right: a bespoke, solid walnut bed, inspired by an Indonesian day bed, has LED lighting in its two-level plinth to create a floating appearance. On either side, mirrored doors are set into a wall panelled in gold leather CURIOUSER AND... Below right: an oversized teacup and saucer add to the Alice in Wonderland effect. Fabrics and wallpaper by Designers Guild and a silk rug from Top Floor Rugs add warmth and colour to the conservatory BEYOND THE PALE Below far right: the kitchen is cool and white, designed as a contrast to the colour of the rest of the house. The Systemat furniture and cabinetry are from Grosvenor Kitchen Design
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e wore a purple cravat, she wore purple and yellow. These details gave Rebecca James of Interior Desires a first indication of her new clients’ flamboyant tastes. ‘They are a very stylish and charismatic couple, with four daughters and a son, who look like they’ve just stepped out of the pages of Vogue so I knew this was going to be an interesting project,’ says James. The prospect of designing the five-storey Georgian townhouse in central London was very tempting to James, despite the restrictions she knew would be placed on any structural alterations to the listed property. ‘I am a very colourful designer,’ she says. ‘I’m quite daring and really like to get people engaged in a room so that they don’t want to leave.’ After inviting James to their homes abroad and then visiting the
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Sanderson Hotel, Sketch and the Ritz together, James’ clients gave her only a few guidelines before heading back overseas. ‘They told me they wanted a very English home with a “tea party vibe” but nothing old and stuffy,’ explains James. ‘And the only stipulation they gave for the whole scheme was that the house had to have a yellow-and-turquoise padded sofa.’ But before James could seriously contemplate the sofa possibilities, she first had to rethink the nine-bedroom house and get rid of its stuffy atmosphere and tired decor. Building restrictions meant she was unable to touch the structure or the rather dated lift, although she was able to add a two-level extension at the rear of the property to increase the size of the kitchen and create a basement entrance
area for staff. Responding to her clients’ tea party suggestion, James then began to develop an imaginative colour scheme for the house. ‘I wanted to create a sort of mad and colourful elegance, a little like Alice in Wonderland,’ she explains. ‘It’s designed to feel joyful as well as luxurious. I’m so bored of bland and, anyway, if I’d given my clients cream, they’d have thought it way too boring.’ So, back to that yellow-and-turquoise sofa, the starting point for the sitting room. ‘I just couldn’t get it quite right,’ says James, frankly. ‘But then I realized what I was doing wrong: I was being too tentative.’ So she added a delicious shade of rose pink to the turquoise and yellow of the dramatically curved sofa, which was so large it had to be built on site. She then commissioned a polished
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plaster wall with a rose-coloured gold-leaf motif of delicate blossom cut into its surface. ‘The blossom added a sense of a Japanese tea room and balanced the crazy colours,’ she says. More bold use of colour continues upstairs, sometimes used contrastingly — as in the eldest daughter’s bedroom with its combination of fuschia pink, emerald green and azure blue — or tone on tone, as in the master bedroom with its shades of purple. ‘I love to do tone on tone because it gives depth and interest and stops a room seeming flat,’ James explains. All the fabrics in the house are silk, with the occasional use of velvet, leather and silk carpet, designed to add subtle sheen as well as imbue the home with a deep sense of luxury. On the top floor, James has created a hotel-like suite. A bespoke raised bed has its own staircase constructed of boxes fronted with panels of pink silk with
lights hidden behind, designed to create a fun space for the 11-year-old youngest daughter. Opposite is a Japaneseinspired suite of rooms for another daughter. Details include sliding glazed doors and a polished chrome and black glass bath and vanity unit, which had to be lifted through the house on a pulley. ‘I remember standing at the bottom of the house, watching the bath suspended in mid-air and wondering how I would get a £20,000 replacement if they dropped it,’ she laughs. James, a former model, says her fashion background informs her designs. ‘I think it taught me that when you’re doing something slightly out of the ordinary, it is essential that you do not panic for fear that it’s too bold. You mustn’t try to tame it, otherwise it can end up being cheap and nasty,’ she says. ‘Dare to be unique and different — that’s what will make it classy.’
LILAC TIME Above: the master bedroom is a vision of sumptuous purple and lilac. The eye-catching padded headboard is upholstered in silk from Jason D’Souza BATHING BEAUTY Left: Sicis Glimmer mosaics from Via Arkadia add sparkle to the master ensuite, which has contemporary shower fittings from Dornbracht and a contrasting period-style roll-top bath from Lefroy Brooks
Contacts »Darke Water Sculptures www.darkewatersculptures.com »Designers Guild www.designersguild.com »Dornbracht www.dornbracht.com »Grosvenor Kitchen Design www.grosvenorkitchendesign.co.uk »Interior Desires www.interiordesiresuk.com »JAB Anstoetz www.jab-uk.co.uk »Jason D’Souza www.jasondsouza.co.uk »Lefroy Brooks www.lefroybrooks.co.uk »Lelievre www.lelievre.co.uk »Rima & McRae www.rimamcrae.co.uk »Top Floor Rugs www.topfloorrugs.com »Via Arkadia www.via-arkadia.co.uk www.idfxmagazine.com | October 2010
OFF THE WALL A bold horizontal stripe forms a dramatic backdrop to this contemporary living space
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NEW HORIZONS Designed on a budget by Belgian practice Montagna Lunga this home is the winner of our Best Budget Project award. Words REBECCA HOH Photography MARC SOURBRON
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elgium design company Montagna Lunga have created a grown up version of the girly apartment in this one floor, one bedroom flat in the Limburg Province. There may not be pink suede or fluffy cushions but allowances have been made for shoe space and the use of subtle sparkles and diamond motifs. As designer Brigitte Vanzonhoven says: ‘Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, no?’ talking about the scheme she has created for the Italian client. ‘Her brief was to create a bright modern apartment, full of colour but with a modest budget,’ Vanzonhoven explains. With the empty new build presented to the team without furniture, finishes or even kitchen or bathroom Montagna Lunga looked to the client’s personality for inspiration. ‘ She is fresh and full of life and is also travels a lot for both work and pleasure so we reflected that in the apartment , we wanted that feeling of stepping into a hotel suite in a design
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Contacts »Axo www.axolight.it Grohe www.axolight.it Hooked on Walls www.hookedonwalls.com Matakie www.matakie.be Montagna Lunga www.montagnalunga.be Porcelanosa www.porcelanosa.com Sanderson www.sanderson-uk.com Verner Panton www.vernerpanton.com
conscious hotel, twinned with the feeling of coming home. Also, we unfortunately live in a country that does not have a lot of sun so we want to create a “sunny” apartment.’ So the team kept the basic floor plan of the 77 m 2 apartment the same but added in the kitchen and bathroom element and the all important special area for shoes within the dressing room, which is almost the same size as the bedroom itself and bigger than the bathroom. The kitchen is open plan out onto the living space; both have stained oak floors created with thin strips of wood to give that graphic feel. It is in the kitchen where the diamond shaped wall textures come in to play, where the splash back is clad with Porcelonasa’s Mosaico Acero pyramid shaped metallic tiles. This reflective surface is repeated with the Verner Panton Pantop pendants with brushed aluminium shades. The graphic element comes back in the eye-catching, striped wallpaper at
one end of the living room. The paper, from Hooked on Walls, has been applied horizontally to create an illusion of a longer more spacious room. ‘We wanted to evoke a slightly retro look,’ says Vanzonhoven, of the brown and turquoise tones used in this areas colour scheme. This can also be seen in the locally sources high gloss cabinet and rug from Matakie. ‘We brought in art from several time periods too, some old Masters from Chagall and Modigliani bought at auction with the client and then more modern sculptural pieces from Stan Henson.’ Vintage style wallpaper designs get a second appearance in the bathroom which has a line drawn floral motif, from Sanderson, which continues up onto the ceiling and is again reflected in the mirror for a the effect of full coverage. All sanitary ware is by Grohe and the crystal spotlight is from Axo. Much of the bedroom is neutral, with the headboard an extension of the oak
panelled flooring and the custom made storage in white melamine. However Montagna Lunga wanted to pack a punch with the bespoke, Loveemblazoned, canvas behind the bed which they created themselves. ‘The vintage tones were used again, but we just had to have the message there for our client,’ describes Vanzonhoven on the typography, ‘because we want a whole lot of love going on there if you know what I mean,’ she laughs! So a definite grown up girlie finish to this retro but contemporary, warm but fresh apartment in Limburg. And Montagna Lunga is extremely pleased with the result, as is the client, ‘We always, always try to create an environment the client feels both great and comfortable in and she has told us we have succeeded. This project exceeded our expectations, it is fresher and more exciting than the original plans – but now we are bragging, but we can’t help it!’
OFF THE WALL (Opposite, far left) An unusual application of print brings this white bathroom to life BLANC DE BLANCS (Opposite, top left) Clever design, and lots of white surfaces, make the most of this kitchen in a small space DREAM SPACE (Opposite, bottom left) a bold mural is the central focus of the bedroom IT’S A LONG STORY (Above, right) Thin long stripes provided by the oak floor boards lengthen the living area LINE OF SIGHT (Above, left) The use of wallpaper in the living room creates a clear delineation between the different areas
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ind me a person that doesn’t love the idea of a loft,’ asks Tara Bernerd, speaking on Target Living’s latest project for Londonewcastle residential developers, The Henson – so called because of its previous incarnation as the London Muppet Factory for The Jim Henson Company. ‘The whole association to loft living conjures up Tribeca, New York, Robert de Niro, brick walls, sexy open plan space – yet there are very few original loft spaces left. For me they are the ultimate in open plan living,’ says Bernerd, ‘ Yet despite such personality, many are intimidated by filling these dramatic spaces and ensuring an interesting, liveable home is created is entirely about space planning within, creating zones and ensuring furniture reflects this language.’ And of course Target Living was eager to take up the challenge. As well as creating all the design for whole six story canal-side building, which houses 46 private apartments, and the interior architecture (the places was completed gutted and internal floors restructured), they have created the ‘icing on the cake’ - the one bedroom show flat. The team, understandably wanted to maintain the warehouse feel of both the building and this apartment, given the novel history
of the place, so have exposed the original brick walls and left many materials such as the concrete slab visible at certain points on the ceiling. The open plan living and kitchen dining area the walls which have been skimmed and finished in a white crisp paint and flooring throughout is natural wide oiled oak floor, to give a light, airy feel. This is impacted by the full height sliding glass doors to the terrace and recessed low-energy spots, part of the Lutron lighting system. But for cosiness there are traditional, industrial-style cast iron radiators in gunmetal grey in each room. The kitchen carries on the industrial feel with an island unit finished in raw concrete. Moving on to the bedroom, these have a plusher feel with dark navy upholstered headboards and a leather clad built-in wardrobe. The show flat’s bathroom has large grey porcelain tiles covering the floor and walls, with a smoked glass shower-screen. The oak veneer cabinetry with inlaid mirror provides honey coloured storage. The showflat’s style has definitely succeeded in achieving something very sought after and very difficult to achieve - a mixture of warehouse chic with an overall feel that is warm and welcoming.
MOODY MANILA A dusky finish is given to the bedroom wall with Philip Jeffries Manila Hemp 3440 sold by Architectural Textiles and the mirrored side table, Theo, is supplied by Italian Solutions
MARKET VALUES Art work in the main living space is a mix of pieces bought in French markets and images of Camden shot especially for the project by Luke Agabaimoni
CLEAN LINES All bathrooms in the building are fitted with white Villeroy & Boch suites and Hansgrohe brassware, including mixer taps and a generous showerhead
THEATRICAL SPACE The kitchen features stainless steel units, an oak veneer splash back and appliances such as Kuppersbusch ovens. The cushions spell out the name of a famous muppet
Contacts »Architectural Textiles www.architecturaltextiles.co.uk »Hansgrohe www.hansgrohe.co.uk »Italian Solutions www.italiansolutions.com »Kuppersbusch www.kueppersbusch.de »Luke Agbaimoni www.lukeagbaimoni.com »Londonewcastle www.hansgrohe.co.uk »Lutron www.lutron.com »Phillip Jeffries www.phillipjeffries.com »Target Living www.targetliving.com »Villeroy & Boch www.villeroy-boch.com
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Words REBECCA HOH Photography NICK GUTTRIDGE
LOFTY IDEALS Jim Henson once made his classic series The Muppets in this London factory. Now converted into loft apartments,Tara Bernerd’s sophisticated urban style brings a classy edge to these industrial spaces
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HERITAGE HAVEN US architect Kathryn Scott has created a harmonious whole from a wide range of historical design references Words REBECCA HOH Photography EMMA MCDERMOTT
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ew York Architect Kathryn Scott has carved out a beautiful family home in the lower and middle duplex of this Brownstone in Brooklyn Heights. The influence of heritage is strong, Asian artwork abounds referencing her husband’s Chinese childhood and classical Gustavian clean, lines are also a feature, channelled from her own Swedish ancestry. Scott also wanted to restore many historical features that had been lost in previous ownership and began by researching museum homes in Rhode Island, and has replicated many features she found there such as skirtings and plaster ceiling mouldings. Smaller details from these houses also fixated Scott, ‘I noticed the toggle light switches at the Breakers all had brass plate hand engravings with the description of their purpose. I could not get that detail out of my mind and went on a search for original switches,’ she describes. She later found what she was looking for at Mohawk Electric, in New York City, and bought out the entire stock! Scott then brought in a sign fabricator to engrave custom switch plates to complete the look. ‘I also made custom dimming knobs out of antique ceramic nurse’s call knobs’, continues Scott, ‘and sourced antique hardware and sanitary fittings that could convincingly pose as original.’ This fastidious restoration job, combined with bespoke pieces made by Scott and her team as well as sentimental pieces certainly make this house a home.
TAKE A NOTE The kitchen island is clad is cleft black slate and acts as the family blackboard for Christmas messages or menus for guest. The hood is covered in Italian Fresco stucco, from Mimosa International and lined with blackened steel
GUSHING GARGOYLE Sanded greenstone (complete with fossils) features in the bathroom. The gargoyle was a fluke find in a vintage dinnerware shop, which has had a ‘mouth’ inserted by Urban Architecture so it can function as a tub filler
NAILING THD DETAILS Architect Scott hammered in the pegs covering the face nails in the wide plank sawn white oak floorboards in the master bedroom herself. The antique Sheridan canopy field bed belonged to her grandmother
ANCIENT AND MODERN The main living space combines antique pieces such as sconces and library lamps as well as bespoke creations from the Kathryn Scott Design Studio, including the cabinet and pair of chairs
Contacts »Kathryn Scott Design Studio www.kathrynsco.com »Mimosa International www.mimosainternational.com »Urban Archeology www.urbanarchaeology.com
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SUSTAINED EFFORT Grieg (below left) and her inspirational modular housing, Cub Homes, in their one and two storey versions and an example of the turn key interior. Bottom left, Grieg’s contemporary style transforms a period home, Haydon House
CHARLIE GREIG Charlie Greig left fashion behind to make a successful career in interior design and is now setting new standards in sustainable housing Words REBECCA HOH
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nterior designer Charlie Grieg is one of the names to watch in the world of sustainable housing. After a successful career in fashion retail, she moved into property 15 years ago and has built up an impressive portfolio of residential projects for clients such as former Spice Girl Emma Bunton. Greig and her team of three designers, based in her studio in northwest London, began to focus on eco homes just over a year ago and have created an off-theshelf, modular housing solution called Cub Homes. It has already been certified to Sustainability Code Level 5 and is covered by the National House-Building Council’s Building Control Type Approval, something that will be on developers’ minds next October when every new building will have to comply to Code Level 4. ‘When I began work on creating my own home, I struggled so hard to add in all the sustainable factors I wanted and needed,’ says Greig. ‘I began to see that creating your own bespoke environment from scratch would be the answer, which led me to the conclusion that modular is the building method of the future. This is what I have applied to Cub Homes.’ This capsule-type approach means the building process takes 12 to 16 weeks and has a fixed price — ‘a huge plus in an economically
unstable world and one where builders whack on an extra 20 per cent when you have no roof on your house,’ says Grieg. Cub Homes, manufactured exclusively by FutureForm, achieve that hard-to-reach Code Level 5 by being built modularly off site, which reduced construction waste by 90 per cent, before being craned in. This keeps its carbon footprint to a minimum. Only Forest Stewardship Council-approved timber is used and the frame itself is 65 per cent recycled steel. High acoustic and thermal installation systems prevent heat loss and noise pollution, while argon gas-sealed windows are used, eliminating virtually all drafts. Interior fittings, with various packages ranging from Ikea to BoConcept, are also totally eco conscious with surfaces and worktops made of 100 per cent recycled and recyclable glass, ceramics and mirrors. All appliances are A/A+ rated and all homes comply with a daily water use of 80l per person per day — achieved through the installation of flow restrictors in all taps and showers — while rain water is harvested. Grieg has 70 meetings set out for the next six months with housing associations, private clients and property developers to roll out 100 homes over the next year, one of which is on display in the BRE’s (Environmental
Assessment Method) Innovation Park. Not only is she shaking things up ethically in the UK, Grieg has developed a modular housing solution for disaster zones, called PodPassiv, which is has just received its patent and is being geared up to be sent out as part of relief efforts worldwide. Each one is $3000 and is a plastic shell, compact and light for quick and easy shipping, which can be constructed by two people in less than three hours and collects rain water through the roof and walls and is illuminated by solar energy. ‘I just thought how can I apply my experience and knowledge to provide an easy effective shelter in these life threatening situations, and created a solution,’ describes Grieg, ‘It’s a simple design but we are going down all the right channels to have all the right talks with all the right people so what we are doing is going to make a difference.’ The massively important and massively hectic schedule sounds like a lot to handle, ‘ oh everyday is a 12 hour day,’ says Grieg, ‘ Setting up meetings, going to them, creating presentations and working on seminars, selling my own property portfolio to fund my work -It’s all go.’ And this afternoon she is planning to visit the current exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, ‘just because it’s a sunny day.’ I think we can allow her that.
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BC Sanitan opens doors in Newcastle under Lyme, florist McQueens moves into interiors, Kohler and West One Bathrooms collaborate in Clerkenwell, Wovenground sets up on King’s Road 01 Wovenground 570 King’s Road, London SW6 020 7033 3731 www.wovenground.com The
02 Robert Langford 533 King’s Road, London SW10 020 7352 1876 www.robertlangford.co.uk This
04 Talisman 190-192 Ebury Street, London SW1 020 7730 7800 www.talismanlondon.com The
successful rug retailer continues to grow with the opening of this flagship store. It offers more than 800 rug designs from names such as Nani Marquina, Calvin Klein, Brink & Campman, Ligne Pure and Patricia Urquiola.
279m2 flagship store showcases a new range of sofas and has a ground-floor atelier devoted to dining, slipper and occasional chairs. The Sleep Studio displays eight mattresses and bases plus headboards and end pieces.
company’s second showroom houses a colourful collection of antiques, European statuary and mid-20th century furniture, accessories and sculpture along with new interpretations of vintage pieces.
EDC London 20 Margaret Street, London W1 020 7323 3233 www.edclondon.com This multibrand
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the revamped McQueens flower store in Clerkenwell, this new home furnishing venture aims to provide a showcase for the new wave of British design talent, offering a carefully chosen collection of furniture, lighting, home accessories, stationery and gifts.
BC Sanitan Silverdale Road, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire ST5 6EL 01274 654724 www.bcsanitan.co.uk This showroom displays
a collection of china-clay basins, all hand made in the UK, plus a range of acrylic and cast-iron baths, brassware and suites. A bespoke service fires customers’ initials or crests on to their chosen BC Sanitan products.
BOLD MOVE Kohler and West One Bathrooms join forces to create an unmissable design destination in London’s creative hub Kohler and West One Bathrooms 44-48 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1 020 7324 0780 www.kohler.co.uk, www.westonebathrooms.com
Leading bathroom and kitchen manufacturer Kohler was selected as the exclusive partner of West One Bathrooms for its new space in Clerkenwell, London. Showcasing Kohler’s ranges, featuring pieces by Barbara Barry and Bill Sofield, as well as the company’s other brands, such as Daryl and Kallista, the highprofile space combines West One Bathrooms’ reputation and expertise with Kohler’s bold artisan aesthetics. Kohler’s creative director Tristan Butterfield commissioned Harvey Langston-Jones to collaborate on the space, for, ‘an exceptionally tailored and dialled-in architectural space’, Butterfield commented.
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Sustainability is becoming part of the mainstream business agenda
A two-week course promises to give designers the perfect introduction to sustainability in the built environment Words LOUISE BATEMAN
BUILDING SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE The UK Green Building Council’s foundation course,which covers topics such as climate change,water use and the impact on biodiversity, is aimed at anyone working in the property and construction sector
so whether they are designing homes, getting to grips with new legislation and regulation, sourcing products and materials or talking to clients and stakeholders, design professionals need to get to grips with this new business model. With this in mind, the UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has launched An Introduction to Sustainability in the Built Environment, a foundation course aimed at anyone working in the property and construction sector. ‘This is sheep-dipping in sustainability,’ says Paul King, chief executive of UK-GBC. ‘Anybody can get a quick intro to sustainability in eight hours.’ Designed in partnership with the College of Estate Management, the two-week course includes a web forum and online interaction with tutors. Subjects covered include regulation and legislation, climate change, water use, responsible sourcing of materials and the impact on biodiversity. It
also provides guidance on technical solutions and stakeholder management. Although not a formal qualification, it is in the process of becoming certified material for continuing professional development. The course is part of Step (Sustainability Training and Education Programme), a new initiative from UK-GBC that aims to ‘bridge the gaps’ in sustainability training. So why is it relevant to design professionals? ‘The whole industry is moving to full transparency,’ says Chad Harrell, director of operations and business development at UK-GBC. ‘This course helps define a common language and helps stakeholders navigate through the noise to understand the importance of a joined-up approach.’ An Introduction to Sustainability in the Built Environment is booking now and costs £199 for UK-GBC members and £249 for non-members. www.step.ukgbc.org
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We treat ourselves to a spa break at the Four Seasons in Hampshire on the pretext of research for the London spa project on which I am consulting. Although not cheap, the hotel set in and around a Georgian manor house is a haven of serenity and the treatments blissful. Unfortunately there is – quite literally – a sting in the tale. On checking out and seling the four-figure bill I am stung by a wasp. I ask for some ice and aer a long delay a concierge comes with a tiny can of bite spray. She explains that she cannot ‘administer’ it due to health and safety and so I must not only spray myself, but have £3.75 added to my bill for the medication. I am sorely tempted to ‘administer’ something that would definitely breach health and safety regulations, but sele for marching off as brusquely as my throbbing hand allows.
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Tea with an old designer friend in her exquisite Marylebone boutique. She tells me that the latest must-have for any self respecting Russian oligarch is a bar in the media room with built in mini-fridge for Champagne and a mini-freezer for vodka. She explains that the fridge is no problem but is tearing her hair out trying to find a mini-freezer and hopes her solution of a shagreen clad freezer drawer will be acceptable, even though the boles will have to be stored horizontally. Na sdarovie!
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I haul myself out of bed early on Saturday morning to meet a specialist fier who is to put up an elegant, but not easy to fix curtain track at a project in the Barbican. He arrives late as he has been collared by a porter who has spoed his power tools. Drilling is apparently strictly verboten at weekends in the Barbican as the noise travels right up and down the blocks. The fier is an affable chap and, aer long negotiations with the porter, ascertains that the neighbours above and below are away so we can take a chance and proceed. Somehow It doesn’t seem quite as glamorous as the luxury vodka drawers.
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very now and again in the world of product design a new material is developed that challenges designers to rethink convention. For up-and-coming French designer Elise Gabriel this opportunity came in the form of Zelfo®, a 100 percent biodegradable material made from recycled materials with a high cellulose content (such as paper, textiles, hemp and miscanthus) mixed with water. The patented CORE technology transforms the cellulose (plant) fibre solution into a hugely ecological and efficient selfbinding material. Together with TheGreenFactory Gabriel has developed the Zelfo® Embrace collection, an intelligent application of the properties Zelfo® . To create the Liga Chair (shown above) dyed green Zelfo® is painted on to the joining sections of the simple maple frame in the form of a wet cellulose paste, which dries to bind the wood together. Playing to the strengths of the material, Gabriel aimed to design pieces that illustrate its ability to hold complex, lightweight structures, and use the brightly coloured aesthetic to draw attention to that feature. Also part of the collection is the Ossos trestle table comprising three beech wood legs held together using only dyed blue Zelfo®, and the Vélines lampshades made in white sheets of Zelfo®, showing the materials translucency and strength used on its own. This collaboration was brought about by VIA for its Partnership Project 2010, which gives designers the opportunity to exchange skills and develop products with innovative technologies and materials in tandem with a manufacturer. www.via.fr
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of the PremiumLine collection, promises to maintain food’s shape, flavour and vital nutrients, which are oen lost during regular freezing. www.baumatic.co.uk 02 Gaggenau’s combination microwave BM 270 and espresso coffee machine CM 250 (pictured le and centre) feature intuitive controls and fully automatic bean-to-cup programming. www.gaggenau.co.uk
04 Caple’s flush-mounted Sense C1071G recessed gas hob has perfectly sleek lines. It boasts four gas burners, including a flexible triple ring 3.80kW wok burner, plus automatic electronic ignition. www.caple.co.uk
06 Whirlpool’s latest side-by-side fridgefreezers are finished in Luxilen, which mimics glass. Available in white, silver or black, the Nova fridge-freezer boasts A+ energy performance. www.whirlpool.co.uk
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generous space for two to enjoy its double shower heads and revolving body jets. Luxury features include steam plus Kos’s Idrocolore chromotherapy system. www.kositalia.com
03 Boffi has joined forces Fantini to create the Aboutwater range of brassware. Comprising two sets of products, Aboutwater has minimalist purity and quality construction at its heart. www.boffi-chelsea.com 04 Giulio Iacchei has taken the simple pipe as inspiration for his Olivia range for Ceramic Globo. The basins, WC and bidet are cast in a minimal form that hides plumbing and avoids extraneous details. www.ceramicaglobo.com
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surprising surface paern and handy illumination to bathroom mirrors. The eight designs are only revealed when the integral light is switched on. www.stocco.it 06 The side-sweeping Touch basin from Aquaplus Solutions now comes in a palee of
hues, including this red ceramic. The bowl comes without tap holes for use with deck- or wall-mounted taps. www.aquaplussolutions.com
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CHEVRON OAK BENCH By: ASHLEY CARTWRIGHT Fan: KIT KEMP
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love this piece — it looks like dragon’s teeth! When I came across Ashley Cartwright through the Contemporary Applied Arts [CAA] gallery, I found his work to be exceptionally original and beautifully made. Cartwright is such a fabulous carpenter and designer and his work is very simple but effective — you always look twice. ‘Wood is my favourite natural material because it always looks better with age. Throughout its life, wood is always going to look wonderful and keep changing colour while maintaining its solidity and strength. The mark of a good piece is that it fits any setting — be it contemporary or traditional — and
KIT KEMP is the co-owner and design director of Firmdale Hotels, a group of boutique hotels based mainly in London. Kemp designed all their interiors, often transforming unused and dilapidated buildings into five-star locations and, in many cases, having a dramatically positive effect on the surrounding area. Her trademark approach combines bold colours and textures with an intelligent translation of space and a self-proclaimed ‘fresh, contemporary English style’. Kemp was named Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year in 2008 and Firmdale picked up the Crown Estate’s Urban Business Award in 2007 and has won three Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. The group comprises the Covent Garden Hotel, Charlotte Street Hotel, Number Sixteen, Knightsbridge Hotel, Soho Hotel and Haymarket Hotel plus the Crosby Street Hotel in New York. www.firmdale.com
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Inside story After being given some ancient bearing timbers from a church belfry, Ashley Cartwright noticed the marks and indications of previous jointing and sought to emphasize the incredibly deep cross section of the oak. So he cut a series of chevrons into the underside of the bench, using dramatic angles and sharp edges to show off the varied patterns of the natural knots and grain. Though Cartwright found the centuries-old wood tough to work with, its nuances and patina made it worth the challenge. Within his craft, Cartwright’s priorities are highly functional — he focuses on producing work that performs well, is comfortable to use and easy to maintain. He wants his furniture to be ‘visually intriguing’ but always balanced, with each commission reacting specifically to the product’s environment rather than carrying an inherent design style. The Chevron Oak Bench is part of A Living Space, an exhibition curated by Kemp that runs at CAA until 2 October. www.caa.org.uk
holds its own wherever you place it. At CAA there are so many pieces that fit this description; the work really speaks for itself. ‘Although he and I work in very different media, I find Cartwright’s work to be complementary to my own, always adding something special. Interior design is a collaboration and it takes many different elements to make a space come alive. I often have an idea that needs the input of others to make it multidimensional and Cartwright’s work offers the solution. You can always rely on him to do something fantastic.’
ASHLEY CARTWRIGHT
is a designer and craftsman specialising in timber. His extensive portfolio includes public art as well as private commissions. He has collaborated with a number of architects, creating furniture for the National Trust, the British Embassy in Moscow, Oxford University, Kew Gardens and Dorchester Abbey. Born in 1949, Cartwright trained at Kingston University and the Royal College of Art, where he picked up the Observer-Woudhuysen award. His work has been sold at Sotheby’s and Bonhams and exhibited at the Crafts Council, 100% Design, Collect at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Scottish Gallery and Royal Festival Hall. In 1982, he was given a Design Council award for batch production furniture and in 1986 he was became a member of the Crafts Council board. In 1995, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. www.doodlespace.co.uk
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