by James Balston | Apr 14, 2015 | 1960s, 1970s, Apartments, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Homes, Kitchens, London
The 1930s and 1960s come together beautifully in Hannah Cork’s pre-war west London flat. Hannah is an interior stylist working in TV and advertising, and has a keen collector’s eye for vintage homewares of the 60s & 70s. In fact her flat would make the... 
by James Balston | Nov 11, 2014 | 1950s, Antiques, Bedrooms, Homes, Kitchens
Liz’s 1950s style kitchen was the perfect cover for Vinny Lee’s latest book Kitchenalia, but there’s so much more to her Ramsgate cottage that deserves to be seen. For me, some of the most interesting homes I’ve shot, are not necessarily the... 
by James Balston | May 8, 2014 | Artists' Homes, Design, Exhibitions, Homes
I’m lucky enough to live in a flat on the Dulwich Estate. Few housing estates are as well planned, designed, or indeed situated. Mostly built between the 50s and 70s to the designs of Architect, Russell Vernon, it has the good fortune to occupy the wooded hills... 
by James Balston | Oct 28, 2013 | Antiques, Art, Blog, Restaurants, Seaside, Shops
Rather like Brighton & Hove, or even Ant & Dec, Hastings & St. Leonards are inseperable. I would say indistinguishable, but unlike the northern celebrities, the Sussex towns have plenty that sets them apart from each other. While St. Leonards was... 
by James Balston | Oct 12, 2013 | Blog, Seaside, Shops
The plan had been to go to Berlin for my birthday last month, but for reasons I can’t quite recall, we ended up in Hastings and St. Leonards. Why there? You might well ask. Well actually I was born there and spent my first ten or so years in the town, and now...