This project develops one of the east set of railway arches at Valentia Place, Brixton into an atelier studio where the British clothing designer Margaret Howell could create garments for an exclusive new bespoke product range: ‘ME Margaret Howell’.
The interior design scheme has been developed to acknowledge the qualities and influences relating to Margaret Howell’s work. As such the proposal aspires to create a quality interior that is utilitarian, subtle, elegant and timeless and captures the designer's interest in craftsmanship, modernism and ‘Britishness’. An industrial-sized timber door slides across the corten steel façade to reveal a single volume interior where Isokon’s iconic ‘Penguin Donkey’ bookcase is the inspiration for the main spatial move as a new cross-laminated timber mezzanine has been installed within the arch like a gigantic piece of timber furniture. By placing this object in the centre of the space the zones to each side can be used to display an eclectic collection of inspirational i
