Tales of the City
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ArchitectsThe Listening Project.
Read more…Tales of the City meets an architect who likes to make things personal. Story of Home; a modern estate agent which understands that people buying a new home are not trading in bricks but reimagining the life they dream of living in that space. Forgeworks; an architectural studio who redesign homes to serve the nuances […]
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Interview, Lifestyle
A design for life.
Read more…Martina Casonato’s Instagram account, The Venetian Pantry, has had its 40,000 followers in raptures for the past two years, occupying a very special place at the intersection of design and culinary craft. Her posts are, however, about far more than her superlative home design and the sort of recipes that people yearn to recreate. They […]
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Architects
Clarity of thought.
Read more…Melanie Clear, founder and MD of Clear Architects, has earned a reputation for eye catching architecture in places with exceptional and difficult planning requirements. Highly commended at British Homes, RICS, New London Awards, and The European Women in Construction & Engineering Awards finalist in Best Woman Architect 2018, Melanie talked to Story of Home about […]
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Architects
Story Design. The architect bringing narrative to space.
Read more…Andre Kong is the founder of ‘andre kong studio’, an emerging, award-winning architecture and design studio based in London working on international projects across different typologies and scales. Their work focuses on playful designs that tell stories with buildings and spaces. Stepped Loft in London was nominated for ‘Building of the Year’ by Archdaily, Longlisted […]
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Interview
Let’s be Brutal. What’s it like to live in the Barbican?
Read more…There is no one better to ask than the designer and writer Stefi Orazi, whose outstanding book, The Barbican Estate (Batsford, 2018), about living on the estate includes the mammoth achievement of including floorplans of each flat type (there are over 140) and photography of the apartments. By Christoffer Rudquist P.13 Orazi’s book has become […]
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Interview
On a Mission. In Conversation with Emma Lundie, the Inspirational Figure Behind London’s Only Commercial Vineyard.
Read more…Emma Lundie is a social entrepreneur and local food sustainability champion, based in the London Borough of Enfield, North London. She is also Head of Operations at Forty Hall Vineyard, London’s only commercial scale vineyard since the middle ages, a pioneering social enterprise that benefits local people, and produces acclaimed, organic wines. Tales of the City sat […]
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Art & Culture
The Time Lord. How One Man’s Love of London Made History for Him.
Read more…Peter Stone’s Instagram site ‘The history of London’ has a large, loyal following; a reflection on the way in which Londoners are switching on to the fact that a bit of knowledge about the past only adds to living in the present. As lovers of all things London, we encounter again and again the various […]
