Back in March 2013, musicians and non-musicians alike gathered at London retail concept space LN-CC for a multi-sensory experience like no other. Thomas Bullock—a DJ and record producer with decades of street cred who fell in love with mezcal later in life—had…
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Dezeen Watch Store: join us for a drink at our north London showroom and browse a selection of half-price watches.
We’ll be offering discounts of 50% on old stock, discontinued lines, samples and display models, so pick up a bargain before Christmas.
A variety of popular styles from brands such as Uniform Wares, NAVA and Ziiiro will be available to purchase during the event, as well as all the latest additions to our collection, including Stone by Denis Guidone and the 104 Series by Uniform Wares. If you’ve been thinking about treating yourself to a new watch, or you’re looking ahead to Christmas, this is the perfect opportunity to find a style that suits you.
Dezeen Watch Store autumn event
Place: The Surgery, 100a Stoke Newington Church Street, Stoke Newington, London, N16 0AP
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Date: Thursday 7 November
Time: 6pm until 9pm
Please RSVP to joe@dezeen.com
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British studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has added skeletal partitions and skylights to bring more light into this renovated west London mews house.
Jonathan Tuckey Design renovated the Grade II-listed building for a private client and his dog, creating a two-storey home with a combined living and dining room on the first floor.
The planning authorities were reluctant to let the architects design an open-plan layout for the space, so they instead added see-through stud walls that follow the exact footprint of the original interior.
“We negotiated a difficult planning process in order to achieve this aesthetic in the Frame House,” architect Nic Howett told Dezeen. “The open plan with frame walls allowed light to flood deep into the plan.”
Five skylights bring light to different parts of the space. “A large roof light over the stairs allowed light to flood down to the ground floor,” said Howett.
Walls present a mixture of exposed brickwork and timber panelling, while the kitchen is finished in stainless steel and there’s also a reading corner.
Entrances lead into the house on both storeys. The downstairs entrance opens into a red-painted workshop and garage, used by the client to store his motorbikes.
The master bedroom is positioned alongside, while storage spaces line the edges of the corridor, and a bathroom and wet room are tucked away behind.
A birch plywood staircase connects the two floors.
This year Jonathan Tuckey Design also converted a historic chapel in Wiltshire, England, into a house with a blackened-timber extension conceived as the building’s shadow.
Photography is by Ioana Marinescu.
Here’s a short description from the architects:
Frame House
The reconstruction of a Grade II listed mews house in Holland Park, West London.
Beyond the refurbished historic exterior an entry hallway with a red-pigmented concrete floor acts as both a workshop and display case for our client’s collection of vintage motorbikes, which can be seen from within the house through a large glazed partition.
The ground floor also houses the master bedroom and bathroom. Opposite the hallway a birch-ply staircase is inserted into a double-height space which is lined with black MDF.
On the first floor a framework of timber studs is located where the original walls stood, creating an open, but layered kitchen and living space. The original roof structure is visible above this framework and new skylights with timber cowls bring in natural light.
A crisp, stainless steel kitchen contrasts with the exposed brick walls and the study is lined in Douglas Fir panelling. Skilled craftsmanship elevates the modest palette of materials to create a characterful modern home.
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Well into bookings and a spot-on event schedule just a month after opening, The Ace Hotel’s latest offering takes its characteristic simplicity and buzz to east London’s Shoreditch neighborhood….
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Since its founding in 2009, design studio Patternity has believed that nurturing a shared awareness of life’s patterns will help every person to feel more connected to a greater whole, changing the way they engage with…
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NYC-based artist Jon Burgerman will be taking a transatlantic flight back home for his upcoming show “Racing Lines” at London’s prestigious Southbank Centre,…
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News: Frank Gehry and Norman Foster have been appointed to design a series of buildings as part of the £8 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in London.
Los Angeles firm Gehry Partners will collaborate with London office Foster + Partners to carry out phase three of the Rafael Viñoly-designed masterplan, adding a shopping street to connect the old Victorian power station with a new London Underground station, and building residential neighbourhoods on either side.
The two firms will co-design the retail stretch, known as The High Street, which will encompass shops, restaurants, a library, a hotel and a leisure centre. Foster + Partners will add residential buildings to the east, while Gehry will work on the residential zone to the west – the architect’s first major project in the UK.
“Our goal is to help create a neighbourhood and a place for people to live that respects the iconic Battersea Power Station while connecting it into the broader fabric of the city,” said Gehry. “We hope to create a design that is uniquely London, that respects and celebrates the historical vernacular of the city.”
Speaking to the Financial Times, he described his ambition to add a sculptural form to the centre of his design. “The developers said the [potential] renters loved the view of the power station, so I said why don’t we put a more sculptural object, we call it a ‘flower’, in the middle, as a secondary sculpture for Battersea – it gives something for everybody,” he told the paper.
Grant Brooker, design director at Foster + Partners, added: “[The project] has a vision which will transform this area and create a vibrant new district for South London that we can all be proud of.”
The Giles Gilbert Scott-designed Battersea Power Station has been out of use since 1983 and has been subject to a number of unsuccessful proposals over the last 30 years, including a stadium for Chelsea Football Club, a public garden and a theme park.
The latest masterplan by New York architect Rafael Viñoly includes the construction of 3,400 new homes. London firm Wilkinson Eyre is working on the renovation of the power station, while Ian Simpson Architects and dRMM are carrying out phase one of the surrounding development.
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This year Cool Hunting was fortunate enough to have the artist Clay Ketter as our companion at London’s Frieze Art Fair. Ketter is well known for his post-minimalist work…
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1. GQ’s Man of the Year: Noel Gallagher Known as much for his ability to say almost anything as he is for a batch of successful tunes, Oasis lead guitarist Noel Gallagher has been selected as GQ’s man of the year. In an…
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Dutch designer Aldo Bakker has curated an exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers in London that presents his products alongside complimentary pieces from the gallery’s inventory.
Gallery Libby Sellers invited Aldo Bakker to select works from its collection that share materials or details with his own and present these as a way “to create interesting conversations, connections and juxtapositions between the two.”
Bakker chose pieces by Formafantasma, Max Lamb, Julia Lohmann, Peter Marigold, Jonathan Muecke and Lex Pott, and says that he was interested in seeing his work alongside that of designers such as Lamb and Marigold because of their contrasting working methods.
“Both Max and Peter work in the moment, their works comes to existence by doing,” Bakker told Dezeen. “In my case, the moment is dissolved in the whole, and you do not see many traces of the process of making.”
Materials that recur often in Bakker’s work, including metal, wood, glass and ceramic, are also prevalent in the works that he chose for the show.
“Contrary to a solo exhibition, a group show offers more entrances to the different works, and most likely enables the viewer to see the objects more clearly and precisely because of the oppositions,” Bakker explains. “I hope that the differences between the works will help visitors understand them better.”
At the 2010 Milan Furniture Fair Bakker presented a series of copper objects, including a tubular watering can that features in the exhibition.
Spaces in Between is at Gallery Libby Sellers until 14 December 2013.
Here’s are some more details from the gallery:
Spaces in Between
15 October – 14 December 2013
Gallery Libby Sellers is pleased to present Spaces In Between – a group show curated by the award-winning designer Aldo Bakker.
Contemplation and communication are at the heart of Bakker’s practice; his works in wood, metal, glass and ceramic are rigorously considered and purposely provoke reaction from the end user. By way of highlighting this, and to initiate a dialogue with the gallery, Bakker was invited to select objects from both the gallery’s existing works and his own extensive repertoire in order to create interesting conversations, connections and juxtapositions between the two.
Having had free access to the gallery’s entire inventory, Bakker’s choices confirm his position as an arbiter of materials, detail and form. His final selection comprises works by Formafantasma, Max Lamb, Julia Lohmann, Peter Marigold, Jonathan Muecke and Lex Pott – and each will be presented as counterpoints with specific designs from Bakker’s own works. While Bakker will introduce these interchanges between objects, it will be left to the visitor to bring their own interpretations and translations to the conversations.
Bakker (b.1971) views his designs as the work of a ‘vormgever’, which in Dutch literally means ‘giver of form’. As he says, “both in my language and in my form, I choose to approach ‘authenticity’ and ‘originality’ very precisely and I allow my designs to acquire physical shape only when I deem them to be ‘autonomous entities’”. His work can be found in international public collections, including Vitra (Germany), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam), the Zuiderzee Museum (Enkhuizen) and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (New York). He has collaborated with clients including Thomas Eyck, Izé, Sèvres, Nodus and Wallpaper*. Bakker was the recipient of the 2012 Z33 Architecture Competition Award, and has also won Wallpaper* Design Awards for ‘Best Stool’ and ‘Best Use of Material’ (2011). He lives and works in Amsterdam and is a tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Opening times: Tuesday – Friday, 11am – 6pm Saturday, 11am – 4pm
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