Instagram, ever a reliable source of product inspiration, brought Jupiter 10 to our attention this morning.
Jupiter 10 is London-based design studio specialising in wonderfully bold Modernist wallcoverings.
You can find their designs here.
Our client went successfully against the grain here, choosing Breakfast Room Green by Farrow & Ball for her living room. This striking colour complements the high ceilings, large windows and period features of this space.
“A fascinating and indefinable book … How Buildings Learn is a hymn to entropy, a witty, heterodox book dedicated to kicking the stuffing out of the proposition that architecture is permanent and that buildings cannot adapt.”
– Stephen Bayley
“Evolutionary design is healthier than visionary design.”
– Stewart Brand
How Buildings Learn is Stewart Brand’s remarkable and memorable book which proposes – convincingly – that “buildings work best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants”.
What, Brand asks, “makes some buildings keep getting better, and others not?” The approach he took was to “look at buildings after they’re built. That’s when the users take over and begin to reshape the building to suit their own, real needs. What kinds of buildings work well with that evolution, and why do so many buildings work so badly?”
“Magazine architecture” is the phrase Brand coins to describe the sort of famous, or would-be famous, buildings which are functional failures. “A major culprit is architectural photography. Clare Cooper Marcus said it most clearly: ‘You get work through getting awards, and the award system is based on photographs. Not use. Not context.’ Tales were told of ambitious architects specifically designing their buildings to photograph well at the expense of performing well.”
Do seek out the book – it is out of print, but secondhand copies are easy to find online; and the six-part TV series broadcast on BBC2 in 1997, can be found here.
We’re excited about the imminent opening of a restaurant project we have been working on for the past couple of months, Llewelyn’s. (The soft launch is taking place until Sunday 9 April.)
Do take a look at the Llewelyn’s Instagram page, which should inspire you to make a booking forthwith.
We wish the team all the best for spring 2017 and beyond.
A look back to the photography of the painting and decorating we completed in west London in late 2015.
We completely redecorated the property – a lovely two-bedroom flat in Earl’s Court – using a mixture of interesting paints, some from Eico of Iceland, and wallpaper from 17 Patterns.
