Journal
A Sense of Place: Designing for your surroundings
The most successful villa design begins with geography. Before style, before finishes, before furniture, there is place. Designing a villa with a true sense of place means responding to climate, landscape, and local architectural language so that the home feels inseparable from its surroundings.
Maximising Indoor-Outdoor Living: Designing the Perfect Holiday Villa
Ultimately, maximising indoor-outdoor living in a holiday villa is about designing for presence. It invites occupants to slow down, tune into their surroundings and live in rhythm with the day.
The Art of the Exceptional: Hiring an Interior Designer for Your Overseas Residence
Realising the full potential of an overseas residence demands expertise, vision, and an intimate understanding of the world's finest makers, craftspeople, and design traditions. This is where an exceptional interior designer becomes not a luxury, but an essential appointment.
Fireplace Design Inspiration: The Heart of the Modern Retreat
The crackle of burning logs, the scent of wood smoke and the soft, shifting light create an immediate sense of refuge. In winter when days are short and darkness arrives early, a fire offers warmth that feels both physical and psychological.
Creating Cosy Winter Rooms with Dark Colours
Dark colours work particularly well in winter because they absorb light rather than reflect it. In a season where natural light is limited, this can feel counterintuitive, but it is precisely what creates atmosphere.
Layered Warmth: Interior Accessories That Bring The Cosy Feeling
Focusing on specific, high-quality accents allows you to layer warmth into an existing space.
Chalet Style Without The Clichés
Chalet interior design is moving toward a philosophy of more artistic, globally inspired interiors, and leaning into the juxtaposition between the mountainous landscape outside and the soft, tactile refuge inside.
Howark Journal #2 - Winter Edition
Howark Journal #1 - Summer Edition
A Design Pilgrimage To The Oliver Messel Suite At The Dorchester
The Importance of Rugs
With a myriad of colours, patterns, sizes and materials available, choosing the perfect rug for your interior can be an overwhelming decision. Is it any wonder there is such choice when you consider that the humble rug dates back over 2500 years?
A Design Pilgrimage – Charleston House & The Exhibition – Post Impressionist Living: The Omega Workshops
The fabled Charleston House is more than just a beautiful historic building, with a fascinating past. Charleston is the most complete Bloomsbury Interior left standing, and portrays beautifully the interiors of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, two key members of the Bloomsbury Group, who lived at the property from 1916 and was occupied by various friends and family for another 64 years. Charleston has remained as it was in the 1950’s, a place in which the beautiful surroundings are breath-taking, a simple way of life was lived, with art taking precedence over comfort.
Timeless Interior Design - Standing The Test Of Time
It’s fair to say that most of us will look back at some interiors, styles and outfits we loved years ago and wonder ‘what was I thinking?!’ The design world moves at such a pace, that it’s easy to get swept along with the current trends, without considering their longevity and how they will age.
Bespoke Vs Off The Shelf - Does Furniture Need To Be Bespoke?
Designing For Your Location
What Can An Interior Designer Do For My Project?
Employing the services of an Interior Designer to help design your home can often lead to a far more polished and cohesive result than doing it yourself but the process can be daunting. We are often asked to define exactly what it is Interior Designers do? What do they bring to a project? How do they work with an Architect? Do they add value to a project? Do we even need one? In our first blog post, we wanted to answer some of these common questions and provide some practical suggestions for making the process as smooth and successful as possible.