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Mad About … Industrial Glamour

Last week I was sent a set of photographs from one of my favourite stores The Mint List. The images haven't been sent to many people so I'm thrilled to be one of the first to share them with you. vintage brass apple in a glass from the mint list The owner of the store,
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&Tradition Industrial Wall Lamp

This rather fabulous light was designed by the cool brand Ontwerpduo in 2010 and now forms part of the &tradition collection. I'm thinking it would be perfect for the new loft which will have exposed roof joints, painted white, and an exposed brick wall, also painted white. I'm not sure there will be enough head
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Mad About… Industrial Chic

The industrial look has been with us for a while now but I have been saying (to anyone who will listen) that I thought the next stage would be a more refined and elegant version of this look. It's what I have called Industrial Glamour. And look, this is exactly what Heals has done with
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Get The Look … Modern Industrial Kitchens

It seems we still can't get enough of the industrial look but it's about refining it and tweaking it to make it look like it's your personal style and not that of the local pizza restaurant. industrial kitchen from apartmenttherapy.com Yes, everyone's at it and the sad, but true, fact is that if you want
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Brass and Wood Task Light

brass and wood task lamp from uniche interior furnishings While I make it a point of principle that each Object of Design featured on the blog is something that I would genuinely have in my house (given elastic walls and a similarly stretchy budget) every now and then something comes along that I simply must
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Gold and Concrete Vase

gold and concrete vase from themintlist.com A new month and a new series of Objects of Design. Can you believe that today we are starting Volume III? It's Mad's third birthday and this beautiful vase which sums up my favourite style of industrial glamour seemed like the perfect way to celebrate. It costs £40 and
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Objects of Design #322: Velvet Retro Chairs

velvet retro chairs from themintlist.com Don't you love these? Teal - my new favourite colour and brass - my ongoing love affair. Together. In the same piece. So details? Right then, they're from The Mint List, who I featured last year and who excel at that Industrial Glamour look. the chairs are exclusive to The
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Objects of Design #256: For The Love of Vintage

framed large musical disc from eversoflo.com
framed large musical disc from eversoflo.com Another new discovery for you today. This is the online boutique Ever So Flo set up earlier this year by Ruth Yardy (mother of Flo) who offers a mix of vintage or hand-made. framed butterfly Papilio Deiphobus £75 This is the perfect time of year to think about the
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Mad About … Brass Taps

brass taps image from laurence pidgeon
Now, brace yourselves as this might sound a tad controversial, but i think the time has come to consider a return to the gold tap. brass taps from vola on made a mano gold tiles from laurence pidgeon I first thought about this a few weeks ago when the above image dropped into my inbox.
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Objects of Design #244: Clamp on Brass Task Lamp

brass task lamp by uniche interior furnishings We end this series of Objects of Design with this beautiful task lamp which does, as they say, tick all my boxes. The mix of brass, wood and a chunky clamp makes it a real piece of industrial glamour. brass task lamp detail It is available from one of
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Objects of Design #235: Pressed Steel Light

lotus light from uniche interior furnishings How about this for a bit of Industrial Glamour? Made from pressed steel, this lotus light has a rich burnished finish. It's available in three sizes (costing between £120 and £250) and would look great hanging either singly or in a group of three. Points to Laura at Uniche
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The Great Outdoors: An interview with Arit Anderson of Gardeners’ World

A life in Pattern by Anna Spiro
Today we are in The Great Outdoors for the latest episode of the podcast and not only are we outside but, after a year of trying, we managed to meet up with Arit Anderson, presenter of Gardener’s World, designer at Chelsea and writer and podcaster herself at Growing Greener. We met in Regent’s Park and
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The Househunter: A reinvented Victorian House

We're off to Ramsgate this week, a coastal town in Kent, which isn't perhaps the first place you'd think of for groundbreaking architecture, but we have a brilliant reworking of a traditional Victorian house and it's worth a look.. coming in? Especially as it's well under a million..... It's not an entirely typical Victorian house
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Book Review: De Gournay Wallpaper and Scandi Rustic Interiors

St. Laurent designer Greg Natale photo Anson Smart
Suddenly there are new interiors books coming out every week after years of it being a massively unfashionable subject and it's becoming hard to keep up. Today I'm going to show you two books from either end of the spectrum - in a vain (probably laughable) attempt to try and keep all of the people
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The Hoover Building Bathroom

Some of you will remember the apartment I helped work on in The Hoover Building a couple of months ago... well today I wanted to show you the last room that I didn't share before. That's the bathroom. I didn't show you because a) I had nothing to do with it and b) bathrooms -
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Mad About The House: Book Extract: Find Your Style

Enid's House for JJ Locations
Something new for today. I thought I would run an extract from the book as it has been out for exactly five months now (22 March 2018). This is from the first chapter and tells you how to find your style when it comes to interiors.  Should you, ahem, decide that you might like to
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10 Beautiful Rooms

brass pendant lamps in black kitchen by sita montgomery
This edition was first published in January and is a calming set of mostly monochrome rooms. I hope you will enjoy revisiting it and seeing if there is any more inspiration to be gained. I'm already looking at the pendant light in the first picture and thinking how great it looks over the table even
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Wall Lights and Marble Tables

club chair £495 I only meant to show you one image for today's post. There was only meant to be one object of design. But then I couldn't choose which one. For gathered within these five images are all elements that I would be very happy to use in the loft. T -back bar stool
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Best of the Mad House

Now I know that while I publish a post every day many of you don't have the time (or the inclination) to drop in every day and see what's new, so today I'm going to make it easy for you. Here's a round up of the week. The best bits, as they say on various
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My Joss and Main Curated Sale

A few weeks ago I was asked to curate a sale for the members only site Joss and Main. I worked with their buying team to bring together a collection of pieces that are either very similar to things I already own (check out the black buttonback sofa) or that I would like to have
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