1940s interiors: Utility furniture, prefabs and making do
Rationing, Utility furniture and the post-war prefab: how Britain furnished its homes through war and austerity, with four real rooms annotated.
By Joseph van LockeFounder, designer and maker
Styles & aesthetics
Hollywood Regency
Bold colour, glamour and baroque scale.
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Dorothy Draper and Hollywood Regency: bold colour and baroque scale
Dorothy Draper made interiors big, bright and theatrical. Her secret was scale: plasterwork, pattern and colour turned up to full.
By Joseph van LockeFounder, designer and maker
The scallop shell in design: from Botticelli to Hollywood Regency
Few shapes have travelled as far as the scallop shell. A short history of a motif that has meant love, pilgrimage and glamour.
By Joseph van LockeFounder, designer and maker
1940s interiors: Utility furniture, prefabs and making do
Rationing, Utility furniture and the post-war prefab: how Britain furnished its homes through war and austerity, with four real rooms annotated.
By Joseph van LockeFounder, designer and maker
Dorothy Draper and Hollywood Regency: bold colour and baroque scale
Dorothy Draper made interiors big, bright and theatrical. Her secret was scale: plasterwork, pattern and colour turned up to full.
By Joseph van LockeFounder, designer and maker
The scallop shell in design: from Botticelli to Hollywood Regency
Few shapes have travelled as far as the scallop shell. A short history of a motif that has meant love, pilgrimage and glamour.
By Joseph van LockeFounder, designer and maker
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Who writes the journal
By Joseph van LockeFounder, designer and maker
By Sophia MeredithInteriors and colour
By Gregory TireCraft and materials
Bring a chapter of design history home.
Every piece is cast by hand to order in Shrewsbury.