The Ancients

One of the upcoming interior design trends for 2014 will be Greek and Roman inspired themes, a revival of the components from these ancient cultures but with a fresher, new approach. This neoclassical inspired look will feature an overwhelming presence of the ancient warrior modernised to present influences. 
Rooms will feature more busts - conventional but current, murals and columns; a return to symmetry to create a balanced, timeless space. This new trend from ancient civilisations also includes an Egyptian revival. Please see a selection below…
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Illusions of Grandeur

From the opulent palette to elaborate fittings, such splendour might make one wonder among which rolling acres of countryside this stately home sits. The answer is none. The tiny one-bed flat is the back of a former laundry in Clapham. The flat is the work and home of Tim Gosling, who trained as a theatre designer and, for almost 20 years, worked with the Queen’s nephew viscount Linley before 4 years ago starting his own company… View interior feature
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Restoration Drama

An East London Victorian pub was the perfect building for Owen Pacey to convert into a showroom for his reclaimed furniture store. But having also made his home above it, the more beautiful pieces he acquires don’t always linger downstairs for long. The work included raising the ceiling into the frame of the new roof to increase the head height of the rooms on the top floor by 3ft, without altering the exterior profile of the building. "We needed the extra space to make it viable to put the bedroom, dressing room and bathroom at that level," says Pacey… View interior feature
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Nice village, I'll take it

When Brunello Cucinelli, the cashmere king of Italy, bought a huge house in a 14th-century hill town, he couldn’t stop there. He had to have the town as well If you had to describe your dream home, it would probably be much like Brunello Cucinelli’s. The cashmere mogul lives in a 17th-century manor house in Umbria, just up the road from Perugia. It’s set in an impossibly romantic 14th-century hill town, which he also owns and which forms the HQ of his business empire. And casa Cucinelli is the dream: flagged floors and vaulted ceilings, 400-year-old charm with 21st-century air conditioning. The house is filled with Renaissance art and antiques, the gardens with cicadas and cypress and olive trees. Terraces lead off every room and there’s even a choice of swimming pools, for goodness’ sake – indoor for winter, outdoor for summer. If Cucinelli weren’t such a nice, sincere chap, you could easily hate him. Or at least not buy his clothes in protest. But it’s difficult to begrudge him his house, because he’s worked incredibly hard for it, hauling himself up from humble beginnings… View interior feature
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Theatrical in Paris

Interior architect, Oscar Ono graduated in art history. “From my earliest age, I moved all the furniture around the room in the House of my parents. My mother was “mad”! I think it was my vocation, something innate. I always wanted to do this job, create moods, and express my sense of aesthetics. The sceneries I create are all different depending on the place, its history, and the client.” Once the door closes on the small courtyard in Paris, we enter into his universe, dark but suitably light, intimate and theatrical. The living room takes advantage of the large plate glass windows, and other parts become animated, through the different lamps and spots, that are widely used… View interior feature
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House in Somerset

Shortly after the arrival of their fifth child, Damian and Patricia, realized that they needed a place in the country to escape to. They are both professional consultants in the financial industries, and quality time off with their children was important. They soon found their dream - a rambling old manor house in a small village in rural Somerset, along with stables and outbuildings, with lots of surrounding land. It needed a lot of work, including repairing the stonework and replacing the roof of the main house which dates back to the 1600s, and to help them they employed Baldassare La Rizza, an interior designer who had the requisite qualities and quantities of experience, taste, patience, and perseverance to undertake this mammoth project in such a remote location in the most beautiful English countryside. As many of the original features were kept and enhanced wherever possible, and the interiors were decorated in a simple but classical manner… View interior feature
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