Nell Card

London

Interiors, Design, Travel and Lifestyle Editor and Writer at Freelance

Interiors and travel writer, food editor at Guardian Cook

Articles

Grand Designs at 25

Sep 12, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Nell Card

It may surprise viewers to know that the producer and self-described ‘midwife’ of Grand Designs, Daisy Goodwin, was also a poetry editor. ‘Daisy had this very clear view that there was something poetic and very noble in watching people [build their own homes],’ the show’s long-standing presenter, Kevin McCloud, recalls. ‘Of course, it is the ultimate makeover, but it is much more than that: there’s something primal and human about it which touches the soul.
A 200-year old Italian farmhouse is reimagined for a fashion designer and naturalist by Jonathan Tuckey Design

Sep 8, 2024 | remodelista.com | Nell Card

A once “jaded”, 200-year-old farmstead in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy has been reimagined by Jonathan Tuckey Design, a UK-based design and architecture practice with an inspired approach to combining old and new. We spoke to the project architect, Elena Aleksandrov, about “elegant appropriation”, a method she’s employed to gently restore the whimsical character of this secluded site.
8 Ideas to Borrow From Buchanan Studio’s Whimsical Urban Garden

May 14, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Nell Card

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Angus and Charlottte Buchanan's Outdoor Living Room and Kitchen in London

May 14, 2024 | gardenista.com | Nell Card

Angus and Charlotte Buchanan—the co-founders of London-based creative design studio, Buchanan Studio—both grew up in the English countryside. Angus has vivid memories of entire seasons spent outdoors: “My parents are quite relaxed and bohemian,” he says. “They created this entire outside world.” Charlotte is more direct: “Your mother is a die-hard romantic who is incredibly nostalgic,” she asserts.
Serving Comforting Combinations with Chef Nicholas Balfe

Apr 18, 2024 | toa.st | Nell Card

Cheese and pickle sandwiches, roast chicken dinners and Horlicks before bedtime are all comforting food memories that the chef and owner of HOLM, Nicholas Balfe, elegantly reimagines for guests at his restaurant with rooms in the Somerset village of South Petherton. “Nostalgia is a real driver for me,” he admits. “For me, a good dish is a transportive dish.” The flavours on the plate in HOLM can be traced back to Nicholas’s childhood garden in Dorset. “Food was a focal point of family life.
a jeweller’s remodelled terrace in west London

Mar 24, 2024 | msn.com | Nell Card

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Hidden gem: a jeweller’s remodelled terrace in west London

Mar 24, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nell Card

From the outside, Marisa Hordern’s Edwardian terrace in London’s north Kensington looks just like any other on the street. A tiled path leads up to a grey front door with two clipped olive trees standing outside the red brick facade. “I like seeing people’s reactions when they come in,” says Hordern, the founder and creative director of Missoma, a jewellery label that started life around her kitchen table 16 years ago.
For Home and Humanity: New Bio-Based Paints by Atelier Ellis

Mar 17, 2024 | remodelista.com | Nell Card

A happy announcement from natural paint brand Atelier Ellis this month: Their True Matte Emulsion is moving to a newly developed bio-based formulation. It’s a move that has taken company founder, Cassandra Ellis, and her chemist two years to perfect. It’s also a move that is completely new to the UK. We spoke to Cassandra—whose gentle approach to homemaking we have long admired—about the next iteration of her paints.
Playing with colour: inside a dramatic Sicilian apartment

Feb 4, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nell Card

Capo is one of four historic quarters in Palermo and it’s famous for its boisterous street market. “It’s wonderfully analogue,” says design dealer Olivia Brittberg, who lives here with her partner in life and work, En Dolci. “It’s how I imagine life in the 1960s might have felt – everyone is friendly and genuine.
The surprising — and deadly — history of wallpaper | CNN

Jan 21, 2024 | cnn.com | Nell Card

CNN — The human predilection for living alongside patterns can be traced back to our ancestors who marked the walls of their caves with dots, lines, zigzags and cross-hatching. Tens of thousands of years on, it is arguably wallpaper — that most ephemeral of design items — that provides one of our most powerful portals to the recent past.