Draper Studio is led by Adam Draper, an Architect who understands homes matter. Delighting in volume and materials, each project eschews the default and since 2019 has guided private clients towards uniquely personal homes that they and their loved ones love to live in.

Draper Studio

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Richard Oxford (1-2)

Peter Molloy (3-8)

Christian Brailey (9-10)

EBBA is an inquisitive architecture and design practice, making quietly progressive buildings, places, objects and furniture through an investigative and hands-on approach. Working across cultural spaces, large and small dwellings and retail, EBBA’s focus is on making spaces that reflect particular poetic and material qualities that can carry meaning and can have a direct emotional effect on the users.

Founded by architect and designer Benni Allan, each project combines intellectual thinking, considered materiality and construction logic to create experiences and spaces that are familiar yet provocative. The research-driven practice has won multiple awards for its work and was shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards Emerging Architecture Studio of the Year in 2024 as well as being profiled by Wallpaper* magazine as one of the ground-breaking new generation of studios. They have also previously been awarded the coveted YAYA Young Architect of the Year Award by Building Design.

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Established in 2009 by Ross and Emma Perkin, Emil Eve Architects have carved out a niche working with historic buildings, complex briefs and sensitive locations. Known for imaginative and contemporary design, the practice is always looking to develop project-specific methods of construction and craft to bring a unique response to every build.

The studio forms part of the Dalston Architecture Collective and has won a number of awards including a Wood Award 2021, an AJ Specification Award 2020 and the St Martin’s Church International Design Competition 2019.

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Emilie Fournet Interiors is a London-based studio that specialises in interior design, project monitoring and colour consultation. Emilie is passionate about ensuring projects are personal, and that the spaces she creates feel inspiring to their users. Taking on projects of varying scales, her portfolio ranges from complete home overhauls, to consultations around best use of space and colour in rented homes. Her work has featured in Livingetc, The Observer, Ideal Home and The Guardian.

Image credits: Sandringham Road by Aucoot (cover and 1-4); De Beauvoir by Kasia Fiszer (5 & 7-8); Emelie Fournet Interiors (6); Haringay Project by Kasia Fiszer (9); and North London Project by Caitlin Mogridge (10).

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This award-winning architecture and interior design practice was founded in 2015 by Demian Erbar and Holger Mattes, who met whilst working at David Chipperfield Architects – one of the UK’s most internationally renowned architecture firms. Based in London, Erbar Mattes combine clarity and simplicity through their use of light, material and form to create inspirational spaces for their clients.

Most recently, Erbar Mattes has been shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 for Blockmakers Arms, and won ‘Best House’ and ‘Best Use of Materials’ awards for Harvey Road from the Haringey Design Awards 2018 and New London Architecture Don’t Move, Improve! 2017 respectively.

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Image credits: Blockmakers Arms (1-2) by Simon Menges; Blockmakers Arms (3-4) by Ståle Eriksen; Harvey Road (5-9) by Ståle Eriksen; House in Wimbledon (10); Crouch End House (11-12); House in West Sussex (13-14).

Founded by Harriet Farlam and Ben Chandler, Farlam & Chandler bring together 25 years of experience across the garden design and construction industries. Their timeless gardens combine the creative with the practical in perfect balance, whilst seamlessly responding to the context of their surroundings and their clients’ needs. The pair behind Farlam & Chandler have helped to deliver two RHS Chelsea Gold and Silver medal-winning gardens over the recent years.

Their approach is centred on the harmony between their clients’ emotional and practical responses to a site, giving spaces a depth of meaning and authentic character. Their ideas are realised in collaboration with architects, interior designers and talented craftspeople, working together to create spaces that offer as much versatility as the adjacent interiors that they are designed to complement.

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Established in 2002, Featherstone Young is headed by Sarah Featherstone and Jeremy Young, who believe that good design is shaped by people. The wider team possesses a diverse range of expertise, which is harnessed through open project design ‘crits’ and a focus on creative thinking to ensure every project benefits from the practice’s maximum potential. Design quality is a fundamental tenant to all Featherstone Young’s work, which spans residential, educational, community, art and heritage commissions. The practice holds sense of place and local identity in high priority when it comes to a project’s context, making sure each of their buildings is distinct and responsive to its immediate surroundings. Environmental concerns are also taken into consideration, with Featherstone Young ranking social and environmental needs over economic profit.

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Images: Stonecrop exterior by James Brittain (1) and Stonecrop interior by Brotherton-Lock (2); Waddington House by Brotherton-Lock (3-4); Haslemere by Rachael Smith (5-6); Jack Windmill by Brotherton-Lock (7-8); The Old Rectory by David Grandorge (9-10); and Ty Hedfan (11-12).

ferm LIVING draws on Scandinavian design traditions and simple aesthetics – but with a distinctive graphic edge that makes every item firmly contemporary. ferm LIVING is based in Denmark, where Trine Andersen founded a graphic design studio in 2005, soon expanding into design and interior products. As Trine found herself unable to find wallpaper with the kind of graphic design she wanted, she took matters into her own hands – and her first wallpaper collection was launched in February 2006. Ferm now stocks a constantly growing range of interior products, available around the globe. Even so, all designs remain rooted in the Danish soil, where it all began.

This small furniture design company was set up in 2008. Finch’s team of specialist crafts and trades people work closely with architects, interior designers and builders to create the perfect kitchen, wardrobe or freestanding furniture piece for their client’s space. The unique requirements of each project are taken into consideration, and matched with the design and skills required to deliver a bespoke result. A concern for environmental impact runs alongside Finch’s work, so carbon footprint, sustainability and waste are always taken into account too.

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Finkernagel Ross are a London and Hamburg based team creating bold and impactful architecture and interior design. They embrace every project as an opportunity to craft the unexpected from a unique and distinctive idea, making the result inherently bespoke and personal.

From the initial vision through to the finishing touches, they strive to use light to create impact, harness materials to do the unexpected and make the most of every detail to create something extraordinary. They relish injecting an element of adventure, drama or surprise. They reinforce design with colour, combining layers to create a rich and characterful style and mixing old with new. Tradition matters to them and they’re inspired by the way things have always been done, by the age-old craft of making and by enduring materials such as stone, steel and timber.

They know that everything has to add up – the financial investment, the design, the delivery – and they share in the entrepreneurial spirit and drive of their clients while maintaining a personal service.

Fiona Barratt Interiors was formed in 2006 and is now a successful interior design studio, working on luxury residential and commercial projects in the UK and overseas. Fiona says: “My philosophy behind creating fluid and elegant spaces is born of understanding the aspirations of the client, the relevance of location and through maximising the potential of existing elements of the space. I develop these with imagination and vision. The result is an interior that tells a story in relation to the four walls in which it exists, and most importantly an interior that reflects the client’s individuality… a successful interior should enhance not dictate the way you live.”

Architecture studio, Forgeworks, creates innovative and modern homes with a clear sense of character. Influenced by traditional construction techniques, their designs harness and celebrate the beauty of natural materials, often in experimental ways which result in expressive shapes and detail.

Carefully balancing form and function, the nuances of everyday life are cleverly addressed with spatial problem-solving and close collaboration with clients. The studio develops each design through hand-sketches, 3D modelling and detailed technical drawing; a rewarding process for clients to gain clarity of the design concept and translation to the finished form.

With studios in London and the South-West, Forgeworks continue to build a strong portfolio of residential projects throughout the country.

Image credit: French + Tye

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