Inside A Family Home In The Sky
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.พ. 2024
- A uniting factor behind the best homes is their adherence to certain design principles: space, light, materials, nature and decoration. It doesn’t matter if you live in a stately, a semi or a studio, these tenets - the framework of our co-founder Matt Gibberd’s book, A Modern Way to Live - can, as Matt says, “allow you to live a better and more fulfilled life”.
One person who knows that better than most is Simon Allford, co-founder of highly decorated architectural practice AHMM, chair of the board of trustees of the Architecture Foundation and former president of the RIBA. It’s precisely why Matt’s chosen Simon as the first subject in our new film series, Homing In.
A prime contender for the exploration of space, our first theme, Simon’s home is extraordinary, perched “in the sky”, spreading across the top floors of a Marylebone mansion block. Shifting over the decades he’s had it, it’s a masterclass in adaptation, changing as it has from bachelor pad to young couple’s lodgings to hardworking family home. Seen as a whole, Simon says, the apartment is “the long history of family life captured not in a photo album but in the spaces in which you’re in”.
Filming: Edmund Cook
Editing: David Potter
Production: Hannah Phillips
Graphic Design: Tom Young
Music by Father
'A Modern Way to Live' book by Matt Gibberd: www.penguin.co.uk/books/32017...
Matt wears 'The Photographer' jacket by Toogood: t-o-o-g-o-o-d.com/products/01...
Simon Allford's architecture practice, AHMM: www.ahmm.co.uk/
'Extra Ordinary' book by Simon Allford: www.ribabooks.com/Extra-Ordin...
Rug by Christopher Farr: christopherfarr.com/
Simon's favourite chair, the 'Cité' armchair by Jean Prouvé: www.twentytwentyone.com/produ...
'Eames' lounge chair by Charles & Ray Eames: www.twentytwentyone.com/produ...
Pair of vintage 'LC-1' pony-skin chairs by Le Corbusier: www.pamono.co.uk/bauhaus-lc1-...
'1970' cushion by Bella Freud: bellafreud.com/products/1970-...
Coffee table by Isamu Noguchi for Vitra: www.scp.co.uk/products/noguch...
'As Is When' series of screenprints by Eduardo Paolozzi: www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/...
Painting by Joe Tilson: www.joetilson.com/
'606 Universal' shelving system by Dieter Rams for Vitsoe: www.vitsoe.com/gb/606
Le Corbusier's Pavillon Suisse: www.fondationsuisse.fr/en/
Tiles from the Parco dei Principi hotel in Sorrento, by Gio Ponti: www.royalgroup.it/parcodeipri...
1933 Sheffield Wednesday train set from Hornby: www.hornbyguide.com/item_detai...
Never miss a new film, subscribe here: bit.ly/36I7z8y
Follow us on Instagram: bit.ly/2uGSO1J
Selling design-led homes in the UK: themodernhouse.media/1c20
Like us on Facebook: bit.ly/34BKO3x
Best interiors Instagram accounts (Vogue)
Best homes accounts (Guardian)
Ultimate interiors accounts (Telegraph)
I love how he's been warned about the kids barging into his space, but he just does it anyway. And he doesn't complain at all. This man is not only sensitive about the needs of the family, but also loves his children. And how he fondly looks at his home as a place for his family history. He seems like a warm person.
This tour/interview is pure magic. What a beautiful episode! I have watched it twice so far and it has only been aired less than 6 hrs ago!!! It’s like the space is talking to you and is using Simon as the medium! Wow! Perfection!
Same here. I've watched it several times, pausing frequently to absorb all the details!
It’s a dream of a space. Love those fat, acidic citrus colours with the softer, textural panelling and fluting. Love the clever storage. He’s absolutely right about delight and joy being the essence of really beautiful architecture.
What a delight - the interviewee and the interviewer plus the residence . Totally charming and very enjoyable 👌🏻
I really love a peek into architects' own homes, I hope there will be more.
Great programme. A beautiful clever house. As an architect myself, and having worked with Simon many years ago at RIBA I know how passionate he is about about design and the importance of fine detailing. His house reflects that passion. I love the way Simon says about the entrance hall - 'we cleared it for you' - as we all do when expecting visitors. ;-) The honesty of the interview is reflected in the honesty of the design. Small and simple interventions can make a huge difference to a space and life within it. Inspirational.
This is the best video I've seen in a long time. This home is amazing, the owner's sense of space & how thoughtful the design is, it blew me away. 👏🏽👏🏽
Absolutely gorgeous! The silver framed pieces of art are exquisite, as is the Corbusier lamp at 9:08!
So many valuable modernist tidbits. You've quite cheered me up on a gloomy day. I hope you do more of these.
This could have been 4 hours long, I enjoyed it so much
I enjoyed hearing about Simons Alford experience in his childhood home. I have always felt so sensitive to certain spaces, growing up in my mums house where she still lives today, the spatial design and layout of the home always encouraged an undertone of unbalance. It's amazing how a space can completely alter ones concentration or mood.. I have increasingly aware of this overtime. I really ope to be able to build a space like this one day. Thank you for breaking down into chapters and going a little bit longer form on this one. :) Really enjoyed.
This was pure excellence. Thank you.
Absolutely brilliantly done
Thank you for posting this exceptional video! I am typically drawn to traditional homes/furnishings, but this amazing home opened my eyes to the beauty and functionality of modern design. I would love to live in a home like this one. Well done! ❤
always love walking down Bickenhall Street on my way to work!
What a treat being able to peek into such a wonderfully designed space, every detail is so well thought-through - and there's such a joyful Bauhausian thread running through all the rooms, connecting everything together. Thank you for taking the time with this one - hope to see more long videos!
This is special and the orange door lengths are beautiful, incredibly grandiose yet understated
This flat is a masterpiece. I've been waiting for updates from the channel, thinking than maybe it was no more, but you did this incredible video so... thank you! I totally ralate the evolution of a space withing the life changes, It was simply perfect.
The taste! what a inspiration to live space.
Thank you. What a beautiful story and home I didn’t know I needed. Deeply inspirational. Cheers!
this was extraordinary! what a gentle, inspiring conversation and emotional space
wonderful!
What a wonderful space, colour and curated furniture. Stunning.
This is incredible! Fighting back tears. Emotional. This is what a home and family life should be. Yes the home of an architect and in London. Yet there is so much we can all take away from this about living in a space and making it 'OUR' home, be it alone [case in point!] or as an ever-changing couple or indeed family. So much to absorb and consider. Brilliant! More please. This could prove to be 'life-changing'. Thank You for sharing.
Totally agree!
Love it! 😍
Fabulous home
Beautiful home, indeed! I thoroughly enjoyed the tour & hearing the idealogy behind it! Bravo! A true example of a contemporary *home sweet home, done just right for its inhabitants! 🧡👌🏼✨
Absolutely loved this. A beautiful tour and interview.
So thoughtful and personal, and so much to take from this to app;y to our individual situations. I really enjoyed this and am grateful for the access and insight so generously shared. Thank you.
Made me rethink our current space .. and living it
I enjoyed this thoroughly, what a fantastic journey through a beautiful home.
Absolutely stunning! Even though im not such a huge fan of those complementary colors, I know architects use them often in their own spaces, this home is just a pleasure. The bedroom nails it for me especially. Chapeau🎉
life is always right. this will stick with me. amazing work!
Most educational tour ever. Thank you!
Beautiful home. Thank you for this.
Beautiful apartment. I love the video and maybe it’s intentional but it’s difficult to get a clear idea on how the apartment is laid out.
Just beautiful.
Modern house, your videos are a masterpiece of art and beautiful things 😊
Loved this. Fascinating.
Sweet interview, really enjoyed this. Lots of wonderful ideas, thanks for sharing!
Matt! This is beautiful! Thanks for this.
Wonderful. What an amazing space
Thank you! Awesome place! I love it!
Such an astonishing place. Clever storytelling. Vitra collection my fave. 🖤✔️ Black wardrobe …. 🔝
This was a very moving video. Thank you.
What a home. Thanks for the video.
Beautiful home. Excellent taste
Such an amazing episode!
Spectacular space!
I like it. It's perfectly imperfect. ❤
💕jus perfect in every way
Oh my god, I loved this so much!!
Saving this episode to come back again. Thank you for the time you both provided and the excellent editing of the video.
Awesome apartment! So many nice items that fit together
What a beautiful home 😊
Beautiful house and design, great interview 😊
Thank you for the video
wow..love it!
Despite the acoustics being suboptimal sometimes, a great video, more of that, please.
wow, so perfect 😍
Beautiful home!
Amazing !
Lovely space. Need some of those red candle sticks!
Really enjoyed this
That was beautiful
for me the apartment is ok but the narrative the personality is so inspiring.
Fantastic interview
Nice outfits. Thank you for the video
Oh my goodness ♥️
Great apartment! I get a very Italian|Brazilian vibe with the style and art. I like that it could be in Milan or São Paulo.
Wow!
Great Space
One of the beauty this kind of home have is the panoramic view. 😉🩶
Excellent content
"room within a room" I love seeing/hearing Frank Lloyd Wright's design philosophy in the modern world
LOVE
I am a fan and aspire to create a home like this. But I can’t help and find a criticality of class privilege here and how architecture is a vulgar extension of power balance. I have gone through copious art schools and was always shocked how many peers went to private school. It is weird because intellectuals and creatives more often or not preach about inclusivity and community but the very thing they engineer and draw heritage from are often a part of the problem of power in-balance and ostracising portions of society.
I feel like mid century modernity done to this excess, defines quiet luxury.
Dude, quit coveting your neighbor and build something beautiful. Disparities exist. Nothing beautiful would be called as such if they didn't. Appreciate art and let it inspire you instead of running all of life through the lens of some ugly ideology of equity and conformity. Life is a game of doing the best with what you have. Practice gratitude today and you'll appreciate more beauty in life.
@@ivan.bucher Kindly disagree. Art is about beauty, granted, but where is the beauty in ignorance and endorsing systems of patriarchy. In order to evolve our national mindsets we must challenge these ideologies, we must identify privilege and see things for what they are…power-dynamics, extensions of privilege, otherwise who are we? Private school individuals are more likely to be educated on money due to overhanging inheritance. Working class people are not taught about money because it is in shortfall. If we fail to represent or stick up for our less fortunate neighbours then they are let down eternally. Imagine living in a system where nothing was challenged, for example racial bias or LGBTQ rights. Ok, it’s far fetched reference, but an “ugly” ideology to me is conservatism, ignorance and turning a blind eye to those in pain and grief. A beautiful ideology is a developed society, equal rights and fair pay for all, not just those in line with wealthy heritage. Why should people have to hold onto every penny of a pension, whilst others are pillowed by an ivory tower. I always hope for progressive change, even if it were impossible.
Been successful or famous in arts usually depends on rich people from rich parents,rich networks ect all art is subsidized by the rich it changed a bit with the internet but in some circles it’s still the same, unless you believe the stories people like ed sheeran tell 😂
@@needforspeed837Though there will forever be a ways to go, we’ve also come a long way. The one constant in life is change and all sorts of things that used to be acceptable in the past are unthinkable today. Also, I think of how many people throughout the world come from “nothing” and create amazing lives for themselves and others, and then there are people who could dramatically expand their horizons but are perfectly content living wherever they are. My grandmother is a fantastic example of someone who went from humble beginnings to an incredibly fun life. Born deep in the rainforests of Mexico, she ended up honeymooning in France with my grandfather, when transcontinental travel wasn’t yet a thing, to partying at the President’s official residence, to living in Spain and back to the beautiful coast of Mexico until her death at 97. I honestly believe it’s more to do with how each individual person chooses to create their own life, even beyond government programs and social services, though these very much have great value.
fantastic
love this and now have a slight crush on the owner.
This is great but it would have been pretty good to actually see the staircase engineering properly and also the larder space when it was being described (perhaps cut away to other footage?) and also when pointing to the windows above the multiple times they were mentioned. Please. 😊
Beautiful! So jealous. Anyone know where I can purchase those brightly and varied coloured candlesticks that are on the floating orange lounge cabinet?
Nice video but I would prefer to see things that your are looking at and not looking at you talking about them. More camera movement and shots! Other than that nice!
The cameraman should have been allowed to shoot the interior of scullery room so that we could see the stone counter, the drawers, etc A picture is worth a thousand words. A verbal description is fine if this were a radio interview but this is a video.
One thing for sure he has plenty of is space. Lots and lots of it. Done very well though.
Does anyone know the name of the artist who made the prints in the living room/dining room area, above where they had the seated portion of the interview? I think they are absolutely gorgeous! 👀
❤
Wonderful episode. I will be watching it twice. Please let me know who made the kitchen.
The kitchen is made to Simon's design by Terence Joseph Interiors 🙂
Thank you.
Fascinating I appreciated his design philosophy and the showing of the quirky intricacies that are functional yet unique. The idea to keep the more mechanistic aspects of the kitchen in the room “termed” pantry is something to remember, especially if the main kitchen space is opened into a living area. Given his ideas in regards to such, I was surprised he had a bath in his bedroom, I really dislike such, I find it aesthetically confusing and mood jarring, it actually made me think following his design ethos a bath would be best in a space all of its own, separate even from more functional bathroom hardware, completely isolated from the most functional and quickly used basins and wcs.
I absolutely agree with you about the bath in the bedroom. It is such a peculiar fashion. When I'm naked I want to be warm and enclosed and private. When I get out of the bath I don't want to slip because there's nothing to hold onto, and I want to grab a towel. No towels visible in that bedroom. So do you bring a towel and place it awkwardly on the bathside drinks table, or drip your way to the bathroom to get a towel, and come back later to mop the floor? Weird.
@@lobstermashit’s also between 2 doors overlooked by a hanging office! Certainly won’t amplify the womb like serenity of being submerged and connected within the element of water. It’s actually beyond dire, often I see them situated in bay windows, also dire 😂
I’ve never seen one of these where there is NO video highlighting the details being discussed. Wtf! Would loved to have seen more of the stair detail in the office, or the pantry…
Anyone recognise where the wall-mounted gloss storage is from?
Love this but the filming & audio could be improved..!
do anyone know somethings about the artwork above the bed?
I want to know too !!
Can anyone identify the brown sofa at minute 1.21? Thanks in advance :)
Can anyone ID the dining table - it's beautiful
The dining table is Super Elliptical by Fritz Hansen (with two extenders) 🙂
Might be a bit nitpicky but small chance anyone has an ID on the make of the light switches / double dimmers?
If I may give some feedback? The music over the speaking makes it very difficult to clearly hear the information. Especially for those with hearing or neurodivergent issues. Also the visual flow is erratic and does not show the structure holistically. It's not clear what you are trying to show. Perhaps this series is for those who are already familiar with the guest and their work?
Thank you anyway.
Completely agree. Those were my two disappointments with the episode.
Fully agree. In particular the mics weren’t set up properly so the guest’s voice is muffled.
You forgot the most important thing - functionality. Without functionality, everything else falls apart.
Nice but why the heck are people removing ALL walls in old buildings? Just keep the kitchen separate if you like to cook so that not the whole flat smells like food. Especially when you gut old buildings. Don't do it! Unless you have tiny tiny rooms but in these grand buildings? I doubt it.
There's absolutely no individual in this design… All I see is carbon copy of every body else's furniture and even artwork down to the lamps what is everyone who gets obsessed with architectural design feel the need to end their lifelong search for innovation and creativity when they hit Herman Miller/Ray and Charles Eames? It's almost like the death of creativity and design when you hurt the Eames chair and anything closely associated with that industrial design… Then it just becomes a large storage room of very expense of yet totally fabricated posh high low, down to earth art curator and collector of the underground elitism. although of course everyone loves looking at the aesthetic nature of those designs… It just ends there I've not seen anything since. It's kind of scary when you see architectural design whether it's furniture or building ceasing to strive for a new pinnacle. It's just endless rehashes of the same stuff, and when you're as old as this guy it's kind of like dude there's no great service faction and watching someone ascertain some overpriced art wank.. it's like dude you're a carbon copy there's no individualism
The way privileged people live is so detached from the other 99%. Would be nice to see how people with smaller spaces make it work. This apartment has way too many rooms seems like.
Go and watch "Never Too Small" which showcases how people live in very small spaces. Lots of excellent design and ideas.
There are many, many channels dedicated to small and smaller spaces. I live in a very small place and I am and feel privileged.
Tax the rich
You want tiny house there’s plenty of channels for that never too small, living big in a tiny house,kirsten dirksen ect
If wasn’t for been located in London that seems about the size of middle class to upper in my country mid sized city, for “rich” person houses go’s this one has personally instead of those bland ones were day stay once a year or are doing a video just to help sell the home.
Who cares they are rich is their problem