by Editorial Desk | Garden
7 Unique National Trust Gardens to Enjoy this Summer The National Trust is inviting visitors to enjoy and explore the unique National Trust gardens of seven of its London properties as part of Open Garden Squares Weekend. Discover some wonderful gardens in London that...
by Editorial Desk | Interiors, the List
Living a Simple Life – The Simple Mindset When it comes to our home environments, for most of us the primary requirement is to create well functioning, but also attractive, happy, calm and safe sanctuaries that offer a buffer to the maddening hurly burly of...
by Raci | Books, Interiors
The Drawing Room – what’s yours called? But is it a ‘drawing room’, ‘living room’, ‘sitting room’, ‘front room’ ‘reception room’ ‘family room’ or ‘lounge’? These days it is...
by Gwendolyn Leick | Architecture, Books
Historian Gwendolyn Leick describes how some years ago as the wife of a Turk – the son of an army officer – she happened to visit Ataturk’s striking mausoleum in Ankara. Her emotional response – that included a feeling of reverence –...
by Raci | Features, Interiors
We Need To Go Deeper One of today’s most popular and rapidly growing interior and product styles is the ‘natural home’. Ironically for such a modest and unshowy design style, it is richly represented in endless publications, and interiors magazines...
by Raci | Interiors
Osterley Park House – ‘Palace of Palaces’ Once described by Horace Walpole as ‘the palace of palaces’, Osterley Park House, the great 18th century neo-classical pleasure palace, is the lusciously juicy fruit of Britain’s incipient...
by Editorial Desk | Object
PAD London 2014 Decorative arts and design at their very best once again return to London’s Berkeley Square with the 8th edition of PAD London. It’s no coincidence that this world class act is taking place at the same time as the Frieze shows. On the...
by Raci | Interiors
JamesPlumb’s Award Winning Shop Design Putting aside the great intergalactic slug of the Future Systems Selfridges building in Birmingham, shop design in the UK is largely a humdrum affair. Except that is for Hostem the men’s and now women’s wear...
by Editorial Desk | Interiors
Bathroom Design – Semi-precious stones light up a masculine bathroom that glows with desert colours In the pursuit of new and exotic effects GDC interiors design team turned to Capital Marble for its expertise in procuring and working with stone, to interpret...
by Raci | Architecture
What a surprise Kirby Hall is! Kirby Hall is a beautiful and truly innovative Renaissance masterpiece with gardens that were once thought to be the best in England… and yet for the most part it is an unoccupied ruin! But like many ruins from before the mid 20th...
by Editorial Desk | Interiors
GDC interiors has an international reputation for superlative interior design. They recently launched their new London show flat in Belgravia, one of London’s finest addresses, with its beautiful stucco terraces built by Thomas Cubit in 1840. Within easy access to the...
