The hype around vaulted ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and industrial style kitchens

The hype around vaulted ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and industrial style kitchens

Why are people talking so much about vaulted ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and industrial style kitchens at the moment? Are these features just fads that will soon go out of fashion, or do they offer lasting value to a property? In this post, we’ll examine why so much attention has been directed toward these three interior design features; uncover their long-term potential to both beautify and add practical functionality to homes.

Vaulted ceilings

Vaulted ceilings create an airy and open environment in any room. Their natural lighting helps make any space seem larger and more welcoming, often featuring exposed beams or wooden accents to give any room rustic charm. In addition to looking fantastic, vaulted ceilings can act as natural air conditioners on hot summer days.

Popular light fixtures to elevate vaulted ceilings

Chandeliers, pendant lights and recessed lighting are popular fixtures for vaulted ceilings. Chandeliers add luxurious flare while providing ample illumination for a room, pendant lights add ambience while recessed lights offer bright illumination in an area. No matter which fixtures you opt for – proper illumination will highlight a vaulted ceiling’s beauty!

Floor-to-ceiling windows

Floor-to-ceiling windows invite natural light into your home, creating a bright and welcoming atmosphere. Furthermore, they’re great for taking full advantage of outdoor views by bringing nature indoors. And when combined with appropriate treatments, they can even be used to regulate temperatures as well as provide privacy when needed.

Made to measure curtains for floor-to-ceiling windows

Make the most of your floor-to-ceiling windows with custom-made curtains designed specifically for your window sizes – adding colour, textures and softness to the room! Made to measure curtains are an ideal way to dress windows with unusual shapes or dimensions, creating a perfect match with options that include sheer cotton cloth, rustic raw linen and luxurious velvet fabric. Made to measure curtains can also be designed to fit neatly around corners and curves such as bays without the need for gaps between window frames.

Industrial style kitchens

Industrial style kitchens often combine materials such as stainless steel, wood, brick and stone / ceramic into a unique arrangement to create a modern, edgy yet sophisticated space. Not only can this combination be attractive, but it can also be decidedly practical. The open-plan layout often used in industrial style kitchens gives you the space to move freely around the room. In addition, this design offers the opportunity to explore a range of storage options; kitchen islands, strips of open shelving, tall freestanding cabinets, overhead hanging pan racks etc. Industrial style kitchens are great spaces for entertaining guests, as it provides enough room for people to mingle freely while food is being prepared – all without anyone feeling confined or restricted.

Overall, vaulted ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and industrial style kitchens provide multiple opportunities to add attractiveness and functionality to a home. From design statement to practical features, these three additions can help make anyone feel more satisfied with their home décor. With the right design elements and chosen materials, these features can become the focus of any property!

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Designer Desire: Maurice Wade

Montage of Maurice Wade paintings

Maurice A. Wade (1917-1991) was a British painter who specialised in documenting the industrial landscapes of the Stoke-on-Trent area.

Maurice Wade worked in using a monochromatic or very limited palette in a manner reminiscent of Trevor Grimshaw or Jack Simcock. He had a very Northern Industrial sensibility, although he and his subject matter are from the Potteries. Even though

Wolstanton-born Wade studied at Burslem School of Art. After moving away for many years – initially serving in the army during WWII – Wade returned to the Potteries in 1951, to teach art at a local primary school. He made his home in Longport, an area that he would use as the subject of many of his landscape paintings, of which there’s believed to be around 300 to 340 in total.

During his career he exhibited at Société des Artistes Français (where he was a gold medallist and exhibitor hors concours), the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Industrial Painters Group.

On a simple level, these paintings of kilns, mills and huddled houses, often reflected in the tranquil canal waters, were recording the future past, but like Hammershoi’s grey Copenhagen facades and Hopper’s Cape Cod cottages, they tell us something about our own lives and of our own place in the world. credit

Wade’s work is collected by OMD lead singer and bass guitarist, Andy McCluskey. The musician owns at least 21 of his paintings and held an exhibition of the works entitled Silent Landscapes which took place at Trent Art Gallery in 2022. A book to accompany the exhibition was published. Entitled Maurice Wade Silent Landscapes The Andy McCluskey Collection (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark OMD).it is available via Trent Art or Amazon.

McCluskey has shared:

These paintings are a snapshot of a moment in time – they don’t have any people in them – and they connect me to my own background. There’s a ubiquity to these neglected, northern industrial landscapes, although they are the same but different.

Wade’s work is held in the Government Art Collection, the  V&A Wedgwood Collection (one of the most important industrial collections in the world and a unique record of over 260 years of British ceramic production), Beecroft Museum and the University of Hull.

Image credits:
ArtUK | Invaluable | Trent Art

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/mar/18/andy-mccluskey-maurice-wade-artist-silent-landscapes-exhibition

Artist’s vintage industrial living space

 

 
 
 
 
 
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A post shared by papelami Mo Rehkopp (@pape_lami)

This vintage industrial living space is located in the city of Cologne in Germany. Its décor is very apt for the person that lives here. Mo Rehkopp is an artist that creates her work using old letterpress printers’ type.

The space itself looks as though it could have originally been a factory or workshop. There’s an expanse of wooden floorboards, large rooms with wide openings that flow into each other and Crittall-type doorways that allow the light to enter. In addition, many of the things furnishing her home would have originated in that type of establishment.

Metal lockers (from an old glass factory) now houses shoes. An industrial trolley from an Italian textile factory acts as the coffee station. The large, glass-fronted cabinet looks like it could once have lived in a pharmacy or laboratory. Even the smart, stainless steel kitchen looks like it belongs in an upmarket restaurant!

While we’re on the subject of inspirational artists’ spaces, check out our book review of Creative Space.

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Flap wall clock
Flap wall clock
Magnum 3 bottle wine box
Magnum 3 bottle wine box
Quick Mill Cassiopea 03004 espresso machine
Quick Mill Cassiopea 03004 espresso machine
Vintage industrial metal trolley
Vintage industrial metal trolley
Ball ceiling pendant light trio
Ball ceiling pendant light trio
HELL YES! wall art print
HELL YES! wall art print
Flap wall clock
Flap wall clock
Magnum 3 bottle wine box
Magnum 3 bottle wine box
Quick Mill Cassiopea 03004 espresso machine
Quick Mill Cassiopea 03004 espresso machine
Vintage industrial metal trolley
Vintage industrial metal trolley
Ball ceiling pendant light trio
Ball ceiling pendant light trio
HELL YES! wall art print
HELL YES! wall art print
Flap wall clock
Flap wall clock
Magnum 3 bottle wine box
Magnum 3 bottle wine box
Quick Mill Cassiopea 03004 espresso machine
Quick Mill Cassiopea 03004 espresso machine
Vintage industrial metal trolley
Vintage industrial metal trolley
Ball ceiling pendant light trio
Ball ceiling pendant light trio
HELL YES! wall art print
HELL YES! wall art print

Auction alert: Fine Art & Antique Auction

Set of six 1960s Ercol blonde elm & beech wood kitchen chairs

Are you a BBC 6Music listener? Strange question to come out with? The reason I ask something like that on this Auction Alert post, is because 6Music DJs all play music that is an ‘eclectic mix’… and so are the lots in the sale we’re featuring this week. Furniture, jewellery, paintings, textiles, clocks and books are just a few of the types of items on offer.

Trevanion & Dean Auctioneers based in Whitchurch, Shropshire are holding one of their regular 2-day, Fine Art & Antique Auction sales. It takes place on Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd September 2021 from 9am.

There’ll be a buyer’s commission charge of 20% + VAT. If you plan on bidding online, you can bid live through their website here for a further 2% + VAT. They also offer live, online bidding through the-saleroom.com and easyliveauctions.com, please note, bidding on these platforms also incurs additional charges.

If you wish to bid remotely and have any winning lot(s) delivered to you, the auction house explains:

If you are unable to collect your winning lots, Trevanion Auctioneers offer a limited in-house P&P service for small, non-breakable items during the week following the auction only. We use Royal Mail Special Delivery for goods up to a value of £2000 weighing no more than 2kg. We also use DHL but goods will not be covered by insurance unless requested.

Georg Jensen silver coloured fruit bowl

Lot 58: A Georg Jensen silver coloured fruit bowl
Late 20th century, modelled in the form of a lily pad, signed to the underside, 30cm diameter
Estimate: £60 – £100

The Durham Ox

Lot 364: After John Boultbee (British, 1753-1812), ‘The Durham Ox’
Engraving on paper by John Whessell (circa 1760-circa 1840), printed in colours with hand finished additions, published by John Day 1802.
Printed inscription to lower margin reading ‘To The Right Honorable Lord Somerville, This Print is with great respect humbly dedicated, by his Lordship’s most obedt. humble Servant John Day. This wonderful Animal is now the property of Mr. John Day of Harmston, near Lincoln, and was March 20 1802, six years old. Subscriptions taken for this Print in the first Year, amounted to two thousand and upwards, from whence the Public opinion of this beautiful Animal may well be ascertained. This Ox is still in a growing and improving state, and weighs according to the computation of the best judges 30 Score pr. Quarter, which is 300 Stone 14 lb to the Stone’,
54.5cm x 67.5cm,
Framed and glazed
Estimate: £200 – £300

Hadrill & Horstmann 'Pluslite' industrial work lamp

Lot 616: A Hadrill & Horstmann ‘Pluslite’ industrial work lamp
20th century, the counter-balanced parallel motion frame supporting a lamp housing with fold-down magnifying lens, in original grey paint with applied maker’s label, 48cm high (max)
Estimate: £150 – £250

Three clear-glass cloches

Lot 705: Three clear-glass cloches
Late 19th/early 20th century, each of typical bell-shaped form below a moulded button handle, tallest 23cm (3)
Estimate: £100 – £150

Staples Ladderax shelving wall unit

Lot 943: Staples Ladderax shelving wall unit
The painted metal ladder racks supporting a three drawer chest, a glazed cabinet with sliding doors and a single door cabinet, along with three shelves, 214cm W x 40.5cm D x 201cm H
Estimate: £300 – £500

Set of six 1960s Ercol blonde elm & beech wood kitchen chairs

Lot 945: Set of six 1960s Ercol blonde elm & beech wood kitchen chairs each chair with a stick back above a shaped elm seat, raised upon cylindrical tapering legs united by peripheral cross stretchers, impressed British kite mark and 1960 to the underside along with a stamped registration mark ‘884923’ (at fault)
Estimate: £100 – £200