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

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Piles of books sit by the window, hinting at Duncan and Luke's inspirations. The books chronicle everything from Cecil Beaton to mid-century architecture, and Fornasetti to Nigel Slater. The Hottest New Thing In Menswear Is...Classical Antiquity?". Esquire. 2018-07-26 . Retrieved 2023-04-25.

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’ I’m sure you know the kind of unholy look I’m alluding to: it’s one favoured by developers of “luxury” properties (although this word seems to have lost a lot of its meaning). To me, those rooms look as if the life has been drained right out of them; they are cold and hard and devoid of personality. Usually a token effort will have been made to bring in some colour: the palest of pale-blue cushions, or a throw in some funereal shade of mauve. The cafe is topped by a tortoiseshell-effect ceiling painted by local artist Pauline Leyravaud. The hotel's cafe across the road boasts a tortoiseshell-effect ceiling The designer has also personalised the reading lamps above the bedside tables with sketchy doodles of martini glasses, the Eiffel tower and different French words. Bathrooms in the hotel are equally bright in colourFind sources: "Luke Edward Hall"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) I really wanted this space to feel above all joyful and welcoming and alive, classic but a little bonkers at the same time," added Hall. Luke Edward Hall has added illustrations to the bedrooms' lampshades

In 300,000 Kisses , award-winning poet Seán Hewitt and renowned designer Luke Edward Hall collect these stories--including some of the most beautiful and moving in the classical canon--and bring them to vivid life. Alongside celebrated works by Homer, Sappho, Ovid and Catullus, they include a wide range of rarely anthologized sources: raunchy poems, thoughtful dialogues, philosophical treatises, and even a graffiti text salvaged from the ruins of Pompeii. The history boys: How one couple's funky flat is bringing the past alive". TheGuardian.com. 7 April 2018. This bold palette continues upstairs in the forty guest bedrooms, which have been painted sky blue, violet or olive green.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. Daily updates on the latest design and architecture vacancies advertised on Dezeen Jobs. Plus occasional news. Dezeen Jobs Weekly A glance in any direction takes you to 1970s Italy one minute and to the Aegean the next. The pair are human magpies. “We have similar tastes,” Hall says, “but there are ways where we’re” – he chooses his words tactfully – “different.” Hall is quieter and more painterly: “I go a bit Bloomsbury group, 1970s,” he admits. You might add Rex Whistler, Bright Young Things, Jean Cocteau, Ancient Greece. “You could call it a queer aesthetic,” he told one interviewer. “You tend to go more art deco,” he tells Campbell, who says, “Yeah, I like a lot of 20th-century design, modern Italian architecture.” Campbell is louder and not overly fond of Hall’s penchant for Staffordshire figurines. They do not enter the flat.