i've written before about my love of nina+co's beautiful breakfast collection, so it was wonderful to have the chance to catch up with nina at a recent function+form gathering held at the new dean street café in soho, for which she has designed the interior. the café is a social enterprise run by homelessness charity centrepoint, housed in the london building where the charity ...
fashion meets architecture
despite the newly-acquired dominance of the shard over the city's ever-changing skyline, london's heart will always remain at centre point. one of the city's first skyscrapers, constructed in the mid-1960s, it celebrates the crystalline beauty of concrete as an urban building material, and while many describe it as an ugly eyesore, for me, it's beauty lies in the uniformly industrial ...