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3 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud
A blue 'Lancaster' wing chair faces an armchair in 'Lilies and Geraniums' in the sitting room, both by Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. Walls in Little Greene's 'Light Bronze Green' set off silhouettes by Roger Banks-Pye, paintings by William Balthazar Rose, Pat Albeck and Juliet Duckworth, and finds from Joshua's travels. These include an icon from Sifnos and a birdcage from Hong Kong converted into a lamp, with a shade in Fermoie's 'Wicker'. Dean HearneFortune favours the brave.
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3 weeks ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud
Freyja Lee and Rollo Dunford Wood enjoy a picnic with their children (from left) Brody and Sylvester under an old oak tree near their home in SnowdoniaAndrew MontgomeryStarting afresh is not always easy, but often the good things in life are not. And the fresh start that Rollo Dunford Wood and Freyja Lee are carving out for themselves and their family on the rugged easterly contours of Snowdonia has the makings of something very good indeed.
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1 month ago | 
worldofinteriors.com | Grace McCloud |Simon Upton
‘Oh! I think Eddie has been throwing water balloons at my pictures.’ Kitty Galsworthy, inspecting a small sketch hanging above her kitchen sink, laughs. She seems utterly relaxed about the target of her youngest one’s ballistics. Happily, he’s missed the Mary Fedden by the Aga. In fact, Kitty seems relaxed about pretty much everything, a trait that has no doubt stood her in strong stead during the past year.
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1 month ago | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud
Adam (centre) examines custom clay plaster samples made in the studio with Clayworks colleagues Alex Mulligan and Jessica Morris. Dean HearneIf realists build in steel and concrete, clay is the stuff of dreamers - and Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce are two of them. The husband and wife are also the founders of Clayworks, a Cornwall-based outfit creating and supplying extraordinary natural plasters crafted using one of the earth's most abundant resources. Adam could talk for many hours about clay.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Grace McCloud
When it comes to renovation, as all too many know, the relationship between client, architect and interior designer can be a fraught one, a tense and wretched triangle, within which mismatched priorities lead to embittered disputes (and worse). Three’s a crowd, in other words. But for a happy few – Orlando Leopard, Carlos Sanchez and Elliot Barnes among them – it’s the magic number.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud
Her eye for a gem was also what landed Georgie this flat. It was one of the first places that she and her partner Olly viewed when considering a move in 2021. 'I fell in love with the scale of it,' she says. 'It's like a house in the sky.' On the second floor of a tall townhouse and wending into the loft space, its views of a zigzagging tessellation of London roofs and of Arsenal's Emirates stadium are staggering. 'On match day, it's buzzing,' says Georgie. Olly has a season ticket.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud
Until not so long ago, there were some stocky-looking 19th-century stables here, once part of a small estate, which had been converted during the 1950s into an unbeautiful but perfectly polite bungalow. ‘It was intriguing to me that whoever designed the previous building didn’t rate that seaward outlook,’ says the owner, pointing out that the structure was not even positioned in the best patch. ‘Instead, they had ruined what was clearly a lovely, peaceful place,’ she adds.
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Jan 27, 2024 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Grace McCloud
It is not always easy, with Lotte Glob’s ceramics, to know what you’re looking at. Like so many things in the natural world, they are rich and strange – and most likely to be found outside: sightless orbs with cloven feet hidden in heather; craggy dish-like sculptures, rockpool centres puddled with blue; a book (or is it?), its pages ossified, lodged in a stony crevice in the Sculpture Croft, her home on the edges of Loch Eriboll, near Durness in northern Scotland.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
houseandgarden.co.uk | Grace McCloud
Nick knows a thing or two about striking exactly that balance, having done so beautifully at Green House, the winner of RIBA’s House of the Year 2023 award. Designed by Hayhurst & Co, the quietly radical new build is an open-plan and open-minded rethinking of the typical terraced dwelling, one that feels all the more surprising given its confined setting: an unassuming residential alley in Tottenham, north London.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
vogue.com | Grace McCloud
Launched earlier this year, Ton is a new London-based interiors magazine that has quickly earned a cult following for its distinctive take on decor and its mission to spotlight “homes that have something to say.” (The brains behind the project are design dealer and Vogue columnist Jermaine Gallacher, Dazed and AnOther’s digital editorial director Ted Stansfield, and art director Rory Gleeson.) Here, the makers of Ton share a story that takes a peek inside the London apartment of decorators...
