Articles by Amy Frearson

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Eight bathrooms that confidently combine colour and pattern

May 25, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

From decorative tiles to maximalist wallpaper, our latest lookbook explores bathrooms where striking patterned surfaces are paired with bold colours to make a statement. Offering an alternative to the trend for minimalist or colour-blocked bathrooms, this approach uses a mix of different tones and motifs to create a multi-layered aesthetic. Patterned surfaces can be created

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Gubi opens first UK showroom in London townhouse takeover

May 20, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A Georgian townhouse filled with period details is now Gubi House London, the first dedicated showroom that the furniture brand has opened outside Denmark. Gubi partnered with Danish surface design studio File Under Pop to reimagine the listed building as a showspace for its collection, which includes furniture by designers such as GamFratesi and Space

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Jean Prouvé house finds permanent London home in Ladbroke Hall garden

May 17, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Carpenters Workshop Gallery has unveiled a model of the Jean Prouvé-designed 6×6 demountable house in a London garden created by landscape designer Luciano Giubbilei. Maison Démountable will be a permanent fixture of the publicly accessible garden at Ladbroke Hall, the west London arts venue that Carpenters Workshop Gallery moved into in 2023. It forms the

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Panter & Tourron and Davide Rapp create “speakeasy-style secret lounge” in Milan

April 22, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Experimental furniture and nostalgic films combine in Diurno, a Milan design week installation exploring the past and future of the living room. Curated by Gianmaria Sforza, the show features the work of Lausanne-based design studio Panter & Tourron and Italian video artist Davide Rapp. It saw a Milanese studio apartment transformed into a “speakeasy-style secret

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Ten homes where flooring enhances the connection between indoors and outdoors

April 7, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Our latest lookbook explores homes where flooring details and materials help to create the impression that a living space extends out beyond a house’s exterior walls. A range of different techniques can be used to create the sense of a continuous floor surface. The most obvious is to use the same flooring material, or one

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SODA offers model for office-to-residential conversions with Roca in Liverpool

April 4, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

London studio SODA has converted a 1970s office block in Liverpool city centre into a residential building that  includes co-working and wellness facilities. The adaptive reuse project sees the 10-storey block, which spent decades as an office for HM Revenue and Customs, transformed into rental homes managed by operator Livingway. Roca contains 120 one- and

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Galerie Patrick Seguin blends VR with physical installation to recreate Jean Prouvé house

April 2, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

An exhibition at Galerie Patrick Seguin in Paris allows visitors to experience the Jean Prouvé-designed Maison Les Jours Meilleurs in both real life and virtual reality. The gallery is exhibiting the most significant element of the demountable prefabricated house, its load-bearing service core, in a full-scale installation that doubles as a virtual reality (VR) experience.

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Tigg + Coll Architects moves studio into converted Victorian mission church

April 2, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Tigg + Coll Architects has converted part of an abandoned mission church in west London into a flexible studio, with the rest of the building set to be turned into homes. The studio, led by architects David Tigg and Rachel Coll, has completed the first phase of a redevelopment project that will see all of

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Kwickset launches adaptable prefab housing system based on unbuilt Eames house

March 26, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Copenhagen design studio Fragile has teamed up with architecture office MVRDV and manufacturers CREE and Knauf to launch a modular housing kit informed by a 1950s concept by designers Charles and Ray Eames. Kwickset is a prefabricated construction system that builds on the principles of the Kwikset House, a kit home designed by the Eames

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Studio Aisslinger transforms historic Berlin art squat into Fotografiska Berlin

March 20, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A former department store that became a famous artists’ squat is now home to Fotografiska Berlin, a photography museum featuring interior design by German designer Werner Aisslinger. Once the second-largest shopping arcade in Berlin, the building is best known as the Kunsthaus Tacheles, home of the Tacheles artist collective, who occupied it from 1990 to

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