October 2020

Living Etc

The homes magazine for modern living

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Defining Beauty
Welcome to AW20. In usual circumstances, the interiors season kicks off with the London Design Festival, by which time, as journalists, we’ve spent the summer at buzzy press launches and grand fabric unveilings. Not this year. This season has arrived
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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Sarah Spiteri EXECUTIVE EDITOR Pip McCormac EXECUTIVE EDITOR Kate French GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR Emma Williams GROUP CHIEF SUB-EDITOR Jennifer Spaeth COMMERCIAL EDITORIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Jane Akers ACTING COMMERCIAL EDITORIAL O
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Everyone’s Talking About…
A bold stripe is timeless, yet how to move it in a more modern direction? Try a pattern with alternating widths that plays with perspective, like this green paper from James Malone Fabrics. Elsewhere, striped fabrics at GP&J Baker are working embroid
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The Wizards Of Oz
Fashion turned interior designer Tamsin Johnson established her own practice in Sydney in 2013, after years of working in London. Her light-filled, graceful spaces, including her own multipurpose art gallery, showroom, antiques store and office in Pa
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Life.style.etc
despite enjoying her career as a qualitative market researcher, Nina Plummer yearned for a job that covered her varied – of ten creative – interests. A house move from London to Edinburgh with her husband Craig four years ago led them to conceive an
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Rooms With A View
A short drive from central Sydney, the house Dylan Farrell refers to as ‘Contemporary Perch’ looks like it’s been supplanted from the middle of the Australian outback. Set on a plain above a creek, one side of which is cut into a cliff, the sweeping
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Runway Successes
milan-based designers Alejandro Restrepo Perez and Davide Colzi can be counted on to put on a good show. They helped Chanel create its legendary La Passeggiata and Little Black Jacket events and their client list also includes Louboutin, Jimmy Choo a
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A Little Bit Country
crafted, considered and chic – this barnstormer of a building is exactly the kind of rural retreat dreams are made of. Situated in upstate New York, it was created by Lyndsay Caleo Karol of The Brooklyn Home Company (TBHCo), who, alongside her husban
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Still Life
filled with whimsical furniture that doubles as pieces of sculpture, this expressive home may have a pale backdrop and areas dedicated to admiring pieces of design, but it’s far from a look-don’t-touch, art gallerystyle space. With three young childr
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Heart Of Steel
when Rose Wilkinson first visited this former factory in south London, part of it was still being used as a dusty workspace. ‘It was a studio for a woman who did sculptural repairs, so slabs of stone in various states of dilapidation were scattered a
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Design & Decorating
“Floor-to-ceiling brown might not be the most obvious choice for a kitchen, but Poliform’s Artex makes a convincing case with its varying hues of mocha, coffee and walnut. Yet this isn’t form over function; check its fumé glass shelving and wall unit
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Columnist
2020 hasn’t been all I thought it would be. No glittering gold excursions to St Petersburg, no wild ruby weddings in Vegas and no rummaging through flea markets in and around Biarritz. But although my feet have been planted on English soil, I have st
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Exclusive Anthropologie Discount
We’ve long been fans of Anthropologie, the fashion and homeware brand full of eclect ic accessories and beautiful statement furniture. This season brings new collaborations with Skye McAlpine, queen of the tablescape, with a col lect ion of gorgeous
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Style File
LOW-PROFILE FIXTURES THAT ADD IMPACT WITHOUT HOGGING SPACE TACTILE SILHOUETTES FOR A GORGEOUS GLOW THE FACTORY LOOK IS WHERE IT’S AT MINIMALIST SHAPES TO LIGHT UP COSY CORNERS ABSTRACT FORMS MIX ART AND FUNCTION DELIGHTFUL MOOD-LIFTING BEAUTIES
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Lookbook
SUPPLIERS TO LOVE Team resilience with luxury with these marble-inspired quartz surfaces A trove of contemporary and classic fireplace designs Best for chic basins and beautiful tiles High-performance surfaces to recreate the look Leading the charge
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Paintbox
The first step to working with cream and off-white is understanding the difference between the two. Patrick O’ Donnell, brand ambassador at Farrow & Ball, explains: ‘Creams will read warm as they have an underlying yellow in them, and some have a das
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Design Profile
Last year we launched a competition we hoped would open up the design industry to some of those who might not otherwise find an easy way in. From how much wealth you need to do unpaid internships to the connections you might require to open doors, it
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Case Study
Since its inception in 1973, Agape has been at the forefront of modern Italian bathroom design. Known for its sleek and minimalist aesthetic, the company’s products have been designed by some of the most influential names in the biz, like Patricia Ur
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News
Jonathan Stanley, marketing vice president, Caesarstone “The worktop will have a big visual impact on the finished space – don’t leave your choice until last. The combination of floor, worktop and doors represent the biggest surface areas and will se
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Gallery
PHOTOGRAPHS (HEART OF STONE) NICK GUTTRIDGE AND RICHARD LEENEY; (TOTALLY TERRAZZO) PETRA FORD ■
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On The Scene
LDF wouldn’t be the same without design polymath Tom Dixon shaking everything up. This year’s Octagon interactive exhibition, both physical and virtual, to be held at Tom’s Coal Office HQ in King’s Cross, will celebrate the 30th anniversary of his fa
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Interview
When choosing a material for your work surface, the best way to start is with a reality check. Think about how you use your kitchen and what you most enjoy about it. Then explore which materials will enable you to keep on doing that, and how they’ll
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The Great Escape
BY THE CHEF AND AUTHOR YOTAM OT TOLENGHI Every year, my husband Karl and I, our two kids and 10 friends head to Kea, an island just off Greece. It’s a little under the radar as it doesn’t have an airport, but what it lacks in accessibility it makes u
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Spice Up Your Life
serves 4 16 radishes8 spring onions generous handful of walnut halves200g block of vegetarian feta cheese4 sprigs of tarragon generous handful of mint leaves generous handful of basil leaves flatbreads or tortilla wraps, quartered, to serve 1 Using a
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Buy Art Online
Describe your style. I think of my paintings like a reflection in a puddle. Each piece is a landscape, with nature’s beauty distilled and rearranged into its most basic form: light, colour and space. Some people say they look like stone or marble. Ma
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My Happy Place
Every summer, for as long as I can remember, I’ve been to Southwold. Its rows of brightly painted beach huts, its golden sands and its incredible fish and chips just feel like home. What I love is how relaxed the whole town is and how calm it makes m

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