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Ten standout pavilions from the 2023 London Design Biennale

June 1, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

A giant wind chime, touch-sensing bio-textiles and windows for Ukraine are among the most intriguing installations from the London Design Biennale, which opens at Somerset House today. The biennale’s fourth edition was curated by the Nieuwe Instituut and its artistic director, Aric Chen. With the theme of The Global Game: Remapping Collaboration, the event aims

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Pirajean Lees creates Arts and Crafts-style interior for Mayfair restaurant

June 1, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

London design studio Pirajean Lees referenced Mayfair’s pastoral past and created a series of spaces that nod to the idea of a Georgian manor house when designing restaurant 20 Berkeley. Pirajean Lees aimed to build a story around the space and its sequence of many small rooms, while tapping into the restaurant’s British produce-led culinary approach.

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Fettle channels Soho’s “grittier” years at 1 Warwick members’ club

May 30, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

Interiors studio Fettle drew on the neo-baroque architecture of this Edwardian building in London’s Soho when converting it into a members’ club, as well as nodding to the area’s colourful history of the 1950s and 60s. Owned by Maslow’s, the group behind Fitzrovia club Mortimer House, 1 Warwick features mid-century furniture and lighting along with

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This week we revealed London’s best new home renovation

May 27, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, the annual Don’t Move Improve! competition named Nic Howett Architects’ The Secret Garden Flat as London’s best new home improvement project for 2023. The flat, which is located in the borough of Southwark, was praised by the judges for showing “how a very high standard of craftsmanship can be achieved with a low

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Gundry + Ducker creates concertina facade for London brewery

May 26, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A folded facade of galvanised steel and glass fronts the railway arches that house this beer hall in London by local studio Gundry + Ducker. Located in Kentish Town in North London, the brewery was designed for beer company Camden Town Brewery within railway arches in a cobbled mews. Its concertinaed frontage was designed by

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Birch Selsdon hotel takes over 19th-century mansion in Croydon

May 26, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

British hotel chain Birch has opened an outpost in south London, with grounds rewilded by designer Sebastian Cox and interiors conceived by local studios A-nrd and Sella Concept. Birch Selsdon is housed in a 19th-century mansion in the borough of Croydon and accommodates 181 rooms alongside a wellness space and lido, co-working facilities and a

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EBBA Architects transforms former jellied-eel restaurant into eyewear store

May 26, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio EBBA Architects has designed a store for eyewear brand Cubitts that preserves and draws on the original 1930s interior of the traditional F Cooke restaurant on London’s Broadway Market. The restaurant, which sold cockney dishes such as jellied eel and pie and mash, had been located on the east London street since 1900

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The Secret Garden Flat named London’s best new home renovation

May 24, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

A renovated flat by studio Nic Howett Architect that “feels like an oasis” has been named London’s best new home improvement project by Don’t Move Improve! 2023. Named The Secret Garden Flat, the ground-floor home by Nic Howett Architect was selected as the overall winner from a shortlist of 15 revealed in April. It was

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Five highlights from Zaha’s Moonsoon: An Interior in Japan

May 15, 2023 James Parkes 0

The Zaha Hadid Foundation has opened an exhibition about Zaha Hadid’s Moonsoon restaurant in Sapporo, Japan. Here, exhibitions officer and curator Johan Deurell selects five key objects from the show. Zaha’s Moonsoon: An Interior in Japan is a case study of architect Hadid’s first built project outside of the UK – the Moonsoon Bar and Restaurant

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