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Meet The Designer: Lindsey Lang



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Last week I travelled to south London (a journey involving a bus, a tube, a train and Shank's pony) to meet the award-winning textile and tile designer Lindsey Lang for the launch of her new range  of tiles at Domus. Regular readers and podcast listeners will know that I'm fairly decisive. I know what I
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Interview: Winner of The Great Interior Design Challenge



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Some of you will have dropped in today to read an interview with Daniela Tasca York, the winner of BBC 2's The Great Interior Design Challenge. Some of you will have no idea who she is, won't have seen the programme and won't really care less. Which is why you should know that this isn't
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Interview with Mineheart



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mineheart bookshelves wallpaper; one of their bestselling designs Regular visitors to The Mad House will know that I am a huge fan of Brendan Young and Vanessa Battaglia, the husband and wife team behind the Eccentric (their capital E) British Design House Mineheart. You can see their wonderful trompe l'oeil bookshelf wallpaper in the images
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Meet The Designers: Joseph Joseph



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Antony and Richard Joseph   Twin brothers Antony and Richard Joseph launched Joseph Joseph in 2002 selling innovative and stylish kitchenware. Their clever folding Chop2Pot board and Nest, a set of stacking bowls including a colander, sieve and juicer, take everyday objects and somehow make them better in ways that you wouldn't have thought necessary
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Johnny Egg: The Furniture Designer Launches Our New Competition



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Johnny Egg has never had a day's training in his life. Yet his furniture is stocked in the prestigious London store, Heals, and has featured in numerous glossy magazines. He has never advertised his wares, but works constantly as new clients approach him, rather than him having to seek them out. As he puts it, he
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Deryn Relph: Textile Designer



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  Five years ago Deryn Relph was wearing a lab coat and testing waste water for the environment agency. Now her designs have been featured in Elle Deco and Vogue and she spends her time creating her beautiful textiles in a log cabin at the bottom of her garden. As a teenager in the 80s,
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Chantal Coady of Rococo Chocolates



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Chantal Coady's life has been turned upside down. It's not the former textile designer's forthcoming book, new shop opening, latest range of chocolates or house she is renovating in France. No, all of that is fine. All in a day's work actually. No Coady has chosen to live upside down. In her three storey London
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Marianne Brandi of Day Home



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  On the day I am due to meet Marianne Brandi, the creative director of super-cool Danish brand Day Home, it is pouring with rain. We are to meet at Liberty, the site of her new pop-up shop and I am early. So, it transpires is she. As I splatter through the puddles, I spy
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