All articles by Diana Yakeley
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Access all (palatial) areas
The transformation of neo classical mansion Lancaster House proves to be no ordinary interior design project
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An alternative wing for the British Museum
Architects and interior designers lock horns “en charrette” on an alternative wing for the British Museum
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Watching the paint dry
With the RIBA president’s offices soon to be painted magenta, it’s a great fascination to me how leaders choose to furnish their interior spaces
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Free Range in a Brewery
The Old Truman Brewery is, for June and July, home to the largest graduate art and design show in the UK, Free Range.
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A Tale of Two Cities
While public sector strikers made their point in Parliament Square, a mile or so west in the south grounds of Chelsea Hospital, a starkly different kind of social interaction was going on.
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RIP Habitat
The death knell of Habitat made me realise how big a part Terence Conran’s original small shop, had played in a wholegeneration’s interest in interiors, design – and retail as therapy
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Eutrophication*, or why green isn’t always ‘green’
Interior designers are often unintentionally responsible for a more profligate waste of resources than some others in the construction industry
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Chicks and Bricks
I have learned that, as a woman in this industry, I need to be “more like a man”
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Spoon to City
If interior architecture/design is to be taken seriously we need to understand the well-established procedures of the construction industry team.