There is a particular kind of interior that has become almost impossible to avoid. You have probably saved one without thinking about it. A room with warm plaster walls. A beautifully simple timber table. A low linen sofa. Perhaps a piece of travertine, a handmade ceramic vessel or an enormous branch sitting somewhat improbably in…
Some rooms seem to take themselves very seriously. Everything matches. Every colour is carefully restrained. Furniture disappears politely into the architecture. Nothing is allowed to be particularly strange. A Postmodern Loft is not one of those rooms. Here, a cobalt-blue chair might sit beside a classical plaster bust. A stainless-steel kitchen could share a room…
Some of the most expensive-looking rooms don’t look expensive at all. There is no enormous chandelier announcing itself from the ceiling. No marble covering every available surface. No obvious designer furniture positioned carefully for recognition. Sometimes there isn’t even much colour. Instead, you notice the way a timber cabinet has been made. The weight of…
There is something undeniably beautiful about a room that was never designed to be beautiful. An old warehouse with enormous steel-framed windows. A former workshop where the brick still carries the marks of a century of use. Rough plaster walls, exposed pipes, worn timber floors and ceilings high enough to make even substantial furniture feel…
Vernacular Interior Design