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Universal Design Studio has brought in weavers, enamelers, and other creative makers to decorate workspaces within the Norton Folgate development in east London’s Spitalfields neighbourhood. Norton Folgate is a 330,000 square foot mixed-use site comprising a total of six buildings, three of which have interiors curated by Universal Design Studio: 16 Blossom Street, Nicholls &

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Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair. The suite, which comprises a bedroom, bathroom and lounge, is decorated in the hotel’s signature celadon-green shade, developed with colour specialist Pantone. It

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London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill, combining hotel stays and residences under the same roof. Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park is located beside the Grand Union Canal, on a site that once housed the headquarters of London’s Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association. It is the third property for operator

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Forty-eight rocks were handpicked from a Chilean mine to form the centrepiece of Mareida, a London restaurant designed by Macarena Aguilar Izquierdo of Santiago-based studio DAW. Mareida is the brainchild of owner Prenay Agarwal, who wanted to bring Chilean food, design and culture to London. The rock library is one of several custom pieces inside

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