The Flare Journal
The architects, designers and makers whose ideas still shape British rooms, from Palladio to Mackintosh.
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Inigo Jones gave England its first truly classical rooms. Here is how he did it, from the Queen's House cube to the Rubens ceiling in Whitehall, and where...
Sir Christopher Wren designed St Paul's and dozens of City churches, but their ceilings were run and modelled by master plasterers. Here is who they were and where...
John Nash gave Regency London its cream stucco terraces and gave Brighton its oriental palace. Here is what he built, and how to borrow the look.
Soane treated light as a building material. His house at Lincoln's Inn Fields is still the best lesson in how to light a room.
Dorothy Draper made interiors big, bright and theatrical. Her secret was scale: plasterwork, pattern and colour turned up to full.
Pugin designed the interiors of the Houses of Parliament and argued that Gothic was the only honest style. His ideas filled Victorian homes with tiles, tracery and leaves.
Eileen Gray moved from lacquer screens to a seaside villa that still looks new. Her design was modern, but always about how people actually live.
The Scottish architect who turned the Georgian ceiling into a work of art, and why his light, graceful ornament still feels right in British homes.
From a hilltop villa near Vicenza to the front door of a Georgian terrace: the story of Palladio, his followers and the pediment.
The designer, poet and campaigner who believed ordinary objects should be made well and made beautifully, and why his ideas matter to anyone who loves handmade things.
Tall lines, stylised roses and a bold balance of light and dark: the Scottish architect who gave Art Nouveau a voice of its own.
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