Holiday plans are slowly but surely becoming feasible again and whether you’re crabbing on the Cornish coast, rambling in the Brecon Beacons or simply catching up on some reading on the Isle of Skye, you’ll want a well-designed base. Read on to discover our pick of design-led holiday homes in th...
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Larry Osborne and Daniel Reynolds reflect on their 23-year occupancy of a converted stable house in East Dulwich as part of our Open House series. Read on to find how the space has supported their lifestyle for over two decades, a time that has seen it house parties, exhibitions and Reynolds ceramic...
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As more of us swap swarming cities for the peace and quiet of rural retreats, there’s little in the way of compromise when it comes to space, style and design credentials. Whether a sensitively restored historic barn in Suffolk, or a smart extension to a 20th-century property, there’s plenty to ...
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Step inside some of the houses we sell in our Open House series, in which we ask owners to reflect on why their house has been a special place to live. Here, we’re meeting architects Steve Chance and Wendy de Silva of Chance de Silva at their first-ever new-build project, Venus, made in collaborat...
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After showing us around their self-renovated family home in Croydon, Simon (aka Cookie) and Sophia Cook share their house style.
Youre happiest at home when?
Having a long slow soak together in our huge double-ended bath in the morning. There’s not much space for mummy and daddy time when y...
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It’s
high summer at Chris and Susannah Burke’s 1960s modernist home in Suffolk and
original architect Birkin Haward’s design couldn’t look any more seductive. The
sun is shining, the doors are open and the surrounding foliage is in full
bloom. Over coffee and a walk-around, Chris and Susan...
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We head to the home of Appraisals Specialist Lauren Johns and her partner Julian Porter, who owns and runs neighbourhood café Juliets in Tooting, south London, for a chat about eating well, the secret to hosting and what home cooking means to them. Lauren hung up her apron for a job at The Modern H...
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For architect Stuart Archer, one part of Archer + Braun, a move to a Georgian terraced house in the historic conservation area of Albert Gardens in Stepney, east London, came with a chance to reimagine and extend its space for contemporary life. The solution? An intervention that introduced broken p...
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Designer David Pocknell’s decades-long career has seen him and his studio transform agricultural and industrial buildings into contemporary spaces favourable to modern living. Now, as his and his wife, Sally’s, converted barn and studio in Essex comes onto the market, Pocknell reflects on what...
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Ian and Kieley Hanmer’s self-renovated historic cottage in Whitstable was the result of patience, hard work and a healthy amount of learning by mistake. As their cottage comes onto the market, they tell us how they managed to turn a patchwork structure – comprised of parts dating from the 17th-c...
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Our Directory is the must-stop destination for anyone looking for the country’s top practices, sharp designers, master craftspeople and furniture sellers. For anyo...
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Palmgren House, Drevviken, Stockholm, Sweden. Photography: Gilbert McCarragher
Life House, Llanbister, Powys, Wales, UK. Photography: Gilbert McCarragher
Montauk House, Long Island, USA. Photography: Gilbert McCarragher
Palmgren House, Drevviken, Stockholm, Sweden. Phot...
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Architect Nicolas Tye found more than a home at his self-build barn conversion in Bedfordshire. The innovative design of his house and its embracing of forward-looking techniques helped him ditch his day job in London to launch his eponymous practice from home and, more recently, a beautifully bui...
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‘Don’t even bother ringing the doorbell, no visitors welcome,’ is how Janet Street-Porter once humorously described the message she wanted to communicate through her eponymous 1987 Street-Porter House, a postmodern Clerkenwell landmark.
Situated on a bomb site in the heart of Clerkenwell...
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Step inside some of the homes we sell with our Open House series, in which we ask sellers to share their stories of living in their houses. Here, we’re talking to artists Jean and Michael Dunwell about Outhouse, their lauded house in a hillside in Gloucestershire.
Jean and Michael’s search ...
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After noticing that sustainability in design is hampered by an ever-constant need to produce more stuff, but that people’s growing interest in curating their living spaces means they have a more transient relationship with what’s in their homes, design editor Henrietta Thompson and her husband...
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As one half of Coppin Dockray, a practice specialising in the restoration and reimagining of important Modernist landmarks like Highpoint and, more recently, the Ahm House, architect Sandra Coppin’s affinity with 20th-century architecture and design runs deep. In 2009, she bought Ansty Plum, a ...
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Photo: Christian Brailey
Photo: Christian Brailey
Charlie Barda is the founder of Ethical Rental Sector, a social impact landlord providing affordable, quality and community-focused homes for London’s lower-income renters outside the benefits net – a demographic he believes...
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Our ‘Open House’ series takes us into some of the homes we have for sale to meet the current owners. Here, we speak to multidisciplinary architecture and design studio Suprblk founders Michael Putman and Sara LEspérance about designing flexible architecture that stands the test of time at the...
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Here, we speak to entrepreneur and coach Remy Blumenfeld about life in Capel Manor House, an outstanding example of 1970s Modernist architecture in Kent, designed by architect Michael Manser.
Remy: Where we live is so linked to our sense of wellbeing. Capel Manor House is like living in the tre...
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Our ‘Open House’ series provides a window into what life is like in some of the homes we represent ahead of their sale. Here, we talk to Anne and Bruce Page at their 1970s home by the sea in Suffolk, which was designed by the great Modernist architect John Penn.
Anne: “The first time we c...
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“Before my family and I moved into this house we were living in a lateral flat nearby. Around that time, SEEDS was born as a retail gallery space where we were showing projects by talented designers and artists.
But the idea of our newly-acquired home becoming a showroom for SEEDS pieces was ...
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Helen: “We moved to Wales from London’s East End in 2004, tempted by an opportunity to help a friend develop Cardigan’s port. We upped sticks for a year’s sabbatical before making the permanent move when we bought the farm and built a contemporary barn, in which we now live.”
Niall: ...
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Rupert Scott: “Our new home, a converted gin distillery, is a stone’s throw away from where we were before on the other side of Whitechapel High Street. We had a small, late Georgian cottage, two up two down.
“It was tiny, so we were looking for a new home, and a development project. We h...
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Our ‘Open House’ series takes us into some of our most exceptional homes ahead of their sale. Here, husband and wife duo Chan and Eayrs show us around the travel-inspired interiors of their latest project, which is an expansive converted warehouse in Shoreditch.
Zoe: “The place was owned ...
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