Also, if ever it looks as if we might have a mother-daughter thing, my partner in the office is terribly diplomatic, so he comes in and sorts it all out.”
We are no longer accepting comments on this article.Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Groupand ordered them to pay legal costs of approximately £1 million. From inside the house, you can look up through the glass to the sky and surrounding treetops, though Hicks has tactfully hidden her technocentric structure from its traditional neighbors behind a high white wall. © 2020 Future Media Group. However, thanks to careful pre-construction design work, the electrics, tightly organised in stainless steel boxes set into the columns, are exceptionally discreet.Contemporary houses such as this are sadly rare in Kensington; and even more rarely visible from the street.© 2020 Sophie Hicks Architects Ltd. All rights reserved.
“It was tiny, with three rundown garages and lots of junk dumped on a little bit of a forecourt,” she recounts. All rights reserved “The idea is for the Corian to look like matte white paintwork.” Much of the furniture is similarly subtle, but Hicks has livened up the white linen-covered sofa and Jasper Morrison cork stool by pairing them with Eero Saarinen dining chairs upholstered in plummy burgundy velvet and a vibrant oil painting by the British artist Martin Maloney. “Somehow, I got it in the end, and I thought, Well, okay, I’m really quite good at this.” Her next project was Earls Court Square: another cramped site in a historical area with Byzantine planning restrictions.
During the construction of Sophie Hicks's new London home, the steel framework was exposed to the rain for a few days, and it rusted. We opted for a structure in concrete – that is, with significant thermal mass – for the same reason.The house is a quiet machine, with heating, cooling, lighting and alarm systems; mechanical ventilation; motorised windows and blinds; and solar panels to offset CO2 emissions.
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Equally striking is the staccato silhouette of an ancient The contrasts continue in the master bedroom, where she has mixed two minimalist artworks, an Ellsworth Kelly drawing and a Richard Serra oil-stick painting, with a tiny late-1920s Man Ray portrait of an Egyptian society beauty, Nimet Eloui Bey. “It’s made from a solid slab of stainless steel and white Corian,” she explains.