Property News · April 7, 2018

The history boys: how one couple’s funky flat is bringing the past alive


Rising design star Luke Edward Hall on colour, clutter and being brave when it comes to decoratingLuke Edward Hall, 29, and Duncan Campbell, 31, are not troubled by minimalism. Could you get away with a leopard-print carpet – even in the bedroom? Or a pink living room beside an egg-yolk hall? The couple’s one-bedroom flat in a vast, Victorian brick townhouse in the scruffier reaches of Camden, north London, is a hurricane of pattern, and so crammed with stuff you’d call the producers of Britain’s Biggest Hoarders – were it not so artfully directed.Prints swarm across walls: Eduardo Paolozzi, Matisse, Pablo Bronstein. Chairs peep out, breathless, beneath piles of cushions and collaged patterns. Houseplants sprout bountifully. There’s not just one pair of spectacles on Hall’s bedside table, but five. And books, books, books, squashed into any available nook: Annie Leibovitz, Cecil Beaton, Nigel Slater. Pity the soul who does the dusting. “We do rather like things,” Hall says. “We just need more surfaces.” Collecting stuff, like writing his blog or posting on Instagram, is to Hall about memory: “Everything here has a story.” Each object conveys its own history, and that of him and Campbell. Their home is a scrapbook of their decade together. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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