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A London family’s home-from-home in the heart of Van Gogh’s Provence In the heart of the French countryside and near the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where Van Gogh painted over 150 of his most well-known works, a London family has created its perfect home-from-home. The detached house and grounds, re-modelled by David Price Design with a new extension, terraces and fun additions - including a boules pitch - feature an interior inspired by the rich colours of the Mediterranean and showcasing a wonderful, eclectic array of furnishings and accessories, variously inherited from previous owners and sourced anew by the home’s new owners via local Provençale markets, Kempton Park Antiques Market in UK and from holidays further afield. The traditional interiors palette in this part of France has always tended to be cooling white walls , with colour introduced by the furniture and fittings, but the home’s new owners wanted to be a little more daring and contemporary in their treatment: ...

by Ute Junker D esigning the future is a difficult job. Arguably few in recent times have done it as successfully – and repeatedly – as the late Danish architect and designer, Arne Jacobsen. The cutlery he designed in 1957 for the SAS Royal Hotel was so ahead of its time that director Stanley Kubrick used it as a space-age prop in his film 2001: A Space Odyssey – more than a decade after the cutlery was released. Less striking, but perhaps even more remarkable, is another humble piece of equipment Jacobsen came up with: the mixer tap known as KV1. Designed in 1968, not only is this piece of plumbing hardware still in production; it has become the foundation stone for one of Denmark’s most successful interiors companies , Vola . “That design contains the simple geometry, the proportion, that is the DNA of Vola,” says designer Torben Madsen . “The cylinder, the circle; that is the heritage we build on.” Vola founder Verner Overgaard with the revolutionary KV1 mixer , designed in 1...