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Home Decor
Price in rugs tracks knot density and fibre, not pattern, and not the provenance printed on the label. Hand knotted or tufted is a five second judgement made from the back, viscose sold as silk cannot survive a hallway, and the size almost everybody buys is one size too small.
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Priya Raval
Duration
10 mins
Home Decor
Studio ceramics are bought to be looked at and then quietly retired to a shelf, which is the one thing that stops them finishing. Stoneware is harder than most factory china, glaze settles with washing, and a slight rock on the table is a decision made at the trimming stage. What survives a dishwasher, what does not, and how a broken pot goes back into service.
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Priya Raval
Duration
8 mins
Home Decor
A room assembled slowly from things the owner actually wanted will outlast any coherent scheme, even a better resolved one. The matched set answers the question of the room in a single purchase and then has nothing further to say. An argument for the long acquisition, and for the discipline of refusing things.
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Teodor Lindqvist
Duration
8 mins
Home Decor
Kitchens age faster than any other room because they carry the most trend-led decisions and the most expensive ones, usually in the same object. The discipline is to sort what is hard to reverse from what a weekend can undo, and then to choose materials that age rather than wear out.
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Teodor Lindqvist
Duration
11 mins
Home Decor
A brittle interior is at its best on the morning of the handover photograph and declines from there, because every mark it receives reads as damage. Specifying for patina instead means choosing surfaces with depth to give up. The decision is made months before anyone moves in.
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Teodor Lindqvist
Duration
10 mins
Home Decor
Saturated colour rarely fails because it is too much. It fails because it is applied to one wall, in the wrong finish, under light that cannot support it. The case for committing, and the rooms where the answer is still no.
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Priya Raval
Duration
7 mins
Home Decor
Wallpaper collapsed as a category because a generation remembered stripping it. Non-woven substrates and paste the wall hanging removed most of that memory. The technical change is real, and so are the ways it still fails.
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Priya Raval
Duration
8 mins
Home Decor
Flowers on cloth and paper have never left the domestic interior. What shifts is scale, and what shifts scale is the machinery. A look at how block, screen and digital printing each rewrite the same drawing.
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Priya Raval
Duration
9 mins
Home Decor
Paint it white and it will feel larger is the first advice anyone gives about a small room, and it is usually wrong. A pale room announces its own boundary; depth of colour hides it. Under twelve square metres, where the light sits decides more than what covers the walls.
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Teodor Lindqvist
Duration
9 mins
Home Decor
Unlacquered brass, oiled timber, lime plaster, wool, leather and stone all change under use rather than simply degrading. Each also passes through a period, usually between month three and year two, when the change looks like a mistake. A note on what they do over a decade and what they cost up front.
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Teodor Lindqvist
Duration
9 mins