Charlie's Bud: interiors, colour, light, style and words

A stair hall lined with floor-to-ceiling stained glass in cobalt, green, amber and violet, throwing coloured light across stone steps

Interiors

Stained Glass at Home: Three Rooms and How to Get the Look

Three concept studies from Light as Material, what the coloured light is doing in each, and the window films and glass that bring a version of it home.

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smultronställe

noun · Swedish, “wild strawberry patch”

the small, half-secret place you return to because it feels like yours alone.

Art & Words

From the Lexicon

One of over 100 words to keep in your arsenal.

A rust one-shoulder top with a folded neckline and peplum over midnight wide-leg trousers and metallic sandals, mid-stride in a concrete courtyard

Style

Midnight Wide-Leg Trousers and One Sculptural Top

Why fluid midnight trousers under a structured rust top works, and how to get the proportion, the length and the colour right when you wear it.

A dark oak sideboard in a dining room at blue hour with an amber glass lamp lit, a dotted glass tealight, white ranunculus in a glass vase and a glass pitcher of water, a laid table in the foreground and snow outside the window

Gift Guides

The Christmas Gift Guide: Home, Table, Art and Style

Christmas gifts chosen for colour, material and how long they last: glass and clay for the home, pieces for the table, books on colour, and finishing touches.

A dark listening room with oxblood fabric-panelled walls, a record shelf and turntable between two speakers, a leather lounge chair, a cream sofa and a mushroom lamp glowing

Colour

The Listening Room: Living With One Deep Colour

A listening room wrapped in oxblood fabric panels, how the one colour changes across textures and low light, and what stops a dark room from closing in.

Gift Guides

The Christmas Gift Guide

Four edits for this Christmas: glass and clay for the home, pieces for the table, books and materials for art lovers, and finishing touches for style.

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