Thomas Barrie

3 days ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Thomas Barrie

Studio Peake maintained the Arts & Crafts look of this Surrey house by housing the shelves in a rounded archway. Designed and created by 202 Design, these units are painted in a combination of Argile’s ‘Blanc de Meudon’ and Farrow & Ball’s ‘Suffield Green’.

1 week ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Thomas Barrie

Cathy Nordström wasn’t going to buy a summer house in Torekov. The tiny Swedish fishing village, on the northwest edge of a peninsula in Skåne in the south of the country, was home to her parents’ summer house, as well as those of “aunts, uncles, cousins and second cousins”. A lifetime of holidays there almost persuaded Cathy, a textile and wallpaper designer, “to rebel” against going down the same route.

1 week ago | gq.com | Thomas Barrie

All products featured on GQ are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. What, I found myself asking this morning, are the best critiques of the Nectar Memory Foam Mattress? A simple question—but one that was making me increasingly frustrated. Where does it fall short of a good night’s sleep? In what situation do you wake up overheated and sweaty, or with a brutally sore back?

1 week ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Thomas Barrie

Dean HearneThe kitchen island is a well established and generally understood concept within design, but what about the kitchen peninsula? As you might have guessed from the dubiously related name, a kitchen peninsula is an island which is accessible on three sides, rather than all four. (Does the existence of the “peninsula” imply that there are kitchen continents or kitchen archipelagos?) It’s connected at one end to a wall, but still offers (most of) the accessibility and storage of an island.

1 week ago | houseandgarden.co.uk | Thomas Barrie

The ottoman in the front section of the sitting room was custom-made and upholstered in a George Spencer velvet. The sofa is a George Smith original, upholstered in Studio Hollond’s ‘Duchessina’ fabric, while the curtains are Lewis & Wood’s Belgian linen. The hanging lampshade is an antique, found on Vinterior. Dean HearneWhen Phoebe Hollond and her husband bought their Victorian townhouse in Shepherd’s Bush in 2017, they were looking for a house in which they could put down roots.