Five cool new architecture and design practices on our Directory, the A to Z of modern design
Our Directory is a constantly-updated sourcebook of the country’s best practices to make your home with, from architects to interior designers, furniture retailers to lighting experts. For anyone looking to design, build or furnish their space, we’ve got you covered. Check out these five cool new design practices to be added.
EJR Barnes
Despite not having any formal training in design, young name Elliot Barnes puts out covetable furniture pieces that fall halfway between art and design. The eagle-eyed among you would have spotted his ‘Buffalo Chair’ at his friend Oscar Piccolo’s flat, which we recently visited for our ‘My Modern House’ series.
Napier Clarke Architects
Marlow-based Napier Clarke Architects are a nascent practice with over 25 years of architectural know-how behind them. Their first one-off house, ‘The Boathouse’, serves as a case study for their commitment to conservation, sustainability and contemporary architecture, and was shortlisted for three RIBA Awards. Signs of things to come, if you ask us.
Alice B. Davies
We like this interior designer’s ability to fuse bold, moody uses of colour with a refined contemporary feel. West and south-west London is the natural stomping ground of the studio, with accomplished projects in Chelsea, Battersea and Wandsworth forming their impressive portfolio.
J Foster Architects
Holloway-based J Foster Architects’ projects are client-led realisations of craft, material, and spatial design. The studio has a growing portfolio of residential projects, from apartments in Shoreditch and Highbury, to extensions and conversions in West Hampstead and Islington.
DF__DC
This practice call London and the Swiss city of Lugano home, with an even more global roster of completed projects including ongoing work in Mexico and Mozambique. A cleaned-lined, angular-seeming aesthetic is often softened with unexpected details, like the swing they installed in the kitchen of a recent project on Elliot Square in London, or the ‘Leaning Yucca House’ in Camden, which features a swooping specimen of its namesake plant.
