Established some 12 years ago by Founding Director Carl Turner, Turner.Works (formerly Carl Turner Architects) take on a wide range of projects – each bringing them together with like-minded people, organisations or communities to create places of purpose that imbue creativity. From shipping containers and car parks to exhibitions, work spaces and residential homes, Turner.Works design from a foundation of forward thinking, with imagination, determination and ambition as their central tenants.

With a highly skilled and multi-faceted team of architects, urban designers, makers and thinkers behind them, Turner.Works rethink spaces and places to create unique buildings to live, work and learn in. Highly energised and intuitively responsive, this design and architectural studio have collected a number of awards over the years, including the AYA Small Project Architect of the Year winners in 2017 and the Royal Institute of British Architect’s Manser Medal for Slip House in 2013.

Image credits: Kinnerton St, a collaboration with Well St Studio, by Lorenzo Zandri (1-6) Dutch Barn by French + Tye (7-10); Camberwell Coach House by Simon Cadle (11-12); Hove House by French + Tye (13-16); Ochre Barn by Damian Russell (17-19); Slip House by Tim Crocker (20-22); Stanhope Gardens by Tim Crocker (23-24).

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Simon and Monica Cass make up the design partnership behind par-avion co. Their experience in furniture making and architecture create the foundations for their designs, and their practice is based around an ethos that holds good quality and affordability at its heart. Their pieces are timeless in style, and built to outlive fashions and fads – they are creations to keep for lifetimes.

par-avion co. combine traditional crafts with contemporary design and utilise a host of skills, including furniture making, wood turning, basket making, seat weaving, wood carving and pottery. Their dedication to preserving the environment ensures that all the materials they use are natural and renewable, with their makers in each region selected for both their quality of work and their environmental impact.

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Surrey-based garden designer Pollyanna Wilkinson set up her design studio in 2017, after a decade working in marketing in the city. Her work demonstrates a considered balance between elegance and practicality, creating gardens that often act as natural extensions to the homes which they surround. Whether it be a contemporary and luxurious London courtyard, or a large-scale country estate, capturing both the character of the property and the personal style of the owners lies at the heart of Polly’s work.

Polly qualified as a counsellor prior to starting her studio. Whilst she no longer practices, she is passionate about the impact of gardens on mental health and wellbeing, and designs with an appreciation for this in mind. Pollyanna has earned a handful of awards from two consecutive years exhibiting at Hampton Court Flower show, including the RHS People’s Choice Award 2019 and the RHS Silver Medal 2019.

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Interior designer and stylist Lonika Chande is known for her warm, confident schemes fizzing with richly saturated colour and playful textures and patterns. She pays particular attention to detail with carefully curated art, books and antique treasures (which she also sells through her online store) that lend a sort of layered eclecticism to her rooms. After graduating with a degree in History from Newcastle University, Lonika studied Architectural Interior Design at The Inchbald School of Design, before launching her career with two London based interior design firms. Now working from her own West London studio, Chande offers half-day consultations alongside complete interior redesigns, and runs projects from the design phase all the way through to completion.

Image credits: Queen’s Park, London by Milo Brown (1-8); Hampstead Apartment, London by Simon Brown (9-12).

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Sebastian Cox is a furniture designer, maker and environmentalist based in South London. Founded in 2010, his design studio holds an acute dedication to sustainability at its heart, elevating carbon counting, forward thinking and zero waste as the principal components in all they do.

Sebastian Cox harvests and mills his own British timber, respectfully updating traditional techniques with innovation and technology to create beautiful heirloom furniture, lighting and home accessories. The studio has a clear mission: to store 100 tonnes of CO2 in the wooden objects they make each year; and to double the area of woodland and wild land in the UK by 2040 through the careful management of their woodland resources in Kent.

Sebastian’s appreciation for woodland began from an early age; he grew up surrounded by it and his parents restored timber-framed buildings for a living. With his upbringing as a foundation, he went on to study Furniture Design and Craftsmanship, followed by a Masters Degree in Design, at Lincoln University. It’s here that he developed an instinct for abundant and overlooked materials.

Sebastian has been labelled as one of the most influential designers in London by the London Evening Standard and listed amongst Forbes’ 30 under 30 to watch. His work has received a Design Guild Mark alongside other accolades from design publications including Elle Decoration, Homes & Gardens and EKKB.

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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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The Soho-based architecture and design practice, Szczepaniak Astridge, take a research-led approach to their work, prioritising wellbeing and the climate whilst marrying artistic spirit with the strength of science to create ‘Sensory Architecture’.

Szczepaniak Astridge’s approach to the procurement, collaboration and fabrication of their designs results in efficient and affordable outcomes that allow the culture’s they complement to thrive. The practice embrace the ephemeral, and consider it a key component to their designs, as it allows their constructions to change with time, growing into their true depth through their unrepeatable experience.

Szczepaniak Astridge work with ambitious individuals and organisations across the world, taking on all manner of projects – from residential homes to beauty and spa brands, and world-leading technologists – to create spaces that invigorate the senses and balance commercial and emotional value masterfully.

Image credit: Nicholas Worley

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Founded by Alfred Newall, the London and Sussex-based cabinet makers The London Workshop specialise in designing and making historically inspired furniture using traditional joinery methods, with particular attention paid to proportion, functionality and longevity.

After training at the Building Crafts College, Newell took up a post at hallowed kitchen makers Plain English for two years, where he finessed his alchemic talent for transforming blocks of wood into beautiful pieces of furniture. He then set up his own practice in 2010 and continues to design bespoke, freestanding and fitted furniture for both private and commercial clients, using sustainably sourced materials. Last year saw him launch his first collection with The New Craftsmen – a selection of colourful tables in signature bobbin style, each one hand-turned on a traditional wood lathe. Other, simple items – such as bath racks, chopping boards and library steps – are stocked at Labour and Wait and LASSCO. Newall, a Brother of The Art Workers’ Guild, credits most of his inspiration to the Arts and Craft movement, and aims to replicate the simple, vernacular style with his own designs.

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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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Founded by Sheena Murphy in 2014, Nune is a small design studio run by the London-based Murphy and her New York-based partner, Tor Sauder. The studio’s cross-Atlantic presence sees them taking on residential, commercial and staging projects all over the globe. Nune believe that simplicity is key to a good interior, and that simple, considered design positively contributes to the wellbeing of those immersed in it.

As well as upmost consideration for the desires and needs of their clients, Nune put priority on the health of the planet and its people. With this as a central tenant, small businesses and craftspeople are used as much as possible, collaborating with Nune on spaces that make their inhabitants or users feel good, be them a home’s kitchen, a coffee shop or a hotel room.

Image credits: Queens Park Avenue by Michael Sinclair (1-3 & cover); Slope Kitchen, 18th Street Loft & Bruey Cottage by Nicole Franzen (4, 8-9 & 11-12); 4th Street Townhouse by Sarah Elliott (5-7); Hopefield House by Genevieve Lutkin (10)

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Founded by James Alder and Thom Brisco, this London-based architecture practice works across the UK, designing spaces to live and work, as well as exhibition spaces and furniture. Alder Brisco has had its projects featured in Dezeen, Architects’ Journal and the RIBA Journal.

Their innovative ‘attic of warm wooden curiosities’ for Studio Represent was shortlisted for the Architects’ Journal’s Small Projects Award, and Alder Brisco’s four cast benches – a collaborative work at Rectory Lane Cemetery in Hertfordshire – have been shortlisted for RIBA Journal’s 2021 MacEwen Award, which celebrates ‘architecture for the common good’.

Alder Brisco was recently included in the fourth edition of New Architects – an influential series of publications that features the best British practices that have been established in the last 10 years, which work across architecture, urban design, public space and related specialisms.

Image credits: Studio Represent by Agnese Sanvito (1-4); Studio Nencini by Nick Dearden (4-6 & cover)

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Founded by Louisa Grey, House of Grey have developed a distinct aesthetic that holds both the earth and human health within the studio’s core values. House of Grey approach interior design from a ‘whole-person-whole-world’ perspective that combines their remarkable, defined aesthetic with evidence-based, salutogenic design concepts and cradle-to-cradle® materials.

This all-encompassing approach means that considerately sourced, natural materials are used as widely as possible, which often go beyond sustainability and instead positively add to the earth at their end-of-life. In this way, House of Grey are dedicated to eliminating unnecessary waste all together to create a supportive, circular model that incites long-term wellness for the world as a whole.

Over the past 20 years, House of Grey have undertaken interior design projects for both residential and commercial clients, and consulted and styled for international brands, including Wallpaper*, Elle Decoration and COS.

Image credit: Michael Sinclair

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