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MARC H & A PRIL 20 24
TH IS LIFE
22 ANNA CAMPBELL-JONES Talking life, love and
passion with the interior designer and broadcaster
AR CH IT EC TUR E
124 COTTAGE INDUSTRY East Lothian’s traditional
204 vernacular gets an impressive modern makeover
136 MAKING HISTORY Navigating a mishmash of

period styles in a stunning London house
150 LA DOLCE VITA An Italian dream home goes back

to its roots in order to cement its future
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165
ROOMS
248
69 BEDROOMS Designs to elicit rest and relaxation
74 KIDS’ BEDROOMS Slick, stylish dens for Junior
78 LIVING ROOMS Lounging never looked so good
84 HOME OFFICES Creative spaces to work with
87 DINING ROOMS A celebration of mealtimes
92 KITCHENS Ideas for storage, socialising and cooking
I N T ER I O RS
108 BATHROOMS Modern spas and restful sanctuaries
176 COASTAL RULES ‘Seaside retreat’ without pastiche?
Just use colour, texture and confidence
AR T
188 EURO VISION No expense was spared at this Geneva
home where Art Deco glamour reigns supreme 171 NEWS All the latest shows, openings and events
206 BUILT TO LAST Elevating a Glasgow tenement 174 ART WORDS Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce
through clever design touches and lots of personality
B E H I N D C L O S ED D OO RS ESC APE
44 WALL TO WALL Zuber’s magnificent handmade 232 LUNDIES Head to the north-west Highlands and
wallpaper is a history lesson worth learning immerse yourself in art, style and good food
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CONTENTS
173
R EG ULA R S
35 MONITOR All the hottest homewares
37 INTERIORS NEWS The latest home stories
42 DISCOVERY Sorores, Dunlop, Ayrshire
52 HEIRLOOM Fritz Hansen’s rocking horse
76 54 TRENDWATCH Shine a light on silver

56 BIZARRE Cactus coat stand by Gufram x Paul Smith
101 KITCHEN NEWS What’s cooking
113 BATHROOM NEWS New shapes, colours and styles
GA R D E N S
118 BOOKS Coffee-table reads to inspire and delight
224 CASE STUDY Fife’s Cambo Estate venerates the 121 KIDS NEWS Little ones get big designs
humble snowdrop. Visit and you’ll discover why
165 DESIGN IDEAS The global edit
229 GARDEN NEWS Fresh ideas for green fingers
222 ECO NEWS Conscientious shopping
250 AVARICE The world’s most stylish exercise bike
F O O D & D RI N K
238 NEWS Eats and treats from around Scotland
242 STYLE & SUSTENANCE Sampling the tasting
menu at Lyla, Edinburgh
L I F ES TY L E
245 INSIDER Scottish influencer Amy Bell
122
246 THE CURATOR Your style and culture fix
248 TRENDS Catwalk looks for everyone
Top This Bamboo Floral wallcovering, based on a fragment
found at Kingston Lacy in Dorset, is from Little Greene’s
National Trust collection. Middle Melyon skincare is an inclusive
brand with eco credentials that fuses Scandi and West African
roots. Bottom Where you’ll find me: daydreaming of France
after leafing through Living Beautifully in Paris, a new book by
Mathilde Favier that’s out in May
urveyors of provenance. No, not

the name of some indie band
of the mid-1990s, but what this
special Collector’s Issue of Homes
& Interiors Scotland has shown me
we are. Putting this edition of the
magazine together has confirmed
that heritage matters. Each of the
long-read stories, whether on
interior design or architecture, has the same message:
preserving what we’ve got, working with a building’s
foibles and flaws, is more important than buying new.
It’s certainly more necessary as we consider our eco-
footprint and the cost of living. But how lucky are we to
have such wonderfully eccentric, eclectic architecture in
Scotland to renovate. You can see it in our cover story, an
old fisherman’s cottage in the East Neuk of Fife, as well
as in the Glaswegian tenement (page 206) that has been
given such a careful, considerate makeover. Likewise the
little house in the East Lothian village of Drem (page
124) whose owners, rather than sell up, opted to pour
love and labour into their cramped, centuries-old home,
securing its future for at least another hundred years.
Trends come and go but this cherishing of what
we already own, this desire to invest in longevity, can
be seen elsewhere, too. Take Collect, the focus of this
issue’s Design Special on page 58; the London craft fair
is celebrating its 20th anniversary in March, tapping
into the growing appreciation of craft and its makers, as
buyers and collectors search out pieces that will stand
the test of time, pieces that tell a story to be passed down
through families and treasured by future generations.
This is what ‘collecting’ is all about. As interior
designer, influencer and TV presenter Anna Campbell-
Jones remarks in our This Life feature (page 22), “I buy
art just because I like it. There’s no strategy beyond looking
for what brings me joy.”
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Italian immigrants, and studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Saint
Martin’s. There, he developed his distinctive, high-energy works,
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consumer goods, sex symbols and advertisements. The Silken World
of Michelangelo (opposite) and the untitled work on this page are
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IN THE FRAME
Annabel Karim Kassar

Award-winning architect and designer
I’m French, I hate the ‘star architect’ syndrome.
grounded in European sensibilities. But I’ve lived and worked Perhaps Lebbeus Woods because he’s a maverick.
in many countries: Lebanon, Morocco, the Gulf, the United
States, China and now Britain. I love putting together and I am a closet fan of what is
layering cultural influences from the north and the south. erroneously called ‘brutalism’, because of its provocation and its
spatial quality.
Architecture
frames space, and inhabiting space is always psychologically I am working long-term on
emotional. I’m influenced by psychoanalysis (Lacan), cinema the renovation in Beirut of one of the city’s few remaining
(Godard), painting (Cézanne). I love the architectural masters: Ottoman-era mansions. I love the non-western interior layout
Bauhaus, Le Corbusier and my university mentor, Aymeric where every room leads off a central living space. It makes for
Zublena. community rather than isolation.
IN THE FRAME
Left The architect in Beirut in 2022,

where she has been restoring one of
the city’s Ottoman-era mansions.
Right, from top Annabel’s Rocket
espresso machine was a recent good
buy; she loves Paul Cézanne’s work; the
Bouroullecs’ Alcove sofa is a favourite
Colour and rich textures. The walls and "
floors should speak for themselves, not be reduced to empty My phone,
spaces to hang pictures or lay rugs. And make the bathroom my sketchbook and my
central and a place to enjoy, not an afterthought – you spend a art materials. And a
lot of your life there. good bag to keep them
all in.
For me,
each project is unique. I’m always intrigued by transforming !
memory into contemporary design. I’m not afraid of doing A Rocket coffee machine
things differently. It is very depressing to see endless repetitions and good speciality coffee from Latin America and Africa.
of white, black and metallic greys! Light is always important. It
is a physical material, as visible as any concrete wall. A Mezze sofa from my
Salon Nana collection for Moroso.
A hot bath with a cup of herbal tea – and
no mobile phone. # Time is worth more than money.
Running in Regent’s Park. It’s $ My partner, who is Scottish!
when I think most creatively.

The Alcove sofa by Ronan and Erwan
Bouroullec. It works so well mixed with traditional
Lebanese mattresses and Moroccan cushions.
!

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ANNA CAMPBELL-JONES
Broadcaster, interior designer, Influencer
of the Year… Welcome to the colour-filled
world of Anna Campbell-Jones
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Words Catherine Coyle
THIS LIFE
t would make sense if Anna Campbell-Jones was a fire sign. She certainly possesses all of the typical
attributes – a thirst for adventure, a wicked sense of humour, a willingness to take risks – and seems
to have an affinity with the element. You see, if it hadn’t been for the devastating blaze at Glasgow
School of Art’s Mackintosh building in 2018, she might never have had her ‘sliding doors’ moment.
She’d been lecturing at GSA, her alma mater, a couple of days a week since 2000 as well as running
her interior design practice. Her schedule was tight, and fitting in other work was almost impossible.
“After the fire, everything closed down. That was when I got the call,” says Anna.
The fateful phone call was from a producer who was looking for judges for a new TV show
called Scotland’s Home of the Year. Had she still been working at the Mack, she would probably
have turned it down. She wasn’t to know just how successful the show would become (it has been
recommissioned for a sixth series, and a special annual Christmas edition has also been produced),
but it opened her eyes to unexpected possibilities and has encouraged her to grasp new opportunities
with both hands. “My mother had died quite suddenly a few weeks before the Scotland’s Home of
Opposite and below Anna’s interior design practice, Habitus, is where she consults with clients and puts together moodboards. She
also operates her own brand from her home studio; she maintains that the most powerful thing you can do to a space is change the
colour. Here, her home office is painted a bold coral. Previous pages Anna in the living room of her west end apartment where a
vast Sue Williams painting takes centre stage. “I bought it for the flat before we even had a loo or a kitchen!”
THIS LIFE
the Year call,” she says. “She was the person I’d speak to about
these things. Without her, I realised I had to ‘adult’ on my own.
A lot had changed suddenly. It was a massive turning point for
me, and I didn’t really think about what would happen next.”
Her role on the hit show (“It has been an absolute roller-
coaster”) has led to her picking up the title of Scottish Influencer
of the Year. It also propelled her to set up a “micro brand”, as
she calls it, selling her own range of handmade textiles and
homewares inspired by Norman Wilkinson’s First World War
Dazzle camouflage designs, with an extra mid-century twist.
“When you’re a teenager, your idea of someone in their
50s is a person cruising towards retirement,” reckons the effer-
vescent designer. “But I’m having the time of my life! I get
a lot of messages from women of a similar age to me saying
how happy they are to see someone in middle age going for it,
enjoying life, taking on new challenges, not being afraid to try
new things. My life has taken a lot of different paths but they
have always been connected to interior design.”

Anna grew up in Hammersmith, where her father was
an architect and her mother was a nurse-turned-painter and
designer. Anna studied interior design at GSA – it was one
of only three UK universities offering a degree in the subject
at the time – and she was smitten with the city as soon as she
stepped off the train at Central Station. But she graduated
into a recession and there were no real jobs in interior design.
Reluctantly, she returned to London, where she cut her teeth
on big commercial contracts, retail displays and partnerships
with global brands. By 2000, though, when it came to having
her first child, Anna realised she didn’t want to stay in London.
Glasgow was calling: “My (ex) husband’s company had an office
there. We’d met at art school and both loved the city. It felt like
the right place to raise kids.”
This page Anna’s own brand of homewares and textiles dress the classic
HAY Mags sofa in the living room. A Tulip side table by Eero Saarinen
and a vintage standard lamp add to the eclectic mood.
Bottom left This calm corner of the living room is where Anna’s Zender
piano resides. She bought it with money left to her by her grandfather
and it came with her when she relocated from London in the 1980s.
Both her sons learned to play piano on it.
Top left At work in her studio: “My life has taken a lot of different paths
but they have all been connected to interior design.”
THIS LIFE
Below Starry Starry Night and Relics in Glasgow are favourite haunts for vintage shopping. Right Cooking is another of Anna’s hobbies.
She wanted a hardwearing, authentic kitchen, so opted for bespoke stainless steel. The room is peppered with trinkets with stories, such
as her vintage iGuzzini orange pendant. “The first one I had here I got out of a skip. It tragically split and when I was looking to replace it,
the kids were insistent that I find an identical one; they saw it as the heart of the home. I got this one from an online vintage reseller.”
THIS LIFE
Another fire proved fortuitous: this time it brought her opposite end of the design spectrum. “I have this pretty reliable
a main-door flat that would become her forever home. Some theory that if you choose something really, really sincerely, it
people might have struggled to see past its scorched ceilings will go with the other things in your home that you’ve bought
and charred walls, but Anna was undeterred. Mrs Kilgour, the with that same sentiment,” she says. “Clients always ask me,
previous owner of this apartment in the west end, had enjoyed ‘How will I know if things match?’, and I always say they don’t
smoking in bed, she says, which explains the blaze that wiped have to! They can relate to each other.”
out everything, except one old metal filing cabinet containing a Glancing around the flat, there are chairs she has fished out
lifetime’s worth of photographs taken by Mrs Kilgour. of skips and a collection of old ‘brown’ family furniture that
“I like to think that we are all guardians of the properties we she didn’t want to let go of after both her parents passed away.
live in. I’m a great believer that everything in your house should On one side of the hallway are austere family portraits; on the
tell a story… but it doesn’t necessarily have to be only your others, Andy Warhol’s Flowers. “I didn’t plan it – it just kind of
story; it might also be the story of someone who has passed happened, and I thought, that’s not wrong because I love them
through it.” all, and they all love each other.”
Anna’s capacity to tell stories is writ large on every inch She takes the same kind of philosophical approach to her
of the flat, which she raised her kids in, began new careers in, bothy on the west coast, a retreat that serves the extended
and will always call home. It has evolved over the years but family for holidays and impromptu getaways, and which
at the heart of it is a commitment to colour and a passion for she has been coming to since she was a child. There, hardy
pieces that speak of life – hers, her family’s, even Mrs Kilgour’s; practicality, chosen with the rural location in mind, is mixed
compared to the house in London where she was raised, with treasured curios. The 1970s breezeblock cabin needed a
decorated by her ultra-minimalist architect father, it’s at the lot of upgrading (Anna describes the fabric of the octagonal
Opposite, top left Anna is energised by colour and is a big ambassador for
sustainability and living a more eco-friendly life, so second-hand shopping
works for her. Top right The glass display cabinet is an upcycled Barnardo’s
purchase and the photos on the wall were a gift from a friend. Bottom left A
cluster of Anna Campbell-Jones textiles work against a sugary-pink backdrop.
Bottom right Industrial lighting, an original Chopper bike and a Damien Hirst
make for an engaging welcome in the hallway. This page Anna researched
IMAGE BY JACK HOBHOUSE

the history of Dazzle camouflage – it forms the basis of her own collection
and she has even painted the pattern onto the exterior walls of her cabin
THIS LIFE
building as being like “Weetabix dissolving in milk”). She enlisted

the help of her friend Mark Bell of McGinlay Bell Architects and
the basics were modernised – better insulation, solar panels,
rainwater harvesting. “We also changed the shape and size of
the windows, and painted the exterior with a Dazzle camouflage
pattern. Inside, it’s got furniture from Mum and Dad’s house, as
well as all our family photo albums. Things have to be important to
be here. It’s a really, really special place.”
If Anna’s not able to escape to the bothy at the weekend (she
makes the trip so often she believes there’s a groove marking the
route between Glasgow and the coastal bolthole), you’ll find her
out and about in the city she loves – perhaps doing a bit of vintage
shopping or checking out a new exhibition for creative inspiration.
“A lot of what I’m moved by is quite abstract,” she says. “But it’s got
to raise my pulse.”
Above Anna revelling in pattern and colour choices at her studio. Top right The
cabin is a home from home for the Campbell-Jones clan. Its plywood interior
keeps its rustic integrity and lets the location take the spotlight. Below Dazzle
camo-designed exteriors give it Anna’s signature blast of pattern
Permanent fixture in my fridge

Homemade oat milk. Do it! It’s so easy and
cheap. And it’s better for the planet.
Go-to cocktail Negroni.
An object I could never part with A
Staffordshire figurine of a cat that I call
Maude which belonged to my mum.
One book I could never lend I love
lending books. If I’ve already read them
then it’s not a loss. And if they don’t come
back then they’re being useful elsewhere.
An artist whose work I’d collect I buy
art on a whim, usually. Sometimes it’s
by someone well known, sometimes it’s
just because I like it. There’s no strategy
beyond looking for what brings me joy.
My favourite treat Pistachio ice-cream.
My style signifier is Not really being
bothered about fitting into a tribe.
a slice of life My style icon is Iris Apfel.

The music I play on repeat Northern Soul
I’m making the planet greener by Making always gets me dancing in the kitchen.
kimchi from fridge scraps, preventing food The last thing I bought A sparkly top from
waste and feeding my microbiome. It’s a a charity shop.
win-win!
The thing I’m eyeing next Always thinking
City or countryside? Both. I love city about the next tattoo!
centres and the most remote wilderness.
I’ve recently discovered No Rules
Not so intrigued by the bits in between.
Wallpaper – such a brilliant sustainable and
What I’m looking at right now My cat original product.
curled up on the window seat, giving daily
I never use it but could never part with it
lessons in self-indulgence.
My Chopper bike that I’ve had since I was
Best bit of life right now All the 11. It’s so heavy, I can’t get it up the steps to
possibilities and fearlessness of being in my flat without help. Plus I do think I would
my mid-50s. look ridiculous riding it!
What makes me happy Seeing my boys Favourite website or podcast Scottish
becoming such excellent men. Island Adventures by The Big Light.
One thing I should tell you is I am terrible In five years’ time Hopefully I will have
at keeping house plants alive. written a book, or three.
The view I never tire of The sea from the A message to my younger self Worry less
kitchen window of my cabin. There might and know that getting older is GREAT.
be an otter or dolphins or an interesting
A message to my older self Never stop
boat pootling about in the distance.
exploring new things, keep seeking fun,
If money’s no object I have never yearned and don’t regret anything. To err is human
for expensive things. I am happy with what and to learn is more important than always
I have. getting it right.
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1 Laetitia Rouget tapas dishes
This set of two shell dishes (the
other one is decorated with pastel
squiggles) are brilliantly playful.
2 Stoneware vase from Arket
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Classic stripes but in contemporary
green. Your blooms will love it.
3 Botero thermal carafe from
Artemest Keep your brew toasty,
and stylish, with a leather-clad carafe.
4 Timorous Beasties Insect
cushion Jewel tones meet velvet
and fringes. These limited-edition
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cushions are effortlessly cool.
5 Dream nightstand by Montana
The whole collection is modular and
highly customisable. We like the
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6 Jusqu’au petit matin flag from
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was handmade in India and is a good
choice for eclectic homes.
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dr o p it like it’s hot

It’s not hard to spot the
Bauhaus influences in the
Onos adjustable pendant
from Hector Finch, a
gorgeous and functional
piece designed with the
kitchen in mind. Don’t
let that limit you, though;
the rise-and-fall pendant
is suited to all manner of
spaces. Install a pair at your
bedside or one above the
IMAGE BY GIULIO GHIRARDI

dining table for adjustable
ambience.
From £2,262. hectorfinch.com
SITTING PRETTY
As armchairs go, this one is verging
on the spectacular. The frame is hand-
EVERGREEN DESIGN forged steel and highly decorative, but
the seat doesn’t skimp on comfort. A
This brand new wallpaper from Sandberg plush shearling cocoon sits atop the
is a modern expression of a bamboo botanical metal, ensuring this piece is
grove. It combines lots of elements of both good-looking and practical –
19th-century chinoiserie and features an armchair should encourage
delicate leaves and blooms on a beige lounging, after all. Look to creator
background. It would make a fitting Bryan O’Sullivan for more understated
elegance, and a brilliant blend of
addition to a peaceful bedroom, or even
timeless silhouettes and contemporary
to line the walls of a sunroom. tastes. The Spring Chair, £21,600.
£42 per sq.m. sandbergwallpaper.com
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READY TO ERUPT
Where do textile designers find their
inspiration? Everywhere, it seems – this
one, Casamance’s Baru, was sparked by a
dormant volcano in Panama. It’s a heavy 1
fabric, suited to upholstery and curtains,

and also comes in a more muted colourway.
£158.80 per m. casamance.com
Down under
1 Elephas Maximus rug, approx
£2,500, Carpet Edition 2 Alba rug,
from £3,154, Holmes Bespoke 3 All
Hands rug, from £695, Nordic Knots
4 Teklan Frame rug, from £580,
Layered 5 Otto Blood Orange rug,
approx £2,100 per sq.m,
Fort Street Studio
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French wallpaper company

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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Previous pages A bouquet design for a

repeating wallpaper; just a small fraction
of the Zuber archive.
Clockwise from this image Attention to
detail is incredibly important, as each
segment of the panel is checked by
hand; an impressive array of tools, ready
to be used; working on a background – a
patina is applied with a round brush to
eliminate brush marks
IMAGE BY FANNY LATOUR
oday we’re utterly spoilt for began to demand paper to cover entire rooms, block-printing
choice when it comes to wall- was introduced. This allowed for the creation of more intricate
paper. Modern printing tech- designs, printed one colour at a time. Designs became ever more
niques mean a design can go ambitious as the 18th century progressed, and eventually French
from concept to paper and brand Zuber produced the world’s first panoramic wallpaper, Les
onto your walls in record Vues de Suisse. It was a game-changer.
time. It’s a long way from the Zuber was established in the Alsace town of Mulhouse as a
medium’s early days, when textiles house in the 1780s. The creativity of Nicolas Dollfus, the
motifs were monochrome, owner’s son, led to the setting up of a second factory dedicated to
hand-drawn on a small scale wallpaper. To start with, this was little more than repeat patterns
and intended only for petite and decorative elements printed on sheets of paper, but business
spaces (inside a cupboard, for boomed and the factory quickly needed to expand; it moved to
example). As time went on just a few miles away to Rixheim, where it is still based.
and aristocratic households An Irish artist, Robert Barker, had created the first known
panorama in 1797, a set of six large engravings showing a

360-degree view of Edinburgh from Calton Hill, which he exhibi-
ted in the city to great acclaim. Around the same time, Louis de
Carmontelle, a French garden designer, produced a series of
watercolour panoramas on transparent paper and displayed
them in backlit viewing boxes. Zuber was inspired by both and
soon created its own panoramic wallpaper, the famous Vues de
Suisse of 1804, designed by Pierre-Antoine Mongin. It required
an astonishing 1,024 woodblocks (and 150 colours), which are
still used to print the pattern today.
The firm started out with six workers, eventually expanding
to 350 employees in the mid-19th century. Today, Zuber is the
last manufacturer in the world to produce panoramic wall-
paper with woodblocks and, once again, there are just six
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Top row, left to right One of the workers uses the velvet
flocking technique; a bouquet design for wallpapers
with repeating motifs; stamps are used for the captions
on each panel. Bottom row, left to right A selection of
available colours is displayed on the wall for reference;
rolls and rolls of wallpaper panels are stored in the
Rixheim factory; each panorama is touched up by hand
to treat any areas not fully covered during printing
woodblock printers working on the designs. Three are dedicated

to panoramas and the rest to repeat patterns. But while it might
have shrunk, the business is still doing well, and was acquired
last year by Pierre Frey. “We were approached by Gisèle Chalaye,
who had owned Zuber since 1985,” says Pierre Frey, grandson of
the founder of the famous French fabric house. “She wanted to
transfer the brand to another trusted French company in order
to preserve its values and ensure its longevity. We’re proud to take
up the torch.”
With an archive spanning over 200 years, the collection is
quite the undertaking. “When we acquired Zuber, we discovered
that it had created 30 scenic wallpapers, but more than 10,000
wallpapers with repeat patterns had been totally forgotten,” says
Sophie Rouart, art historian and heritage manager for Pierre
Frey. “For most of them, the woodblocks had been conserved
untouched since the 19th century.”
The process of creating a woodblock is a long one, she
continues. “We know from the archives at the Rixheim wallpaper
museum that it took two years to develop Les Vues de Suisse. First,
you work out scale and determine the number of lengths needed
for the design. Then each colour in the pattern is transferred to its
own set of wooden boards – over a thousand boards can be used
for one design. Then the boards are engraved, which can take
several months. Finally the design is printed according to colour
progression.”
This would have been the case for some of Zuber’s most
recognisable papers, such as the botanical Isola Bella, sunny
Eldorado, and Vues de l’Amérique du Nord. The latter depicts
panoramic scenes of New York and Boston harbour and is on the
walls of the Diplomatic Reception Room in the White House.
Suffice to say, there’s plenty to be excited about at Zuber.
Pierre Frey is already an iconic design house with a reputation
for resuscitating heritage brands; access to a whole new bank of
historical designs can only be good news. “Each of the brands

that make up our group retains its own identity and continues to
write its own history,” Pierre says. “Maintaining the knowhow
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Left One strip of the panoramic Vues de

l’Amérique du Nord. This image Part of the
popular Isola Bella panoramic wallpaper. The
hand-carved wooden blocks that are still used to
painstakingly print Zuber’s papers are classified
as historic monuments in France
of our forebears is essential; we want to be part of a French

tradition of excellence. Promoting these crafts to the younger
generation and training them in these skills is key to preserving
each of the brands.”
From the beginning, the success of Zuber’s scenic wallpapers
was down to close collaboration with artists. Jean Zuber chose
themes he thought were fashionable and then discussed how to
make them happen with the artists. Artists are just as important
today – and, understandably, they tend to stick around. Two of
the current printers, brothers Youccef and Khalid, have been
working for the firm for 20 and 30 years respectively. Another
employee, Olivier, is just 18 but is already specialising in repeat
patterns and has experience in panoramic designs.
With the recent resurgence in appreciation for the beauty
of the handmade, for time-honoured craftsmanship, and for
heritage, it looks like Zuber’s future is as bright as its past.
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THE OLD VIEW THAT CHILDREN should be seen

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seen and not heard, either, thank you very much’. All that
brightly coloured plastic is really only bearable when it has
been tidied away into neat baskets.
Some brands are putting up a good fight, though,
banishing the gaudy and the noisy and giving us sleek,
sustainable alternatives that kids will still love. Danish
furniture company Fritz Hansen has done us all a favour
by releasing this handsome rocking horse, an updated
prototype from 1946. Rocking horses are, of course, an
enduring classic, a staple of the nursery and playroom for
hundreds of years. There’s even one in the V&A, made in
1610 for the young Charles I. Unlike that crude example,
this hand-bent beauty, crafted from ash, is pleasingly
minimal in its design. Despite the clever use of negative
space, it’s still recognisable as a horse, and still provides
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BRIGHT, BOLD AND WITH ROOTS in the 1970s, this
striking piece of sculpture is an impressive collaboration
between stripes-loving British menswear supremo Paul
Smith and Italian manufacturer Gufram, renowned for
the ‘radical’ spirit of its designs.
The oversized cactus was originally designed for
Gufram as a coat stand by Guido Drocco and Franco
Mello in 1972. It has been tinkered with only slightly
in the intervening five decades, with just the colour
tweaked. This limited-edition version, the Sunrise
Cactus, goes a step further and gives us seven saturated
hues. It’s the second of Paul Smith’s collaborations
with Gufram on the product, following 2016’s punchy
Psychedelic Cactus.
Like the rest of the Cactus family, it’s made entirely
from polyurethane, stands 170cm tall and weighs in
at a hefty 22kg. It’s not the most traditional format
for a coat stand (how many floor-length puffa jackets
could actually be slung over one hook?) but function is
understandably eclipsed by its artistic potential.
If you don’t want to sacrifice precious hallway real
estate to this prickly sculpture, there’s a mini version that
would fit on a shelf for a fraction of the cost.
Above The screenprinted
wall hangings are by Eve
Campbell. Borja Moronta
made the stoneware vessels.
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Collect
2024
Meet some of the Scottish craft makers
showing their work at this annual
celebration of the handmade
Craft is having a huge resurgence and, frankly, it’s about time.

Two-dimensional work, like paintings and photography, will always have its
place, but craft is now rightfully being hailed as one of the most accessible
forms of artistic expression, open to people who might not consider them-
selves artists – think of your gran knitting, your best pal methodically
creating crochet tapestries, your brother-in-law taking a pottery class. Most
creative people have dabbled in craft, and even if you haven’t, craft is easily
comprehended and appreciated. Of course, there are artists and makers
ready to push the boundaries – so where do you go to see the best of the best?
The answer is Collect, the annual London fair launched by the Crafts Council
in 2004.
“Collect is probably the most
important art fair for contem-
porary craft and design,” says
its creative director, Isobel
Dennis. “This year is its
20th edition, so it’s well
established.”
UK and international
galleries apply to show
the work of a selection of
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which shows ambition in pushing their practice. Once selected,

they are then supported to create something brand new for the
fair. These interventions sit alongside world-class galleries. It’s a
fantastic mix and always a proper feast for the senses.”
It’s not just accessibility pushing craft to the forefront; it’s the
shift in the buyer’s focus that we should be tentatively optimistic
about. “I think people really care about provenance these days,”
agrees Isobel. “They care about the handmade. There’s a backlash
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some of the makers showcased by Craft Scotland at Collect this

year. “Scotland offers up such extraordinary wildness for creative
“You get to see the most incredible work, from every discipline
people to respond to,” says Isobel. “I think that’s why you see such
you could imagine,” says Isobel. “Ceramics, glass, wood, textiles,
beauty coming from Scottish artists. It’s embedded in where and
paper, jewellery – really interesting things. Everything is by artists how they live.”
working today, over 80% of the work has been made in the last
five years, and so much is commissioned specifically for the fair.”
Collect, as you may have guessed from the name, is not an Opposite Craft Scotland at Collect 2023: coffee table
exhibition; it’s a selling fair or collectors’ market. Prices start at (foreground) by SHY Design Studio; Moon Jars by Ruth Elizabeth
Jones; sculptural baskets by Iseabal Hendry; screenprinted wall
around £500 but most works cost between £5,000 and £15,000. hangings by Eve Campbell
Attendees include museum patrons and curators, art advisors,
interior designers and, of course, collectors.
Part of Collect’s appeal is its location. Somerset House, which
has played host for the past five years, offers a comfortable viewing
experience, and one quite dissimilar to a typical gallery. Finding a
new location was one of Isobel’s first tasks back in 2018, when the

fair had to move from its original home at the V&A. “There isn’t a
huge number of suitable venues in London,” she says. “I wanted to
get away from that white-walled booth in a marquee or exhibition
centre. I think the work deserves more than that. Somerset House
has its challenges, but what it does give you is a fully immersive
interiors experience. Each gallery gets an entire room. They have
a fourth wall, fireplaces, wooden floors, natural daylight (which
loads of exhibitions don’t have) and you get glorious evening light.
This allows buyers to visualise the pieces in their own home.”
Isobel comes from a creative background herself; she’s the
daughter of two architects and is trained in ceramics. “I was a
maker, so I really understand the process. Even though I have to
run the fair in a business-like manner, the whole creative side of Top left 18ct gold
brooch by Heather
it is incredibly important for me. That knowledge base helps me
McDermott. Above
keep its creative direction moving in the right way.” Engraved glass dolls
The makers at Collect are brilliantly diverse, and not just by Suh Moonju. Right
Faceted foam glass
because they work in a wide variety of mediums. “We show a sculptural pieces by
lot of emerging artists, and they’re not necessarily young. Some Charlott Rodgers
are having second careers,” Isobel explains. “As well as gallery
submissions, we also have Collect Open, which is where an artist
can apply independently. They have to put forward a proposal
This image Richard Goldsworthy surrounded by his
work in his studio at Marchmont. Opposite page,
right Wave sculpture by Richard Goldsworthy
Opposite page, below Jo Walker in her pottery
studio near Dunfermline; Homage to Forton, made
in white stoneware
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Richard Goldsworthy
Sculptor
I knew I wanted to be a sculptor when accident 30 years ago I would’ve been
I was 13, and doggedly pursued this strapped to a bed for six months unable
path. I’ve always been drawn to 3D work to move. I wanted to evoke this feeling in
over 2D and studied a BA in sculpture my work. I saw wood as a natural material
at Edinburgh College of Art. For me, that represented myself. I added nails
Edinburgh was the place to be: the to reference the screws in my spine that
college had great tutors and it had space. were supporting me and allowing me to
That’s so important when you’re working heal. This evolved to using pewter and
in 3D – you need room to experiment experimenting with the fusion of those
and try new things. two materials.
I fell into using wood because it was My studio is at Marchmont House
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the most accessible material for me. I in the Borders. I came to do an artist
started incorporating pewter after I had a residency and just fell in love with the
bad accident; I used to be a professional place. It’s wonderful to be surrounded by
skier with Team GB, but I had a big injury lots of creative people. I also now know
where I broke my back and neck. That pretty much exactly which fallen tree the
was a pivotal point for me; if I’d had this wood I’m working with has come from.
Jo Walker
Ceramicist
I studied jewellery and silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art
but when I graduated I lacked the confidence to market myself and
my work. I ended up working in retail, where I spent the next 12
years, and it wasn’t until my two children began attending nursery
that I had the free time to rediscover my love of craft. I enrolled in a
weekly pottery class and realised how much I had missed
having a creative outlet.
Working with clay was a complete revelation. I find
clay infinitely fascinating, not only for its endless
capacity to be transformed but also for the way
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it makes me slow down and focus. Before long, I

found myself assisting in the pottery studio and
later became part of a community group. As my
enthusiasm grew, I established my own studio,
which enabled me to supply galleries and shops.
My most recent work is inspired by two
distinct threads, that of modernist architecture
together with mid-century murals and decorative
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wall reliefs. I enjoy the juxtaposition of these two

styles, simple forms combined with graphic patterns
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Katie
Charleson
Textile designer
From a young age I was very drawn to
clothes and fashion. My granny taught
me to stitch by hand, sew on a machine
and do some basic hand knits. I still use
her mother’s hand-crank Singer sewing
machine for most of my quilt piecing –
it’s one of the most reliable pieces of
equipment I own and it must be at least
80 years old.
I did a course at Leith School of Art
then studied textiles at Glasgow School
of Art. I did think my path was going to
be knit for a while, but I was obsessed
with print from the first day I tried it. A
friend told me I wouldn’t like it because
it was noisy and messy and nothing
ever went right. I found all of those
things to be true, and I loved it!
Ever since then I’ve been working To me, craft means a physical Above Katie Charleson with some
in or around printed textiles in some connection between myself and what examples of her work. Below left One of
her screenprinted quilts. Below Triptych
way or another. What I love most about I make. I consider my quilts to be soft
screen, hung with printed quilts
quilting is the option to collage and sculptures. For my newest piece for
collate different materials, scraps and Collect, I chose to push the 3D element
offcuts depending on what you are and introduced wool batting. This
trying to say with the piece. invites touch and draws the viewer in.
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Susie Redman
Weaver
My parents weren’t professional craft spent weaving or planning a new weave.

makers but whenever they needed I’m learning how to spin my home-grown
something they always considered how flax and also fleece from locally reared
to make it rather than where to buy it. As rare-breed sheep.
a child I learned how to knit and sew and I’m excited to be showing my new
even had a child-sized table loom. collection of sculptural vessels at
My journey into weaving started with this year’s Collect. The underpinning
a beautiful Swedish floor loom. It was theme of the collection is the activity of
destined to be firewood but I couldn’t let gathering. These vessels are woven on
that happen. It arrived at my house in bits my floor loom using a linen warp and
but I researched how to put it together Japanese paper wefts.
and figured out how it worked.
Later I spent some time at a weaving
school in New England. It was there that
I was introduced to weaving with linen Top Susie Redman in her
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planted some on my allotment, enough stripped willow rods. Above
After the Harvest, 2023.
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parts of the process. willow bark. Left Flax
I work from a studio in a heritage Gatherer, 2023. A sculptural
railway building on the Fife coast. My hanging vessel made from
linen, Japanese paper yarn,
view is of a working harbour and across willow bark and flax stems
to Edinburgh, and most of my day is with seedheads
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BEDROOMS
Rest your head

A peaceful bedroom is key to getting that coveted eight-hour snooze each night. So how do you find tranquillity?
Start by keeping your sleeping zone separate from your working-living-entertaining-exercising spaces, and dress it
appropriately: we’re seeing the return of traditional canopies, ruffles, quilts and decorative headboards. It should feel
comfortable and cosseting, with layers of textiles. If you don’t see the point of a mountain of cushions on the bed, you
can still snuggle into luxurious natural fibres such as woollen blankets and linen sheets, or add a sheer curtain to your
window dressings. It’s fine for furniture not to match (indeed, the bedroom suite has largely died a death); a couple of
unusual nightstands can make more of an impact. (As with antiques, there’s no need to doggedly pursue a pair; find
sisters, not twins.) And always leave room for fun: reserve a drawer for late-night snacks, have a good bedside light for
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Top A tartan effect using wood? Only

Bisazza could pull it off. This chalet
bedroom would be a welcome sight
after a day on the slopes. Left Layered
textures make this space feel considered
and grown-up. Design by Studio Peake.
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Chalk Pink Linen Company; king-size
Lewis headboard, from £1,199, Headboard
Workshop; Skipper table lamp by Tom
Raffield, £195, John Lewis
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Right Mint jute mini basket, £10.50,
The Braided Rug Company; Shortcake
chequerboard wallpaper, from £38 per
sq.m, Bobbi Beck; Tick pompom cushion,
£95, Tori Murphy. Below Mia Karlsson
designed this clever room with a raised bed
to create extra storage beneath. Opposite
page Encourage maximalist tastes from an
early age with a smorgasbord of colourful
Cathy Nordström textiles
KIDS’ BEDROOMS
Where the wild things are

Top of the list for a child’s room is the potential for exploration. There are small ways to
incorporate this (unusual textures, displays of their favourite things), but start with the
layout if you can. Even the most average room can usually accommodate a platform bed,
which provides an instant element of play and bonus storage space beneath. Or create a
hidey-hole: an unused alcove can be transformed into a den with nothing more than a
telescopic rail and some inexpensive curtains – it’s even renter-friendly. If your children
are telling you they’re too old for dens, take it with a pinch of salt; but it might be time
to transform their room into a pre-teen oasis that can grow with them. Give them a
space other than the bed for lounging (windowseats are a favourite) and involve them in
choosing the elements that have to stand the test of time. Listen to their suggestions and
find a compromise if your styles clash wildly. They might surprise you.
IMAGE BY FANNY RADVIK
ROOMS I KIDS’ BEDROOMS
Top left Tight squeeze? This bedroom can sleep four thanks to
bespoke bunks. The dark blue paint is Maritime by Mylands. Top
right A windowseat and a bed all in one, designed by Studio
Peake. Left A dreamy transitional bedroom. The Hicks’ Blue paint
on the panelling and the Burges Butterfly wallpaper are both by
Little Greene. This image Add a touch of magic with a canopy
over the bed. The fabric is Tori Murphy’s Woodhouse Check
Top Uzima sculpture, £466,
Arteriors; Boho Sundown framed
prints, £200 for a set of two,
Abstract House. Left Walls in
Mylands’ Early Lavender paint (£78
for 2.5 litres of emulsion) allows the
emphasis to be on art in this well-
dressed living room. Above This
incredible bespoke sofa is part of
a project in Montana designed
by TG Studio. It has a boomerang
base with a backrest which follows
the boomerang initially and then
splits into a squiggle, giving two
distinct areas for sitting. One side
faces the fireplace and the other
faces the impressive view
LIVING ROOMS
Take a load off

In your main living space, the focus should be on need fulfilment. This will look different for each household, so
step one is identifying how you want to use the room. If you come up with a long list, a modular, multifunctional
space is necessary. Creating zones will help, but don’t be afraid to get creative; the bespoke sofa above faces two
directions, to get the enviable views without losing the warmth of the fireplace. If all you need from your living
room is a place to flop down in front of a film, splurge on a comfy sofa. Visit stores and try out different brands in
person; something might look brilliantly squishy online but be hard as nails (or completely lack lumbar support)
in reality. Once the main event is sorted, make sure you are represented in the space. Colourful coffee-table
books always look great, but choose substance over style any day – pick subjects that suit your interests and spark
conversation with your guests. Art will bring it all together, so play around with different layouts for your gallery
wall. We’re currently loving asymmetrical and diagonal arrangements.
ROOMS I LIVING ROOMS
Left Arts & Crafts Woodland Tapestry

wallpaper, £75 per roll, Beautiful Walls;
Divide wall mirror, £200, Sweetpea
& Willow. Below A traditional country
house given a poppy update by Otta
Design. Opposite, top Designer Mia
Karlsson chose cohesive organic
shapes for this airy space. Opposite,
bottom Pieces like the Noughts &
Crosses coffee table (£2,400) and the
reupholstered antique wingback chair
(£1,950), both by Studio Atkinson, make
this living room so inviting
ROOMS I LIVING ROOMS
Above Designed by Studio Peake, a glazed partition

splits this living room into formal and informal zones.
Note the relaxed gallery wall. Left Textiles from the
Savannah collection by Prestigious Textiles hint at warm
climes. Below Beverley rug by Zuiver, approx £350,
Epiplo Deco; Zig Zag shade, £265, Salvesen Graham
HOMEWORK
Study group
The rising star of the interiors world is the humble home office. Lockdown forced us to improvise, but now that
many of us have the option of hybrid working, we’re taking the time to personalise our studies, tailoring them to
our taste and moving away from a scaled-down replica of the actual office workplace. Why spend your day in a
white box at a flatpack desk if you have control over the decor? Even if you don’t work in a creative field, aim for a
flexible, uncluttered space that leaves room for inspiration to strike, and think about how colour, lighting and an
injection of personality could make this a place you look forward to spending time in. And don’t neglect your well-
being: invest in a sit-stand desk or a walking pad, and build in space for taking a break.
Above Century Wood wall light, £45, Habitat; Royal
Grass Green paint, £60 for 2.5 litres of emulsion, Edward
Bulmer. Right A zesty reading nook, designed by Rosanna
Bossom, that any bookworm would be thrilled with. Below
Concealed storage is the key to this beautifully organised
study, designed and made by Neatsmith. Opposite Franck
IMAGE BY MIKE GARLICK

Genser’s Parisian apartment also doubles as a studio space
for the maverick furniture designer. Just imagine what you
could accomplish in a room like this…
DINING ROOMS
Set the table

Whether planning a 12-course zodiac-themed dinner party, or just wanting
a flat surface from which to inhale your cereal, a dining room can be a
useful space. It needn’t be a whole room, either, as these images prove. A
spare nook or a corner of your kitchen will do. The palette is up to you, but
we’re loving these warm hues and variations on terracotta, especially when
paired with natural wood. After a table and chairs (the comfier the better),
lighting should be your main concern. Pendants belong in the dining room,
illuminating the centre of the table and letting the feast do the talking. If your
table doubles as a conference spot and every meal is consumed here, wall
lights are your friend. And you can easily manipulate the atmosphere with a
combination of light sources.
This image Arte’s Kailua

wallpaper envelopes this dining
room in a warm embrace
ROOMS I DINING ROOMS
Above Booth seating can be a real space-saver. Here, as part of

a Shaker kitchen by Olive & Barr, it has been painted in Farrow
& Ball’s bold Bamboozle. Left Malia dinner plate, £22.50, Nkuku;
Riad Terracotta paint, £55.95 for 2.5 litres, Annie Sloan; pink striped
tablecloth, £110, Joanna Wood.
Opposite, top left A relaxing space with a muted palette, designed
by Davonport. Top right A mix of bench and pew-style seating in
Studio Peake’s makeover of a Notting Hill property. Bottom left Tori
Murphy’s yellow gingham and stripes work on the table, cushions
and blinds of this sunny dining room. Bottom right Fabrics by Cathy
Nordström add verve to this dining nook by Inuti Design, ideal for
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kitchen by Ledbury Studio is
a vision in pale cabinetry and
snowy marble
ROOMS I KITCHENS
Heart of the home
While trad runs riot in the bedroom (see page 70), things are a lot less frou-frou in the kitchen, where fuss-free spaces
with confident colour are the order of the day. Decor here should have a functional element: display that enamel teapot
or hang rustic chopping boards on the wall – but only if you’re going to use them. Plants work well as decor, especially
if they are flavour-filled herbs rather than their inedible counterparts. Handmade tiles are worth investing in for the
personality they bring. As in the rest of your home lighting should be layered. If your kitchen is merely a backdrop for
cocktail parties, you can get by with lamps, wall lights and under-cabinet illumination. Otherwise, make sure you have
good task lighting – it’s as crucial to the chef as a knife-sharpener. As for style, the Shaker kitchen remains unwaveringly
popular, but designers are starting to play with new materials: we’re seeing plywood, ribbed wood and aluminium all
making a statement. But good looks will never make up for a clumsy layout or a lack of storage; the most important thing
in any kitchen is practicality. Make sure it works with your lifestyle, and always maximise worktop space.
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Mornington Shaker collection from
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ROOMS I KITCHENS
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Cosentino prove that cohesion can be achieved without relying
on repetition. Left This room, designed by Beth Kooby Design,
has a showstopping splashback formed of hand-painted tiles by
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Rutland Stone paint, £37.50 for 1 litre of eggshell, Sophie Allport;
Mariana rattan pendant shade, £70, Habitat
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KE EP YOUR COOL
Never enough room in your fridge? Take a look at
this beast from Liebherr. It’s from the brand’s top-
of-the-range Peak series and is packed with the
latest tech. Clear drawers let you quickly see what
you’ve got (great for avoiding over-purchasing),
the back wall is made from hygienic stainless steel,
and the ‘HydroBreeze’ cold mist extends the life
of fresh produce. Oh, and it can connect to your
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Mix it up
Budget won’t stretch to a full-scale kitchen renovation? Simply upgrading the
tap is a quick way to refresh the look and feel of the room. Contemporary styles
are focused on colour and shape – stainless steel is out, matt black and warm
terracotta are in. For the former, look to the Futurismo chef’s pro edition mixer
from Graff. For the latter, try the versatile Althia by Abode.
Futurismo, £POA. graff-designs.com; Althia, £269. abodedesigns.co.uk
KITCHEN NEWS
On our radar These brilliant dotty pieces by Tuscan ceramicist

A selection of colourful new pieces Giulio Lucarini are now available via Toast. They’re
for your kitchen. Each is practical crafted from red clay, inspired by traditional Italian
but has a keen focus on design. ceramics and decorated with colourful splatters.
We’re particularly fond of the
The egg cups are particularly sweet, but we’d be
Nespresso x Liberty collaboration
featuring hand-drawn botanicals. happy with the cruet and serving bowl too.
Egg cup set, £30. Oil pourer, £59. Bowl, £46. toa.st
1 Hand-decorated tartan tiles (pictures are
the four current colourways), £32 each, Petra
Palumbo 2 Artisan espresso machine in
Candy Apple, £449, KitchenAid 3 Limited-
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both in a reeded design
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finish. The two can also be
combined: a bank of smooth
cabinets with reeded accents
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hardware and trendy peach
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easy to fall for the design.
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KITCHEN NEWS
LAST ORDERS The architectural Mava barstool designed by Maison Leleu is

an eye-catching choice for your kitchen island. It is handmade in France, with brass
accents at the base and footrest. It’s shown here in a cream fabric, as part of a kitchen
designed by Humbert & Poyet, but there are alternative colours, including a rich
merlot called Georges by Pierre Frey. From £7,430. theinvisiblecollection.com
Gold
standard
Finishing touches in gold will add
a little pizzazz to your kitchen.
The Barwick ridged cabinet
handle from Armac Martin is
great if you like the industrial
look minus the rough edges. It’s
part of the Cocktail collection,
inspired by traditional distillery
tanks, and is made from solid
brass. For mirror shine, choose
the polished brass lacquered
finish. Or get that gold hit
in another form, such as the
gleaming flatware pictured below.
Misette’s Squiggle cutlery is an
investment at £141 for a five-
piece set, but surely worth it for
the extra joy you’ll get with every
meal. They’re top of the wishlist
right now.
Handle, £198, armacmartin.co.uk;
Cutlery, £141. misettetable.com
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The Canis 150 sink from Caple has a bit of everything. The main basin has a
generous 200mm depth and the smaller bowl is useful for soaking rags or dealing
with the dregs of a cuppa when you’re already halfway through the washing-up.
An integrated drainer also leads into the smaller basin. Pictured here in Sand, the
Canis also comes in a range of other neutral tones. £397. caple.co.uk
Above Amorphic mirror, £597, Sweetpea
& Willow. Right A moody bathroom
designed by Mia Karlsson, featuring
Kast’s concrete Otto basins. Below Pale
marble clads every surface in designer
Franck Genser’s Parisian bathroom.
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Scandi cosiness. The units are part of
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BATHROOMS
Wash away your cares

For too long, the bathroom was purely functional, a chilly space that gave no reason to linger (and was a slog
to clean). Pampering, let’s face it, was not encouraged. How things have changed. We now recognise that
this is a room that can be as considered as the rest of the house, and given as much personality. Waterproof
wallpapers and wallcoverings, panelling and large-format tiles are replacing the grotty grout-heavy tiles
of old. Plain white sanitaryware is no longer the only option either, not when you can buy a tub in a fun
colour or a funky shape. As design is prioritised, the bathroom becomes a place dedicated to wellness. Good
lighting is crucial (try architectural wall lights for ambience, but make sure you have task lighting too) and
mirrors work best when oversized. Allow copious storage for skincare products and fluffy towels, and give
yourself space to lounge with a book while your bath fills. That’s better, isn’t it?
ROOMS I BATHROOMS
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Swatch shot
Minnie Kemp, head of design at the Kit Kemp Design Studio,
has collaborated with Mind the Gap on a colourful collection
of wallpaper. Shown here is Palette, inspired by A. Boogert’s
ground-breaking book of colours from 1692. Kemp’s hand-
painted reinvention is transformed into a vibrant wallpaper,
which looks particularly good paired with plain white
sanitaryware. £229 per 156x300cm panel. mindtheg.com
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This bathroom, designed
by Otta, wows with its
There’s a lot packed into this minimalist statement wallcovering.
design. The new Tempesta 110 hand Shown here in Emerald
shower from Grohe has three different (three other colours are
spray settings: Rain, designed to soothe available), Anjou Stripe
and ease stress; Massage, to invigorate; by Timothy Corrigan is a
and Jet, specifically for rinsing hair. The busy, intricate pattern with
a mix of bold flowers and
shower head also comes with water-saving
traditional stripes. Setting
technology and a speed clean function to it against the simplicity of
keep the nozzle free of limescale.
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£273. grohe.co.uk burnished metal accents
means the print can happily
run riot.
£132 per m. fschumacher.co.uk
BATHROOM NEWS
Eye-catchers
Artist Christian Newby
has created the ‘Silk Imps’
for Austin Austin: two
flamboyant characters
decorating the brand’s
Palmarosa & Vetiver hand
soap and cream. Top notes
of marjoram, base notes
of lavender, and Ancient-
Greece-meets-harlequin
illustrations… They look and
smell delicious.
Also on our to-buy list are
Everett & Blue’s Cascais tiles,
part of the Azul collection
of Portuguese tiles. Cascais
is inspired by the coastal
GOLDEN WALLS town of the same name and
features pretty floral motifs
If luxury is the order of the day in your bathroom, consider Lapicida’s Mirrored Gold tiles. hand-painted in a rich blue.
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hard-wearing option. They have been set out here in a Rorschach-esque fashion, to give since we’re already dreaming,
the impression of bookmatched marble, but the tiles are equally effective laid in a random for the outdoor shower in an
pattern. £79 per sq.m. lapicida.com overseas pad.
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Brushed This vanity unit from Devon & Devon is reminiscent of the 1920s, thanks
blush to its curves and mouldings. It’s called the Scottie and comes in a choice of
finishes (including several different marble tops), with brass, nickel or gold
handles and legs. This soft pink finish is a winner, though, especially when
paired with brass taps.
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Peach party
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LIST
A selection of books to inspire a
fresh look at your surroundings,
both indoors and out
Words Catherine Coyle
1 Still
It has taken Mary Jo Hoffman a decade to put together
this wonderfully understated book. The aeronautical
engineer-turned-artist made the decision to document
nature every single day, taking time to observe and
appreciate the world around her. This ritual has evolved;
her original blog has grown into Still, a beautifully
executed volume that, in an era of continuous digital
stimulation, encourages readers to pause, revel in the
beauty of small, often overlooked things, and enjoy a
moment of respite. Bliss.
£39.95, Monacelli
2 The House Romantic

The way we view our homes is changing. It’s less about
matching and more about meaning; flaunting brand names
is out, and individuality, one-off pieces and a move towards
2
authenticity is in. But how do you create that look? What
is required to give your interiors that unique stamp that
3 is visually appealing and also pleasing to you, the person
who lives there? Haskell Harris is here to help. Her advice,
practical instructions and simple techniques, collected
over two decades spent working in lifestyle magazines,
give a glimpse of a different sort of homemade home –
one that oozes charm, warmth and absolute originality.
£35, Abrams
BOOKS
3 Never Too Small

There must be truth in the old adage that ‘size isn’t
everything’ since this is the second instalment of Joel
Beath and Camilla Janse van Vuuren’s book Never Too
Small. Here, they share 30 case studies demonstrating
exactly what you can achieve, even if your living space is
on the diminutive side. They’ve tracked down architects
and designers to help explain the ways in which you can
maximise your home’s potential with smart design hacks
and well-executed tricks that will stand the test of time.
One to invest in if renovations are on the to-do list.
£30, Smith Street Books
4 Vignettes
Ever wondered why a fruit bowl and some candlesticks
can look so stylish in someone else’s home but not in your
own? You’re not alone – some people just seem able to
put together artfully arranged nooks and crannies in their
homes. So thank goodness for Sean Scherer: the owner
of contemporary curiosity shop Kabinett & Kammer in
the Catskills has compiled a book that spills the beans on
the hidden art of creating vignettes. The photography 4
is Scherer’s own; he’s a master at knowing how to blend
texture, pattern, layering, symmetry and personality.
£35, Vendome
5 Outdoor Interiors
At Homes HQ we get to look at a lot incredible homes
every single day. One thing that is increasingly apparent
when we consider how properties are evolving is that the
boundaries are blurring. Rooms are no longer restricted
to one use (no more ‘good’ living room) and even furniture
is made with multiple functions in mind. If you’re lucky
enough to have your own outdoor space, what better way
to appreciate it than giving it a good makeover? Outdoor
5
Interiors taps into that trend; treat your garden as you
would another room and you’ll reap the benefits.
£50, Lannoo 6
6 Upgrade Your House

We’re living in an age where there’s a tangible willingness
to give DIY a go. Online tutorials and YouTube hacks are
great go-tos for home jobs you want to have a stab at –
and this new book, Upgrade Your House, will supply loads
of inspiration for ways to improve your current abode. It
has projects from all over the world showcasing the best
renovations, rebuilds and extensions, all demonstrating
clever ways to change up your own four walls. Flex that
sustainability bicep by reassessing what you’ve already got
and how you can improve on it, rather than buying new.
You’ll feel extra smug.
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KIDS NEWS
Snug as a bug
If this 100% wool knitwear came
in adult sizes, we’d probably all be
wearing it right now. As it stands,
it’s just for the wee ones. Talou
makes each item in the UK from
leftover yarn, and has a buy-back
scheme to help reduce waste.
Jumper, £90. Cardigan, £95.
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Mouse in the house

Steamboat Willie, a 1928 short film featuring early
versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, is now out
of copyright, so expect to see images of its characters
cropping up in unexpected places (we hear a horror/
comedy film is in the works…) This wallpaper
from Bobbi Beck is a more wholesome use of the
TALL ORDER
characters, shown on colourful background spots.
London-based Studio Peake is best known for its interior
design, but the brand also has its own collection of bespoke From £75 per roll. bobbibeck.com
furniture. Pictured here is the Barney bed, created in

collaboration with Christopher Clark Workshops. This sweet little box is part of
TIDY
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MIND made from braided seagrass,
with embroidered text on the
front. It should encourage the
tidying away of toys (one can
hope…), and will look equally
smart out in the open or
tucked away on a shelf.
£19.99. hm.com
KIDS NEWS
SUSTAINABLE SEATING
A table and chairs made from recycled toys? That’s the
genius idea from Antwerp’s EcoBirdy. The pint-sized
furniture is easy-clean and lightweight, ideal for a craft
space. Similarly, this bird-shaped storage container
(it’s 70cm tall) is a playful piece, made entirely from
EcoBirdy’s own patented recycled plastic material. The
beak lifts off to access the storage space.
Chairs, £162 each. Table, £274. Kiwi container, £322. ecobirdy.com
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vibrant pieces would make fun additions to
a child’s bedroom, but would also look right
at home on their sofa once they’re all grown
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DETAILS
What A newly extended
200-year-old farm cottage
Where East Lothian
Architect Somner
Macdonald
Main contractor Dovetail
A tiny terraced
cottage in the
picturesque East
Lothian village
of Drem is now a
generous home for
a growing family –
without losing
any of its charm
or character
Photography Fredrik Frendin
Words Malcolm Jack DREAM A
LITTLE DREM
Previous pages With the exception of a new door and windows, the front exterior of
the compact mid-terrace farm cottage looks much the same as it did 200 years ago.
The roof tiles to the front are all original. Below This stone wall used to be the rear
façade. Now it marks the boundary between the old original part of the house and the
new extension. Right Aluminium-clad AGB Imago sliding doors lead out to the garden
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rior to its comprehensive reinvention by Somner Macdonald Architects between 2020 and 2021, Julia and
Rowan Walker had spent three very happy years in their compact but characterful farm cottage in Drem – long
enough for it to frame a memorable phase of their lives, before kids, before the coronavirus pandemic changed
the world, when all they were looking for was fresher air and more greenery after years of city living.
They’d driven through the East Lothian village countless times on the way from Edinburgh to North Berwick
to walk their dog at weekends, and had always admired its pretty period houses with their rough stone walls and
red pantile roofs. So when a mid-terrace with a little north-facing back garden looking out to flat open fields
came up for sale in 2017, they pounced. “It was exactly what we were looking for,” Julia remembers.
Not long afterwards, they had their first child. “The house suddenly felt very small,” she laughs. Faced with
the choice of moving, or undertaking a major overhaul and extension to render the cottage fit for the next phase
of their lives, they decided to double down on Drem and call in the architects.
Walking around the cosy, bright and largely open-plan two-bedroom home today, which the couple now share with a two-year-
old and a four-year-old (the younger one born post-renovation), Julia can barely remember how the cottage used to be laid out,
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Right The kitchen was designed

by Somner Macdonald and built
by the main contractor, Dovetail
Contracts. The dark grey-green
paint colour on the cabinets is
Treron by Farrow & Ball and the
brushed brass handles are from
Plank Hardware. The worktop is
Silestone. Neff appliances and a
Quooker tap add functionality.
The solid oak Loxwood bar stools
are from Dunelm and the filament
pendants are by Tala
with its maze of cramped rooms, including a kitchen so tiny it extension and the rest of the terraced cottage. Until recently, this
could scarcely seat three. “People call it a Tardis,” she says of the was an external wall, battered by the Scottish elements. Now it’s
new cottage. “It looks tiny from the street, but then you come in a literal and figurative dividing line between old and new, softly
the front door and it feels really spacious.” illuminated by uplights embedded in the floor, adding a subtle
Much has changed. And yet, save for a thorough internal dash of architectural poetry.
rearrangement and the addition of a simple larch-clad flat-roofed Besides a bit of repointing, new lintels above the doorways,
extension to the rear containing a new master bedroom and a and a good brush down, this is essentially the same wall some
dining-kitchen, this is still fundamentally the same building as it early-19th-century stonemason knocked together using a mix of
has been for around 200 years. random rubble. “It has stood the test of time,” says architect Tom
Standing in silent testimony to the house’s venerable age and Armistead, who led the project for Somner Macdonald.
strong construction is an exposed-stone internal wall between the “It defines where that old external wall was and celebrates
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it, rather than hiding it behind plaster. It helps that legibility of Above The exposed-stone wall is a key
old and new. It’s got very deep openings, and they sort of act as feature of the renovated interiors. New
lintels were installed where openings
thresholds. You know you’re transitioning from one space to have been added or changed, and
another, which is nice.” The wall also has a lovely tactile quality to the whole thing has been repointed,
it: “Everyone wants to stroke it,” laughs Tom. but otherwise this is exactly the same
600mm-thick wall that has stood since
Recalling his original brief from the clients, he explains that the house was built. Uplights embedded
he was tasked with not only rendering the property suitable to in the floor illuminate it softly by night.
this particular family’s immediate needs, but making it “fit for the With space at a premium, sliding doors
have been used where possible. The
next 50 years both in terms of performance and functionality.” timber flooring is Russwood’s Grand
The cottage is fairly typical of East Lothian and indeed of other Parquet Natural White, with underfloor
heating throughout
areas of Scotland – modest in scale, but highly adaptable within
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“Much has changed. And yet,

save for a thorough internal
rearrangement and the addition
of a simple extension, this is still
fundamentally the same building as
it has been for 200 years”
Opposite The master bedroom
is in the extension. The Little
Flapper bedside table is by Loaf,
with Pooky’s Vincent wall light
above it. The dressing table is
by Swoon Editions and the chair
is from Cult. This image and
below Moving the bedroom to
the confines of what planning will permit (this one, like many the extension created space for
cottages in the area, lies in a conservation area). As such, Somner an en-suite as well as a family
bathroom. The en-suite’s Poitiers
Macdonald viewed the project as an opportunity “to create a case gloss pink tiles are from CTD.
study for the deep-retrofit of these types of cottages around the The sink and toilet are by Lusso
country,” says Tom. Stone. Crosswater supplied the
vanity and worktop as well as the
Improving the thermal envelope was task one, and that taps. Bottom left Little Greene’s
involved stripping the place right back to the bare stone walls Slacked Lime, and Farrow and
and digging out the concrete floor, in order to fit internal wall Ball’s Sulking Room Pink in the
kids’ (second) bedroom
insulation, an insulated solid floor, an insulated roof structure
and double-glazed sash-and-case windows to replace the existing
single glazing. There’s now underfloor heating throughout,
powered by an electric boiler, plus a wood-burning stove in the
living room. “Just for ambience,” Tom stresses.
The initial idea had been to add a larger extension, but it
quickly became apparent that the local planning department
would reject it. They went with something smaller instead, and
resolved to work with the size restriction to consider every square
millimetre of the property, and using every space-saving technique
possible, from sliding internal doors to kitchen units which neatly
hug the odd slants of the walls.
“Being able to take the extension very nearly full width
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Above The extension is clad in larch which will weather over time
to produce different colours and textures. The dining table is
from Swoon and the chairs are by Cult Furniture. The children’s’
high-chairs are Stokke’s Tripp Trapp model
across the back still made a very significant difference to the them, while new tiles were laid on the rear pitch – a contrast only
overall footprint of the cottage,” says Tom. “We added almost evident if the house is viewed from above.
another 90% of space.” Like the silvery larch timber that clads the extension, the
It’s still just two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room, as it new tiles’ bright terracotta colour will fade with time, and with
was before. “But now it’s much better organised,” says the architect. exposure to the long hours of sunlight and whipping winds of the
“The rooms are more generous, and better connected to the flat East Lothian countryside. “All these things are going to age and
garden.” Moving the master bedroom into the extension, where it gain good character over the years,” Tom stresses.
gazes out to the garden and the fields beyond through a full-height Speaking of ageing, the Walkers’ kids are growing fast, and
window, allowed for the creation of a en-suite plus a new family Julia is realistic about the prospect of the family having to move
bathroom. A skylight in the ceiling of the dining-kitchen draws to a bigger place at some point in the future. But for now, she’s
natural light down into the centre of the home, illuminating that delighted that they have bought themselves a bit more time in
old stone wall by day. a home they loved even before its transformation, and love all
Nothing about the front exterior of the cottage has been the more so since – a cottage she hopes may serve other young
changed, although the door and windows have been replaced. It families like theirs long after they’ve gone.
had been hoped that they could get away with not touching the “We’ve got a good few more years here, maybe four or five,”
red pantile roof, but in the end the whole thing had to be stripped says Julia. “It was worth doing the extension just for that. All these
and relaid – “probably the only big change of plan that was forced little cottages are lovely, but I think they’ve got to work for the
upon us during the project,” admits Tom. Enough of the original modern day and the modern family so that these little villages can
tiles were salvaged that the whole front pitch could be relaid using continue to have a thriving community about them.”
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DETAILS
What A listed four-bedroom
semi-detached period villa
Where North London
Architect Archer and Braun
Main contractor Trendhomes
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Sympathetic interventions to this Georgian home allowed

its original features and its Victorian and Edwardian
additions to blend with a thoroughly modern-day overhaul
Photography French and Tye Words Caroline Ednie
fter 25 years in their much-loved “but tired” home in Highgate, north London,
a freak storm and flooding presented Nicole and David Price with a dilemma:
should they stay (and take on the daunting large-scale refurbishment) or should
they go? “I got an estate agent round to help us decide,” Nicole recalls. “Instead
of giving me a valuation, though, the agent said we’d be mad to sell up! And we
did love our home. It has a long garden with a studio at the end and woods at
the back, and there’s a tube station nearby. So there were a lot of reasons to stay.
“But we’d had this massive flood that went right through the house from
the roof all the way down to the kitchen. We’re on a slope so the water went
everywhere. It just felt like too big a job for us to take on ourselves.”
A chance meeting with architect Stuart Archer provided the catalyst they
needed. “I met Stuart when he was selling his own house. My son was
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Above The kitchen area of the extension. The cabinets are by deVol and the marble worktops were
installed by Rossi Stone Surfaces. The floors are laid with Russwood’s engineered oak. The Flos
task lights are from Atrium. Previous pages A sunny spot under the bespoke rooflight in the living/
dining area. The Lamino easy chair and ottoman are by Swedese
interested in buying it and I went with him to the viewing,” says Archer. “But this house had been chopped and changed over the
Nicole. “I liked how Stuart had renovated his place, so I had a years, and featured three separate elements (or bays) which were
meeting with him and Sarah Braun [partners at Archer and visually distinct and a result of the extension of the house in the
Braun Architects] and we all hit it off. If we were going to stay in 19th and early-20th centuries. Originally, it’s Georgian, then there
the Highgate house, I knew we’d need architects who would be were changes made in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. It
invested in the project; it was personal for us.” was a real mixture of styles at the back.”
The brief she gave Archer and Braun was for a full internal It meant it was a complex process getting through planning,
refurbishment, as well as bringing light into the back of the house which took more than a year and a half. “Originally the clients
and creating a better connection to the beautiful garden. The wanted a wide modern glass extension going across the back of
biggest challenge the architects faced was that this is a Grade II the building. But this was rejected by the planners, who felt that
listed semi-detached property in a conservation area. it should still be possible to read the history of the three different
“Normally, with a listed building, it dates from one era and periods in the building,” says Stuart.
hasn’t changed, and its listing is all about protecting it,” says Stuart Archer and Braun’s eventual design for a new extension at the
ARCHITECTURE
lower-ground level took a more subtle, low-key approach. Split Left “The clients liked deVol’s designs
into two distinct elements to reflect the tripartite appearance of such as the haberdashery units with
glass doors and the island on legs –
the rear elevation, the extension has floor-to-ceiling sliding doors these look like pieces of furniture
to the dining area and three vertical slot windows between brick rather than feeling like a fitted
kitchen,” says architect Stuart Archer.
piers to the kitchen. Rooflights have been introduced into a former “Different greens on the island
balcony, acting as a lightwell above the kitchen. The colours and and units and a mix of textures and
tones of the brickwork and metalwork were chosen to bring materials gives it a vintage feel even
though it’s all new. Russwood wide-
together the disparate materials of the existing rear façade – aged board flooring was chosen instead of
buff London stock brickwork, red brickwork and lime render. tiles to make it feel like a room rather
Despite the extension having only a small footprint – around than a kitchen.” Below The extension
at the back of the house has Velfac
10sq.m – it allowed the kitchen area to be remodelled. The result is windows and Cortizo sliding doors
a light-filled kitchen and dining space with a separate large pantry. and is clad with Petersen D72 bricks
“The existing space was small and boxy with lots of walls and
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Above The dining area of the extension
has a Harper table and chairs lit by
Soren pendants, all by Pinch. The Aftas
jute rug is from La Redoute
Above The study/snug is painted in Rose Uniacke’s warm Hickory colour. The
Sophie sofa bed is by Love Your Home and the standing lamp is Original
BTC’s Alma design. Opposite The lounge is in the original part of the house.
The sofa is by Minotti and the Rodan coffee table and Beata three-cluster
light are both by Pinch
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“Normally, a listed building dates from one era and hasn’t

changed, and its listing is all about protecting it. But this house
had been chopped and changed. It was a real mix of styles”
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beams. It’s south-facing but was really dark as there was so much was ongoing. “But I would pop in. I was very present during the
structure,” says Sarah Braun. “We took away all of that and opened build,” says Nicole.
up and remodelled the whole area. This meant new foundations “We worked closely with Nicole, and due care and attention
and underfloor heating. A lot of concealed steel holds up the back was given to every detail on this project – from an overarching
of the house, and where the new structure meets the existing buil- colour palette, to the furniture and soft furnishings to lighting
ding, millimetre-perfect detailing was required by the builder.” strategies,” says Stuart. “The lighting was particularly important;
The whole house has been upgraded with new plumbing and we wanted really nice artificial light, high-quality and discreet
electrics, triple-glazed windows, insulation to the roof and the background lighting, to complement the daylight. We installed a
removal of the old flood-damaged plaster. Conservation specialists lot of spotlights that can be moved around to either recede into the
were brought in to reinstate the period details. background or be used to spotlight whatever artworks the owners
As the house was stripped right back to its bones, Nicole and would like to show.”
David decanted to a flat, ten minutes’ walk away, while the work This is the first large-scale interiors project that Nicole has
Top left The luxurious dressing room, housed in what was previously a box room Left The master en-suite has a Rockwell bath from Water Monopoly
and Spillo brassware by CP Hart. The wall light is by Bert Frank. Architile supplied the floor tiles and Rossi Stone Surfaces fitted the marble wall
Bottom, far left The shower room on the lower-ground floor has a Cielo sink and Vola brassware, but it’s the Fired Earth marble floor tiles and
Claybrook wall tiles that really stand out Bottom, left House of Hackney’s Plantasia fabric and wallpaper were used for the toilet. The Tassel shade is
by Rothschild & Bickers Below The master bedroom is a cool, calm space. The chair was found on Ebay then covered in a Rose Uniacke velvet. The
sideboard was a buy from Vinterior. Above it is a painting by the house’s owner, Nicole Price. The Anders pendant and Pium wall light are both by
Pinch, as is the bed
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Above Working with Archer

and Braun on the project were
structural engineer Simple Works,
planning consultant Turley and
main contractor Trendhomes.
Audio-visual and security was
installed by Integrated AV, and
specialist building restoration
services were supplied by WPD.
Freddy Antell was responsible for
much of the interior design
taken on herself. “I spent so much time on the colour!” she says. sion idea had been refused, but she now has no regrets. “What
“As an artist, I’m looking at colour all the time, so it was really we have is so much better and more interesting,” she says. “The
important to me that the colours were earthy and calming and extension and remodelling divides the spaces really well – each
made the house feel like it flows as one. I would send Stuart and area feels different yet connected. And there’s a much better quality
Sarah paint swatches and loads of pictures of things I’d seen, then of light – the skylights bring so much light right into the depths
we’d discuss it together. At times I thought I must be driving them of the kitchen. The house is also so practical now. Having a large
crazy sending them photos of tables, light fittings… everything! utility room is wonderful.”
“I like the mix of old and new. I had lots of pieces from my She is particularly pleased with one of the alterations to the
parents and grandparents, and different artworks, so it was impor- first floor: “A box room that had become mainly storage was
tant that the new interiors of the house could take that. I like the turned into a dressing room, which is pure luxury! It meant we no
idea that some things look as though they’ve been here forever and longer need a large wardrobe in our bedroom so it now feels very
some things look new. I am really happy with how it came out. The airy and spacious.
whole house has this great feel to it.” “Before we went ahead with the work, the house had holes in
Stuart knew he had to aim for timelessness. “The clients the ceiling, no heating upstairs and the water stopped working at
want to stay here for the rest for their lives, so we were trying not one point. Everything was just hanging together after 25 years of
to follow any trends,” he says. “We wanted to make the spaces as us living in it,” concludes Nicole. “Now it has been rejuvenated
classic as possible.” and my love for it has been rekindled. When I walk in the door I
Nicole had been disappointed when the modern glass exten- breathe a sigh of relief, I just love it so much.”
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ARCHITECTURE
A crumbling farm
steading in the Italian
countryside has been
transformed, thanks
to visionary architects
with a determination
to preserve or
repurpose its original
features and materials
Photography Francesca Iovene

Words Malcolm Jack
PARADISE
DETAILS
What A 19th-century rural building,
now with three bedrooms
Where Piedmont, Italy
Architect Jonathan Tuckey Design
Above and previous pages The original stone walls were repointed
and limewashed by Fratelli Sartore, the main contractor. Cor-Ten OS2
window frames are by Secco Sistemi. Several have bespoke metal lattice
shutters made by Frea&Frea while others have chestnut timber shutters.
The retaining walls for the garden and swimming pool are made from
stone from a local quarry. Right Uniting every part of the house is a
simple palette of materials – timber, stone, glass and metal frames
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idden among vineyards, olive groves and chestnut forests in north-western

Italy, midway between the Alps and the Mediterranean, is a 19th-century
farmstead. It hugs the slope of a gentle hillside where it gazes out towards
the mountains on the distant horizon. When fashion designer Elena
Miroglio and naturalist Paul Grobler bought the property, they felt they’d
found their piece of paradise, a spectacular rural idyll in a beautiful part of
Piedmont. But while the landscape promised much, the house at the heart
of it was gloomy, doleful and falling down. They knew they needed expert
help to appreciate the essence of this humble stone-and-timber agricultural
property, so they turned to Jonathan Tuckey Design, a London-based
practice known for sensitively repurposing existing buildings across Europe.
“At first the owners said, ‘Do you think we could just do a new kitchen?’” recalls Jonathan Tuckey of their
initial discussions back in 2017.
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“It was really through the process of peeling back the layers
of the building and revealing to them what it was originally that
we were able to excite them about the possibilities,” says Jonathan,
who credits the Italian members of his practice, especially associate
architect Elena Aleksandrov, with bringing vision and authenticity
to the project. “We were able to show the clients how we could to
some degree go backwards and go forward at the same time in
how we were reconfiguring it. Only then did the full scope of the
project unfold.”
The project, named Cascina (Italian for ‘farmhouse’), is today
a three-bedroom home that bridges the gap between old and new
– quite literally: an enclosed elevated walkway at first-floor level,
wrapped in traditional gelosia perforated brick screens, unites two
main original stone volumes. These two structures, a two-storey
farmhouse and a large barn with hay loft, stand roughly at right
angles to one another but at different elevations on the slope. The
challenge, says Jonathan, was to ‘domesticate’ the property without
losing its agricultural roots. “And to find a way to connect the
buildings, which are on different levels, and make them flow.”
Small windows meant the interior felt dark and dingy, and
cut it off from its spectacular setting. “The arrival sequence was
miserable, absolutely miserable,” he remembers. “You couldn’t
see the landscape – you felt you were going into a cave.” Now, the
ceilings have been raised and the whole interior has been opened
up and reoriented, with social spaces and the kitchen relocated to
the south-east, where the best panoramas of the Piedmont hills are
to be enjoyed.
The hay loft was in such bad shape that it was effectively open
to the elements. “There were so many tiles missing you could
see the sky through the roof,” recalls Jonathan. “The rain would
come in.” Had the structural engineers gotten their way, the leaky
150-year-old roof would have been demolished and replaced
right away. But in its wonky, time-weathered chestnut beams
and trusses, criss-crossed with fissures like ancient wrinkles, the
architects recognised a piece of the soul of the building that they
became passionate about saving. “We had to fight very, very hard
to hang on to that roof,” he stresses. “We had to stick our necks out
and do extra work and do more and more drawings to prove that
preserving it was the right thing to do.”
And it undoubtedly was, after an inspired solution was
Right The timber ceiling in the living room and kitchen is from a 1990s
renovation, when it had been stained a very dark brown to try and make it
look older. Jonathan Tuckey Design (JTD) kept the ceiling, but blended it
into the background by whitewashing it. The floor in both rooms is Luserna
stone – an ancient and very durable natural stone used in building projects
all over the world but originating mainly from quarries in Piedmont.
Existing stone walls were insulated, then limewashed. The Girasoli ceiling
spotlights are by Il Fanale, sourced from Punto Luce of Bergamo
ARCHITECTURE
This page and opposite
The rustic yet refined
kitchen on the ground
floor of the homestead has
windows framing views
of rich woodland on the
house’s south-east side.
The carved solid marble
sink and worktop was
made by Remuzzi Marmi of
Bergamo. The oak joinery
was designed by JTD and
manufactured by Turin-
based specialist joiners La
Bottega dell’Ebanista. The
adjustable ceiling lights are
the Lampe Gras 302 by
DCW Editions, sourced from
Punto Luce
found. A new ‘floating’ roof was laid over the original beams warmth, captured by double glazing and upgraded insulation.
in situ, clad in sheets of new local chestnut timber that gently In summer, the reclaimed-brick gelosia screens – not an
diffuse light throughout the large open-plan room below. Further original feature of the house, but common throughout the region
brightness and views are drawn in through new gable-end and other parts of Italy – block out the harshest of the sun’s rays
windows. The reinvented hay loft was conceived as a creative while allowing a cooling breeze to pass through their cross-shaped
studio, but in practice it’s a multipurpose space in which the apertures. “They produce beautiful light in the evening,” enthuses
owners spend most of their time because they love it so much. Jonathan. “You get this kind of almost Arabic decorative frieze.”
Winter in these hills can see freezing temperatures and knee- Outside, dry-stone retaining walls reminiscent of Roman ruins
deep snow. Summers, while not as sweltering as in the valleys camouflage a long, slim swimming pool to the west of the garden,
below, can be very warm. The property has been shaped with beside which is an outdoor kitchen and patio.
both ends of the climate spectrum in mind. The new roof radically The project was driven by a determination to preserve or
improves the house’s thermal envelope. A ground-source heat repurpose original features and materials. Where new elements
pump – its long loops of geothermal pipework laid beneath freshly were needed, it was made a lot easier by what Jonathan hails as the
landscaped terraced gardens – provides a renewable source of “aesthetic spirit” of the Italians. “There are people producing
“What we started
with is practically
unrecognisable, and
yet it’s still the same
building. We’ve still
got the same walls
around us, but the spirit
of the building is so
completely different”
ARCHITECTURE
Left The lower-ground

floor of the house branches
north to a new home spa set
under original vaulted brick
ceilings. Large doors can
close over to conceal the
hot tub and sauna, allowing
the room to be used as a
living space. While most of
the timber throughout is
local chestnut both old and
new, JTD decided to use
oak for a lot of the bespoke
joinery, including the large
folding doors concealing
the spa. The flooring here,
as in several other rooms,
was made using an ancient
technique dating back
to Roman times called
cocciopesto, whereby old
bricks and tiles are ground
up with compacted earth to
create a colourful floor finish
Left The bathroom’s marble basin was hand-crafted by Remuzzi
Marmi. This image and below A stair-hall library offers a moment’s
peace, with dramatic bookshelf joinery by La Bottega dell’Ebanista
framing views of the treetops through the window. Bottom left
The roof beams and trusses in the creative studio – formerly a
dilapidated hay loft – are more than 150 years old. JTD were able
to preserve the old roof by laying a new, much more thermally
efficient, roof on top
ARCHITECTURE
Above The new gelosia screens (made of reclaimed bricks) function as

balustrades within the floor-to-ceiling openings along the east elevation
of what’s known as ‘the bridge’ – a first-floor passageway linking the three
main volumes of the house. The play of light from the low evening sun
through the cross-shaped openings creates beautiful patterns on the
walls. The oak floorboards are by La Bottega dell’Ebanista
ARCHITECTURE
very, very beautiful materials that are new without them looking The architects can be sure that the clients are happy with
absolutely brand new,” he explains, pointing to the rustic terracotta their work, because Elena Miroglio and Paul Grobler – whose
roof tiles, a mixture of new and old so natural you can barely main residence is half an hour away in the town of Alba – report
spot the difference. “The same can be said with the guy doing the that they are “spending much more time here than they ever
specialist plastering, or the stone flooring.” envisaged,” according to Jonathan. They’ve also invited the firm
In a flash of invention from architect Elena Aleksandrov, a back for more, in the shape of transforming a ruined building in
vast pile of broken roof tiles and bricks waiting to be carted off another corner of the plot into eco-tourism accommodation.
to landfill was transformed into one of the home’s finest features Plenty more opportunities await to return to Piedmont and
– again channelling traditional Italian architectural vernacular. admire a job well done. Its success, says Jonathan, is the way it
“Through her knowledge and enthusiasm, she introduced us to “winds back as well as finding something that looks forward”.
this fantastic technique, cocciopesto, which is when you crush up “The most enjoyable thing is that what we started with is
old bricks and tiles and mix them with compacted earth to make practically unrecognisable, and yet it’s still the same building as it
a floor finish.” It’s visible perhaps most impressively in the lower was before,” he adds. “You can now appreciate the landscape and
ground-floor home spa, which is set under original vaulted brick go from one space to another in a way that works for the people
ceilings. The cocciopesto flooring complements the ceiling perfectly who use it. We’ve still got the same walls around us, but the spirit
in tone, because it’s coloured in part by precisely the same material. of the building is so completely different.”
Below Together with landscapers Vigetti

Merlo, JTD spent time organising the
layout of the property’s sprawling, sloping
gardens. Dry-stone retaining walls frame
a series of grassy terraces set with native
planting, in line with the clients’ ambition
to rewild much of the surrounding
landscape. On a clear day, the Alps are
visible beyond the hills to the west
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The best and boldest works
by recent graduates of
Scotland’s art schools will
be exhibited at the Royal
Scottish Academy’s New
Contemporaries show. The
annual event promotes
emerging artists, and gives us
a chance to view promising
talent in one space. On the
list is Glasgow School of Art’s
New Alexandra Beteeva, with this
2023 painting, Snails.
classics 30 March to 24 April.

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Ri si ng sta r Brandon
Logan emerged with a unique
approach to abstract art during
his 2019 Edinburgh College of Art
It takes degree show. His paintings, which
two blend the traditions of weaving
and tapestry, connect pared-back
Two talented painters join forces at Edinburgh’s Arusha Gallery this spring. abstraction with the sensibility of
Glasgow-based Allyson Keehan’s blush-toned pieces (above) are part of a 20-year Orkney, where he was born. His
inquiry into drapery in painting, examining how materials meet surface and space. new exhibition, Dog Rose, can be
Pippa Young’s figurative works, meanwhile, are hyper-detailed yet minimal, seen at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
combining enigmatic, photorealistic faces with angular structures. Not to be Until 9 March. inglebygallery.com
missed. Shifting Entanglements, 14 March to 7 April. arushagallery.com
BY THE SEA
The rugged coastlines and atmospheric hues of the Hebrides have been perfectly captured by mixed-media artist
Shazia Mahmood in her new Isle of Mull exhibition. The collection, on show at Inverness’s Castle Gallery this spring,
expresses the intense moments of sea spray, fast-moving clouds and awe-inspiring flashes of light that stormed
overhead as she painted on the island’s beaches. 8 to 30 March. castlegallery.co.uk
In the flesh
In our increasingly online world, it’s good to have a
reminder of the mess, complication and beauty of real
human encounters – a theme that’s close to the heart
of Glasgow-born artist Gabriella Boyd. Her paintings
blend abstract and expressionistic shapes to create
scenes that focus on human meetings and act as a study
of “tenderness, humour and discomfort through paint”.
See them for yourself at Cample Line, Dumfries.
23 March to 2 June. campleline.org.uk
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Macdonald and all of its Renaissance-inspired drama at
an intriguing exhibition at Beauly’s Kilmorack Gallery.
On show are works by three Macdonalds: husband
and wife Alan and Carolynda, and their son Rory. All
three artists create distinctive pieces using Renaissance-
era techniques, with a 21st-century twist. Moody and
arresting, these pictures are a definite conversation
starter. 16 March to 13 April. kilmorackgallery.co.uk
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latest exhibition at
Edinburgh’s Stills Gallery.
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black-and-white portraits and landscapes. The artist interrogates
the issue of lack of representation using archive material,
documentary footage and photography of both himself and
family and friends. Accessibility is also key for Williams, who
used the public photography darkrooms at Stills and Glasgow’s
Street Level Photoworks to bring his pictures to life from
photographic negatives. 22 March to 15 June. stills.org
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Highly acclaimed artists Rosemary
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McMurrough, Heather Nevay, Helen
Wilson and June Carey have joined
forces to exhibit a selection of recent
paintings and prints at Fidra Fine Art
in Gullane. The group have reunited
after their successful show together
at Glasgow Print Studio three years
ago. Expect a strong showing of each
woman’s distinctive style.
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FIRST PERSON
Martin Boyce
A graduate of Glasgow School of Art’s environmental art programme and its
Masters of Fine Art, Martin Boyce has exhibited internationally and has seen
his work acquired by some of the world’s major collections. He was awarded
the 2011 Turner Prize and has represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale
For the past 18 months I’ve been preparing for a solo exhibi-
tion at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket. When I was first asked to think
about this show, which is part of the gallery’s 50th anniversary
celebrations, my immediate instinct was to gather a selection of my
artworks and create a new context for them in the Fruitmarket’s
three exhibition spaces. It will be the first time many of these
pieces, which date from 1993 to 2023, have been shown in the UK.
The selection process has taken a great deal of time and
thought, with works coming from the States and across Europe.
It will also include the large-scale suspended ceiling piece, Future
Blossom (For Yokeno Residence) (2022), originally commissioned
IMAGE BY KEITH HUNTER

by Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
In the recently opened Warehouse space, I will play with the
idea of storage, memory and the subconscious through works that
embody a sense of incompleteness or in-between states. Spook
School (2016), for example, is a series of 21 framed photographs
of the charred interiors of Glasgow School of Art, taken over two
separate visits – after the first fire but before the second. This will
be its first showing in Scotland.
One of the first works that sprang to mind when planning
this exhibition was Long Distance Sleep Talking (2022). In this
sculpture, a door hovers ever so slightly off the floor. Above it
hangs a mobile of curved, painted aluminium shapes. Attached to
the largest of these is a telephone. The handset, which is connected
Long Distance Sleep Talking, 2022. Painted wood, painted
to the phone by a very long coiled cable, is suspended from one
steel, bronze, acrylic on aluminium, brass, painted silicone,
of the mobile arms and hangs just above an aperture cut into the
moulded vacuum-cast resin, coiled telephone cable.
door. If the door was upright, one could perhaps look or even
210 x 160 x 343 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern
speak through the bronze grille that partially covers this opening. Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
And so between the door and the mobile, you have one sculptural
element in conversation with the other.
Every element of this sculpture has been crafted: the custom potential: a ring that will announce the entrance of a voice into a
moulding, the cast bronze door handle and grille, even the room. In Long Distance Sleep Talking the hanging handset could
keyhole. I designed the telephone initially for another series of be thought of as either off the hook or actively engaged. The
sculptural works. In fact, this is the third version of the telephone horizontal door acts as both the bed and the sleeper, while the
that I’ve made, most of which are shown on painted wall panels. phone becomes the listener or the medium through which some
In these recent phone panel works (2020–23), the telephones kind of communication is channelled.
wait silently, generating a cinematic sense of expectation and Fruitmarket, 2 March to 9 June
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the canvas with spontaneous brushstrokes and fluid and joyous mark making take us through the changing seasons
and colours of Marion’s garden and favourite flowers. Marion will join us in the gallery for various events over the
opening weekend and we hope you can make it along for this very special exhibition. For more details, along with
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Best nook in
the East Neuk
An old fisherman’s cottage on the
Fife coast has been reimagined as a
stylish, welcoming weekend bolthole
Photography Paul Craig Words Catherine Coyle
INTERIORS
he 19th-century fishermen of the East Neuk would be flabbergasted to see how their old cramped cottages
have evolved. Gone are the dark, claustrophobic rooms; in their place, a sympathetic celebration of traditional
features with the focus firmly on the pleasures of coastal living. After all, if you’re lucky enough to live in this
idyllic corner of Fife, it’s probably the sea that has brought you there.
That’s what happened to Jan and Bernard Hunter. The Edinburgh couple had spent many holidays in the
East Neuk villages and hankered after the peace and sense of escape once they’d driven back to the city. “It has
a really special microclimate,” says Jan. “Back home, on a gloomy day in the capital, we’d often look across the
Forth and wonder at the sun shining down on Fife. We fell in love with the coastline. It always seemed to be
sunnier than Edinburgh, but even during periods of bad weather we loved the drama of the sea.”
When a tired old fisherman’s cottage came onto the market in 2020, buying it felt like a no-brainer.
The couple then had to assemble the right team to knock the property into shape, making it suitable for
DETAILS
What A renovated seaside cottage
Where Fife
Interior design Anna Mills
Interior Design
Architect Wiszniewski Thomson
Architects
Kitchen Peden & Pringle
Left The Peden & Pringle kitchen in the extension exploits the views
to the rear. The island is big enough for a generous Shaws of Darwen
double sink, Quooker boiling-water tap and Fisher & Paykel dishwasher.
Above The worktop is 30mm Silestone Blanco Zeus in a suede finish.
The Ca’ Pietra mirrored tiles of the splashback reflect the vibrant larder
painted in Farrow & Ball’s fiery Charlotte’s Locks
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Left A single oven has been built into the dead space below the
mezzanine; note the oak trays slotted into either side. Right The teal
Aga stands out against Paint & Paper Library’s Stone painted cabinetry.
Below The larder was handmade with bespoke storage designed around
the owners’ tableware. It is painted in Farrow & Ball’s Charlotte’s Locks
and has Armac Martin’s Digbeth brass handles. Bottom left The view
from the mezzanine level, where the glass balustrade and rooflights
draw in natural daylight
modern-day living while hanging on to the best bits of the East

Neuk’s unique vernacular. Interior designer Anna Mills came
highly recommended, and her contemporary take on classic
styles appealed to the Hunters. (“I really wanted to hire an interior
designer, as I knew I wouldn’t have time to do all the necessary
trawling,” explains Jan.) With the help of Susanne Barnes at Anna
Mills Interior Design, Honor Thomson at Wiszniewski Thomson
Architects and Camilla Pringle, director at kitchen specialists
Peden & Pringle, the project could get off the ground quickly.
Being brought on board from the outset made all the dif-
ference for Anna: “It’s really valuable to collaborate from the very
start, at the same time as the architect – it’s a very effective way of
working,” she explains. “With so many changes being made to the
layout here, it meant we could be looking at elements such as the
positioning of the electrical sockets, the lighting design, and the
implications of these, all from the beginning.”
The cottage had previously been extended to the rear, so there
was already a decent footprint, but the piecemeal layout meant a
rethink was in order. “We removed the non-original add-ons and
built an extension that sits halfway between the existing ground
and first floors,” says Honor Thomson. “This contains the kitchen,
dining area and informal seating at garden level. A new, larger
opening in the rear wall of the original house created a direct
connection between the existing snug at first-floor level and the
new extension half a level below.”
This new arrangement makes the most of the footprint and
rejigs the extended portion to better serve its new owners. Jan
and Bernard’s intention was to create a home from home, a retreat
that feels welcoming but with a boutique spec that allows them to
entertain, relax, escape – or all three. “My husband has a special
distaste for ‘white box Scandi minimalism’ as he calls it, so we
really wanted the opposite of that,” smiles Jan.
Anna knew her clients wanted to evoke a sense of the coastal
setting but without any typical seaside cottage clichés. Vibrant
colour, a blend of textures and patterns, and finding a way to
let their art collection live in harmony with a home full of new
furniture was at the top of the agenda. The interior designer was
impressed by their courage too: “Often a client comes to me with
very set ideas of what they want; Jan and Bernard knew what they
wanted but they were also open to suggestions and seeing
INTERIORS
Above Exposed brickwork above the fireplace is a nod to the cottage’s history. The John Sankey Peppy Chair and Toggle Footstool, upholstered in Jim
Thompson’s No 9 Jungle Music in Carnival embroidered fabric, harmonises with the Clock House Furniture coffee table with its bobbin detailing and
customised Metaphores fabric. Top right All views return to the sea, even in the main bathroom, where the sculptural tub is in prime position. Bottom
right The sitting room is an easy mix of curves, texture and pattern. The Charlotte James sofa is a classic shape while the upholstered club fenders are
bespoke additions from Acres Farm Fenders
where our expertise could take them. They have been so brave.” packs a punch).
Admittedly, apart from their pictures, the new owners were Normally, says Anna, she would use wallpaper to add another
bringing nothing with them (“Not even a teaspoon!”), so kitting layer of texture; here, though, the relatively low ceilings, abundance
out the cottage from scratch has been an exciting journey. Anna of framed artworks and incredible detailing found in the bespoke
tapped into their sense of fun and willingness to take risks; she furniture meant a neutral backdrop made more sense, softening
has used classic shapes and high-spec furnishings and fittings, the ambience and allowing all these elements to come to the fore.
but with a quirky edge to reflect the characterful qualities of the The mezzanine snug and kitchen are zoned by glass balus-
cottage’s original features – for example, in the bobbin details (such trading, but remain connected for easy socialising. The glass also
as the legs of the coffee table in the snug) and bold patterns on allows light to flow from the front to the back of the house, with
traditional pieces of furniture (like the fireside armchair, where Jim a rooflight illuminating Peden & Pringle’s playful handmade
Thompson’s embroidered No 9 Jungle Music in Carnival fabric kitchen. “We knew we were going to have some fun with the
INTERIORS
“We relax as soon as we

walk through the door.
It’s a massive source of
pleasure to create a place
of comfort and joy”
Opposite The guest bedroom is in the attic, where neutral tones are
punctuated by fabrics from GP&J Baker, Brunchwig and Fils Les Touches.
Above The upholstered headboard is inspired by Kit Kemp and bedding
by Dunblane’s The Finest Linen Company. Visual Comfort lamps sit on
either side. Below The main bathroom has a Kast concrete basin in a
punchy terracotta and Pierre Frey wallpaper
palette,” recalls kitchen designer Camilla Pringle. “The bold orange

colour was mentioned early on in the process, and the teal Aga
had already been purchased.”
Functionality has been as important as form in this kitchen,
thanks to smart designs such as plate racks inside the cupboards,
an extra-long island and a spare single oven – the latter ideal for
cooking in the summer months when the Aga is not in use. On
either side of it is built-in storage space for handy oak trays. The
shimmering splashback bounces colour from all aspects of the
room.
“We instantly relax as soon as we walk through the door,”
beams Jan. “I love to cook and it’s a joy to prepare meals when we
have our friends here – it has worked out exactly as I’d imagined
it. It’s a massive source of pleasure to create a place of comfort and
joy, and I do believe that’s what we’ve all achieved here.”
INTERIORS
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A LIFE
LIVED IN
COLOUR
An immaculately restored home on
the shores of Lake Geneva revels in
bold decor and richly toned marble
Photography Alex James
Words Natasha Radmehr
INTERIORS
DETAILS
What An early-20th-century
lakeside home
Where Lake Geneva
Interior design Mark Gillette
Interior Design
dream summer’s day
for Rosie Kidston
go e s s om e t h i ng
like this. The
mor ning b eg ins
with an energising
uphill walk with
her dachshunds,
then they take the
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Geneva. Before it gets too hot, her pals will come over to spend an
hour wakesurfing out on their boat, rippling the lake’s deep blue
waters with frothy waves. “It’s a very outdoorsy, sporty way of life
here because the weather is so great,” says Rosie, whose family hail
from Perthshire. They’ll head to Rosie’s afterwards for salad by the
pool on her terrace, savouring the sublime view of the lake and the
mountains beyond. She’ll work in the afternoon from her office,
a garden extension drenched in light. Then, when her husband
Simon, a renowned vintage car dealer and enthusiast, returns
home, they’ll sit down to alfresco drinks and dinner until the sun
disappears.
It was Simon’s passion for classic cars that brought the Kidstons
to this Swiss home by the lake. Until they lived here, his personal
car collection – comprising such icons as a Bugatti Type 35 once
owned by his uncle, the racing driver Glen Kidston – was stored
in a garage away from home. When a friend said he’d be selling
his lakeside house, which in addition to an enviable location had
enough space for a triple-height subterranean garage, the couple
knew it would be a smart move for their family.
Built in 1912 between the late Art Nouveau and early Art
Deco periods, the four-storey house bore the elegant metalwork
typical of Genevan homes of the time, including a wrought-iron
canopy and an interior staircase with a beautiful balustrade.
Left A bespoke white Statuario and Nero Marquina marble floor grounds
the home in an Art Deco sensibility. The geometric stair runner is by
Stark Carpet. Gold Collier Webb wall lights pick out the mustard stripe
of Pierre Frey’s Oscar fabric framing the landing window. Right The
stone house with timber shutters is a style typical of Geneva and its
surrounding areas. Previous pages The star of the kitchen is the custom
designed Verde Giada marble island. It reflects the garden and is nicely
bolstered by the curtains in Thibaut’s botanical Daintree fabric
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Left In the salon drawing room, a bespoke Gatsby curved sofa by Ochre House and a Mark Gillette Interior Design
sofa converge around a Dom Edizioni coffee table and Arabescato marble fireplace. The rug is by Tim Page. Above The
couple’s son’s bathroom is inspired by New York, where he studies. Fired Earth’s East Hampton tiles pave the floor. The
ebonised oak vanity, designed by Mark Gillette, is paired with a Samuel Heath mixer tap with black lever handles
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Those details aside, its heritage was barely detectable. “The Époque while harmonising both with the age of the property and
previous owner ripped the insides out in the 1990s, so it was quite with its seductive setting on the Swiss Riviera.
modern in keeping with what was popular then,” says Rosie. “We Mark Gillette began by reshaping the bones of the house,
wanted to bring the home back to its original style.” tweaking the layout and reinstating its original features. Back
Restoration is Simon’s métier, so the Kidstons wanted someone came the architraves, plaster mouldings, skirtings and panelling.
with similarly exacting standards to undertake this project. With Limestone floors were replaced by glossy marble. His team
a generous £6 million budget, this was to be a no-expense-spared designed every door, even having the hinges specially made, and
enhancement with meticulous attention to detail. Only one firm fashioned new front gates in the home’s signature black metalwork.
was considered for the job: UK-based Mark Gillette Interior “It was an opportunity to give the building the sense of a period
Design, which had already overhauled the couple’s Grade I listed property that has evolved,” says Mark, who used local materials
townhouse in Chelsea. “Mark knows us well and understands our and craftspeople wherever possible to produce his designs.
tastes,” says Rosie. “He and his team are just fantastic.” Geometric shapes and streamlined but sumptuous fabrics
Keen travellers for work and pleasure, the Kidstons enjoy the permeate the home, its chic monochromatic base punched up
old-world opulence of continental hotels such as the Villa d’Este with rich colours and gilded accents. The entrance hall sets the
by Lake Como and the Hôtel Costes in Paris. “It’s nostalgia, stage with a spectacular graphic black-and-white marble floor
really, isn’t it? It’s nice to be transported back to a more glamorous reminiscent of a grand hotel lobby. “It gives a bit of oomph as soon
time,” explains Rosie. Art Deco was a natural landing place for as you walk through the door,” says the designer. The eye is then
the home’s aesthetic, capturing the couple’s fondness for the Belle drawn up and straight ahead to the salon drawing room, where
Left A burnt-orange bespoke Moissonnier marble-top Louis XVI
chest of drawers stands proud in the couple’s daughter’s bathroom.
Above Rosie’s office is in a conservatory where the old garage once
was. “I wanted it to feel like an extension of the garden,” says Mark.
The cabinetry, painted in Vert Amande from Ressource Peintures,
was designed by Mark Gillette Interior Design, as was the rug. Rosie
can work while sitting on Julian Chichester’s Emma chair, or relax on
the St Germain lounge chair by McGuire Originals
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“We were brave with the spa room’s colour scheme.

It’s not a space the owners are in every day, so it can
be more of a treat, more exciting to walk into”
This page and opposite Bespoke Windhurst marble covers the walls and floors of the
spa area, bordered by Noir St Laurent black marble skirtings and architraves (this marble
was also used on the benches). The black-and-mustard rope pattern tiles and geometric
splashback tiles from Habibi Interiors offer an authentic Moroccan flavour. Mark Gillette
designed the vanity, which sits below the clients’ own Moroccan mirror. The taps and
showers are by Volevatch, from the Carpe & Lyre collection
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sunburst-capped windows frame expansive views of the lake.

This room, which has a fresh teal-and-cream palette in keeping
with its watery vista, comprises two decadent seating areas where
Left Lavish textiles in the master bedroom,
the couple often have pre-dinner drinks with friends. Rosie also from Arte’s Takara Crane wallcovering to a
likes to curl up by the window with a coffee to watch the paddle plush Sikkim carpet by Jacaranda. The custom-
designed headboard is Rémy Carriat leather
steamers cruise between Lausanne and Montreux, or open the framed by ebonised timber, and the side
glass doors and walk down the steps to take a plunge in the pool. table is Julian Chichester’s Gillette. Right The
“This was one of the most radical things we did, which totally couple’s daughter wanted a cool nightclub feel
in her room, achieved with CTO Lighting’s Ivy
changed how the house is used,” says Mark. “We altered the size pendant and Studioart’s leather wall panels in
and shape of the swimming pool, then put in the stone steps shades of orange, caramel and gold
with balustrading. The pool floor design was inspired by a rug
I’d seen by the French designer André Arbus; I had the mosaic
tiles arranged in Deco-style swirls.” It’s a Hockney-esque scene:
pink-and-green loungers recline poolside in the shadow of retro
striped parasols, contrasting with a vivid blue sky. It’s no surprise
to learn the umbrellas were sourced from the same company
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Left Patterns galore in the guest room: Thibaut’s whimsical Asian Scenic wallpaper
juxtaposes wonderfully with Stark’s geometric carpet. Mark sourced the antique table,
which holds a Porta Romana Bishop lamp with a teal shade and gold collar. Below
The his-and-hers vanity in the master bathroom was designed by Mark and fitted by a
local cabinetmaker. Because of his work restoring vintage cars, Simon was especially
interested in the engineering-related aspects of the interior design. He loved these taps,
from Volevatch’s Art Deco collection. The ceiling light, reflected in the custom-made
mirror, is the Alabaster bowl light by Vaughan Designs, and the floor tiles are Fired
Earth’s North Haven Basketweave with an icy-green marble border
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Right The loungers

by the pool, from The
Heveningham Collection, are
shaded by parasols in Santa
Barbara Designs’ Regatta
fabric. Mark designed the
stair balustrade to echo the
Art Nouveau swirled design
of the interior staircase
that supplies the Beverly Hills Hotel, one of the family’s favourite with birds in flight, makes a bold statement; their daughter’s
haunts. bedroom, lifted by judicious splashes of Hermès orange; or the
The indulgence doesn’t end there. Just around from the pool is kitchen island clad in a distinctive marble the colour of spring
an entrance to the basement level of the home, where a spa room foliage. “It’s good to be adventurous and show your personality;
resides. A jewel box of a space glowing deep gold, it contains a Mark’s guidance gave us the confidence to do that,” says Rosie.
steam area and sauna and has the feel of a lavish hammam. “We Nobody could ever accuse this home of lacking in character
were inspired by La Mamounia in Marrakech, but we didn’t want it now. What was once flat and featureless is now a multi-layered
to look like a tacky interpretation,” says Mark. “That meant we had abode infused with a sense of history that nods to the refined
to be really brave with it, which is where the impactful mustard- glamour of a bygone era. It is a source of bountiful pleasure; a place
and-black colour scheme came in. It’s not a space the family are in for cocktail parties and family gatherings as well as moments of
every day so it can be more of a treat, more exciting to walk into.” quiet solitude. Simon finally has his garage (a separate landscaping
Bravery pays off in this home, a lesson learned from the project to the design of the home) and can pootle along the coastal
clients’ first project. “I think they realised they were happiest when roads in his favourite vintage cars. Rosie’s dream day is an oft-
they just bit the bullet, so they weren’t afraid of colour and pattern,” lived reality. “Don’t they say that if you’re still married after doing
explains the designer. Take the master bedroom, where Arte’s up your third house, you’re doing something right?” she laughs.
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All the elements of the classic Glasgow tenement are
celebrated in a skilful refurbishment that also leaves
space for its owners’ personalities to shine
Photography James Balston Words Miriam Methuen-Jones
his home, a top-floor flat in a traditional tenement, is a love letter

to Glasgow that rewards close reading. Its owners, retired scientists
Louise and David, were living in Washington DC when they bought
the place a few years ago; they were moving back to Scotland after
two decades away and were keen to bring on board a team who
knew Glasgow and knew how to revive the property while tackling
a long list of improvements.
“It was a mess,” laughs David. “Everything needed doing. The
plaster was crumbling, it needed new wiring, plumbing, flooring…
We also wanted to add a bathroom. It wasn’t a small job.” Given they
were 3,500 miles away at the time, the duo appealed to the British Institute of Interior Design for help and
were contacted by Anna Saroukhanova and Ralf Heckmann of Heckmann Design.
“They’d both studied in Glasgow and knew it well,” says Louise. “They were really eager to work on a
tenement building. Anna was particularly keen to be consistent with the city’s visual vernacular.”
Despite their practice being in London, Anna and Ralf were committed to the project from the
start, taking the train up every week to oversee progress. “They were both absolutely brilliant to work
with, which really helped with us being so far away. It’s not easy over such a great distance, but they were
extremely communicative and responsive,” says David. The design work began in the summer of 2022
and the couple had moved in by the following June.
DETAILS
What A traditional tenement
Where Glasgow
Architect & interior design
Heckmann Design
Contractor Standard
Construction
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“I had Frank Worsdall’s book The Glasgow Tenement,” says

Anna. “I got it a long time ago, when I was still in the city. I com-
bined this with researching this part of the southside where the flat
is so I could see how layouts had changed over time.”
Originally, the flat had three bedrooms and one bathroom, but
in the new arrangement two bedrooms have been condensed into
one with space carved out for an en-suite. The floors were relaid to
make them more cohesive; a beautiful parquet now runs through
the property. All the uPVC window frames were replaced with
timber-framed conservation-style double glazing.
The tenement isn’t listed, and the owners have “modernist,
semi-minimalist” tastes, so it would have been easy to ignore
the flat’s history and go down a purely modern route. Anna had
a better idea: “We restored all the rooms,” she says. “I researched
typical Glasgow cornices and found a beautiful leaf-and-bead
motif at Stevensons of Norwich which we used in the living
room. Every visitor said they thought it was original – so I guess
it worked!”
The kitchen was moved to the front of the property to
maximise the light. The same approach was applied to the
living room, so the communal spaces could benefit from the
views and the bedrooms could get a little more privacy. All the
joinery was sketched out by Heckmann Design and made in
Wales by Sonabuild. The project’s main contractor was Standard
Construction.
The mysterious blue-grey of the kitchen’s Corian countertops
complements the blue cabinets wonderfully, but the real show-
stopper is overhead. “It was very brave of David and Louise to
allow that to happen – I wasn’t sure they’d go for it,” laughs Anna
of the ochre ceiling. “The colour is obviously a reference to the
tiles that were often used in the closes of Glasgow’s tenements. I
like working with bold colours generally, but when we met these
clients and saw their art collection, I knew it would work. I could
see the language in their pictures and I knew we could go bold and
create something interesting for them.”
Louise and David love the colourful ceiling but their favourite
element of the kitchen is actually the bespoke pantry. It’s another
piece by Heckmann Design, with Japanese and mid-century influ-
ences, a black exterior and warm oak inside. “It’s something I
Opposite Each room references the last, without being repetitive. Here,
the kitchen’s black pigeonholes echo the bespoke shelving in the living
room, the blue corresponds with the bedroom walls, and there are hints
of the bold ceiling in the bathroom tiles. The countertops are Corian in
Juniper. This page The kitchen is full of beautiful details, such as the trios
of linen pendant lights. The bespoke joinery was designed by Heckmann
Design and made by Sonabuild
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An overview of the dining kitchen. The large bespoke pantry is

a favourite of both the owners and the designers. All the paint
colours in the flat are from Paint & Paper Library – the ceiling’s
rich burnt orange is called The Long Room
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Below A generous hallway allows plenty of space to display more of that enviable art collection. Hidden in a large cupboard is a useful utility space, with
shelving and a stacked washing machine and tumble dryer. Right Bespoke shelving gives way to a reading corner housing another classic design piece,
a bright red Eames chair designed for Herman Miller
didn’t have before,” says Louise. “Our apartment in the US was too “Layering textures is very important for me,” says Anna. “I
small for something like this. I love it.” always think of fine restaurants and how they put something
More bespoke joinery can be found in the living room. “The crunchy, chewy and soft together on the same plate. It’s always
shelving was designed to work with a unit the clients already various textures presented well. That’s how I think interiors should
owned,” Anna explains. “The integrated black boxes were impor- be – just surprising you constantly.”
tant to me: they provide visual balance and are a nod to their The layout of the artwork is a good example of this approach.
modern artwork. I knew they would understand it. There’s also Anna sketched out where she wanted each piece to go and it has
a bar tucked into a press in the corner. I learned that a niche in made the walls feel effortlessly curated. “She came in and said,
Glasgow is called a press! The contractors kept correcting us.” ‘Right, we need an art wall, and you can’t just string them all
The Art of Upholstery, a Glasgow-based firm, recovered along the same eyeline, five foot six inches high’ – which is what I
an existing sofa, and the curtains were made by another local would’ve done!” David laughs. “She placed them brilliantly. I’m so
company, Gilding the Lily. A seating area was created in the bay impressed with how she organised that wall of art.”
window using a Tulip table and bold yellow Verner Panton chairs. Tenements are notorious for their long, skinny bathrooms
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“Look at how restaurants put something crunchy,

chewy and soft together on the same plate – various
textures presented well. That’s how interiors should
be, surprising you constantly”
Previous pages The sofa was recovered in a Nobilis fabric called Bargello. West Elm armchairs sit opposite, sandwiching a coffee table by Hay. The
art wall includes a triptych by the American painter Jennifer Bartlett. “I bought that in DC knowing we’d finally have the space to hang it in Glasgow,”
says David. Left and above The main bedroom is kept purposefully clutter-free, a peaceful retreat from the more stimulating living spaces. Minimalist
cornicing was used on the ceiling to bridge the gap between tradition and the owners’ more modern tastes
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Above A wall-to-wall shower is a stroke of genius in

the narrow tenement bathroom. The window was
reinstated (it was half blocked up before) which
brought in more light and allowed the lower portion
to be treated for privacy. Red-orange tiles were
chosen as an ode to the traditional tenement close.
Right The en-suite corresponds to the main bathroom,
with the same large-format tiles used on the floor, and
the bespoke joinery has similar curves
but Anna found a way to create balance. “By
stretching the shower from wall to wall, we
widened the room visually. The position and
direction of the tiles also helped with this.
The band of coloured tiles was another nod to
tradition, and placing it lower helped to bring
those tall ceilings down and make the space feel
more comfortable.”
There’s more custom joinery in the units of
both the bathroom and the en-suite: a mix of
pleasing curves broken up by plain oak.
The main bedroom is a tranquil space, pur-
posefully minimalist in design. “The clients read
a lot. They’re surrounded by books and they’ve
got art and interesting objects everywhere,”
Anna says. “I wanted to create a space where
they can switch off from that, somewhere to
realign their senses.”
Soft blue walls, a Heal’s bed and Italian
leather-clad side tables make this a peaceful
spot. “And tartan curtains,” smiles Anna. “We
had to use tartan somewhere – I couldn’t resist!
But it’s a modern tartan, a really warm colour.”
The cornice in the bedroom is suitably
modern as well, just two lines running off the
edges of the ceiling. It quietly summarises the
blend of old and new found throughout the flat.
“Homes are such a personal thing,” Anna
concludes. “We tried to be considerate of the
building’s history but create something tailored
to David and Louise as they’re so full of charac-
ter themselves.”
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3 Materia rug from the Linea collection, £1,077 per
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2 Emerson chandelier by Bentham Design,
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EXTERIORS
Below The garden is full of life and doesn’t feel

overly manicured or contrived, even though
it is carefully maintained by a team of seven.
Middle Volunteers helped revive Cambo and
are still incredibly important to the estate.
There’s always something on, from fire-lit
snowdrop walks to family activity sessions.
Right The cafe serves vegetarian and vegan
food made from the walled garden’s produce;
Cambo’s famous snowdrops in bloom
NATURE’S EMBRACE
Sheltered behind the old stone of Cambo’s walled
garden is a wild delight of seasonal blooms
We have the humble snowdrop to thank for this beautiful walled garden
in Fife, just half a dozen or so miles along the coast from St Andrews. It dates from the
early 1800s and was created to supply Cambo House with fresh produce and flowers.
In a lovely bit of symmetry, the modern iteration of the garden now provides produce
to the on-site vegetarian cafe. But getting to this point required a lot of effort – and the
intervention of the snowdrop.
“The topography of the garden is really interesting and unusual: it’s on a slope with a
burn running through the middle,” says Keri Ivins, managing director at Cambo Heritage
Trust. “We surmised that it was chosen just because it was interesting! There were 100
acres to choose from to build this walled garden and it was placed here, right around the
view of the burn.”
Even more unusually, the garden had a glasshouse constructed over the burn. “You
could be in the glasshouse looking down at the water. Again, there’s no reason to do
that, apart from the fact that you could,” Keri laughs. “Unfortunately, we
had to dismantle the glasshouse in recent years because structural
engineers couldn’t be certain it was stable.”
After many fruitful years, Cambo hit hard times in
post-war era, as was the case for many country estates.
“The garden went to pasture, and it wasn’t a garden
as such until the early 1970s when the estate was
inherited by Peter and Catherine Erskine. They
do a lot for Cambo. Catherine is a passionate
gardener and really wanted to bring the place
back to life.”
What Catherine capitalised on was the
snowdrops. There are millions of them
EXTERIORS
Left The annual meadow is full of native

flowers, attracting a huge variety of
insects. Below Café Cooking by Cambo
chef Gillian Veal is published in July.
Bottom The garden hosts learning
programmes with a focus on getting
outdoors. “We have a session every
Sunday morning that starts with a
campfire and marshmallows, then we
do things like nature crafting or making
birdfeeders,” says managing director
Keri Ivins
in the woodlands that surround Cambo – in fact, the estate

is now so well known for the early-spring blooms that it hosts
an annual snowdrop festival.
“In the late-1980s Catherine saw a gap in the market for
snowdrop bulbs,” continues Keri. “She cornered it and all the
money from snowdrop sales went into bringing the walled
garden back to life. Cambo Heritage Trust then took it over
because a lot of the work involved volunteers.”
In 2017, this volunteering scheme and further fundraising
allowed a visitor centre and cafe to be opened in the old stable
block. The cafe is understandably popular; head chef Gillian
Veal even has a second cookbook coming out in July.
As well as providing supplies for the kitchen, the garden
has a host of other attractions, including two wildflower
meadows, one of which is full of native flowers. “My good-
ness, they’re so popular with visitors! It makes sense – they’re
eye-catching displays full of butterflies and bees.”
There’s also an area of prairie planting, with wildflowers
from North America, which is unique in Scotland. “Our
old head gardener, Elliott Forsyth, didn’t think he’d get it
going here, but he planted it anyway. Allegedly, there’s a bit
of a microclimate here on the coast, which might be why it’s
doing so well. It has certainly exceeded all expectations.”
Beyond the walled garden are Cambo’s woodlands which
are left mostly to their own devices. There’s a network of
paths throughout and during snowdrop season (February to
March) the walk to Kingsbarns beach looks phenomenal.
So when is the best time to visit? “Obviously I’m going to
say you should visit in every season,” laughs Keri. “But we’re
actually quite a late-season garden. August and September are
magical times to come. We have huge herbaceous borders
which look amazing, and the prairie section is very late-
blooming. It can be at its best as late as October.”
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Time to update the rickety old bistro set? Consider the
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MAKE THE CUT Ligh t the way As the temperature

It might look like an slowly creeps up, alfresco dining is finally an
assassin’s dagger, but this option again. Light your evening table with the
is actually a handy little Lyle outdoor table lamp. With its chic domed
Japanese weeding and head and minimalist body, it’s a great option for
planting trowel. Crafted a sophisticated soirée. It’s hardy and waterproof
from carbon steel, the Hori too – just make sure it’s completely dry before
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The stand is made from solid fabric that’s calling out for the sea. You
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themselves. sunny patio as they do on the ocean waves.
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The Gaia lamp from way The Marstrand
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LUNDIES HOUSE
Exceptional design, vibrant food: creativity shines in
every corner of this coastal art hotel in the far north-west
Photography Fran Mart Words Natasha Radmehr
ESCAPE
y limbs are tingling the stereotype. Happily, that’s not the vibe favoured by its parent
from a warm day company, the conservation and hospitality organisation Wildland.
at the beach as the Helmed by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife
last splash of the Anne, Wildland does a fine line in design-driven accommodation.
sun slinks off the Lundies House joins stablemates Killiehuntly Farmhouse and Kyle
bedlinen and under House in encapsulating a Nordic sensibility that celebrates the
the door. “I wonder enduring style of quality art and craftsmanship.
what time it is back I won’t lie: the five-hour car journey from Glasgow to Tongue
home,” I say to my is a schlep. But I’d drive it twice over for the opening scene alone.
partner. A perfectly We arrive to a Victorian guesthouse washed in lush, golden light,
reasonable holiday musing, save for one thing: the clocks haven’t the scent of its herb garden mingling with the coastal breeze. Roses
budged, because we’re on home soil. climb the courtyard steading; colourful wildflowers sway behind
Lundies House, where we are staying, doesn’t feel very Scottish. stone walls. Beyond the trees lies the Kyle of Tongue, jade beneath
Or at least, not the tourist-tinted version of Scotland I have grown a cloudless sky, and the ancient ruins of Castle Varrich.
accustomed to seeing in hotels, with their tweed-this and tartan- “We want you to treat Lundies like your home,” smiles the
that, mounted stag heads and framed Burns verse. Given its housekeeper as she ushers us inside. It is the home of an art
location in the north-west Highland village of Tongue, this former aficionado, but one who wears it lightly. In the honey-hued sitting
19th-century manse could have been forgiven for surrendering to room, a Picasso lithograph hangs behind Hans Wegner’s Papa
Left A partially covered dining
space in the courtyard allows
guests to dine al fresco. Right
Breakfast and dinner are
served in the glorious dining
room between Claire Basler’s
hand-painted walls. Bottom left
The studio suites have a more
contemporary design than
the rooms in the main house,
with Crittall-style windows and
exposed brickwork. Bottom
right For those who would
rather do their own thing, the
Bothan self-catering apartment
in the courtyard sleeps up to
four people
ESCAPE
Right A Peter Bonde painted mirror presides over the fireplace in the
study, which has a generous selection of art and design books. Below
right The bathroom in one of the guest rooms, Isla, showcases another
of Claire Basler’s whimsical murals. Bottom Two of the bedrooms in the
guest rooms have deep free-standing bathtubs where guests can soak up
the magnificent views
Bear chair. Gebrüder Thonet’s Wagasa lamp illuminates the corner

of a Hay sofa. There are works by Trine Søndergaard and Peter
Bonde, hand-thrown pottery by Cara Guthrie. The dining room
is a marvel, its walls shimmering with a hand-painted botanical
mural by the French artist Claire Basler that mirrors the heathery
greys and moss greens of the surrounding landscape. Every single
thing is beautiful, down to the tiny teak Muubs salt spoons.
But not at the expense of comfort. Natural fabrics such as
rattan and jute, and cosy touches – soft throws draped over chairs,
a log fire that crackles even in June – ground Lundies in warmth.
Our room, a studio in the converted steading beside the main
house, has the feel of a Manhattan loft with exposed brick walls
and heated concrete floors. Out in the courtyard, guests laugh and
chatter around a fire pit, blankets draped over bare knees.
Even if you’re not the kind of person who makes pals on
holiday, it’s hard not to here. Lundies is intimate, convivial. There
are just seven bedrooms (four in the main house, three in the
courtyard like ours) as well as a self-contained apartment, and
visitors are encouraged to spend time in the communal spaces.
There are books to read and an honesty bar to dig into. A group
of American retirees invite us to play Farkle, explaining the rules
of the dice game while chatting about their trip. “This is the nicest
place we’ve stayed,” says one, a former construction worker who
helped build Paul McCartney’s home in the Hamptons.
By the time dinner rolls around, we’re among friends. Chef
David Malcolm’s food is so outrageously delicious it stops con-
versation in its tracks. Wild sea trout and mussels scattered with
foraged herbs and flowers; côte de boeuf barbecued outside then
served with candied egg yolk; homemade bread loaded with chive
butter. Every plate is creative, flavourful, properly farm-to-table. It
doesn’t need to be this good (food options are limited round here,
so Lundies provides all meals). It wants to be.
A sunny forecast the next day coaxes us out. Thick sand-
wiches wrapped in brown paper and string and flasks of tea are
pressed into our hands – very Enid Blyton – before we’re waved
off on our travels. We meander west towards Durness, stopping
at Ceannabeinne Beach to wade in its Caribbean-blue waters.
The broad stretch of white sand belongs to us, our only company
the thrillseekers brave enough to whiz by overhead on the
Golden Eagle Zipline. We could be half a world away, but we’re
not. How lucky we are to call this home.
Prices start at £495 for a double room, full board. lundies.scot
Grassyards House
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A spacious contemporary house nestled

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Grassyards House
Lovingly renovated to combine the highest quality finishes
with sumptuous luxury, to make Grassyards the perfect
house to get away from it all, relax and spend quality time
with friends and family.
5-star luxury self-catering holiday home located in Largs.

Accommodating up to 12 guests, with six individually designed bedrooms and eight bathrooms.
e perfect base for exploring local islands, discovering historic castles, sailing on the breathtaking Clyde and world class golf.
Private, secluded area, the ideal sanctuary for celebrating special occasions.
Stunning dog-friendly garden area with BBQ, outdoor seating, kids play area, and hot tub.
AND
DRINK Words Adrianne Webster
SUPPER WITH STYLE

You can’t beat a good fish supper. There’s something about the combination of crunchy batter, the salt and vinegar flavour
explosion and the carby goodness of a hot chip that’s a tonic for the soul. And who knows more about the power of a chippy tea
than the team behind Ballater Fish Shop and Restaurant? They’ve taken the traditional chippy and elevated it into something very
special indeed.
All the fish on their exciting menu is ethically sourced, often caught by hand or creel in Scottish waters that very same day. You
can rest assured the vegetables are all grown locally, too. And the restaurant’s eco-friendly commitments are impressive as well, the fish
smoked using zero-emission charcoal and low-impact drinks stocked – biodynamic and low-carbon-footprint wines from British and
European vineyards, and beers and spirits from microbreweries and distilleries in Scotland. Yes, everything here is considered, right
down to the interiors. This whimsical fish shoal installation (pictured) was created by Aberdeen-based artist Helen Jackson using her
own homegrown willow. She took inspiration from the River Dee and the plight of the Atlantic salmon, a subject she has explored in
previous projects and exhibitions. fishshopballater.co.uk
Eco eats
Ethical design extends beyond interiors
with these food and drink producers,
who prove style and substance can go
hand in hand. Scottish chocolatier Ocelot
above produces its bold, delicious bars
from Fair Trade and certified organic
sources. Persian Apothecary teas below,
meanwhile, launched by British-Iranian
businesswoman Sheyda Monshizadeh
Azar, aims to preserve heritage
and challenge colonialism through
beautiful teas.
Good taste
Say hello to the latest opening that proves
Glasgow is the foodie capital of Scotland. Somewhere By
Nico – Scotland’s very first cocktail-tasting experience with
GOING SOLO curated paired dishes – is launching in Byres Road in the
Michelin-starred chef Tomas Gormley old Six By Nico premises. The new cocktail experience
is setting out on his first solo venture with the follows six stages, with a different theme taking over the
opening of Cardinal in Edinburgh’s Eyre Place; an bar every six weeks. Guests will go on a multisensory
intimate, fine-dining restaurant with a 13-course journey via a blend of whimsical storytelling, mixology
evening tasting menu. “Cardinal showcases and delicious paired dishes. It’s the latest in a host of
something we don’t think anyone in Scotland ambitious moves by the Six team, with the Finnieston
offers yet,” he says. So, what to expect? Similar restaurant reopening as Sole Club this spring, as well as
energy to his other restaurant in Stockbridge, Skua, the launch of a new Merchant City branch in January.
he says, but with a more detailed tasting format. Glasgow, it’s all happening.
We’re officially intrigued. Two-hour cocktail experience, £60. sixbynico.co.uk
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FOOD AND DRINK
TASTEMAKER
JAYSON BYLES
Along the shores of Fife’s East Neuk, come rain, wind or
sunshine, you’ll find Jayson Byles in his element. After a move to
Scotland from his native New Zealand over a decade ago to work in
the seaweed-harvesting industry, he launched East Neuk Seaweed, a
community conservation and foraging business, focused on exploring
sustainable ways to connect with nature.
At his educational workshops, you can enjoy a real sea-to-fork
experience, with Jayson teaching all about the best seaweed to forage
for (he’s a particular fan of ‘laver’, otherwise known as Atlantic nori).
Afterwards, whatever you’ve found will be cooked as part of a delicious
wild dinner, eaten right there alfresco on the beach.
His favourite seaweedy dishes? “In the springtime there’s a really
nice diversity of different seaweeds,” he says. “I love to make ‘sea
spaghetti’, with garlic and lemon sauce. Hake wrapped in sea lettuce is
another great dish. A lot of the kelps have quite a subtle flavour, which
means they go really well with whatever you’re already enjoying. For
example, sea lettuce goes great in your everyday salad. Laver or nori,
dried out, works perfectly in scrambled eggs, but is great in all sorts of
recipes because it has this lovely umami taste.”
And seaweed isn’t just delicious; it comes packed with health-giving
properties, too, says Jayson: “It’s a real powerhouse of vitamins and
nutrients. Seaweed is an important source of iodine, magnesium and
potassium. It’s also a very balanced food. There’s a little bit of carbs, a
little bit of protein, and it’s high in fibre.”
A wild swim, an outdoor sauna (there are several along the Fife
coast) and foraging in the sea, before warming up by the fire with some
freshly cooked dinner? We’re sold.
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STYLE&SUSTENANCE
LYLA, EDINBURGH
Words Natasha Radmehr
I once overheard a conversation in chef Stuart Ralston’s

on holiday between a woman in her gastronomic empire.
sixties and a 17-year-old boy that went Located in a Georgian
something like this. Her: “I hate a tasting townhouse where the late
menu. Portions are too small. Always Paul Kitching’s 21212 once
have to get a McDonald’s on the way resided, and just around the
home.” Him: “Yes, but the point isn’t to corner from the Gardener’s
stuff yourself. It’s about the interesting Cottage, this nook of the
flavours, the chance to try something capital is already familiar
new.” She rolled her eyes; I silently pledged ground to foodies. But Lyla
allegiance with the wee man. Most people brings something new to the table with Then it’s downstairs to the main
fall into one camp or the other and if you a ten-course, seafood-leaning menu that restaurant, elegantly dressed with hairpin-
also happen to side with that worldly-wise pushes the boundaries of fine dining. leg chairs, crisp white linen and slim
teen then a trip to Lyla is essential. Our four-hour food odyssey begins pendant lights. It looks expensive and
Lyla joins Aizle, Noto and Tipo between the smoky blue walls of the clean, an unfussy canvas that lets the artful
in Edinburgh as the fourth restaurant speakeasy-inspired drawing room. We slip plates shine. Blowsy petals of plaice are
into the posh version of a beer jacket – a dotted with caviar; a generous langoustine
fizz tux? – courtesy of the champagne lounges inside the most intricately spun
trolley as we savour three pre-dinner pastry nest; Laganory cheese gleams in
snacks: an exquisite Alp Blossom cheese- a fermented raspberry and port glaze
and-onion cracker, a plump nori-encased strewn with hibiscus flowers.
scallop, and a juicy bite of lobster and Yet their looks fade to irrelevance
pickled kohlrabi topped with beads of with every bite. This food is Michelin-
salty trout roe. My normally seafood- worthy. I have never tasted anything like
wary partner smacks his lips in delight. the chawanmushi, a savoury steamed
This is new. custard flecked with strips of smoked trout
FOOD AND DRINK
IN THE MIX
Mixtapes, a brand new supper club at Edinburgh’s award-winning
Fhior restaurant, invites you to sit down and tune in to – as the name
suggests – a ‘compilation of classic, new release and one-hit wonder’ dishes
in an intimate, communal setting. The idea is a culinary experience that
extends beyond the everyday; just ten guests each Saturday will gather in
Fhior’s private dining room to sample ‘unique ingredients that are too rare
for the main menu’, skilfully brought together by acclaimed
chef-patron Scott Smith. Everything is considered,
from the playlist to the accompanying beers,
wines, cocktails and infusions. And much
like the anticipation of waiting for the next
album release from your favourite artist,
the menu will only be revealed as the
evening unfolds, to build optimum
excitement. We’re all ears for this one.
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and frothy clouds of smoked potato. The

wagyu beef – from olive-fed cattle – arrives
in a decadent soy and bone marrow broth
with a side of crispy-chewy-vinegary
sweetbreads that taste, inexplicably, like
mini mouthfuls of the best fish supper
you’ve ever had. Even the bread course
is a main event, served with a pat of
Ampersand’s golden Himalayan salt butter
and a pyramid of Lyla’s own butter brushed
with wild garlic and capers.
We pair our courses with non-
alcoholic drinks, not expecting each tipple
to be as inventive and flavourful as the
dishes they accompany. A wonderfully
briny samphire martini, sweet Scottish
redcurrant smoked over applewood,
sparkling Darjeeling tea, yuzu with ginger
and honey, a salted chocolate and mallow
root milkshake… we wind up drunk on
delight.
At £145 a head for the food alone (add
£60 each for a soft-drink pairing or £110
for the wine equivalent), it isn’t cheap.
Nor should it be. This is less a meal, more
a dining experience – one that’s worth
saving up for. And I promise you won’t
even have room for a Chicken McNugget
once you’re done.
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LIFESTYLE INSIDER
Amy Bell gives us the lowdown on
her holiday go-tos and favourite
parts of Scotland, and takes us
behind the scenes at her wedding
Interview Adrianne Webster
I started my blog when I was at university. I absolutely loved

writing and photography, and the blog was only ever intended
as a little space where I could babble on and practise those.
Fast forward a decade or so, and here we are.
At the beginning of each year, I like to sit down with a
cup of tea and make a wee list of goals I hope to achieve, both
personal and professional, along with a handful of really wild
ones that are more dream goals. I’ll then check in with them
throughout the year, see where we’re at with them and what I
could do to help move towards them. Overall, though, I have
to say that I quite like keeping things loose, going with the flow
and seeing where life takes me.
I’ve worked with so many dream brands over the years,
from Mulberry to Tommy Hilfiger to TBCo, but if I were to
choose just one favourite, I think it would have to be Gucci. Or
Irn Bru. Both are great loves of mine.
Scotland is one of my favourite places in the world to
explore. There’s so much to it and so many magic landscapes.
Cold, crisp, sunny spring days are rare, but when they do hit,
there’s nothing better than wandering through Queen’s Park
in Glasgow. Favourite brunch spot and dish? It’s got to be Café
Strange Brew. Dish-wise, I couldn’t choose… everything and
anything on the menu!
I’ve visited so many nice bits of Scotland. I really love
Lochinver for its ruggedness, Achmelvich and Clachtoll
beaches for their beautiful waters, Eigg for its peacefulness,
Glasgow for its food, Edinburgh for its sheer beauty, and
Amy
anywhere on the east coast for good fish and chips.
For fashion finds, I absolutely love Biscuit Clothing and
Amaryllis in Glasgow and have discovered so many great
loves
With the new season putting us all in a brighter mood,
brands via both over the years. For lovely homeware, Aume, Amy’s casting her mind towards her summer holiday
Hoos, Wild Gorse Pottery and I Am Nomad are all go-tos. must-haves. First up, a good book: “I’ve just read Spring,
I recently got married and someone told us about an Summer, Autumn, Us by Fiona Collins and loved it.” Next,
old Spanish tradition that if you want good weather on the Queen of Hungary Mist by Omorovicza Budapest: “It’s
big day, you need to bury a sausage in the back garden the blended with orange blossom, rose and sage and gives an
instant boost.” Last but not least, Elizabeth Arden’s Eight-
night before. We did exactly that – but when we told our
Hour Cream: “For hydration on-the-go.”
photographer, who’s Spanish, she couldn’t stop laughing. She @amybell
had no idea what we were on about. Who knows where that
tradition came from, but it did seem to work!
BACK TO BASICS
Uniqlo has answered our calls: the clothing brand, loved
for its versatile, hardworking wardrobe staples, is finally
opening a Scottish store. The new shop is on Edinburgh’s
Princes Street, across two floors lit by airy floor-to-ceiling
windows. The company seems to be as excited as we
are about the launch this spring: “It’s an honour to be
opening not only in a new city but in a new country,” says
Alessandro Dudech, head of Uniqlo UK.
uniqlo.com
Beauty buzz In an effort to

elevate the Homes & Interiors Scotland
beauty cabinet, we’ve been on the hunt for
products that are as stylish as they are hard-
working. Enter Grown Alchemist, a hair, skin and
bodycare brand that caught our eye on a recent trip to
Gleneagles Spa. It’s packed with bio-advanced formulas
for optimal skin health, and its Scandi-style packaging is a
thing of beauty. Hydra Repair Day Cream, £35, Grown Alchemist
THE CURATOR
Our picks for a style and culture fix
NAILED IT
Nail polish bottles still look much the same as they did when they
were designed in the 1920s by American makeup artist Michelle
Glow up
Menard. Time for a change? This innovative,
Put the date in your diary, darlings;
industry-disrupting pen by VYL-01 will add a Charlotte Tilbury is bringing a
healthy dose of cool to your polish slice of Old Hollywood glamour
collection, helping you achieve salon- to Glasgow when she opens her
quality nails at home. It’s a practical first standalone Scottish store this
spring. You’ll find Charlotte Tilbury
solution for needy nails but it’s also
Beauty Wonderland next door to
chic enough to work as a fashion Frasers on Buchanan Street, where
accessory, and the polish you’ll have the opportunity to shop
itself is cruelty-free, non- her award-winning skincare and
toxic and quick-drying. makeup. You can also book in for
personal consultations and facials
Perfect for mess-free to experience some first-hand
top-ups on the go. signature Tilbs glow.
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LIFESTYLE
T EAM E FF O RT RE D A LE RT
A star-studded line-up of authors, Breathe a sigh of relief: the hunt
including the likes of Margaret for the perfect red is over. The
Atwood, Emma Donoghue and Powermatte High-Intensity Lip Pencil
Celeste Ng, have come together from NARS comes in ten gorgeous
to pen a twisty novel about the red and pink shades to complement
tenants of a run-down apartment every skin tone. It’s transfer-proof and
building in Manhattan who swap stays put for up to 12 hours, too, so
stories on their rooftop during you can simply apply and go.
lockdown. £20, Vintage £24, narscosmetics.co.uk
What’s
FA SHIO N F I X hot
Get an access-all-areas insight into 1
the world of the fashion show in the
pre-digital age at V&A Dundee’s
Everything But the Clothes exhibition.
Boasting pieces from the likes of
Versace, Chanel, Dior and Louis
Vuitton, the display also draws on the
personal archive of renowned fashion
writer and editor Iain R Webb. Until 10 2
March. vam.ac.uk
M UST-S E E
Spiralling limbs, daring dance moves… no, not Friday
night on Sauchiehall Street, but an unmissable
retelling of Swan Lake. Returning to Scotland
after a sell-out 2016 debut, this mesmerising tale
of romance and heartbreak is brought to life by
David Dawson’s choreography and Tchaikovsky’s
soaring score performed live by the Scottish Ballet
4
Orchestra. Various dates from 4 April to 4 May, in
Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and Edinburgh
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£875,
S’Wheat
S’Wheat water
water Matches
MatchesFashion
Fashion
bottle,
bottle, £30
£30
Coco
CocoCrush
Crushring,
ring,
Adidas
Adidas Country
Country
£2,540,
£2,540,Chanel
Chanel
OG
OG Trainers,
Trainers, £90,
£90,
Net-a-Porter
Net-a-Porter
Paris
ParisMonogram
Monogram
track
trackpants,
pants,£160,
£160,
Lacoste
Lacoste
LIFESTYLE
IN THE E R A of fast fashion, we’re dedicated to championing

innovative designers with longevity. Take Barbour’s collaboration with
Erdem below — an unexpected pairing given Erdem’s penchant for
florals and Barbour’s commitment to practicality. Yet, their waxed jacket Hoops,
Hoops, £195,
£195,
and patchwork quilt fusion is a striking piece, perfect for the vibrancy Alighieri
Alighieri
of spring. Also catching our attention is Polish brand Chylak, renowned
for crafting ‘it’ bags, with a staggering 15,000-person waitlist. If you want
to get ahead of the crowd, the brands on this page (including Scottish Iris
Iris ring,
ring, £84,
£84,
designers Annabel Stewart, Treen and La Fetiche) are ones to watch, as Maria
Maria Black
Black
they push boundaries and redefine the fashion landscape. Gertrudependant,
Gertrude pendant,£218,
£218,
AgmesxxSt
Agmes StAgni
Agni
Card wallet, £175,

Mulberry x Mira Mikati Upcycled work
blouse, £210,
Annabel Stewart
Simone Rocha x Crocs

Quick Trail, £195
JOINT
VENTURE Midi kilt, £760,
La Fetiche
The collaborations and
designers on our watchlist
this year
Charles
Charles &
& Keith
Keith xx
New Balance x Chet
Chet Lo
Lo bag,
bag, £99
£99
Ganni trainers,
£260, Laced
Erdem x Barbour,
from the spring-
summer 2024
collection
‘Vintage’
Cell
Cell rejuvenating
rejuvenating frame
moisturiser,
moisturiser, bag, £330,
Victoria
Victoria Beckham
Beckham Chylak
xx Augustinus
Augustinus Gardening at
Bader,
Bader, £60
£60 the Grange
tee, £55, Treen
x Soo Burnell
AVARICE
UNNECESSARILY EXTRAVAGANT
OR THAT PERFECT FINISHING TOUCH?
From £10,600
LEADER OF THE PACK

RIGHT THEN, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS? Dear reader, take note of the saddle and pedals – it’s an
exercise bike, of course. You’d be forgiven for mistaking it for some sort of sculptural dog or horse, but
this is in fact a fully functional piece of gym equipment.
The Fuoripista stationary bike is a collaboration between Italian brands Elite (specialising in cycling
accessories) and Adriano Design (creators of tech-focused aesthetic pieces for the home). The legs and
flywheel are made from tempered glass, and the body from solid beech with a waterproof coating. Leather
wraps on the handles and saddle bring to mind vintage pommel horses, but the tech on this unusual bike
is purely 21st century. A smart screen allows the rider to connect to other cyclists online, tap into sessions
with a virtual coach, and virtually traverse real courses.
Honestly, it’s a bit odd but if you can afford to drop 10k on a bike, you’ll probably be after something
that complements the rest of your fancy furniture. The Fuoripista will blend right in with modular Italian
sofas and great swathes of glass – if that’s your vibe, saddle up.
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136 MAKING HISTORY Navigating a mishmash of

150 LA DOLCE VITA An Italian dream home goes back

76 54 TRENDWATCH Shine a light on silver

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