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KATE MARTIN
Photographer
What type of projects do you most like working on? ‘I really
enjoy the chaos of shooting fashion on location. I love natural
light, photographing in new places and being away with a crew.
But then I also love shooting interiors as a contrast; it’s lovely
to be able to spend the time getting the shot right and not have
the pressure of commercial and fashion shoots.’
Kate Martin’s passion for photography developed while she was working
at her parents’ bookshop in New Zealand, where she would pore over
magazines and photography books. Now based in London, she photo-
graphed the art-filled, five-storey Georgian house of Lauren Gurvich
King and her husband, restaurateur Jeremy King, seen from page 168.
WILLIAM SMALLEY
Architect
Describe where you live. ‘I live in a
panelled Georgian flat in Blooms-
bury. For a while, I had just one piece
of furniture in each room – a chair, a
bed and a chest of drawers – but more
things have found a place over the
years. I used to subscribe more readily
to the Chinese proverb that you
should let your lifeboat travel light,
lest your possessions drown you. These days, I have a grand
piano that I think would sink me.’
Most of us have a dream of what we’d do if we stepped away from routine
life. But ask architect William Smalley what he would pursue besides his
own profession and he’d be lost. Not surprising, considering his start:
‘When I was 10, my village school headmaster bought me a copy of The
Architectural Review because I spent all my time – especially football
lessons – drawing houses.’ Today, his London-based practice is in full
swing and is responsible for the St James’s flat featured from page 154.
What’s your foolproof tip for lighting a
room? ‘Never position a downlight overhead
and always install a dimmer. The key to any
interior is the lighting, but it should be there
to make the environment or space work
without you realising it.’
While she was training to be an architect at Bristol
University, Sally Storey realised the significance
SALLY of lighting in a space and its power to transform
STOREY a room instantly. ‘I started off with residential
Lighting projects and that is still where my heart lies,’ she
designer
says of her beginnings. Then she met John Cullen
of the eponymous lighting design firm, where she
is now, two decades later, the director of design.
For this issue’s ‘Design ideas’, Sally analyses the WORDS: ARTA GHANBARI
lighting she has used in each room of her own
Chelsea house, from page 75