Shaws apron sinks, brass gooseneck bridge taps, and solid bronze {hardware} are among the many substances that go into each Mark Lewis kitchen design. Lewis runs his personal London inside design agency and is thought for inventively channeling centuries previous. He’s a stickler for element—a lot in order that when he couldn’t discover cupboard pulls shelf brackets to his specs, he began making them himself and providing them in his standout dwelling retailer (right here’s a sampling and one other).
Lewis’s pet peeve are “typical fitted kitchens,” by which he means clinical-white chambers of cupboards. The purchasers who approached with simply such a room felt the identical approach, and requested a kitchen that appears at dwelling of their Georgian townhouse in North London’s Highgate. At their prompting, Lewis and crew took much more care than typical to “renovate it in a really conventional, sympathetic method.” Nonetheless, slightly than a purely historic strategy, Lewis threw in a wild card and constructed a lot of the brand new design out of salvaged Nineteen Sixties faculty laboratory workbenches. Come see.
Images by Beth Davis, courtesy of Mark Lewis Inside Design.
“One of the time-consuming elements was utilizing conventional lime plaster,” Lewis tells us. “Making use of a number of coats required immense endurance, as every layer took considerably longer to dry than fashionable supplies would: we utilized two coarse base coats and a wonderful topcoat, and every was allowed seven to 10 days to dry. It was a protracted course of, however the consequence was value it—staying true to the unique development strategies helped preserve the genuine really feel of the home.” Lewis’s purchasers purchased the vintage hanging glass lantern in New York.
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