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66 days
till Christmas and despite promising yourself to be super organised this year,
there are always those last minute items that appear on your shopping list… a
beautifully adorned living room with gifts and presents; children making hand
crafted decorations; a cosy fireplace with candles and ornaments or families
gathered round the Christmas tree. Whether you’re looking for seasonal features
of a contemporary renovation, a seaside Christmas celebration or a Nordic
apartment let us know – in case you can’t wait for Santa… click here to contact our features team.
Eclectic Style
Eclectic, definition: borrowing freely from various sources, not exclusive in opinion or taste.
Combining a unique mixture of furnishings and décor to create a cohesive design, the homeowners of our eclectic features often feel most at home when they’re surrounded by gathered objects from a variety of sources. Eclectic rooms cross styles and periods; mix contemporary design favourites with renovated furniture finds; old fashioned heirlooms with flea market treasures and collected mementoes from travels, family and friends.
However, eclectic decorating is not a jumble of whatever catches your eye. It only works when the basic principles of design are understood and the individual elements work together to create a unified whole. Whether you mix design classics with retro furniture, display a fornasetti plate on an antique dresser don’t forget the basic design principles of line, colour, texture, mass and form.
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Combining a unique mixture of furnishings and décor to create a cohesive design, the homeowners of our eclectic features often feel most at home when they’re surrounded by gathered objects from a variety of sources. Eclectic rooms cross styles and periods; mix contemporary design favourites with renovated furniture finds; old fashioned heirlooms with flea market treasures and collected mementoes from travels, family and friends.
However, eclectic decorating is not a jumble of whatever catches your eye. It only works when the basic principles of design are understood and the individual elements work together to create a unified whole. Whether you mix design classics with retro furniture, display a fornasetti plate on an antique dresser don’t forget the basic design principles of line, colour, texture, mass and form.
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Opposites Attract
Swedish-born designer Vanessa Fristedt’s East London home successfully
combines a Scandinavian passion for clean lines with a collector’s eye
for quirky British memorabilia and design. In the converted basement and
first-floor flat of her period terraced house, Fristedt has skilfully
drawn together the twin threads of her life. The large, bright inner
hall, with its open staircase and wall of glass which looks out on to
the sauna at the end of the garden, answers her Nordic desire for light
and air, while the quirky décor and playful artworks speak of her
immersion in the East London art scene... view feature
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Suspensions of Disbelief
Daniel Chadwick started out working for the architect Zaha Hadid as an
engineer in the 1980s, but he soon realised he was more passionate about
creating art instead. His father was the sculptor Lynn Chadwick, who
won the International Prize for sculpture in 1956. Lynn bought this
house in Gloucestershire with the winnings, and Daniel moved in after
his father died in 2003. ‘We can’t afford to buy the sort of furniture
we’d like from places such as Italia, so we just fill the rooms
with work by me and my friends,’ he says. Handily, his friends include
Damien Hirst... view feature
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Perfect Timing
Quirky clockmakers Jim and Chloe Read used a combination of the chic and
cheerful to bring a dilapidated Victorian vicarage bang up to date.
There are more than 30 clocks in their house. Few of them tell the time,
but that’s not the point. This fabulous collection of timepieces is a
reminder of what earns them their keep. Although their listed Welsh
vicarage, built in 1850, is chocolate-box pretty on the outside, it
oozes 21st-century style within. Jim and Chloe’s labour of love has
saved the place from a sad and shabby decline, transforming it into a
fresh and contemporary family home... view feature
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Groovy Baby
When artists John and Molly bought an old Tudor stables as a rural
retreat from their full-on London lives, they brought punk rock and pop
art to the heart of Norfolk.
Inspired by the heady cross-fertilisation between music,fashion and art
in the swinging Sixties, the couple made their names - and their
retirement fund - when they stumbled on a screen-printing process and
subsequently set up their fashion company, Wonder Workshop, in 1969.
Their iconic roaring-leopard jacket was worn by Iggy Pop on the back
cover of his Raw Power album. Mick Jagger, the Beatles, Marc Bolan, Lou
Reed and Sid Vicious all snapped up their designs, and their wild thing
T-Shirt has been a bestseller... view feature
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