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Since moving into his east London home, restoration expert Owen Pacey has added character and value by reinstating architectural elements
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Since moving into his east London home, restoration expert Owen Pacey has added character and value by reinstating architectural elements
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Owen Pacey’s Shoreditch home is packed with artefacts he restores and sells Back to life: a magnificent restored French bedhead. Photograph: Graham Aktins-Hughes/The Observer Back to life: a magnificent restored French bedhead. Photograph: Graham Aktins-Hughes/The Observer Sat 3 Apr 2021 11.00 EDT On the ground floor of Owen Pacey’s house in London’sShoreditch, huge chandeliers dangle like dowager’s pendants from the rafters. Marble fireplaces, cool and veined, are propped next to gilded mirrors. This is Pacey’s architectural salvage shop, a twinkling, glinting emporium of architect...
Don't show me this message again✕ Get ahead of the game with a vintage chess set/coffee table (Elicyon) I t’s common these days to hear that a particular style of furniture, colour or fabric is “in” or “out”. Usually, the speaker is referring to the fleeting trends that come and go with the seasons; those that will resurface next AW or may roll around again in a few decades, such as the super-Seventies statement carpet revival or the return of electric eighties neon. However, some furniture falls out of favour for longer than a mere lifetime, returning only in rare, mirage-like g...