{"id":84756,"date":"2018-04-07T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-history-boys-how-one-couples-funky-flat-is-bringing-the-past-alive\/"},"modified":"2018-04-07T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T11:03:21","slug":"the-history-boys-how-one-couples-funky-flat-is-bringing-the-past-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-history-boys-how-one-couples-funky-flat-is-bringing-the-past-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"The history boys: how one couple\u2019s funky flat is bringing the past alive"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRising 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 \u2013 even in the bedroom? Or a pink living room beside an egg-yolk hall? The couple\u2019s 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\u2019d call the producers of Britain\u2019s Biggest Hoarders \u2013 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\u2019s not just one pair of spectacles on Hall\u2019s 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. \u201cWe do rather like things,\u201d Hall says. \u201cWe just need more surfaces.\u201d Collecting stuff, like writing his blog or posting on Instagram, is to Hall about memory: \u201cEverything here has a story.\u201d Each object conveys its own history, and that of him and Campbell. Their home is a scrapbook of their decade together. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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