A Kind of Magic: The Kaleidoscopic World of Luke Edward Hall

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It was a drab day in January 2019 when Duncan and I began hunting for a house in the country. As we trawled the web for cottages, our new lives flashed in my head as a gleeful, Arcadian slide show: garden weeding and village dog shows (we didn’t even own a dog at this point); long walks and longer lunches with friends and brilliant new neighbours. Plus, crucially, we would have an entirely new set of rooms to fill with wonderful things. But most of all, and in a very simple way, I looked forward to spending more time with hills and trees and sky around me. It would be an adventure. Among all the classical treasure sits a postmodern 1980s Memphis Milano table lamp by Ettore Sottsass. Photograph: Mark C. O’Flaherty/The Guardian

This point is very much a continuation of my previous ones. The best rooms reflect their owners, so collect the things you fall in love with no matter when or where they are from, and never worry about them fitting together. As my friend the interior designer Beata Heuman says in her new book Every Room Should Sing: “There's a lot of joy in expressing one's individuality. It is freeing. It can be exhilarating.” Each room features geometric carpeting, a candy-striped headboard and a canary-yellow armchair and pouf created bespoke by Hall.

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See the work of Belgian designer Gert Voorjans for inspiration. In 2016, Voorjans was invited to participate in the AD Intérieurs exhibition at La Monnaie de Paris. He created a bureau d’homme suggesting a journey from Tibet to Paris via Venice. The selection of furniture and objects symbolised each stage of the odyssey and included Venetian antiques as well as Art Deco and 18th-century French pieces. The mix is dazzling, yet no individual piece screams for attention. a b "Why ski chalet decor needs a cliché or two". Financial Times. 2022-11-18 . Retrieved 2023-04-25.A Kind of Magic: The Kaleidoscopic World of Luke Edward Hall by Luke Edward Hall, with photography by Billal Taright is published by Vendome Press on 29 September.

Other spots to stay around the French capital include hotel Hoy, which has TV-free rooms and an in-house yoga studio so that guests can escape the chaotic hustle and bustle of Paris' streets. He has collaborated with Burberry, Liberty, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Gant, Richard-Ginori [ it], Diptyque, Rowing Blazers, and the Royal Academy of Arts. [3] [5] [6] He re-designed the Hôtel Les Deux Gares in Paris, and launched his first solo apparel collection called Chateau Orlando in 2022. [7] [8] At the FT Weekend Digital Festival last week, I spoke with Nathan Brooker, editor of House and Home, and put forward my own five design principles. These are the guidelines I offered, and I hope they provide a simplified foundation of what I find to be good design. 1 Try to master the art of the mix Luke Edward Hall’s Cotswolds home (and his whippet Merlin): ‘I crave the magic of contrast’ As a child, and already an insatiable art lover, he was often busy drawing, cutting and gluing. Today Luke Edward Hall is an artist, a designer and a journalist. Find sources: "Luke Edward Hall"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

The late, great illustrator and collector Pierre Le-Tan’s Paris apartment springs to mind — another favourite interior — in a picture I’ve seen of his desk. Among his enchanting mix of chic and worldly objects, a toy troll stares out — one of those ones with giant googly eyes and a mound of white marshmallow hair. I’m sure this troll must have had a fascinating story to tell. I’m just glad it was able to enjoy prime place alongside Le-Tan’s Cocteau sketches and ancient classical fragments. (Pieces from Le-Tan’s collection were sold at Sotheby’s in Paris last week.)