Property News · September 30, 2017

Black magic: the fashion-forward family home


This early Victorian villa was once a fire-damaged wreck. Now smart stripes and pops of colour ruleFrom fashion to interiors and gardens, Lulu Roper-Caldbeck’s graphic, modernist sense of style straddles all mediums. And the designer’s east London home, which she shares with her husband, artist Marcus James, and their teenage son Oscar, reflects this aesthetic. “The house represents my taste, because so much of my life has gone into it.”When the couple bought this early Victorian villa near Regent’s Canal nearly a decade ago, it was an unpromising fire-damaged wreck. James, who has created prints for Saint Laurent, Chloé, Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen, but now concentrates on his own landscapes and abstracts, was set on rebuilding the house himself. This was partly a money saver but also a rite of passage. “My father built our family home single-handed, on the side of a Gloucestershire quarry, and he was the same age as me when he did it,” James says. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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