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sense of place is important to all creative people. Their surroundings
provide inspiration and, in some cases, even the materials for their work.
Ceramicist Florian Gadsby sums it up perfectly when he says, “It’s
a way of incorporating where you live into what you make.” The other
craftspeople we meet in this issue also talk about being influenced by the
landscape around them. For Maggie Williams, a textile artist on the Isle of
Skye, the greys and blacks of the volcanic beaches, colours of the wild
flowers and blue-greens of the sea all appear in the cushion covers and
blankets she makes, while Jane Withers uses the structure of the wild
grasses and grain heads she collects near Sherwood Forest to inspire her
sculptural lighting. Joe Hogan, on the other hand, actually weaves his foraged
finds of twigs, branches and bark into the baskets he makes from home-gown
willow. A sense of place is hugely important, too, to the owners of many of the
homes we feature: the stunning contemporary barn in Scotland that features
on our front cover is just one example. We hope you enjoy the buildings and
their settings as much as you do the interiors and their furnishings. It is the
coming together of the whole that makes these properties extremely special.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SUSY SMITH
CREATIVE DIRECTOR LINDSEY JORDAN
ART DIRECTOR TERRY WALLACE
HOUSES EDITOR BEN KENDRICK
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR MICHELE JAMESON
PICTURE DIRECTOR PATRICIA TAYLOR
MANAGING EDITOR INGRID EAMES
CHIEF BRAND OFFICER LIFESTYLE AND HOMES SHARON DOUGLAS

CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER CLAIRE BLUNT
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER JAMES WILDMAN
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8 Dark Materials
HOUSES
24 The Great Outdoors

38 Bright Spark
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56 Island Life
70 Call of the Wild
84 A Star is Born
96 In Living Colour
114 Hive of Industry
130 Out of Africa
142 House on the Hill
160 Art & Soul
172 Past & Present
186 Italian Escape
200 Rough Luxe
216 Elemental Forces
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36 Maggie Williams
68 Florian Gadsby
94 Sasa Works
140 Janie Knitted Textiles
184 Joe Hogan
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DARK MATERIALS
Jeweller Ellie Swinhoe has embraced bare plaster
walls for richly textured effects and atmospheric
spaces in her Georgian house in Frome, Somerset
PHOTOGRAPHY CATHY PYLE WORDS CAROLINE ATKINS STYLING KAY PRESTNEY

RAW HIDE A miniature tailor’s dummy holds jewellery on an old wooden chest in front of bare plaster walls.
The mottled tones are reflected in a huge mirror behind two pierced cylindrical lamps that create graphic
silhouettes. The wooden work benches, which provide low side tables, came from Frome flea market
PALE WAVES In the sitting room, the focal point is a woodburning stove on a slate hearth. Pale herringbone-patterned
parquet gives the ground floor a comfortable warmth

IN THE FRAME The landing outside the main bedroom is used as a display space for
family photos. Ellie’s bed came from Feather & Black, a tight fit in her old house, but
a stately centrepiece here. The quirky bear side table came from Graham & Green
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THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Near the shoreline of Lake Erie in Pennsylvania, this
modest weekend retreat has been cleverly configured
to maximise space and enjoyment of the water
PHOTOGRAPHY MATTHEW WILLIAMS/PHOTOFOYER
ALL ABOARD The original
structure was a modest fisherman’s
cottage built in the 1950s and
had a series of tiny rooms with
low ceilings that turned their
back on the lake. The current
owners restored the building and
removed interior walls and ceilings
to reveal the roof beams, which
now resemble the hull of a boat

SMOOTH MOVES The kitchen,
which runs along much of the back
wall, juxtaposes a tiny electric Aga
with a sleek run of simple cabinets
and a wood-clad wall
A ROOM FOR ALL USES A new poured
and polished concrete floor contains
local stone chippings, which bring the
texture of a pebbled shoreline into the
interior. The table is multifunctional
and moves on a pivot
SPACE SAVER A pivoting wooden
panel reveals a slender window in
the bedroom area. This is defined by
a plywood box containing a service
area and shower, and topped with
a bed platform accessed by a ladder.
Surrounded by day lilies, the
cabin’s large windows have views
across to the lake
NOOKS AND CRANNIES When not in use, the main futon bed can be folded
away to create a small sofa. In the roof apex, situated above the plywood box,
there is also room for a slender desk
MEET THE MAKERS
MAGGIE WILLIAMS
ARTISAN
PROFILE
W
hen people say they want a better work-life notice to her school in 2011, and moved to Skye, her
balance, what they sometimes mean is they initial plan was to have a gallery in a separate building
want more time to do the work they want beside her crofter’s house. The credit crunch scuppered
to do. Maggie Williams discovered that for that, and instead she applied for change-of-use
herself after she gave up her job as a permission to run the Ellishadder Gallery and café – a
teacher in Northumberland and returned to contemporary weaving and painting studio with coffee
her first love, textiles, setting up a weaving and cakes – from the house itself. Her loom – on which
studio on the Isle of Skye. Combined with a she makes about 150 cushions and ten hand-woven
gallery to sell her paintings, and a tea room blankets a year (larger ones are sampled and finished
that serves her home-baked cake (lemon blueberry in here, but woven for her in small runs at Scottish mills) –
summer, Talisker whisky fruit cake in winter), it’s a full-on is set up in the tea room itself, so that visitors can watch
business – with none of the school holidays she used to the process for themselves. “They can sit with their bakes
have – but it’s infinitely more enjoyable. and beverages, overlooking the picturesque Loch Mealt
Her handwoven merino and Trotternish Ridge, with the
and lambswool cushions and woodburner going, and
blankets, inspired by the
island’s ancient landscape
“Visitors can imagine the cloth in their own
homes,” Maggie says.
and unpredictable weather, Handmade mugs and jugs
sell to visitors from all over the
world. They take away with
enjoy tea and from the café, which is usually
open for just four hours a day,
them the greys and blacks of are also available to buy. One
the volcanic beaches, the
colours of the wild flowers,
cake here and of the few additional costs
Maggie had to cover – given
the play of light on the inky
Hebridean sea. She sells a
small amount online, and has
imagine the that she already had the
premises, and her loom and
yarn – was the crockery, which
a few pieces in a shop in
Portree, the island’s largest
town, but 90 per cent of her
cloth in their she commissioned from a local
pottery. “I took out a small
business loan to buy that, and
sales are direct to visitors.
Maggie learned to weave
as a teenager, growing up in a
own homes” the tables and chairs, but paid
it off in the first couple of years.”
Trade is seasonal, though.
Derbyshire mining village She has to earn most of her
where everyone, she says, WORDS BY CAROLINE ATKINS living during summer, when
came to her grandmother to the tea room is open five days
have dresses altered and curtains made. Her father a week. Weaving (apart from demonstrations she gives)
drove her each week to an evening class in the village is confined to the evenings. She then closes up shop in
hall, where she was a novelty among the elderly ladies, November to fulfil her Christmas orders, opening again
even borrowing a table-top loom to take home and for three days every week from December to Easter,
practise on. “Then my dad found some plans in the giving her time to replenish her stock.
library and built me my own,” she adds. Customers’ tastes shift with the seasons, too. Her work
The circuitous route from Derbyshire to Scotland – and her living – reflects the colours of the year on Skye.
took her via a weaving course at Cumbria College of Art Purples sell when the heather is out, while blues and
and Design (it was as an art student that she first fell in turquoise are popular when the weather is fine. “We get
love with Skye on a summer holiday with friends), a job 100-mile-an-hour gusts in winter – the wind is relentless,”
in quality control at a Carlisle mill that wove traditional Maggie says. “But there’s nowhere better in the world on
red and white Saudi headscarves, and a teaching calm, sunny days.” A fact that makes up for that work-life
certificate at Sunderland University. When she gave balance being as far out of kilter as it ever was.
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BRIGHT SPARK
A contemporary extension has replaced an old garage to create
open, airy spaces beside a Georgian farmhouse in Hampshire
PHOTOGRAPHY MALCOLM MENZIES WORDS ALISON DAVIDSON STYLING BEN KENDRICK

MONOCHROME MOOD In the new building, a spacious, light kitchen has been created, with Jamie Blake from Blakes London
using weathered wood units, marble worksurfaces and a polished concrete floor. The big glass doors and windows now open up
to give great views onto the garden and open countryside

GOOD CHARACTER Just off the living area, a little boot room for coats and outdoor gear is kitted out with storage
cubbyholes for members of the family and decorated with Mr Fox wallpaper by Scion
TIME AND PLACE A small snug area on one side of the new kitchen extension is demarked by a cowhide rug. The new iron staircase
and old external wall of the original brick house can be seen on the left. The original date of the farm, 1773, was found etched into a
brick and so, to mark it, a new bespoke neon sign was made by Seletti

ANCIENT AND MODERN Between the
old house and the new, a transitional
space has a staircase designed by Anna’s
husband Jon. The ground floor was laid
with aged boards and stone, which came
from deVOL Kitchens’ head office at Cotes
Mill in Leicestershire. The staircase was
built from scratch with a metal balustrade
and treads made from old floorboards
SEE FOR MILES Upstairs, the simply decorated main bedroom
has linen from Loaf and a bed from Feather & Black. The large
freestanding bath, painted in Farrow & Ball’s Lamp Room Grey,
has views across open fields to a majestic solitary oak
THE RIGHT BALANCE Until recently, the house was derelict, a tree grew through the drawing room and ivy climbed up the internal walls.
An ugly double garage had been tacked onto one side, which has now been replaced by a new boarded and tiled extension, which blends
well with the old farm. Owner Anna Beauchamp enjoys the outdoors with her son Wilfie. Blakes London (blakeslondon.com)

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ISLAND LIFE
Situated in dense pine woods in northern Ibiza, Can Alma

is a traditional low terracotta building with interiors that
fuse a Mediterranean and modern aesthetic
PHOTOGRAPHY KAREL BALAS/VEGA MG
IN THE RED Standing in a garden of dense vegetation, cacti, succulents, brilliant washes of Hottentot-fig mixed with spiky agaves and set
amid pine woods, Stéphanie and Julien Cohen’s summer retreat has a deep terracotta façade, which echoes the red earth of the Balearics
GLOBAL TREASURES A collection of bags hang in the hallway – the small round raffia one is from Madagascar, while the
geometric woven mochilas are from South America. The kitchen is the focus of the whole house, where everyone gets together,
and contains lots of curated finds, including a rug from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, wooden boards, woven baskets and
ceramics, some of which are from Stéphanie’s collection for shop Démodé

ECLECTIC TOUCH Rustic vintage pieces in the living room,
such as the old pitchfork and demijohn, were found at Ibiza
Troc, a secondhand warehouse. Other items have been
brought back from the couple’s travels or bought from the
island, including the pendant light from Atmosphère and
the little square stools and round woven pouffé from Sluiz
GREEN AND SERENE In the bedroom, the linens come from
Merci in Paris, where Stéphanie worked for a while. A mosquito
net forms a cloud-like canopy, and vintage lamps with cages are
suspended above a ledge to emulate a low headboard. Traditional
elements of Mediterranean style, painted window surrounds and
a pierced fretwork door are painted in deep Terre De Vert and
recur throughout the house
THE BIG CHILL The couple have created a number of areas for relaxing in their outdoor space. The low coffee table in this
corner of the terrace was made by a cabinetmaker from two lengths of wood. Démodé (demode.fr)
MEET THE MAKERS
FLORIAN GADSBY
ARTISAN
PROFILE
W
estern ceramicists are always fascinated by provided an interesting balance to the structure of his
the classical pottery of Japan and China – work here in the UK, where social media helped him build
the skills, the techniques and the glazes. And up a customer base before he even had any work to sell.
the Japanese are also brilliant at sourcing The Japan trip had been fixed up with help from
the best materials, says Florian Gadsby. He ceramicist Lisa Hammond at Maze Hill Pottery in south
wants to emulate that in his own work, by London. Florian worked as Lisa’s apprentice for two years
digging up a few buckets of clay to make his after his Thomastown course, and then stayed on an
own slip, and grinding granite for the glazes extra year to help out while she focused on setting
of his elegant, subtly coloured vessels. “It’s a up Clay College Stoke (which opened in Burslem in
way of incorporating a sense of where you live into 2017). This gave him a regular income while he built
what you make,” he explains. an Instagram profile, posting pictures of his own
Where Florian currently lives is Bounds Green in north mugs, pourers, dishes and vases, and writing about the
London. In fact, he’s lived in London since childhood, process. It meant that by the time he had his first
going to a Steiner School batch of work ready to sell in
where he got his earliest May 2016, he already had
experience of clay – digging
it up from the garden and
“It’s a way of 90,000 followers waiting to
buy from his online shop.
baking it in the oven alongside That ready-made internet
bread at kindergarten, making
mosaics when being taught
incorporating marketplace has allowed him
to be more selective about the
about ancient Rome, and then bricks-and-mortar shops and
taking pottery classes as a
teenager. “I remember watching
a sense of galleries he sells through,
turning down offers if he
my teacher and being
completely mesmerised by
the process: I spent my lunch
where you doesn’t feel at home with what
they sell or the aesthetic they
represent. But Instagram isn’t
breaks throwing pots instead
of playing football.” Florian
finds the energy of London
live into what the same as a physical shop,
he admits: “It’s good to get the
chance to meet people, make
and its network of makers
essential for creativity, but he
has also acquired knowledge
you make” real contact with buyers.” One
gallery he’s been happy to
show in since his return from
and inspiration wherever he Mashiko is Hauser & Wirth in
can come by it – including a WORDS BY CAROLINE ATKINS Bruton, Somerset, where he
placement at The Leach was part of a two-month Make
Pottery in St Ives while still at school and then two years exhibition in the autumn that introduced him to a new
in Ireland, at the Thomastown pottery school renowned group of customers and a fine art environment.
for its Ceramics Skills and Design Training course. And, Florian now wants to explore the fine art angle further,
most recently, he spent six months in Mashiko with Ken making larger pieces, one-off designs for display rather
Matsuzaki, a master of modern Japanese ceramics. than function. For that, though, he needs a new studio –
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LIZZIE MAYSON
That stint in Japan was the hardest he’s ever worked. one where he can install a gas kiln (not as easy as you
Full-time apprentices with Ken dedicate ten years to might think: Transport for London, for instance, doesn’t
him, acting as chauffeurs or cleaners, and are not allowed like gas kilns beneath its railway arches). “I’ve got so many
any alcohol or socialising. “You’re sweeping up leaves new ideas I want to play with. I’m just looking forward to
or snow for four or five hours a day, even before you do having somewhere to do them,” he says. In the meantime,
any pottery,” Florian says. But there was a sense of he’s selling his stock of Japanese-inspired pots to fund
satisfaction, he adds, in the total, all-consuming the new workplace when he finds it. So if anyone hears of
discipline, the way it instilled good practice. And that a studio that might suit him, do let him know.
SEE MORE DESIGNS AND INFORMATION AT FLORIANGADSBY.COM

CALL OF THE WILD
A contemporary barn with stark interiors
is spectacularly situated on the Isle of Skye,
with a backdrop of the Cuillin Mountains
and distant views across the sea
PHOTOGRAPHY HUNTLEY HEDWORTH
WORDS AND STYLING BEN KENDRICK
FADE TO GREY Owner Dominic Houlder had this modern single-storey collection of barns designed and built by architects
Dualchas. The building is clad with Siberian larch that has quickly aged in the elements to a silvery grey
WILD WILD COUNTRY The main rooms overlook a small lochan, where migratory birds frequently
stop over, and a dramatic seascape, where white-tailed eagles, reintroduced in 1975, are often seen

BRIGHT IDEAS The large single space is part-divided
into three, with a polished Venetian plaster wall,
which contains marble dust and shimmers in the
light, sectioning the living area and kitchen/diner.
The pendant lights are from Bestlite, the Wishbone
chairs by Hans Wegner (a classic from 1949) and
the oak table was made by Stuart Shone on Skye
MUTED TONES The interior is deceptively simple, with Caithness stone flooring throughout. Walls are lined with
white oak ply, which gives warmth and continuity, and contain lots of concealed storage to allow the interior to
remain minimal. The upholstered furniture came from Skandium and Ligne Roset, and the fleeces from Skyeskins,
while the glass table is by Noguchi. The Balloon Dog money box by Jeff Koons is a small concession to colour

DESIGN MUSEUM A second connected building contains a bathroom and two
bedrooms, where the occasional heirloom piece is partnered with more Bestlite
designs and a Manilla chair by Val Padilla, which came from The Conran Shop
WORKING CONDITIONS The house has shutters that can be used in extreme weather but is always warm and
comfortable due to its precise construction and excellent insulation. Dualchas (dualchas.com)

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A STAR IS BORN
An old Victorian carriage barn in Prince Edward County,
Ontario, has been refreshed in a bright Scandinavian style
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HIDDEN TREASURE When owner Lorren Leveille bought the
property, she found a bottle wedged in the beams with the
rolled-up signed deeds dating from 1895. She began renovations
three years later, taking out a floor to create a soaring six-metre
double-height space and removing unattractive later additions
WHITE NOISE Brilliant white
interspersed with natural tones
and a hint of mustard provides
a fresh backdrop to vintage
pieces. Boards from the upper
floor were used for the walls and
the bathroom cupboard, and
thick ones for the top of a dresser
HOME WITH HISTORY The barn, which was once a drugstore, is great in the summer and a lovely space for entertaining but as the wood
stove is the only source of heating and insulation is still to come, Lorren has to decamp to the main house in winter. The floor is formed
from sheets of plywood painted with heavy-duty latex paint

LIGHT THE WAY Next to the wide, double
ceramic farmhouse sink, dried heads of
Helichrysum make an interesting display.
Complementing the simple furnishings,
large filament bulbs have been strung
throughout the barn for suitably
functional lighting
REFLECT ON THIS All the electrics and plumbing had to be replaced
and a toilet and shower installed. A collection of old foxed mirrors,
removed from their frames, makes a collage in the bathroom
MEET THE MAKERS
SASA WORKS
ARTISAN
PROFILE
S
asa is a Swahili word meaning ‘now’. For Craig projects. “I wanted to make something well crafted, from
Bamford, who grew up in Kenya, the name brings local materials, that would last a lifetime,” he says. Big
childhood memories of his father’s workshop, companies talk about sustainability, he points out, even
“where he let me use his tools to make weapons, though industry isn’t always sustainable. “But what we do
crossbows, trailers for my bicycle and boxes to is, because it’s small scale.” Much of the wood he used for
keep things in”. Now, it is the name of his studio, Sasa’s early projects, for instance, came from Victorian
where Craig crafts his tailored, contemporary buildings demolished to build the Olympic Park in Stratford.
furniture from reclaimed wood. It draws together Working with reclaimed woods takes longer, he adds,
all his travel and training experiences into the because you have to deal with screw holes, cut out
focus of a successful business incorporating architecture, damaged parts and patch scars left by old metal bolts.
lighting and every aspect of design. He’ll work with whatever wood is available – often
Twenty years ago, Craig started making furniture and mixing different timbers in a single piece – although he
objects from bits of old boat and jetty washed up on the admits to a fondness for pitch pine, which the Victorians
beaches of East Coast America. forested in America and used
A fine art degree had already for building churches: “It’s
taught him the traditional
metalwork skills of smithing
“When you slow-growing, tight-grained
and resinous. When you cut
and forging, and working as into an old beam and see the
an apprentice carpenter on
Nantucket’s classic timber
cut into an colour and smell the resin, it’s
like finding gold.”
houses gave him a thorough Craig found his first
grounding in woodcraft, so
designing his own furniture was
old beam customers at the 2010 London
Design Fair, after which he was
a chance to combine both.
Time spent in America also
gave him a taste for
and smell the featured in interiors magazines
and then won a commission to
refit an entire house. Two years
architecture and, once back
in the UK, Craig embarked
upon a second degree, at the
resin, it’s like ago, The New Craftsmen in
Mayfair started stocking his
work – the Foca daybed, with its
University of East London.
The course included elements
of anthropology, stressing
finding gold” angled end pieces and tapered
legs, and the satisfyingly
organic-looking benches and
the human response to our stools, with their slightly rough-
surroundings and exploring WORDS BY CAROLINE ATKINS hewn curves. He has a core
how various types of collection of regular designs,
vernacular architecture had evolved to meet it. During but will also evolve a piece to commission, all made with
college hours, he would experiment with the relationship that same sensibility to materials and proportions,
between objects and the spaces they occupy, while in combining functionality with a sense of poetry.
his own time he worked as a carpenter, taking on furniture He’s been fortunate to be around makers all his life,
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL HARVEY
commissions to make a living. growing up with a father who was always inventing
He was particularly fascinated by the quiet aesthetic of things, and now, based in a cobbled mews of workshops
Japanese buildings, constructed with complex wooden housing metalworkers, potters and stonemasons, he’s
joints instead of metal fixings, their emphasis on horizontal able to call in additional carpenters to complete larger
and vertical lines rather than diagonal bracing. His ideas projects. It’s all part of his sustainable approach, and he
about architecture and furniture dovetailed perfectly into doesn’t really want Sasa Works to grow much bigger –
Sasa Works, which Craig set up in 2009 to create designs perhaps just enough to be able to take on a couple of
“made with my own language”, using locally sourced people full time. “Because there’s something nice about
wood from London reclamation yards and demolition giving employment to craftspeople,” he says.
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IN LIVING COLOUR
Designer Tjimkje de Boer has turned a 19th-century former
ammunitions depot in Zaandam, near Amsterdam, into a
colourful and creative live/work space
PHOTOGRAPHY JANSJE KLAZINGA/ COCOFEATURES.COM PRODUCTION AND STYLING ROB JANSEN
MATERIAL DESIGN The glass and
steel Picturesque table designed
by Tjimkje uses layers of colour
to create pools of vivid green and
yellow. It is partnered with vintage
steel and plastic cord Spaghetti
chairs designed by Italian
Giandomenico Belotti in 1979.
Thewhite steel candleholder is
from Dutch company Loods 5
Design. The vintage upholstered
chair is also 1970s, while the folding
screen was made out of old doors
found in the building
PIECES OF ME Tjimkje made the kitchen island, which doubles as her showroom, out of fibreglass and synthetic resin. The
lights are also her design, Rice Fields, which have special acoustic noise-absorbing properties, while the water tap is simply
bent copper piping. The staircase leading to the working spaces and living area on the first floor is left in its distressed painted
original state, while the little table, re-painted in black gloss, is an heirloom piece and the pink chairs are from Fermob
COLOUR SPECTRUM The spaces in this industrial building are big and Tjimkje’s budget was relatively
small, so she was forced to be inventive with a diverse range of pieces in bold shades and strong sculptural
shapes. The yellow sofa is by Dutch designer Martin Visser and the wooden table with glass top is 1950s,
while the wardrobe came from her grandparents
SHAPE SONG Instead of investing
in a carpet or rugs, Tjimkje
decided to paint a big-scale
black-and-white geometric
pattern on the wooden floor
SIMPLE THINGS The bed is a simple mattress on top of a wooden
pallet, while the colourful plaid blanket, which is reminiscent of a
bright Mexican serape, is designed by Scholten & Baijings for Hay.
The pink ceramic vase by Hella Jongerius for Ikea. In the bathroom,
more industrial-style copper piping offsets a rough wall, which
is part-painted in a lively shade of chartreuse. tjimkje.com;
acousticdesignsolutions.com

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spoon, £130 (chienweichang.com)
THIS PAGE Handmade dark clay glazed ‘Pond’
dishes, £10-£25 (akikohiraiceramics.com)

Hand-woven and felted ‘Pebbles’
merino wool-cotton-mix throw
by Cassandra Smith, £695
(cassandrasabo.co.uk)
THIS PAGE Handcrafted natural cork
and solid-brass pendant light by Nove
Lighting, from £140* (room356.co.uk)
OPPOSITE Hand-moulded Lotus plate
made in rough textured clay with a
*BULB SOLD SEPARATELY
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HIVE OF INDUSTRY
Tony Heaton has revived an old
ropeworks in Dorset to create
a home that showcases natural
materials and handcrafted style
PHOTOGRAPHY NICK CARTER
WORDS AND STYLING HESTER PAGE
ORIGINAL CHARM The old beams and walls were all painted white to reflect the light.
In the kitchen, the scrubbed table and benches were brought from Tony’s previous house
in Bath – the white-painted brick island holds a Belfast sink and an old slate worktop that
was found outside. Vintage baskets and pots are used as storage for vegetables. The original
barred ground-floor windows look out onto a courtyard garden
PLANET ORGANIC Texture has become the focus of the interior in handworked woodware, basketry, ceramics and even in
small accents such as the woolly spined cactus and succulents. An original coil of rope made in the building is a nod to its
heritage, while the colourful basket is by Lois Walpole

MODEST AND MINIMAL Creamy linens cover the sofa and cushions – a favourite spot for springer spaniel Flax. A bricked-up window on the back
wall provides a shelf for seasonal plants and paintings. The ground-floor sitting area beneath the gallery, which was cut into the floor above for
added light, is warmed by a cast-iron multi-fuel stove. Simple furnishings are in the form of a church pew and a low square coffee table made with
sawn English elm by Richard La Trobe-Bateman

WOOD WORKS On the length of
the upper floor, a vintage black
and white Welsh wool blanket is
laid on the bed, while beyond is
a wardrobe made by Richard La
Trobe-Bateman. An irregular
section of trunk used as a tray
provides a sturdy base for
breakfast in bed
A SIMPLE LIFE The bathroom, which is open to the bedroom, holds a roll-top bath rescued from a garden, where it had been used as a planter.
Tongue-and-groove cupboards either side hold clothes and essentials. Linen decorator’s dust sheets curtain off more storage. The balustrade hides
the open space to the kitchen below, where warmth from the Aga rises to heat the room. Tony Heaton’s cards can be found at greetingsfromuk.com

objects
of desire
OPPOSITE Small stitched unbleached cotton rope bowls with colourful

stitching by Jessica Geach, from £10 each (rubycubes.co.uk)
THIS PAGE Handcrafted brown oak stool with cleft and shaved ash legs,
£380, made to order (peterlanyonfurniture.co.uk). One-off Xenodice
Turner oak stool by Charles Dedman with upholstered hand-woven
cloth seat by Maria Sigma, £1,270 (mariasigma.com)

FROM TOP Gyuto knife with stainless Aogami clad blue super
steel blade and bog oak, brass and Richlite handle, £320;
Utility knife with stainless-steel nickel Damascus blade
and Richlite handle, £320; Honesuki knife with stainless
clad blade with oak and horn handle, £220; utility knife
with stainless-steel nickel Damascus blade and Richlite
handle, £320 (blenheimforge.co.uk)
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OUT OF AFRICA
A newly built holiday home near South Africa’s famous Kruger
National Park blends inside and out with entertaining areas,
stylish landscaping and a backdrop of dramatic scenery
PHOTOGRAPHY WARREN HEATH WORDS GRAHAM WOOD STYLING SVEN ALBERDING/BUREAUX/LIVING INSIDE
ROCK AND ROLL Julian Koski designed this holiday home for his family who live in New York and was inspired by
the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a medieval city of rough-hewn granite, building the house largely in rock in keeping
with the landscape. One part is an open pergola with a floating roof, and the other is its weighty monolithic counterpart.
The furniture here – dominated by Donna Karan’s Urban Zen range in solid teak – is low to the ground

SIMPLY SPACIOUS Inside celebrates interesting natural materials in contrast to the frame of the house. Julian worked with interior
designer Jacques Erasmus, introducing antique beams from France and reclaimed wooden floors, which give an immediate sense of
age. The Pierneef-inspired wall hanging from African Sketchbook was hand-painted. The bedrooms include beautiful flower pressings
of giant water lily leaves by Erasmus, collected around the game reserve. The Seletti Hanging Monkey wall light adds a playful touch

STYLE AND SUBSTANCE On the bathroom shelves, brown glass
stoppered medicine bottles are filled with scented bath salts,
all inspired by different South African flora from wild gardenia
to baobab. The contemporary photographic portrait is by Cape
Town-based artist Andrew Putter from his meticulously researched
and styled historical portraits series
MAJESTIC MOOD In the main bedroom, shutters, dark wood, canework
and a canopied bed reference updated elements of colonial style. A pure
ovoidal freestanding bath contrasts with an ornate glass chandelier.
Kubili House is available to rent (kubilihouse.com)
MEET THE MAKERS
JANIE KNITTED TEXTILES
ARTISAN
PROFILE
J
ane Withers sometimes finds herself thinking that safe as they can be”) and Wensleydale, Portland and
one of her lampshades would make a nice sweater. Loughton – a dark grey from the Isle of Man – for neutrals.
Which isn’t surprising, because she trained in Shapes are angular without being harsh: there’s an
knitwear design at Nottingham Trent University organic feel to their slanting lines. “They’re inspired by
and worked for several years for knitted textile the way people such as Barbara Hepworth took a shape
companies, establishing her own Nottinghamshire- from the landscape and modified it,” Jane says. The
based business in 2005. But in 2015 she launched a estate offers fabulous walking, and she collects grasses
collection of cushions, and the following year and grain heads, studying the way they splay and radiate,
developed a lampshade design, in response to a the way the light filters through them. The wool is the
competition run by the Cambrian Mountains Wool CIC. main starting point, though: supplied from Knoll Yarns in
They supplied the wool, the contestants created Yorkshire, it’s machine-knitted into cord, then washed
products with it, and the selected makers toured the UK and treated with a natural moth repellent and hand-
with an exhibition championed by Prince Charles. wound onto the frames before being dip-dyed. The
Lighting was the perfect process is labour-intensive,
direction to take her work in, taking a couple of hours to
Jane explains, because she
wanted to start using more
“I am wind a small frame. Jane does
all the making, with a couple of
British wools, and they tend part-time helpers, and Michael
to be too rough and rustic for
making cushions: customers
passionate oversees the running of the
knitting machines.
want a softer finish. So, to Growth has been steady
make lampshades,
experimented with 3mm
she
about rather than meteoric, which is
manageable and makes good
copper wire to create graphic,
geometric 3D shapes, and
took these prototypes to a
promoting business sense. Sales are split
fairly equally between private
and commercial customers,
manufacturer in Derby. Here,
they are produced for her in
copper-coated steel ready to
UK sheep and people are still seeing the
lampshades for the first time,
says Jane, so the momentum
be hand-wound with corded
wool. Heal’s stocked the
shades as part of its 2016
breeds” of the launch continues to
draw new interest.
At first, she admits, they
Festival of Light, after which were just excited about trying
Jane started to sell them WORDS BY CAROLINE ATKINS something new and seeing
on her website and through where it went. But it has led to
exhibitions and galleries, such as Guild at 51 in Cheltenham. installations in restaurants and hotels as far afield as
She and her partner Michael work from a studio at Canada, Germany and Scotland, and collaborations
the Harley Foundation on the Welbeck estate, on the with interior designers, bringing Jane a whole new range
edge of Sherwood Forest. The foundation holds open of clients. She’s planning to work with ceramicists, too,
studio weekends twice a year, giving customers the producing a collection of lamps with ceramic bases –
chance to see the lampshades up close. Jane uses one of the benefits of being part of a local craft network.
wool that is very tactile. “You need to touch it to get the It’s healthy to work in a different field and to get a
full effect,” she says. It all comes from rare sheep different perspective, she says. “I look less at what other
breeds: “I am passionate about promoting UK breeds, people are doing,” she adds. “I’m simply inspired by
but in a contemporary way, not as heritage.” She uses colour and texture – artists like Rothko, classic textile
Cheviot for the dipped designs, which are dyed with designers such as Anni Albers and Lucienne Day.” So,
Dylon colours (“We had to use a commercial dye to the next time someone tells her, “You could wear that
produce a consistent supply for Heal’s, and these are as lampshade,” who knows where the ideas might lead.
SEE MORE DESIGNS AND INFORMATION AT JANIEKNITTEDTEXTILES.COM

HOUSE ON THE HILL
Just outside the city of Pesaro in central Italy, this old farmhouse between
hills and the sea combines colourful, playful and eclectic interiors
PHOTOGRAPHY HELENIO BARBETTA/LIVING INSIDE WORDS MARZIA NICOLINI

GIMME SHELTER Lawyers Novella Baronciani and
Arturo Pardi wanted an escape from their daily lives,
and this house provides a perfect retreat. The interior,
blending Scandinavian and Italian style, combines
raw and refined materials with designer furnishings
and family objects, old and new
DESIGN CLASSICS Many of the furnishings are
vintage. Above the fireplace, an artwork in plexiglass
by Roberto Crippa dates from 1970, and teak
Scandinavian furniture is offset by colourful woven
Berber rugs and a three-arm 1960s arc floor lamp
TIMELESS STYLE In a corner of the large living room, which has two seating areas, a vintage teak and metal bookcase is teamed
with a desk in iron and glass, and a classic Medea office chair designed by Vittorio Nobili for Tagliabue in the 1950s

CURIOUS INCIDENTS Upstairs, the house retains its open-plan nature. The fitted kitchen in
cream and white has simple painted planked doors, a splashback of ceramic hand-painted tiles
and framed sketches and drawings on the walls. The dining table is by Dutch designer Piet Hein
Eek and surrounded by rattan chairs presided over by a dramatic antique iron chandelier from 1900
AVID INTEREST The walls in the
spacious shower are decorated in a
delicate toile de Jouy paper, while
a slatted garden chair in an intense
Klein blue is a place to drop towels.
An antique console fitted with a
stainless-steel wash basin holds
more towels and a pitcher
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Hand-carved sculptures in limed and scorched

oak by Malcolm Martin and Gaynor Dowling,
£100-£500 (martinanddowling.com)

THIS PAGE LB1 hand-painted Cascade table
lamp in Denmark green with natural linen
shade, £395-£495 (ryepottery.co.uk)
OPPOSITE Hand-woven textured cushion by
Liv Handley, £60 (19alexandraroad.co.uk)
Barker side table, £1,850
(sebastiancox.co.uk)

ART & SOUL
Artist Cléa van der Grijn has extended
and reconfigured a 1980s bungalow in
County Sligo to dramatic effect
PHOTOGRAPHY BRENT DARBY WORDS AND STYLING PIPPA RIMMER
A CLEAR VISION Cléa had distinct ideas of what she wanted – one main living space, clean lines, no paint, no skirting boards,
concrete and lots of it, natural woods, metals and polished waxed plaster, all finely finished that would age gracefully
CONCRETE JUNGLE The open-plan living area has a high arched, beamed ceiling and wall of concrete, left with marks from
the supports. The polished concrete floor has a geo-thermal heating system, while the kitchen (designed in conjunction with
Bulthaup) has a concrete island with a polished top and rough textured sides with floating Gaggenau ovens

MIX AND MATCH The waxed plaster ceiling looks down upon an upholstered leather chair, which was designed by Cléa and
made by John O’ Connell Furniture – it is partnered by a Victorian carousel horse and one of Cléa’s paintings. The oak table,
made by Padraigh Fogarty, is accompanied by an old church bench and Eg yptian textiles
SUNNY DELIGHT In the entrance hall, a large oil painting called Marigold by Cléa sits above an old school
bench. The downstairs cloakroom has varnished walls with a neon art piece also designed by her
BIG IN JAPAN A poured concrete bath based on the Japanese style, with underfloor geo-thermal heating and concealed pipes, ensure the walls
are at room temperature and the water stays hot. The Agape Italian taps, including the orange shower head, are by Realm Design

BLACK AND GREY The concrete theme continues
outside with raised flower beds surrounding the house.
Cléa’s studio, clad in black corrugated iron, has views out
across the bay to the distinctive, mystical Knocknarea hill.
Cléa van der Grijn (cleavandergrijn.com)
Elswick oak and powder-coated steel-frame bench, £780, made
to order (alexanderhaydesign.co.uk). Wide flared vessel by Iva
Polachova, £600 (020 7148 3190; thenewcraftsmen.com). Lolium
wool, mohair and hemp-mix throw in meadow by Bristol Weaving
Mill, £360 (020 7148 3190; thenewcraftsmen.com). Leaf-green
woven lambswool throw, £295 (clairegaudion.com)

objects
of desire
PAST & PRESENT
In the picturesque hilly landscape outside Florence, studded with olive groves and
cypresses, a romantic ruin has been re-worked with contrasting contemporary interiors
PHOTOGRAPHY FABRIZIO CICCONI/LIVING INSIDE WORDS AND STYLING FRANCESA DAVOLI

BACK TO THE FUTURE Dutch and Italian architects and designers Julie Jansen and Federico Minarelli left Florence to restore a
dilapidated manor and farm buildings in nearby Fiesole. They employed traditional craftspeople and techniques, retaining the
rustic structure and materials wherever possible and pairing them with sleek, modern pieces and many of their own designs
ROUGH WITH THE SMOOTH
The organic character of the
stone structure and chestnut
beams and timbers throughout
are contrasted to great effect
with the couple’s modern
designs for Fred&Juul. Artisan
Tuscan crafts are teamed with
new designs, such as the star-
shaped cast-brass Raffaele lights
and marquetry Maurits table
made from old wine barrels

IN THE GROOVE In the living room, a built-in wall unit contains a small fireplace. The
small table is the Nelson bench by Vitra. More Fred&Juul designs are in the kitchen, with
their blackened cast-brass light, Poppy H, presiding over a table by Riccardo Barthel and
classic Eames chairs. The glazed ceramic tiles came from Holland, where they are still
produced manually with techniques that date back to the 1600s

SLEEK AND CHIC In the bathroom, more warm wood marries with cool marble, a built-in sink unit and simple stainless-steel spout taps by CEA
Design. In the main bedroom, the house’s simplicity is fully expressed with a wall of wood and plain linens in subdued greys by Borgo delle Tovaglie

LET’S GO OUTSIDE The courtyard space between the newly restored studio space on the right and the house
on the left is home to some traditional American-style Adirondack chairs. Fred&Juul (fredandjuul.com)
MEET THE MAKERS
JOE HOGAN
ARTISAN
PROFILE
T
alk to basketmaker Joe Hogan about tradition and over the past couple of decades, weaving varied
innovation, and he’ll point out that the best forms materials – including larch twigs and lichen-covered bark
of innovation grow organically out of tradition, – into baskets, nests and more abstract structures.
from repeating techniques until they’re perfected, “From about 2001, I’ve been harvesting wild material
and by constantly questioning your own work. and collecting ‘found’ wood to incorporate. I’ll use the
“The repetition is crucial: you’re learning roots of 3,000-year-old bog pine from Dirk Lakes, where
to be patient, to work in the present and not the peat has been cut away, and I’m fascinated by tree
prejudge the outcome,” he says. Once you do holes, oddly shaped branches and bark that’s healed
that, that’s when the new ideas emerge. after a wound.” In some cases, these become baskets
Joe has been making baskets at Loch na Fooey in without any opening – “pods”, as he calls them. In a nod
County Galway for the past 40 years, since he and his to tradition, the method of construction – they’re formed
wife settled in this rural community with the aim of upside down with the base finished last – comes from
becoming more or less self-sufficient, keeping sheep the old donkey creel, but the resulting pieces, inspired by
and growing their own the mountains, lakes and
vegetables and willow. Joe moorland of his surroundings,
taught himself the basics of
willow weaving, then sought
“I harvest wild are more sculpture than
basket: enclosed, womb-like
out Tom and Michael Quinlan, and organic in feel.
basketmaking brothers in
Waterford, as mentors. They
material, A bursary from the Crafts
Council of Ireland gave him
taught him, encouraged him a chance to develop these
– and gave him a carload of
their own willow cuttings,
larch twigs, designs without worrying
whether they had commercial
from which he planted his
first bed in 1978.
Since then, he’s always had
branches and value. Now, although he still
makes functional baskets for
existing clients, he devotes
close to an acre in cultivation,
harvesting it annually from late
November to mid-March, so
bark as well most of his time to artistic
forms, which he sells through
galleries in the UK (the Scottish
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL MACLAUGHLIN, TRISTAN HUTCHINSON/TELEGRAPH
that he now has more than 20

different varieties of willow to
work with, their rods ranging in
as willow” Gallery, the Oxford Ceramics
Gallery, the New Craftsmen)
and abroad. “There’s only a
colour from green to red, and finite amount of making time
covering shades of blue, WORDS BY CAROLINE ATKINS left,” he says, with the fervour
yellow, black and white in of a man who believes in the
between. A neighbour showed him how to make two of earth as a resource to be celebrated, and wants to
Ireland’s indigenous baskets, the donkey creel and the rediscover his own sense of belonging to it.
skib – low, flat designs used by farmers – and from there He’s written several books on the subject, including
he built up a living, selling baskets for practical use. Basketmaking in Ireland, initially conceived as a maker’s
“I must have made well over 1,000 creels and skibs now,” manual but gradually expanded to include the history of
Joe says, who also teaches basketmaking, passing on the baskets. And, significantly, Joe feels it was writing
these long-established techniques to a new generation, about the craft’s traditions that freed him up to
and learning from their questions. experiment in more innovative ways.
Last year, he was shortlisted for the LOEWE Craft For the future, basket making will survive in some form,
Prize 2018 (exhibited at the Design Centre in London), he believes. It may no longer be a ‘profession’ now that
which showcases contemporary craftsmanship. It the baskets themselves aren’t essential for farm use, but
was an acknowledgment of the way Joe’s work, while he doesn’t scoff at amateurs. “Their enthusiasm is vital:
maintaining its cultural roots, has explored new directions we all need that connection to nature,” he says.
SEE MORE DESIGNS AND INFORMATION AT JOEHOGANBASKETS.COM

ITALIAN ESCAPE
In the heart of Sicily’s baroque city
of Modica, architect Viviana Haddad
has sympathetically restored a
hilltop home that is rich in history
PHOTOGRAPHY FABRIZIO CICCONI/LIVING INSIDE
WORDS MARZIA NICOLINI
STYLING FRANCESCA DAVOLI
NEW BEGINNINGS The stone building was a ruin, with no roof and a fig tree growing
inside. Much of it had to be demolished and then painstakingly rebuilt. But the large
glazed door framed by ancient Modica stone, looking out to the Duomo of San Giorgio
with the Hyblaean Mountains behind, more than makes up for the hard work
SMOOTH OPERATOR The house is
just 60 square metres wide and tucked
among a jumble of ancient stone
buildings. It consists of two main
areas – one holds a streamlined Vipp
coal-black kitchen, which contrasts
with the walls of exposed stone
NATURAL BEAUTY The second area is dedicated to the bedroom and bathroom, which is separated by an informal oak
divider. All the furnishings, such as the Duravit washbasin, Fantini taps and svelte Saarinen table, are sleek and simple,
and focus the attention on the rugged structure of the building

CREAM OF THE CROP Stone
flooring runs throughout the
house and into the bedroom,
where a built-in wardrobe is
concealed by a woven blanket.
Like all the other furnishings,
the bedlinen is understated
IN THE SHADE The living room leads on to a tiny balcony, with room for a small table and chairs, and a secret roof terrace
with a cocciopesto floor – an amazing spot for entertaining with the cityscape as a backdrop

Collaborative birch bowl, hand-turned with a scorched interior
by Adam Cornish and hand-stitched by Jennifer Collier, from
£140. Available for commission in a choice of woods and thread
colours (madebyhandonline.com). Shaker carriers in oak
(large) and birdseye maple (small) with painted interior and
copper tacks by Kit Penn, from £40 (shakerware.co.uk)
objects
of desire

ROUGH LUXE
Swede Anett Jorméus’s Cape Town home is
filled with upcycled and salvaged furniture
and fittings that reflect its historical character
PHOTOGRAPHY WARREN HEATH/BUREAUX.CO.ZA WORDS VICKI SLEET STYLING SVEN ALBERDING
NO FRILLS Situated near the sea in the quiet community of
Green Point, the Victorian house is filled with perfectly imperfect
furniture, from the utilitarian concrete counters in the kitchen to
the sanded-down and unvarnished Oregon wood door surrounds,
patches of exposed original brickwork and artisan-made furniture
METAL GURU Anett reconfigured some of the spaces, knocking down walls and opening up what was previously a series of
small rooms. The concrete counters in the kitchen set a functional note against exposed brickwork. Local demolition yards
were favourite ports of call when looking for essentials including copper piping and lab sinks

BOOK CLUB The lounge area
of the central space features a
delightfully down-at-heel suite
bought for next to nothing at
a shop in a nearby suburb.
The bookshelf wallpaper is
a design by Ulrike Mijstrovich,
a friend of Anett’s
CLEAN LIVING The house is warm, understated and pared down
without being sterile, with the emphasis on contrasting textures.
The bedlinen comes from Granit, a Swedish brand that Anett
co-founded. Indoor shutters help shield the room from the hot
sun. An unused storage space under the eaves was turned into
an open-plan bathroom suite and wet room clad in mosaic tiles.
Granit (granit.com)
objects
of desire
THIS PAGE Handmade Mixed Bed wire and

metalwork sculpture with crochet details by Liz
Cooksey, from £95 (madebyhandonline.com)
OPPOSITE Cork Soufflé by Joe Hartley, £85
(020 7148 3190; thenewcraftsmen.com)
OPPOSITE Handmade cement tiles – beige leaves,
£5.60 each; beige gammon, £5.60 each; green
leaves, £6.40 each (ottotiles.co.uk)
THIS PAGE Ash Scallop armchair with an elm seat
and crest with a Leaded Green milk paint finish
by Jason Mosseri, £950, made to order. Also
available in black (hopespringschairs.com)

THIS PAGE Hand-built earthenware chawan, painted,
stencilled and inlaid with coloured slips and underglazes,
by Anna Lambert, £180 (junctionworkshop.co.uk)
OPPOSITE Terracotta serving bowl with splatter design,
£65 (0844 848 4000; conranshop.co.uk)
ELEMENTAL
FORCES
Architect Johan Israelson’s home
on the Swedish island of Gotland
mixes a weathered cedar exterior
with an interior that celebrates
concrete in all its varied forms
PHOTOGRAPHY PIA ULIN/LOUPE IMAGES
WORDS HILARY ROBERTSON
BARE BONES The majority of the ground floor is devoted to a large dining room and kitchen, where
a monochrome palette of painted wood, concrete and stainless steel predominate, but there is also
a small sunny den where plants thrive next to a deep window seat, strewn with cushions

GREY DAYS Johan’s love affair with concrete has led him to experiment with the material in its many forms. It provides the textural shell of the
structure and is used to create everything from the kitchen worksurfaces to bathtubs and sinks, while a mighty slab of it forms the dining table
LIFE ON EARTH Against the
grey, bursts of texture create
interest – cut branches with
budded blossom, a deep
purple oxalis and fleeces
from the local Gotland sheep

LAID BACK A spacious upper floor exposed to the eaves houses
this simply furnished master bedroom where a monumental
cast sink and strongly grained wooden bed are softened with
woven textiles and a fur throw
objects
Slab-built stoneware large plate handprinted with slips and oxides,
£110 (catsantosceramics.com). Hand-thrown part-glazed (dipped and
poured) stoneware: small plate, £12; small jug, £22; small bowl, £24;
of desire all made to order (kirstyadams.com). Hand-hammered silver spoon,

£195, by Annabet Wyndham (annabet.co.uk)

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