On Vintage Pieces and Their Appeal

The appeal of vintage pieces, especially from the 50’s and 60’s and few of the early 70’s is a trend that still is around and it has been for the last, at least, 5 years in an important way. Why is that? I was educated by teachers (when studying architecture) who had a deep appreciation […]

An Urban Terrace: Case Study

Our city, London, is one of wonderful contrasts. One of the biggest one is related to her architecture. One can walk two blocks and find buildings which age span even one thousand years, being the “norm” one hundred and fifty and two hundred years among them. The other contrast we Londoners experience is our weather […]

Floor Plan / Furniture Layout: The Definition of An Area

What does make a flat or a house a “home”? For some, the concept is related to the place where they go after work for sleeping day after day paying little or no attention at all to how the flat or house works for them. What I mean about “work” is how your home makes […]

A Gentleman’s Home: Before and After

Having a clear brief is the foundation on which a project is built on, it will determine how successful the outcome is when the client contrasts it with the idea (s) he had in mind when engaging the services of an interior designer. The brief the client gave me for this project was clear and […]

Supreme Interiors: Furniture in Masterpiece

It is the desire of many designers (and the achievement of some) to work with the best and just the best in furniture design. The thing is how do you define the best? The more expensive?  the more luxurious? The shiniest? The most controversial? The trendy one? Or is it: The one that redefines function […]

An Urban Terrace in London

One of the reasons that brought me to London and made it my home is the scale and history of the city. It is vast not just in terms of numbers (area, boroughs, number of tube stations, museums, parks, galleries, etc) but in terms of meaning, of its history.  We could say London is a […]

A Must Have: Your Reading Corner

In our homes there are many activities that we need to perform: Sleeping, cooking, socializing, working, sharing with family or friends, etc. It is the role of interior design to create a place for every one of them, giving to all a space and at the same time allowing them to mix and adapt depending […]

Exceptional Pieces for your Home: Perfect Christmas Presents

It is Christmas and in most of our minds we are thinking about the perfect present for that special being or beings in our lives be it human or not. In my family home we always had dogs and every Christmas we thought of their presents too, there were four dogs and one cat, two […]

Furniture: Classic or Contemporary?

When choosing furniture for your home there is the possibility you will be wandering if you should choose a safer classic look or a more daring contemporary style. It is not uncommon us to think in opposites: black or white, modern or classic, cold or hot, etc. If we transfer this approach to interiors the […]

Design and Craftsmanship: From Italy with Love

All my clients, so far, have a special interest in modern/contemporary design. This vision of modernity or contemporaneous schemes varies from client to client. For some is about colors, for others furniture, textiles or art  and  for more daring ones it is about all of those elements combined in such way that  they deliver that […]