Tom Howells is a London-based food journalist and editor. He’s written for Vogue, Waitrose Food, the Financial Times, The Fence, World of Interiors, Time Out and The Guardian, among others. His new book, An Opinionated Guide to London Wine, will be published by Hoxton Mini Press later this year.
In an elegantly ramshackle studio, perched on a fold of sylvan North Devon countryside, artist Ania Warkowicz opens a dog-eared copy of French novelist Georges Perec’s 1974 essay collection,: ‘How does one think of nothing? How to think of nothing without automatically putting something round that nothing, so turning it into a hole, into which one will hasten to put something, an activity, a function, a destiny, a gaze, a need, a lack, a...
The latter two were designed and built by Niall Maxwell of Wales’s Office for Rural Architecture. All, Maxwell explains, had to be independent of and interdependent on their setting; to exist in shared experience and total isolation, blurring the boundaries between inside and out.
The exterior is rendered in light larch, and the serenely monochromatic interior is in maple plywood. The brief required a minimising of static ‘things’: to this end, the walls are lined almost comprehensively with rows of pegs, hung with trugs, brooms and chairs – a direct nod to Shaker interiors, their furnishings designed to be lifted onto the walls so as to clear the floorspace for creative endeavour.
In the hands of anyone else, this smorgasbord of signifiers could seem affected or overstuffed; in Warkowicz’s, Trew’s and Maxwell’s, they’re seamlessly melded; an immersive paean to meditative practice and capitulation to slow time, all within some of verdant southwest England’s prettiest corners. Praktyka, it seems, really does make perfect.Tom Howells is a London-based food journalist and editor.
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