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Magazine Issue 3 Issue Magazine magazine Issue 3 Designer lifestyles for contemporary living magazine Rising stars Meet the UK’s hot new designers Alight here Stations provide a platform for great architecture Designer lifestyles for contemporary living contemporary for Designer lifestyles Views to thrill magazine EDITORS Jessica Moore Barbara Walshe Welcome CREATIVE EDITOR Paul Yelland MANAGING EDITOR Steph Wilkinson PRODUCTION EDITOR Sarah Dyson PICTURE EDITORS Dominique Campbell Jenny Quiggin CONTRIBUTORS Rupa Sudra, Kate Stanton, Samantha Whitaker, Miranda Moore PRODUCTION MANAGER Trevor Simpson ACCOUNT DIRECTOR Steph Allister GROUP ART DIRECTOR Martin Tullett CREATIVE DIRECTOR Paul Harpin EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Simon Kanter MD, HAYMARKET NETWORK Andrew Taplin Reproduction by Haymarket Pre-press. Printed by Alito Color Group, London, UK PICTURE CREDITS Cover Berkeley Homes PLC Contents Adrian Myers, Michael Harvey Up Front Andrew Testa/The New York Times, Redux/eyevine, Sophie Laslett/eyevine Invision/ Press Association Images, Rex Features, Leigh Simpson, Johan Persson, Allies and Morrison Style & the City Osborne & Little Art House Michael Harvey, Designers Guild The Future of Design Adrian Myers Turning the Tables Louie Banks, Max Flash/ Landmark Media/ImageCollect, Sylvain Deleu, Mark Wallis, Matt Badenoch, The Gaztronome, Stephanie Broom Jason Lowe The Art of Flowers Michael Harvey, GAP Photos/Stephen Studd, Bethany Clarke, Justin Tallis/RHS, Carol Sheppard Rooms With a View Will Pearson, Berkeley Homes PLC Great Expectations Getty Images, Rann Chandric/eyevine, Dominic Blackmore A Railway Renaissance M.Sobreira/Alamy, Rex Features. Illustrations Philip It’s important to have a view in life. We know this at Berkeley – which is why many Bannister Break from the Norm Reinhard Schmid/4Corners Images, of our properties offer beautiful panoramas of their surrounding areas. It’s also why our Jack Malipan, Travel Photography, imagebroker/Alamy, Jane Sweeney/ magazine takes pride in giving a view on everything from art and architecture JAI/Corbis, Getty Images, Baden- Baden Kur & Tourismus, Nina-Maria to social trends and culture. %15 8! + ! 1 4* *1+ !+1!18 Oetker, Jorma Valkonen, Lars Ardarve, Beatrice Tornros/Goteborg. 1# #!1#!+ 1# #! ! +*%! !!( %8! 61 com Vision 2020 Ryan McVay/ 111148#4!(14*5 !##8( Getty Images Berkeley Foreword Berkeley Homes PLC Directory This issue, we talk to high-profile people about their perspectives, and how they have Hayes Davidson, St Edward Homes, Alastair Fyfe, Matt Livey, Simon evolved over time. 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Joining Lanvin, HOTELS Marc Jacobs, and Vivienne Westwood, the addition of Kane’s boutique on Mount Street cements this as one of the most stylish Cromlix House Upfront destinations in the capital. Since his triumph at Nearby Berkeley properties: Wimbledon in 2013, tennis Ebury Square star Andy Murray has been busy with another challenge; transforming a Victorian mansion into a new luxury hotel near his hometown of Dunblane, Scotland. The stunning hotel also boasts a Chez Roux restaurant. Taking bookings from 1 April www.cromlix.com “Collecting is the Heckfi eld Place Set to reopen towards the end of the year, this way the world works” 18th century Georgian country estate will become a Britain’s most famous and, arguably, most controversial luxury spa hotel, with the restaurant overseen artist is to open his new public gallery, occupying an entire by acclaimed chef Skye Gyngell. street in south London. Hauling his private collection out www.heckfi eldplace.com of storage – because, says Damien Hirst, “it feels bad having Nearby Berkeley properties: Edenbrook, it all in crates” – the gallery will exhibit works by Francis Queensbury Gardens, Silk Woods Bacon, Banksy, and Jeff Koons, among others, as well as some of Hirst’s own pieces. The Vauxhall space will host Hoxton Hotel, over 2,000 pieces of art spread across six different galleries, LE TOUR COMES TO YORK Holborn and a café. “Collecting is the way the world works,” the artist This famous cycle race traditionally kicks off outside France – and This central London hotel comments. “I always think collections are like a map of a this year, York won the bid to host the starting line on 5 July 2014. will be the second Hoxton person’s life.” His will be on display from next winter. Top cyclists will wend their way through the outstanding scenery Hotel offering. Set in a Newport Street, Vauxhall of the Yorkshire Dales before heading south, passing through Grade II-listed building, Nearby Berkeley properties: Abell & Cleland Cambridge and London. like its sister in Shoreditch, www.letour.yorkshire.com food and beverages are provided by the exclusive Soho House group. Taking bookings from May www.hoxtonhotels.com Nearby Berkeley properties: 190 Strand Mondrian London First designed in the 1970s, this hotel is relaunching in Spring.
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