Design Centre Stories

Category: Interviews

Right Here, Right Now with Bee Osborn

"This has now become my office in London; it fits every bill for all my sourcing, and I can meet clients and my team here. It's essential," says the interior designer about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.

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Right Here, Right Now with Lucy Barlow

"I've got the world's biggest design library on my doorstep," says the co-founder of Barlow & Barlow about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.

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Right Here, Right Now with Johnny Holland

Hackett Holland's co-founder on the meaning of modern glamour and how at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, "the world's your oyster".

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Right Here, Right Now with Christopher Peacock

The designer behind the US-based bespoke cabinetry firm says that "for us as an international brand, the Design Centre was the obvious choice."

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Right Here, Right Now with Arlene McIntyre

The creative director of Irish bespoke furniture brand Ventura on its new showroom in Design Centre East: "We've had the most incredible reception; we feel like we're a part of a big family."

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Right Here, Right Now with Sophie Ashby & Charlie Casely-Hayford

The interior designer and her fashion-designer husband talk about the crossover between interiors and fashion.

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Right Here, Right Now with Sophie Paterson

The interior designer says that Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour is "a world-renowned resource. It's nice to have that personal aspect where people can make suggestions, and show you things you wouldn't otherwise see."

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Right Here, Right Now with Laura Hammett

"It's where you get to put a face to a name," says the interior designer about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour. "It's absolutely invaluable."

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Right Here, Right Now with Max Rollitt

"It's exciting, but it's a great place to learn as well, because there's such depth of craftsmanship behind the product," says the interior designer and antique dealer about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.

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Right Here, Right Now with Jacqueline Terrebonne

"You get a sense of warmth here, and that there's a cross-pollination between the brands," says the US-based editor-in-chief of Galerie magazine, at London Design Week 2019 to host a Conversations in Design talk.

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Right Here, Right Now with Anna Burles

"We have a vast and exciting pool of resources to work from – it's really about how you put all of those things together, says the creative director of interior design and branding company Run for the Hills.

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Right Here, Right Now with Kit Miles

The print designer on his new wallcoverings, launched at Miles X Bookshop: "It's great to be part of a community of designers that brings the collections to the world stage."

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Right Here, Right Now with Sanjit Bahra

The lighting designer's maxim: "Really good lighting is as much about what you do light as what you don't."

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Right Here, Right Now with Emma Burns

The design director of Sybil Colefax and John Fowler on sourcing at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour with her colleagues: "It's quite fun when  you're all looking for the same thing and you all come back with something completely different – you can come back and compare notes."

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Right Here, Right Now with Kit Kemp

"There is a cornucopia of different ideas; it's the hub of design in London," says the creative director of Firmdale Hotels about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.

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Right Here, Right Now with Robert Angell

"We couldn't do our job without it," says the interior designer about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, at London Design Week 2019 to take part in a talk about his work at Whistler Leather.

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Right Here, Right Now with Scott Baxter

The founder and CEO of SA Baxter on the value of creative collaborations, and how Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour "has just been great for us, frankly".

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Right Here, Right Now with Marc Sacco

The founder and CEO of Sacco Carpet on catering for the eclectic, high-calibre London market, and how "we've met some of the greatest designers in the world in this building."

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Right Here, Right Now with Hatta Byng

"What's great about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour is that it pulls in such a diverse range of styles and tastes," says the editor of House & Garden.

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Right Here, Right Now with Pierre Frey

"The Design Centre is bringing more and more traffic" – Pierre Frey's communications director launches new Braquenié, fabrics, inspired by 18th-century work from its archives, at London Design Week 2019.

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Right Here, Right Now with Francis Sultana

"Nothing is better than going into the showrooms themselves, because you discover something you weren't looking for," says the interior and furniture designer.  

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Right Here, Right Now with Charlotte Abrahams

"By having all these showrooms in one space, it enables those cross-company discussions to take place," says the writer about the creative fertility to be found at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.

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Right Here, Right Now with Stephen Woodhams

"It's so important that, when you're working on an interior, you think about your garden spaces too" says the garden designer, at London Design Week 2019 to take part on a talk at Sutherland Perennials Studio.

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Right Here, Right Now with Steven Gambrel

The New York-based interior designer and architect says that Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour is "really inspirational... you walk past windows and see things that are ideal for projects."

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Right Here, Right Now with Sarah Miller

At London Design Week 2019 to host a talk with designer Michael Anastassiades, Sarah Miller says of Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour: "I find it an incredibly inspiring place."

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Right Here, Right Now with Ben Spriggs

"There's so much collaboration going on here - between brands, artists, stylists and designers - it's a real coming together of great creatives," says the editor of ELLE Decoration about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.

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Right Here, Right Now with Cortney Harwood Bishop

The US interior designer launches her first textile collection at Holland & Sherry during London Design Week 2019. "We were intrigued and inspired by the creative energy that each showroom brings to the show," she says.

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Culture & Legacy

This season we are rejecting a throwaway culture and returning to the familiar. In this globe-spanning, era-leaping look, no single period is fully embraced; instead it is a delightful mash-up put together with considerable flair. The great decorator Sibyl Colefax was a huge fan and under her watchful eye during the post-war period there was a blossoming of worldly eccentricity …

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Right Here, Right Now with Raffaele Fabrizio

"It's the right place for us to be," says the co-owner of Dedar about Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.

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Right Here, Right Now with Elspeth Pridham

The editor of Studio says that coming to Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour "is about building a relationship - spending time and really getting to know the product".

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