{"id":22781,"date":"2016-08-13T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/creativity-in-hastings-designers-do-like-to-be-beside-the-seaside\/"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T10:02:18","slug":"creativity-in-hastings-designers-do-like-to-be-beside-the-seaside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/creativity-in-hastings-designers-do-like-to-be-beside-the-seaside\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity in Hastings: designers do like to be beside the seaside"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNearly 950 years after its eponymous battle, the East Sussex town is undergoing an artistic renaissanceWhen wallpaper designer Deborah Bowness moved to Hastings from London seven years ago, she didn\u2019t expect to be working from a deserted ballroom on the seafront. \u201cIt was decayed glamour, battered and worn, with huge windows that looked out on to the sea. I was there for six months,\u201d she says, sitting in a deckchair outside her beach chalet. \u201cIn London, I worked in a garage with no natural light, so to have an empty ballroom felt ridiculous.\u201dBowness, known for her hand-printed wallpaper featuring trompe l\u2019oeil bookshelves, lamps and dresses, is one of the many artists, designers and furniture traders who have flocked to Hastings and nearby St Leonards in recent years. \u201cThere is a proper creative community here,\u201d she says. \u201cI now work on an industrial estate, and there\u2019s all sorts going on there: a vintage engineer with beautiful motorbikes, and two set designers.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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