THE ROOM STUDY · ROOMS

A room for good work.

Good workspaces begin with the way a day unfolds. These studies explore awkward corners, rooms with presence, creative collections and quieter places to focus. Each explains how the layout, light and furniture work together, with selected pieces to explore in the Shop.

Ink-blue study with a timber gallery desk beneath a sash window, brown leather desk and reading chairs, brass task lights and a mountain photograph among the bookshelves.

ROOM 04 · Workspace

The dark study

Finishing work needn't mean leaving the study. A leather chair and small table give you somewhere to move once the desk has had enough of you. Ink-blue shelves enclose both places, each with its own reading light.

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Compact dusty-blue and putty home office with a white Panana corner desk, black Durrafy mesh chair, separate Vinsetto filing cabinet and slim clamp lamp beside a casement window.

ROOM 28 · Workspace

A desk for the awkward corner

The door, window and chair all need space in this box room. An angled desk uses the far corner without putting a long table across the way in. Filing sits separately, leaving somewhere for knees and the chair beneath the work surface.

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Cosy ink-blue Edwardian study with a Fia desk against the wall, tan leather desk chair, full Marjori shelves and deep ochre Deni armchair beside a brass table and jute-shaded floor lamp.

ROOM 29 · Workspace

Ink blue and an ochre chair

A second seat changes what happens in a study. The ochre armchair gives you somewhere to read a draft away from the laptop, with a small table for the cup that usually competes with the keyboard. The desk stays against the wall, leaving a clear route between the two.

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Creative attic workspace with a cobalt gable wall, rooflight, rustic-brown Cliporix L-shaped desk, black velvet chair, enclosed five-tier display cabinet and large rust wire artwork.

ROOM 30 · Workspace

Upstairs with the unfinished projects

A drawing mat and a keyboard make different demands on a desk. The short return and raised monitor shelf give them separate places beneath this attic's sloping roof. The collection stays in a closed display cabinet, out of the way of the work still in progress.

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Modern apartment workspace with full-height black-framed glazing, a rustic-brown VASAGLE standing desk, white fabric swivel chair, white filing cabinet, brass task lamp and neutral textured artwork.

ROOM 31 · Workspace

Work beside the glass

A window can improve the working day and make a screen harder to see. This desk sits beside the glazing, with storage taking the loose papers out of the view.

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Compact minimalist home office with a curved white desk, cream armless wheeled chair, closed black storage cabinet, dusty olive wall and an unlit linen-shaded brass lamp.

ROOM 45 · Workspace

The small office with a clear desk

A metre-wide desk has little room for yesterday's paperwork. The tall cupboard takes the overflow so a laptop and notebook can have the surface back.

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Rose-painted bookcases frame a floral still life, with a dark timber desk by the window and an olive reading chair across the room. Work has a place here; so does staying a little longer.

ROOM 48 · Workspace

The rose-pink library study

Rose-painted bookcases frame a floral still life, with a dark timber desk by the window and an olive reading chair across the room. Work has a place here; so does staying a little longer.

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One generous abstract print gives a plain white desk a centre. A black velvet chair, red task lamp and woven textures make this small office feel complete without filling it.

ROOM 57 · Workspace

The small office with one good picture

The wall above a laptop is worth getting right. One broad print gives this small office something to look up at, leaving the desk available for work.

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Terracotta courtyard workroom with a natural timber gallery-back writing desk, brown ribbed chrome office chair, grooved timber cabinet and orange-red abstract artwork.

ROOM 65 · Workspace

The terracotta courtyard workroom

The courtyard is there to look up at, rather than to glare behind the screen. This terracotta workroom puts its desk across the light and its strongest picture beyond the working surface.

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Lavender shared studio in a former shopfront with two timber pipe-frame desks, black chrome office chairs, a central pine trestle table, tall bookcase and two colourful abstract artworks.

ROOM 73 · Workspace

The old shopfront becomes a shared studio

A shared studio needs room for a project to stay out overnight. Two desks keep individual work going while the central trestle table holds samples, conversation and unfinished decisions.

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A saffron-yellow sewing room with a white machine desk, black pattern-layout table, black swivel chair, grey four-drawer chest and a framed geometric print.

ROOM 79 · Workspace

Saffron for the sewing room

A sewing room should make it easier to begin again. Here, the machine keeps its desk, pattern pieces get a second surface, and saffron walls give an ordinary back bedroom a purpose of its own.

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A blush-pink apartment office with an oxblood door, a mango-wood desk beside the window, a grey mesh office chair, cherry-ash storage and a black-and-white Palm Springs photograph.

ROOM 91 · Workspace

Pink belongs in the working week

Pink belongs in a room used for work. A desk with room for a monitor, an adjustable chair and closed paper storage give this apartment office what it needs for the week.

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Compact celadon home office with a small wooden desk, brown adjustable chair, red desk lamp and graphic pencil print.

ROOM 121 · Workspace

The home office that closes the door

The most useful luxury in a home office may be a door. This small celadon room concentrates on a workable desk, a proper office chair and a clear boundary between the working day and the house beyond it.

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North-lit warehouse workspace with timber desk, grey chair, metal task lamp and a bold red print against white and ultramarine.

ROOM 122 · Workspace

The studio corner with north light

This warehouse corner is planned for cooler north light. Pale walls leave the changing work easy to see, with the strongest colour reserved for the picture beyond the desk.

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