by James Balston | Oct 28, 2010 | Homes, Travel
On a remote stretch of coast not far from the cosmopolitan honeypot that is St Tropez, Interior Designer Michael Nicholas has found peace in a simple villa of rough hewn stone and spectacular views. He had asked me out there to shoot 3 very different interiors,... 
by James Balston | Oct 20, 2010 | Boats
Not only are we a nation surrounded by water, the country is also criss-crossed by waterways both man-made and natural. The landscape of the Fens is largely man-made, created to turn uninhabitable marshland into productive arable farmland; England’s bread... 
by James Balston | Oct 15, 2010 | Designers & Architects, Offices
Although 99% of the pictures I take on assignment are of inanimate objects, I’m not averse to a little bit of portraiture, whether formally posed or capturing people at work or just casually at home in their surroundings. I’ve shot chefs in their kitchens,... 
by James Balston | Oct 12, 2010 | Bathrooms, Contemporary, Homes
A home should tell a story. A narrative that in some way reflects the owners’ lives. It’s all too easy to design a home that says more about the designer than the client, which can happen when a client offers no input or ideas of their own, or when a... 
by James Balston | Oct 4, 2010 | Homes
Winterbourne Abbas, Minterne Magna, Worth Matravers, Burton Bradstock. The charming village names of Dorset evoke a bygone age of rural England and its hedgerows, thatched cottages, and stone churches. One village I am particularly familiar with, is Sydling St....