Led by Creative Director, Angus Buchanan, and Managing Director, Charlotte Buchanan, Buchanan Studio creates distinct, considered spaces for both the commercial and residential sectors. Angus’ extensive work history with luxury global brands combines with Charlotte’s experience in corporate partnership branding to imbue all the studio’s work with an unrivalled sense of artistry and focus. Buchanan Studio is built around three key pillars – creativity, imagination and originality – and brings authentic enthusiasm and conceptual innovation to each undertaking. In 2001, the studio stepped into the product market, with the launch of their much-admired Studio Chair. More product is in the pipeline.

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This award-winning architecture practice was founded by Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos. The pair combine their architectural expertise with their passion for playfulness to create spaces, products and environments that feel innovative and intriguing. Both trained at Foster+Partners; while Katerina joined Heatherwick Studio and led the team designing the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo (winning the Lubetkin Prize), Billy worked as an independent design consultant and featured in Wallpaper* magazine’s next generation issue in 2010, as a designer who will change the face of design within the next 30 years.

In 2018, the practice’s work was selected as part of the 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, coordinated by Grayson Perry RA. Bureau de Change has won numerous awards, including the FX Breakthrough Talent of the Year 2016, the Sunday Times Architect of the Year award 2019 and, most recently, was shortlisted for the RIBA Awards 2020. Both Billy and Katerina currently teach UG4 at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

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Image credits: Long House (1-3) and The Interlock (4-6) by Gilbert McCarragher; Cast House (7-8) by Caroline Charrel; Folds House (9-10); Slab House (11-12) and Step House (13-14) by Ben Blossom.

A former interior designer, Butter Wakefield developed an eye for art and design working at Christie’s New York, and then in London at Colefax and Fowler, before turning her attention to the outdoors in 1992 with her own award-winning garden design business. Wakefield credits her time at Colefax and Fowler for teaching her the key principles of great design: scale, colour, pattern and texture – all elements she plays with within her work. Wakefield’s fascination with architecture and sculpture, the way buildings are put together, and the materials that are used tend to inspire most of her garden designs, with the work of Sir Christopher Wren and David Nash particular favourites.

Image credits: Clapham Old Town, Bayswater Garden & Notting Hill Courtyard by Ellie Walpole (1-9); Ravenscourt Park by Clive Nichols (10-12)

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Fuelled by his lifelong passion for horticulture, Alasdair Cameron founded this eponymous garden design, build and maintenance company in 1992. Based in West London, the award-winning Cameron is steered by an experienced team that fuses knowledge and innovation with an authentic, collaborative spirit. Cameron’s principal ethos is to ‘break new ground’ using a considered balance of artistry and discipline, however large or small the project.

Whether domestic or commercial, Cameron works in balance with nature and its seasons to create gardens that grow with their clients. The environments that Cameron realises are designed to be immersive and energising, affording their users new perspectives. This is achieved through the practice’s curated network of additional contacts – be them lighting specialists or interior designers – and an eye for detail that only the lifelong obsessive gardener can possess.

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CAN was founded in 2016 by Mat Barnes RIBA ARB, who was formerly an Associate at Studio 54. This London-based architectural studio designs characterful – and often colourful – homes, installations and workplaces that respond to their social and physical contexts.

Attention is paid to pattern, line, colour and form to create idiosyncratic and striking projects that reflect their clients’ unique personalities and interests. CAN believe that architecture can – and should – make the city a more joyful, inclusive and inspiring place to be. They provide a fully tailored design service to guide clients through the home-making process, from developing a brief to moving in.

CAN’s work has won multiple awards and has been featured by The Times, *Wallpaper and Dezeen, amongst others.

Caroline Legrand’s work is probably best described as “eclectic chic” but also embodies sophistication, glamour and an element of whimsy. She states her inspiration comes from constant research and a love of art and design, in all its shapes and expressions. Above all she sees the home as the ultimate expression of your true self. So it’s easy to see why we love her work.

Born in Belgium, Caroline left at 17 to study in the US and moved to the Netherlands after graduating. Fluent in six languages, Caroline has travelled extensively giving her designs a global perspective and giving her an appreciation of international art and architecture. Caroline works internationally and is based between London and LA.

Photography by: Michael Paul / Matthew Williams / Kate Martin

Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculptures by international rising and already established artists and designers. The gallery is actively involved in the research and production of the limited edition works exhibited. Founded by childhood friends, Julien Lombrail and Loic Le Gaillard, their first space was opened in London’s Chelsea in 2006. Since then they have opened galleries in Mayfair and in the heart of Le Marais district in Paris. In 2015 they opened Carpenters Workshop Roissy, a unique 8,000-meter square space dedicated to artistic research and development, bringing together the elite of artisans. Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York is the latest step in the gallery’s remarkable development, marking them out as global leaders in art and design.

Casswell Bank Architects was founded by Alex Bank and Sam Casswell in 2015 after they won a competition to design an outdoor workspace at esteemed art gallery Hauser + Wirth in Somerset. The practice believes in generous architecture that leaves an enduring and positive impression on a building, with unexpected combinations of materials used to emphasise the character of a space.

With each new project, the duo places importance on creating an architectural character that reflects the client’s ambitions and also the qualities and context of the site. Working on both large and small-scale projects, their work to date includes private residences, reconfigurations of historic institutions and commissions for cultural organisations such as the Dales Countryside Museum.

Selected images by David Grandorge.

The husband and wife duo behind Chan and Eayrs – Zoe and Merlin – began working together after meeting as architecture students. The award-winning team’s much-celebrated interiors are distinctive both aesthetically and conceptually. Instead of designing around a client brief, Chan and Eayrs create each home from scratch with a holistic and unique approach. They live on-site throughout the project to get a feel for the space, architecture and light before they begin crafting and designing.

With total creative freedom, the pair take on the role of investor, developer, architect and interior designer, thoughtfully creating a home they love over a period of at least two years. To fully dedicate themselves to each project, they consciously work on only one project at a time. After the completion and sale of a home, the lengthy explorative design process begins again in a new setting.

Of the exceptional homes that Chan and Eayrs have already completed, The Beldi – a factory conversion in Shoreditch – might be the best-known and most publicised, with its striking green interiors and Moroccan influence.

Christopher Farr unite heritage textile craftsmanship with contemporary design to produce handmade custom rugs for leading interior designers and architects. Founded over 30 years ago, they are dedicated to quality and the pursuit of beauty, with a mission to elevate rug making to Fine Art status. Believing that much of a rug’s beauty and tactility is down to the materials used, Christopher Farr carefully and responsibly source fibres using their expert knowledge and well-established networks. They continually push material possibilities in new aesthetic directions, and work with non-profit organisations, such as Label Step, Care & Fair and Turquoise Mountain, in order to play an active role in maintaining fair labour practices and improving welfare throughout the carpet industry.

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Image credit: Christopher Horwood

Borne from a love of nature and belief in the importance of sustainable building practices, Clayworks founders, Adam Weismann and Katy Bryce, travelled extensively to learn about the traditional techniques of using clay as a building material. They were already running a small company in Cornwall specialising in cob wood, stone, clay and lime, but their continued research built on this foundation, developing a particular fascination with the aesthetic qualities of clay as a finish for interior surfaces. Through centuries old knowledge learned from master plasterers around the world, experimentation and science, the pair focused on creating easy to use, ready mix clay plaster finishes. Clayworks now offer a variety of finishes from the polished concrete effect to Arakabe, the Japanese tradition of using straw in clay. On offer are 88 naturally pigmented shades, and all clay plaster finishes are made from 100% natural materials, are low carbon, compostable and non-toxic. Continual learning will always be central to the company’s philosophy, as will its vision to use building mediums that are both beneficial for the environment and the user.

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Images credits: Nicholas Worley (1-5); Rachel Boston (6); Nicholas Worley (7); Matt Austin (8); Edmund Sumner (9); Clayworks (10); Matt Austin (11); Clayworks (12)

Interior architecture and design company, Compass and Rose, operate from their studio in Clapham, south west London. They offer the full range of interior design services, from complete concept design for large projects down to lighting design and individual pieces of bespoke furniture.