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10 Tips For Designing A Home Office

Home offices are essential in the age of kitchen table entrepreneurship, freelancing and working from home. Design of a home office shouldn’t be an afterthought; environment has a significant effect on your mood, sense of wellbeing, and productivity. Here are...

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Family businesses: on working together

This December, we’d like to introduce you to a few of our outstanding members whose traditional family values are well worth celebrating. We asked the families behind each of these inspirational inter-generational businesses to share what they have learned whilst...

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Amy Somerville at Milan Design Week 2019

Amy Somerville are proud to have taken part in the Palazzio Della Meravigle joint exhibition at the historic Museo Bagatti Vasecchi as part of Milan Design Week 2019. The pieces launched at the exhibition were created especially for the ‘Sala...

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Top tips for building a brand & developing your business

Polly Williams, the multi-award-winning Designers’ Advisor, founded Camberyard, an interior design business development consultancy, in 2015. Inspired by the belief that collaboration is better than competition, she also formed the Camberyard Collective, a select group of like-minded designers, brands and...

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Antique, Vintage or Collectible: What Is The Difference?

Florence Martin, of architectural antiques specialists Westland London, guides us through the differences between antique, vintage or collectible items. Q: What is an antique? A: Many specialists consider ‘antiques’ items which are 100 years of age or older. Reputable antique...

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Ceramic art: Craven Dunnill Jackfield collaborates with Frances Priest

Frances Priest’s ceramic art installation at Edinburgh Hospital is engaging patients, staff and visitors with its visual warmth and texture. Completed in December 2018, the work is known locally as The Tiled Corridor.  Priest tapped into local, Victorian architecture for...

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Rattan Weaving with Lulu Lytle of Soane Britain

Lulu Lytle on Rattan Weaving for the Furniture and Lighting collections of Soane Britain. Why did you become interested in rattan? I can’t pinpoint precisely when I fell in love with rattan, other than adoring a 1920s portrait of my...

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Alternative Flooring Collaborates with Ella Doran

Alternative Flooring has joined award-winning designer Ella Doran to tell the transformational tale of British wool at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). The Sheep to Seat, Fleece to Floor exhibition follows the journey of wool from the sheep which graze the...

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Cox London on the Polypore Chandelier

Nicola and Christopher Cox, the husband and wife team behind Cox London, have created the Polypore Dish Chandelier, a handcrafted, four-tier organic light made with thousands of hand-pulled Venetian glass leaves. 1. How, Chris, did you and Nicola meet? We met...

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SALVESEN GRAHAM IN COLLABORATION WITH DAVID SEYFRIED

Introducing the award winning four-piece furniture collection by Salvesen Graham, in collaboration with respected furniture maker David Seyfried. This collection, launched in 2016, was one of The World of Interiors highly commended collections of that year with only two pieces.  Since...

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CHILDREN’S FURNITURE TO LAST THROUGHOUT CHILDHOOD.

If you are decorating a nursery or searching for children’s furniture, you may not wish to opt for an age-specific range. Instead, consider buying furniture that will last throughout childhood. Here are some ideas from Go Modern who distribute the...

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Nushka’s Silk Jajim Cushion Collection

Andrew Damonte, founder of Nushka, shares the story of the new Silk Jajim Cushion collection with TheHouseDirectory.  “Every now and again a fabric presents itself as the perfect cushion fabric. We are always looking for fabrics which have a slightly...

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Christmas decorating tips from the experts

Twelve creative design firms offer personal Christmas decorating tips to inspire you to create a most stylish, fabulous and festive interior this holiday season.                                 ...

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Original & Personalised Gifts for Christmas

As the festive season approaches, the more organised among us will be putting together our Christmas gift lists.  Are you finding it harder each year to search for thoughtful, original and personalised gifts for the special people in your life? ...

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Seven Fantastic Dressing Tables

Dressing tables and dressing rooms are becoming ever more popular in homes and luxury developments. Here are some fantastic options to complete your dressing area. Fiona McDonald is the doyenne of 1950s and 1960s Italian design and also launched Fiona...

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