When Tanya Grigoroglou based RAW Editions, a London-based gallery that focuses on post-war and modern prints, she imagined sharing her assortment in a heat, intimate setting. “As a vendor, I at all times envisioned that I used to be going to take this out of the white gallery partitions and the very intimidating expertise of shopping for artwork,” she says. “I wished one thing extra personable and extra clear.”
Tanya realized her dream when she and her husband, Rupert Worrall, who’s now additionally her enterprise accomplice, bought a Victorian terraced home that might perform as each a household house and a by-appointment showroom. They labored with one other artistic couple, Amalia Skoufoglou and Jody O’Sullivan of O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects, to reimagine the previous house for elevating kids and displaying art work concurrently. The result’s equal components colour and self-control: “There’s a restraint, however there are additionally a number of daring components,” says Amalia.
Let’s take a tour.
Pictures by Ståle Eriksen, besides the place famous.
Above: Tanya and Rupert ceaselessly host shoppers within the ground-level lounge, the place a placing customized hearth is manufactured from rust-colored recycled terrazzo from Granby Workshop. “I actually wished to make use of them as a result of they’re an artist collective in Liverpool,” Tanya says. “They’re sort of revolutionary, bringing collectively artwork and structure, and I wished my entertaining area to be a nod to that.”Above: The opposite facet of the room, with its built-in Douglas fir desk, serves because the couple’s workplace. Wall-to-wall burgundy shutters enable them to dam out the busy avenue or let within the pure gentle.Above: The shutters, open. “That window might be probably the most public aperture of the home,” Amalia says. “However because it’s Tanya and Rupert’s headquarters, we didn’t need to have one thing home like a curtain or a blind.”Above: Whitewashed oak flooring present a gallery really feel, whereas “biscuity pink” partitions help the framed prints. “I knew it might be a background that doesn’t overpower the artwork,” Tanya says of the hue, which matches RAW’s branding. “It brings every little thing collectively.” Plus, the painted dado rail honors the age of the house. {Photograph} by Tanya Grigoroglou.Above: Downstairs, the kitchen flooring mix speckled granite and sage inexperienced concrete tiles. The blue-and-red eating desk and swagged pendant are each by Muller Van Severen. Sequence 7 Chairs by Arne Jacobsen supply ergonomic, mid-century seating.
