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New in Design Storey

31st May 2022

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Here are this week's new additions to Design Storey where my particular favourite is the graphic table lamp (scroll down) and I have also included a cute little padding pool for half term. Edlyn Left Corner Chaise Sofa, Anthropologie We are used to bold patterned wallpaper but often don’t want to put it on all

New on Design Storey

25th May 2022

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I've been meaning to do this post for ages but you know, time and all that. Anyway, many of you will know that last year I set up a shop - DesignStorey.Shop with the aim of curating the internet - well a bit of it anyway. Specifically, the part that relates to homewares and interiors.

Mad About The House to launch Design Storey – an edited interiors shop

10th December 2020

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I'm so excited to share this news with you today. It has been a long time in the dreaming and even longer in the making but Mad About The House is launching an online shop in January. Read on to find out the story behind Design Storey. The idea came about after realising that there

Monday Inspiration: Post Pandemic Design – All White Now?

11th May 2020

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via stadshem.se

Do you remember when grey really took off as a colour? One minute we were all happily sloshing on the magnolia and then, suddenly, we had all, as it were, faded to grey. I wrote a feature for The Independent in 2009 after interviewing a Dulux spokesperson whole told me that grey was the new

New Releases: Interior Design Books

31st October 2019

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A new season means new book releases and October is a big month for publishers - the first Thursday of the month is known as Super Thursday when hundreds of books are released at the same time in a bid to hit the Christmas market. This year, on the 3rd, there were 426 hardbacks published,

An Interview with Oliver Heath on Biophilic Interior Design

25th June 2019

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It sounds obvious doesn't it? Bring some of that outside inside and you will feel better. Put a few plants on the side, buy some flowers and bring a smile to your face. It's something that feels so instinctive that it hardly needs saying, but as we now spend up to 90 per cent of

Clerkenwell Design Week: Redesigning The Work Space and Sustainability (podcast notes)

30th May 2019

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lilac and yellow kitchen by Pluck London

Last week Sophie and I took the podcast on the road to record at Clerkenwell Design Week. You can, as ever, listen to the full episode here, but the two key aspects that we discovered were the changing design of the workspace and the increasing attention being paid to sustainability. Clerkenwell Design Week is now

My First Shop Design and An Important Cause: Dress For Success

23rd October 2018

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A few months ago I showed you how I decorated my first show flat and today I want to show you my first shop - although actually it's less about the decor and more about the brand behind it. Earlier this summer I was approached by a PR company and asked if I would like

A Modern Classic Desk by Ercol

28th June 2018

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Every year it's the same - the sun comes out and the exams start. Actually I know the GCSEs and A Levels are already done, but in this house we are having a year off from those and, true to form, as the sun came out this morning the 14yo headed off to school for

Milan Design Week 2018: Top Five Kitchen Trends

10th May 2018

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To the last of the trends pieces that I shall be posting about Milan. This week it's kitchens. Now I didn't have time to visit the kitchen section in my all-too-brief visit to the fair but this report was put together by Hølte Kitchens, who spent days walking round all four halls dedicated to kitchen

Milan Design Week 2018: Bathroom Trends

3rd May 2018

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As promised last week, we're going to take a look at some of the bathroom trends that emerged from Salone this year. There was a vast hanger full of bathrooms and exhibitors and I only scratched the surface of it but there were definitely a few ideas that seemed to pop up again and again

100 Design Icons from Heals

27th July 2017

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Earlier this year the British furniture store Heals arranged a survey of 2000 people asking them to name their favourite design icons from the last 100 years. Icon is an over-used word and one I try to avoid if possible but Heals, which has always championed British design, sells a huge range of instantly recognisable

Pinch Design Opens A Shop

30th May 2017

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For the last few years we have been told that buying online keeps prices low by cutting out the middleman and all the costs involved in running a site but I'm beginning to wonder if we are seeing a swing back to the idea of the traditional shop. Or, as someone said to me the

My Top Ten Interior Design Tips #2

8th December 2016

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IT'S TME TO GO GREEN This is a recent addition to the top ten, but it's a fad that has become a trend and is actually, like grey paint, here to stay for the foreseeable future, so it deserves a place in the list. Yes, it's time to go green and I don't mean put

Arne Jacobsen’s Classic Chair…

26th February 2015

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... Well one of them anyway. The Danish designer Arne Jacobsen was, perhaps, the master of the chair. The Swan, the Egg, the Ant and the Series 7. All of them are classics, all of them are still in production. And now the Mosquito chair has been reissued. The 1955 Munkegaard chair, as it was

Objects of Design: & Tradition

9th December 2014

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A couple of weeks ago I showed you the rather fabulous offices of Danish company Butchers & Bicycles with its monochrome colour scheme and gorgeous furniture, much of which came from another cool Danish firm called &Tradition. Well, today I thought it was time to have a closer look at them. Founded in 2010 by Martin Kornbek

Objects of Design: Swedese Furniture

2nd December 2014

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swedese log bench

Continuing the best of the Mad House, I really did enjoy learning about this company. swedese log bench Amid all the shouting about the Paris trade show Maison et Objet 2014, there was one name which seemed to keep popping up or, perhaps once I had noticed it it seemed like it was everywhere. That

Objects of Design #362: Danish Lighting

26th February 2014

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copper orient pendant light from lightyears I came across this Danish lighting company a couple of weeks ago and loved their products. They create modern interpretations of classic lamps which are as functional and sleekly beautiful as you would expect. black wall light caravaggio from lightyears The lamps above and below are part of the

Objects of Design #329: Flux Ceramics

24th January 2014

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Flux ceramics is run by students at Staffordshire University

Flux ceramics is run by students at Staffordshire University As you know I love a twist on the traditional, and this classic blue and white crockery is just that. It's by Flux, a ceramic design firm set up at Staffordshire University in 2010. Professor David Sanderson, who is course director in Staffordshire University's Faculty of Arts,

Objects of Design #262: New Launch Humblesticks

18th November 2013

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upcycled table lamp glass base

Another week, another exciting discovery for you. This time it's the new venture of Richard Holman and Katy Shooter, otherwise known as Humblesticks. sketch table lamp made from Kate's favourite gin bottle £90 Their email dropped into my inbox the other day, one of many as you can imagine. But this one really caught my