Retrouvius: Elle Decoration
A six storey Regency townhouse in Notting Hill, fully refurbished by our interior design team, features in the July issue of Elle Decoration
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RETROUVIUS included in ELLE DECOR’S the A-List
RETROUVIUS are thrilled to be included in ELLE DECOR’S the A-List, an annual registry of the top residential interior designers, architects, and landscape designers in the world.
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On Site with Our Design Team – Westminster
An update from our design team a large lateral conversion and full refurbishment of a romantic apartment on a grand Victorian Square in Westminster, London.
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Listen: Podcast “The Well Crafted Life” Reuse, Repurpose, Restore with Sarah Spiteri
Maria in conversation with Homes & Garden’s Sarah Spiteri, with Russell Sage and Sebastian Cox
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A Retrouvian’s Favourite Stock: Layla
Laylais head of finance for our design studio. Her favourite item – chosen from the website – is our graffitied iroko school laboratory tops.
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English Alabaster Salvaged from a Convent
Our salvage team have just saved many hundred kilograms of English alabaster — a rare indigenous stone that is no longer quarried.
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House & Garden Top 100 – 20th Anniversary Edition
Our team is included in House & Garden’s Top 100 alongside manyhugely creative and talented studios thanks as ever to all the House & Garden team
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Caring For Your Iroko
A Retrouvius guide to caring for one of of best sellers. Our salvaged iroko is a tropical hardwood from school science laboratories most commonly reused for kitchen worktops.
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Re-use in action: Utility Rooms
Utility rooms require materials that are suitable for cleaning. Reclaimed stone, brick, hardwoods and ceramic tiles are all resilient and work well.
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Re-use in Action: Little Loos
Smaller guest loos are often our favourite rooms to design. Free from the limitations of what constitutes good taste they offer a place for more exuberant choices…
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Re-use in Action: Designing for Bathrooms
Rooms for bathing are essential in times of lockdown and often the only place in the house with a lock on the door. But where to put the “stuff” for pampering and…
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Re-use in action: Reclaimed Grilles, Grates & Firebacks
Our stock of iron grilles and grates were cast in the world’s best Victorian era foundries such as Coalbrookdale, Carron of Falkirk, and Ballantine and have a global reputation for quality…
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Small finds boxes given new lease of life with LOT collaboration at Collect 2020
The wonderful ladies of LOT collaboration put our bi-folding boxes to use to display their works at Collect 2020 at Somerset House.
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Re-use in Action: Reclaimed Handles
Our handles are a good quality material – often in brass and other metals. We have hundreds of them in our Kensal Green warehouse and we invite rummaging.
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Re-use in Action: Folios
Sometimes Retrouvius are offered a unique batch of material and we have to think laterally about its reuse. Such was the case with four pallets of redundant Victorian art folios from a…
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FT House & Home – Architectural salvage: antidote to the age of bling
Helen Barrett explores the Retrouvius story in The Financial Times House & Home section. Her long read article includes the provenance of recent salvage hauls and the Retrouvius approach to re-use through…
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AD Germany Design Summit
On November 26th the AD Germany Design Summit is held in Munich. Maria Speake has been invited as a guest on a panel discussion.
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Bella Freud’s apartment in Corriere Living
Italian magazine, CorriereLiving, publishes Bella Freud’s apartment.
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A retrouvians Favourite stock: Kuan
Kuan joined the architectural design team at Retrouvius in 2016. Her favourite piece is the Ceramic Cauldron Ex Glass Kiln.
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Re-use in Action: Lots Road Cafe
Alan Davis, owner of this intimate neighbourhood cafe in the heart of The Lots Road Design District invited Retrouvius for brunch and to give us a tour of his cafe designed using…
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