Inspiration

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When putting together a concept and scheme for a client, there is a lot to be considered, colour, pattern, texture, shape, light… the list goes on.

The world is a magical place, full of inspiration, this image from the rocks of Utah hits all our creative senses.

Where do you find your inspiration?

Image via - @josemostajo
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DURSDALE FARMHOUSE, BRUTON...

is a treasure on the grounds of Hauser & Wirth art gallery. The farmhouse is part of a group of Grade II listed farm buildings that date back from as early as 1760.

We had the pleasure of visiting the house a couple of years back. We loved the eclectic nature of the original features, vintage furniture and original artwork by Hauser & Wirth artists in every room.

It was renovated by the Argentinian architect Luis Laplace, who has achieved a completely innovative and unexpected design. 'The result is – as expected – ambiguous since art, architecture and the history of the house merge.’ Luis Laplace

Another staycation to add to the list! 🇬🇧☀️

Images via @hauserwirth
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The magical gardens of Kew never cease to disappoint, always serving tantalising colours, shapes a textures to inspire our designs. 💚💚💚

Happy weekend! 🌞

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⭐️THE STAR ⭐️- The Polizzi Collection!

We had the pleasure of visiting the utterly charming new hotel @thestar, part of the @thepolizzicollection
with the K&H design team on our annual design INSPO trip!

Our designs will so often stem from the experiences we have spent at exciting new hotels, restaurants and exhibitions in the UK and abroad.

So much of our design is related to lifestyle so we make sure we are witnessing the best in class!

We would highly recommend a visit for this staycation Summer 🌞!
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The neon sign on our client's stairway says it all! 🌊🏊‍♀️🌊

We hope everyone in the UK finds somewhere to cool down this evening. 🥵

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A heatwave 🌞 in the UK can mean only one thing... you will want to be submerged in water for the foreseeable future!! 🌊🌊

This mood board was inspired by Hockney’s ‘Portrait of an Artist’, the blue and green hues work as a perfect combination to cool the temperature down. 💙💚💙💚
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⭐️ Charlotte Perriand - The Modern Life ⭐️

We had a great time visiting Charlotte Perriand's exhibition at @designmuseum. It's been 25 years since her last retrospective in the UK so we definitely had to go and check it out!

An absolute legendary female furniture designer of the twentieth century. We just love her curved writing table!!

‘At the heart of Perriand’s nearly seventy-year career was a desire to balance contrasting elements: craftsmanship and industrial production, urban and rural, East and West. Influenced by the sense of space in traditional Japanese interiors she sought openness and flexibility in her own - qualities that came to define modern living. Perriand designed at every scale, from stools to ski resorts, but above all, she strove to make good design accessible to as many people as possible’. by the @designmuseum

We would highly recommend a visit! ⭐️

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Dreaming of a holiday abroad...🛫

We love the interiors in the Parker Palm Springs hotel, in California. 🇺🇸

The first room is eclectic, joyful and charming interiors with splashes of colour to give complete pleasure to guests. ❤️

The second room is a 'happy Chic Jonathan Adler design.' Old Hollywood touches adorn the walls as well as ceramics bespoke to the hotel. 🧡

The hotel is surrounded by desert so has acres of land, hence relaxing outdoors is also catered for.🌸🌺🌸🌺

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Charming hallways with characterful yet discreet storage! 👟👠🥾

We designed this shoe chest to look like an old favourite in our client’s entrance hall. We had it hand-painted taking inspiration from American folk art. For the inside, we designed separate shoe compartments for ultimate ease and organisation.

The ladder side chairs flank the cupboard which has the approval of our client’s four-legged friend! 🐶

We sourced a set of four Genoese Lanterns, the roman blind fabric is by @guygoodfellowcollection and the Napoleon III pique fleurs complete the look.
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Starting the week off with a hand sketch... ✍️

We are reimagining our client's teenage girls bedroom. We drew out our initial proposal to tease out the brief and get some quick feedback to move the process forward.

We are proposing designing a bespoke statement headboard, with wallpaper on the back panels to add pattern and colour to a blank canvas of @farrowandball Light Blue paint; this will create a lot more intrigue in her bedroom. 🛌
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We love the Ysolde table lamp by @doriancaffotdefawes which has been hand cast using high quality plaster in London. It adds a lot of character to our client’s master bedroom.

We have paired it with an earthy monochrome lampshade, which complements the client's art collection in the room.

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We love to create an impact in a guest bathroom! 🚻

This was certainly the case when we used the fabulous Clarence House - Tibet 9985 by @turnellandgigon wallpaper in our client’s powder room. The Celestial pebble by @ochreochre also creates a brilliant glow bringing the Tibetan tigers to life! 💙💡💙💡💙💡⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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A sweet bathroom corner. 💙

We love the @marthearmitageprints Windmill wallpaper in this traditional bathroom. The tongue and groove and fireplace mantel are painted in @farrowandball De Nimes 299. The dark pink dahlias tie the scheme together as it picks up on the dark hues in the painting and wallpaper.💙

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Beautiful blue hues on a Monday!💙💙💙

Taken from our project in Knightsbridge. The open plan living area in this loft-style apartment is the perfect space for entertaining and sitting soft.

The bespoke sofa was designed to fit plenty of bottoms, and we sourced an oval table for the dining area to host many dinner parties.

Light floods in through the double-height crittall windows, which creates a very bright and welcoming room. 🤩

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This sculptural vessel was a beautiful find this week at Artefact The Contemporary Craft Fair @designcentrech. A colourful piece out of Frances Priest's India Collection, 'Gathering Places, Grammar of Ornament' series.

Frances Priest is a ceramic artist @francesprieststudio. Her current work in clay explores and interprets languages of ornament from different cultures, places and periods in history. The work is heavily influenced by a book she grew up with, The Grammar of Ornament, by Owen Jones first published in 1856. This began her love of pattern, which then grew through her travels as an adult.

This vessel is incised ceramic, with oxide wash, vitreous slip and glaze.

We can not wait to find the right project to propose it!

Photo and information credits @cavalierofinn gallery
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Making a statement with this exquisite Lilac stone marble in the master bathroom at our Knightsbridge project. 💜🖤💜
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Today we have been dreaming of far-flung holiday destinations, which exude incredible design and architecture of course! 🌞🌞

We love the design of this boutique hotel in Tangier @nordpinustanger. Moroccan design is always a winner with its use of intricate carvings, mosaic tile inlays and rich colours and patterns. ☺️

Enjoy the heatwave! 🌞🌞🌞🌞

Photo credits @nordpinustanger
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Kitchen dining in the Summer 🌺

Bring the outside in with seasonal blooms to add a splash of colour to jazz up the kitchen dining area.

We chose vibrant fabrics for the dining chairs combined with a stunning piece by Lydia Mammes to make this dining area a brilliant space for the whole family to spend time together and entertain.
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Art is by Lydia Mammes sourced from the @lisa_norris_gallery .
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One of our newest designers Dido Connolly has shared her top three design items she is LOVING right now. 💖💖

1. The Danish artist and designer @hellemardahl - who makes lighting and sculpture using glass in candy colours and organic forms are so fun and very pleasing to look at. 🧡

2. I love the simple graphic lines of these lacquered beech chairs by Thonet, the bold red colour would give a bit of zip to any room @modernitystockholm . ❤️

3. The Quiet Garden by @naomi_mcintosh, collaborating with Ruup & Form. Naomi is an artist and designer from Scotland who produced the work for the London Design Biennale. The Quiet Garden is a contemplative installation consisting of suspended wooden sculptures drawing inspiration from natural elements. 💚

We hope you all have a very happy and sunny weekend! 🌞
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It all starts with a hand sketch... ✍️🛁

We think sketches bring a room to life and are super at demonstrating the initial layouts and finishes that we propose to our clients.

We gave our client a few options for their Master Bathroom, in their wonderful terraced family home in Notting Hill. These three hand sketches allowed our client to appreciate the different overall feel each look would achieve with the slight changes in the interior architectural details and finishes.

Please let us know which one is your favourite option, one, two or three ? 🛁💙🛁💙
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We love creating inexpensive features which are cool and charming for the children's bedrooms, so that the budget can be stretched leaving more to spend in other areas of the home! 🏡

In this little boys bedroom the top half of the wall is painted in Slate IV 164 and the bottom half is in Lusi 228 both by @paintandpaperlibrary. The green line that runs through the middle of the two is Invisible Green 56 by @Littlegreenepaintcompany .💚

As seen in @houseandgardenuk online

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@floristonflowerfarm

Thrilled to get a behind the scenes glimpse of our client's stunning creations! 🍃🌺🍃🌺
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Britian was utterly beautiful this weekend in the late spring sunshine, but nowhere more so than @thenestglamping .

Three sublime luxury glamping lodges on the edge of a private lake in Lincolnshire. Deeply comfortable, 5* personalised service, super balance of serenity and stimulation, alfresco dining, hours of invigorating wild swimming and warming up whilst sunbathing in the bubble-filled bath tub! 🌞🛁🏊‍♀️🍃
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Who's ready for The Bank Holiday Weekend?

We definitely are and a trip to the countryside would go down a treat - plus the sun is on its way, hoorah! 🌞

Here's a beautiful relaxed breakfast room we designed for our client's Grade II listed Georgian rectory.

Originally there was a lot of oak flooring throughout most of the ground floor which was very yellow.

We arranged for all the floors to be sanded and treated with a re-active stain to deepen and mute the tones and enhance the character of the timber. This was key to the foundations of the design - sophisticated and timeless.

The flooring is now a perfect match in the breakfast room with the @RoseUniacke drapers table which we had lowered to be the perfect height for the Neils Moller chairs. These little glass vases are from @svensktenn, just perfect for seasonal blooms.

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🍃MONDAY MOOD BOARD 🍃

A fresh botanical bathroom scheme inspired by the Josef Frank wallpaper by @svenskttenn. 🛁🍃

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For this artist and collectors home, we devised a soft and muted palette, which is a great backdrop for the client's extensive art collection.

At the far end of this kitchen, we created a small study looking out to the garden. We added glass to the division screen so the natural light would continue to flood onto the kitchen counter and to keep the area bright throughout the day. The light also beautifully bounces off the antique glass fitted behind the shelving.

Kitchen in collaboration with @katefeatherkitchendesign

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It’s #InternationalMuseumDay and we are looking forward to immersing ourselves in some culture again, now that restrictions have been lifted and the museum doors are open!

We love this chandelier by Chihuly, the master of glass art, at the @vamuseum; it is an exquisite, intricate and also fun design.
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Eaton Square, Belgravia

This was a complete renovation project where we re-imagined the entire space and flow of this apartment. Appointed as the interior architects and interior designers we had great fun introducing contemporary interventions into this neoclassical duplex for our clients London residence.

Here is a sneak preview of the staircase leading up to the ground floor.

The banister is a patinated bronze unlacquered finish with blackened steel spindles which go single file up the stairs slotting seamlessly into the the timber treads.

The timber flooring is bespoke from @ark_one_group, the planks chosen have few knots and finished with a naked skin lacquer. We included a metal detail under the stair treads also in a patinated bronze unlacquered finish.

For the walls we chose Sand II No 262 by @paintandpaperlibrary. Under the staircase We chose rough coarse polished plaster for the under stairs and jib cupboard doors, which conceal the washing machine.

We have worked on this project tirelessly throughout lockdown alongside a really fabulous professional team, @eganlucocq @interiorlabltd and @weldonewalshe and have just completed on Phase 1.

Happy weekends to all!
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We gave this guest bedroom a more traditional look compared to the very modern master bedroom suite in this Victorian terrace house.

Calming and understated with hues of warm yellows from the embroidered cushion and sweet fabric lampshade, to give this room a very homely feel. The side lights are hollowaysofludlow Tochi Tochi wall lights in nickel.

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These two Bedu Nafana Plank Masks were sourced from @michaelbackmanlondon.

They both stand proudly on the wall of the balcony overlooking Katie Glaister's Kitchen, design by K&H Design. Thank you @nick_the_picturehanger for hanging them with such precision. 📏

- ORIGINS -
Worn by the Nafana people, Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire in early 20th century

- DESIGN -
"This wooden plank mask is large and geometrical in form. It was worn over the face with its extremities towering way above the head. The lower part of the mask is spade-shaped and pierced at the centre with three holes to allow the wearer to see out and with a third hole for the mouth. Its crest is surmounted by a large circular structure. The surface is painted in a checkerboard and zigzag pattern of black and white pigments. This group of masks are known as Bedu by the Nafana people who make and use them.

The edges are aged from wear and have a glossy patina. There is an old native mend to the base of the disk and the mend itself has wear and patina. The mask has ample wear from washing and repainting – features which were part of their regular ritual use."

- MEANING-
"Such plank masks are among the largest masks in Africa. The form of the Bedu mask represents a mythical buffalo-like animal that plays an important role in the New Year’s celebration in the Bondoukou regions of north-west of Ghana and the north-east of Côte d’Ivoire. Bedu masquerade is the focus of the month-long New Year’s celebrations, the winter solstice festival called Zaurau, where a pair of dancers perform with masks, one male and the other female. The gender of a mask is readily identified: male masks often have horns while female masks incorporate a large disk. Following this, then it can be seen that the mask here represents a female animal.”

Two eye-catching pieces which will be admired from many angles.
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