by James Balston | Jul 25, 2016 | Design, Designers & Architects, Homes
Last week was exceptionally busy, with shoots every day, which meant much of the weekend was spent at the computer, editing the results. All the shoots were high end residential projects, and each gave me the opportunity to indulge in one of my favourite types of...
by James Balston | May 28, 2015 | Apartments, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Contemporary, Decoration, Lighting, London
Let’s face it, this isn’t a choice that most of us will ever make, or perhaps even want to, but if money were no object, which would you choose. Here are two apartments I’ve shot this year; the first is an opulent affair in a mansion block on Mount...
by James Balston | Apr 15, 2013 | Apartments, Bathrooms, Lighting, London
How things change. Until a decade or so ago, nobody, at least not in Britain, aspired to live in a tower block. Councils up and down the land had built towers to house those who couldn’t afford the cherished Victorian terraced house, thirties semi, or detached...
by James Balston | Mar 18, 2013 | Apartments, London
Seldom has an apartment block generated so much publicity, but then seldom do apartments command such eye-watering prices. One Hyde Park materialised at the start of the credit crunch, but has apparently been unaffected by it, sailing above the economic storms...
by James Balston | Mar 9, 2011 | Bedrooms, Contemporary, Homes
The world is awash with words that are overused and habitually misused. This is particularly true in the worlds of Design & Property. The very word design has spawned the lazily ubiquitous description “Designer”. As in “Designer”...