Category Archives: London Sights

Places to Visit | Camille Walala at Now Gallery, London

September 1, 2017

Camille Walala installation at Now Gallery, colour hunting, pattern, mark and line making, current desig

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It’s been a short working week thanks to the last bank holiday of the summer in the U.K. So I’m just dropping in with a short post today on something visually inspiring we saw over the weekend.Read More

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Aperture | Summer colour Hunting in London

August 12, 2017

Botanical pink bicycle mews house Fitzrovia london, summer pretty city, house painted black

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Appearances can be deceiving, this looks like a hazy summers day in London doesn’t it? It’s actually a shot from back in the Spring when Summer was still promising its arrival.Read More

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Exhibition Preview | Plywood Material of the Modern World at the V&A

July 15, 2017

V&A Plywood Material of the Modern World chairs, furniture icons of modern design

 

Image: Design Soda|Plywood: Material of the Modern World at the V&A, sponsored by MADE.COM

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This week I went along to the press preview of the V&A’s Plywood: Material of the Modern World exhibition which opens to the public today. Maybe it’s the sign of a true design geek,Read More

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Design Hotels: Thoughts on The Sanderson (Plus Amara’s Tipsy Tea Party)

June 22, 2017

Sanderson London Design Hotel philippe starck atrium seatingImage: Design Soda
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Today I want to show you the interior of a design hotel I visited recently which really challenged and inspired me, and which I’ve been thinking about ever since.Read More
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Aperture | My Favourite London Art Deco

May 12, 2017

Hoover Building London, Art Deco Architecture (2)

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I’ve been really flattered to be asked to do half a dozen or so interviews recently for other websites and publications and one thing that’s pretty standard in pieces of this sort seems to be questions on where one finds inspiration. I find that whatever other factors I mention, London is always the one I settle on most firmly, sometimes it’s cafes or what people are wearing on the tube, but always present at the top of mind when I’m thinking about this is the architecture. We are so lucky in this city to have such a diverse cultural range of architectural styles. There are no grand boulevards of the nineteenth century like Paris here (though I feel slightly uneasy that the property market is beginning to socially cleanse the inner city population along the same lines of Paris 150 years ago).

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Hoover Building London, Art Deco Architecture detail

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