The Journal

Field notes on considered interiors, materials & the slow craft of home.

Long-form essays, project studies, and conversations with the makers, architects, and artisans shaping how we live today — published monthly by the Interior Gallery studio.

Recent Stories

Notes from the studio & the wider world of design.

A curated selection of new writing — from project case studies to conversations with the craftspeople behind the pieces we specify.

Project Study

A Notting Hill Townhouse, Rewritten in Limewash & Linen

How a Grade II-listed Victorian home was sensitively reworked for a family of five — and why the original cornicing ended up staying after all.

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Materials

The Case for Travertine: A Stone That Improves With Use

Why Roman travertine — pitted, veined and quietly imperfect — has become the material of choice for clients who want their homes to age, not date.

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In Conversation

Akiko Hirano on Weaving, Patience, and the Loom as Meditation

The Kyoto-based textile artist on her thirty-year practice, the role of slowness in modern craft, and the loom as a kind of daily architecture.

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Process

Light, Shadow, and the Geometry of a Calm Bedroom

Our studio's head of spatial design walks through the measured, almost mathematical process behind the most restful bedroom we completed this year.

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Travelogue

Three Days in Marrakech: Riads, Tadelakt & the Geometry of Cool

A studio field trip to the medina, in search of plaster, lemon-tree courtyards, and the quiet genius of Moroccan craft tradition.

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Studio News

A New Chapter: Our Marylebone Atelier Opens This Winter

After two years of planning, our new flagship studio and material library opens its doors — and we take you inside before the first clients arrive.

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Browse by Thread

The topics we keep returning to.

The Journal is organised by the recurring themes that shape our studio practice — the conversations, materials, and ideas that quietly underpin every project.

The Quarterly Letter

A slow letter, four times a year.

No daily emails, no algorithm noise. Just one carefully considered letter each season — a single essay, a short studio dispatch, and three things we've been looking at. Read by 12,000 designers, architects, and curious homeowners.

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