A Kind of Magic: The Kaleidoscopic World of Luke Edward Hall

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Artist and designer Luke Edward Hall, based in London, has taken the design world by storm with his playful, nostalgic, charming, and sophisticated interiors, fabrics, ceramics, furniture, stationery, prints, drawings, and paintings. With a strong belief that his artwork, décor, and interior design convey “happiness and optimism,” whimsical and romantic themes and a bright coluor palette are purposeful hallmarks of the wunderkind’s aesthetic. These are not the sort of colours I’m talking about. I want people to embrace proper, clear colours: daffodil yellow, poisonous green, dusty lavender and sunset peach, acid pinks and oranges. Look to the antiques dealer and former actor Peter Hinwood for inspiration: his rooms always feature enchanting combinations of furniture and objects set against ravishing wall colours. A glance in any direction takes you to 1970s Italy one minute and to the Aegean the next. The pair are human magpies. “We have similar tastes,” Hall says, “but there are ways where we’re” – he chooses his words tactfully – “different.” Hall is quieter and more painterly: “I go a bit Bloomsbury group, 1970s,” he admits. You might add Rex Whistler, Bright Young Things, Jean Cocteau, Ancient Greece. “You could call it a queer aesthetic,” he told one interviewer. “You tend to go more art deco,” he tells Campbell, who says, “Yeah, I like a lot of 20th-century design, modern Italian architecture.” Campbell is louder and not overly fond of Hall’s penchant for Staffordshire figurines. They do not enter the flat.

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Hossenally, Rooksana (2021-01-12). " 'You can't go wrong with pink and green': inside Luke Edward Hall's retina-pulling Parisian hotel". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 2023-04-25. Each room features geometric carpeting, a candy-striped headboard and a canary-yellow armchair and pouf created bespoke by Hall. The history boys: How one couple's funky flat is bringing the past alive". TheGuardian.com. 7 April 2018.

Daily updates on the latest design and architecture vacancies advertised on Dezeen Jobs. Plus occasional news. Dezeen Jobs Weekly In my Cotswolds cottage, faded English chintzes and bits of Italian gilt wood sit side by side with the odd chinoiserie mirror and inexpensive, painted French piece. This kind of mix is the essence of English country style — the look that was made popular by Colefax and Fowler from the 1930s. Our version is a much more humble and cottagey take (there’s no space for swagged curtains, much to my chagrin).

The late, great illustrator and collector Pierre Le-Tan’s Paris apartment springs to mind — another favourite interior — in a picture I’ve seen of his desk. Among his enchanting mix of chic and worldly objects, a toy troll stares out — one of those ones with giant googly eyes and a mound of white marshmallow hair. I’m sure this troll must have had a fascinating story to tell. I’m just glad it was able to enjoy prime place alongside Le-Tan’s Cocteau sketches and ancient classical fragments. (Pieces from Le-Tan’s collection were sold at Sotheby’s in Paris last week.) a b "Why ski chalet decor needs a cliché or two". Financial Times. 2022-11-18 . Retrieved 2023-04-25. As a child, and already an insatiable art lover, he was often busy drawing, cutting and gluing. Today Luke Edward Hall is an artist, a designer and a journalist. The Hottest New Thing In Menswear Is...Classical Antiquity?". Esquire. 2018-07-26 . Retrieved 2023-04-25. I love the idea of serious, distinguished antiques, provenance and patina, but I also love interiors with a sense of wit and nonchalance about them. I want irreverence, I want playfulness. It’s most fun when the serious and the spirited combine. One of my favourite rooms ever, the drawing room in the Paris apartment of Princess Caroline Murat Guest and Raymond Guest, was created in the 1960s by the Cuban architect and designer Emilio Terry, a hero of mine known for his take on the Baroque.

Luke Edward Hall (born 1989) is a British artist, designer, author, and columnist, described by both The Times and The Guardian as a "rising design star". [1] [2] Through his drawings, Luke strives to evoke a magical place, inspired in part by his personal experiences – he loves Italy, for example, the people, the food, the culture – and in part by his love for the past – an ancient past, mythological, an age of elegance where there were no computers or highways. But though it is a place of imagination, brightly colored and playful, it is never nostalgic, but rather a place where it's fun to let yourself get carried away. Find sources: "Luke Edward Hall"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) He has collaborated with Burberry, Liberty, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Gant, Richard-Ginori [ it], Diptyque, Rowing Blazers, and the Royal Academy of Arts. [3] [5] [6] He re-designed the Hôtel Les Deux Gares in Paris, and launched his first solo apparel collection called Chateau Orlando in 2022. [7] [8] This bold palette continues upstairs in the forty guest bedrooms, which have been painted sky blue, violet or olive green.

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Give me wonky lamp shades and pictures hung in a layout that doesn’t quite work, with frames squished into odd spaces. For inspiration, see the fantastic homes put together by the gardeners Julian and Isabel Bannerman, such as their former home, Trematon Castle in Cornwall. Hotel Les Deux Gares is the first large-scale interiors project by Luke Edward Hall, who set up his self-titled design studio in 2015.