Textiles and Pattern for the brave and the bold While clearing out my parents’ home I discovered this incredible piece of fabric. Not something you see …
Textiles: A Portal To A Past Life
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Student Accommodation – Design Is For Life.
Student accommodation is an essential rite of passage, learning to live independently, managing finances. For many, it is when they begin to collect their own household belongings and express their own sense of design.
Twenty Five Years: “A Thousand Pieces Of Gold”
An Inch of Space…. Is Worth A Thousand Pieces of Gold In 1998 my film, “A Thousand Pieces of Gold”, won a Gold award in the …
Homeless Support – When You Need It
If you couldn’t pay your rent or mortgage for a few months and didn’t have a family support network…very quickly you could find yourself struggling. Interview with …
The Unique Experience of The Patient
As a patient on a hospital ward.… It’s difficult to sleep. You are not in your own bed. You are not in your own home. …
Just Me, My Husband And Our Dog
We have lived here for 19 years – just me, my husband and our dog. It is a semi-detached 3 bedroomed house with living room and kitchen/diner. …
Interior Design Masters? I Don’t Think So!
BBC’s Interior Design Masters is yet another quick fix, staples, glue, centrepiece, wow factor, TV game show. From this, viewers will think ‘interior design’ is about shoddy craftsmanship, …
It’s Basically A House On A Boat
I have been living on this boat since September. Essentially, it’s a long corridor. It’s 45 ft and as wide as my arm span – 6 …
Surfaces, Materiality and Light
Surfaces of Light I know this room so well and yet through every season it looks very different. Light has the power to transform an …
How Storehouse Belfast Responded To Need: Home, Place and Community.
This article is based on featured interview: (Storehouse Belfast Interview with Alan Carson) On a sunny Saturday the grounds of City Hall, Belfast attracts a …