by Andrew Juniper | Interiors
WABI SABI TAKES ON FAKE CULTURE a 700 year old design style – still going strong Wabi Sabi and the other Zen related idea of Shibui have informed the inspiration and work of many designers in the West from interior design guru Axel Vervoordt to Apple’s...
by Editorial Desk | Interiors
GDC interiors – a renowned UK based interior design practice – recently faced an interesting challenge: how to turn a once busy laboratory into a luxurious and sophisticated Knightsbridge apartment. There were of course never any bespectacled scientists in...
by Raci | Interiors
Lines of Beauty – Rococo Plasterwork and Revival of a Lost Art It was William Hogarth who in the 18th century put forward his theory that a serpentine or ‘S’ shaped line is a ‘Line of Beauty’. He stated what many widely believed before...
by Editorial Desk | Interiors, the List
Living a Simple Life – The Simple Mindset When it comes to our home environments, for most of us the primary requirement is to create well functioning, but also attractive, happy, calm and safe sanctuaries that offer a buffer to the maddening hurly burly of...
by Raci | Books, Interiors
The Drawing Room – what’s yours called? But is it a ‘drawing room’, ‘living room’, ‘sitting room’, ‘front room’ ‘reception room’ ‘family room’ or ‘lounge’? These days it is...
by Raci | Features, Interiors
We Need To Go Deeper One of today’s most popular and rapidly growing interior and product styles is the ‘natural home’. Ironically for such a modest and unshowy design style, it is richly represented in endless publications, and interiors magazines...
by Raci | Interiors
Osterley Park House – ‘Palace of Palaces’ Once described by Horace Walpole as ‘the palace of palaces’, Osterley Park House, the great 18th century neo-classical pleasure palace, is the lusciously juicy fruit of Britain’s incipient...
by Raci | Interiors
JamesPlumb’s Award Winning Shop Design Putting aside the great intergalactic slug of the Future Systems Selfridges building in Birmingham, shop design in the UK is largely a humdrum affair. Except that is for Hostem the men’s and now women’s wear...
by Editorial Desk | Interiors
Bathroom Design – Semi-precious stones light up a masculine bathroom that glows with desert colours In the pursuit of new and exotic effects GDC interiors design team turned to Capital Marble for its expertise in procuring and working with stone, to interpret...
by Editorial Desk | Interiors
GDC interiors has an international reputation for superlative interior design. They recently launched their new London show flat in Belgravia, one of London’s finest addresses, with its beautiful stucco terraces built by Thomas Cubit in 1840. Within easy access to the...
