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NO.6 PAOLO BUFFA
UP OUR STREET - Online journal meandering through the lives of 8 Holland Street’s artists and designers. IN A FANTASY, WE HAVE BROUGHT PAOLO BUFFA BACK TO LIFE AND IMAGINED A VISIT TO HIS HOME AND STUDIO... Italian designer Paolo Buffa is sitting quietly on a proto-type chair smoking a Gauloises by the window. He is looking out towards his hometown of Cantu, and although still, every... Read more

No. 5 PRUE PIPER
UP OUR STREET - Online journal meandering through the lives of 8 Holland Street’s artists and designers. ON A VISIT TO ARTIST PRUE PIPER’S HOME AND STUDIO, WE ARE REMINDED THAT THINGS WILL GET BRIGHTER… The air in artist Prue Piper’s home and studio is thick with otherworldliness that she bats away as if mundane. We wanted to gain insight into Prue’s world, and into her process... Read more

NO.4 RACHAEL COCKER & ALI HEWSON
UP OUR STREET - Online journal meandering through the lives of 8 Holland Street’s artists and designers. FOR THIS DECEMBER EDITION OF UP OUR STREET, WE ARE CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP (WHILST BEING JOLLY...CAREFUL) BY EXPLORING THE LIVES OF ARTISTS RACHAEL COCKER AND ALI HEWSON… As people and ceramicists, Rachael Cocker is polished where Ali Hewson is honed. This is apparent in their ceramics, and in their studios, as... Read more

NO.3 CHRISTINE VAN DER HURD
UP OUR STREET - Online journal meandering through the lives of 8 Holland Street’s artists and designers. ON AN AUTUMNAL MORNING ON PORTOBELLO ROAD, WE SPOKE TO DEAR FRIEND CHRISTINE VAN DER HURD ABOUT DAY-TO-DAY LIFE AT VANDERHURD … Vanderhurd HQ cuts a grey figure on Portobello Road. In the forecourt a VW Golf is parked by an old wooden door that hosts a small sign with... Read more

NO. 2 FREYA BRAMBLE CARTER & STUDIO KROKALIA
UP OUR STREET - Online journal meandering through the lives of 8 Holland Street’s artists and designers. FOR OUR SECOND FEATURE, WE SPOKE TO ARTISTS AND FRIENDS FREYA BRAMBLE-CARTER AND STUDIO KROKALIA ABOUT THEIR COLLABORATION… As we approached their North London studio Pallas waved us down, her face peeping through a car full of ceramics and antiques; a preview of the studio where ceramicist Freya Bramble-Carter and... Read more

NO. 1 RICHARD COOK
UP OUR STREET - Online journal meandering through the lives of 8 Holland Street’s artists and designers. FOR OUR FIRST FEATURE, WE SPOKE TO ARTIST RICHARD COOK ABOUT DAY-TO-DAY LIFE IN HIS POETIC SEA-SIDE STUDIO… Cornwall based painter Richard Cook sees his art as on the fringes of nature in its importance to him. On a recent visit Cook described a ‘magical sea’ within which he searches... Read more