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Before its recent renovation and restoration, Kim Colin and Sam Hecht’s home in London’s Primrose Hill neighborhood served time as a mechanic’s garage.Photo by: Ben Anders -
“You can stand in one space and reach everything,” explains Colin of the precise kitchen layout with its custom-made stainless steel countertop, cantilevered cupboards, and integrated cooktop and oven. The cupboards’ shallow shelves were specially made to take up minimal space and to fit Muji storage jars.Photo by: Ben Anders -
The kitchen spills out into the living room, where the focus is on a Saarinen Tulip table, Eames fiberglass shell chairs, and lamps by Achille Castiglioni.Photo by: Ben Anders -
Colin and Hecht run Industrial Facility from a small studio on London’s Old Street. There, projects in development are laid out with surgical precision.Photo by: Ben Anders -
The boys’ bedroom is compact while providing room for sleep as well as study.Photo by: Ben Anders -
Taking care to design a flexible children's space, Colin and Hecht (pictured with son Josh) added a wall of floor-to-ceiling white-spray-painted cupboards that conceal a computer desk, shelves piled high with neatly stacked books and magazines, a music system, and tubs of children’s toys.Photo by: Ben Anders -
An original parquetry floor is found in the office.Photo by: Ben Anders -
Original elements such as the curved glass windows, added in the 1930s, remain, as does the original parquet floor.Photo by: Ben Anders
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