{"id":671180,"date":"2026-07-03T06:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671180\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:48:11","slug":"an-18th-century-spitalfields-house-with-intriguing-filmic-interiors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671180\/","title":{"rendered":"An 18th-century Spitalfields house with intriguing, filmic interiors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through the rooms, Gaby describes an ethos of keeping what she can \u2018and working with it\u2019. Two sets of Sophie\u2019s curtains remain and much of Jocasta\u2019s built-in cabinetry has been retained, along with some lacquer-like paintwork and Delft tiles. Poignantly, there is also the imprint of the door that once connected to the adjacent house, in which Jocasta\u2019s partner of 30 years lived \u2013 the architect Richard McCormack, who in 2014 chronicled that time in a slim, self-published volume titled Two Houses in Spitalfields.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Dining Table Furniture Table Architecture Building Dining Room Indoors Room and Interior Design\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SU1275_H_G_GDelal_HeneageSt_Dining5_Hero-production_digital.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Seth Stein ceiling light hangs above a bespoke Formica-topped table by Create Studio, with Hans Brattrud dining chairs. Framed panels of a Gary Simmons\u2019 artwork, featuring the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World\u2019s Fair, pick up on a custom-dyed Create Studio rug.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Upton<\/p>\n<p>Gaby and David brought much of their existing furniture and furnishings with them. \u2018The only rule was we had to change the location of the art \u2013 a painting couldn\u2019t go from a bedroom in our previous house to a bedroom in this one,\u2019 notes Gaby, adding that almost every picture is by a friend. The arranging of the rooms was, she says, \u2018instinctive\u2019, and was generally led by one particular item, along with her eye \u2013 honed by the possibilities of filmic transformation and the importance of mood.<\/p>\n<p>She mentions, too, the enduring influence of her late mother, Zehava Helmer \u2013 to whom Park Avenue, with its stylishly worldly lead, \u2018is something of an ode\u2019 \u2013 and the Mexican architect Luis Barrag\u00e1n, who employed colour as a structural component. In the dining room, eight panels of cerulean blue artwork by Gary Simmons extend onto the return wall and informed the colour of the rug, which was stitched together from dyed strips of Turkish carpet. The table, topped in a decisively bright yellow Formica, reflects another service that Gaby offers clients.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Plant Potted Plant Architecture Building House Housing Villa Jar Planter Pottery Vase and Path\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SU1264_GabyD_Heneage_Ext1_Hero-production_digital.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The front door opens onto a private courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Upton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walking through the rooms, Gaby describes an ethos of keeping what she can \u2018and working with it\u2019. 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