We got shortlisted for @Architectsjournal small Projects Award 2024! It was such a dream to create “sunny side up” with @thiss.studio
Thinking about long summer nights, dinner parties and sexy drinks at the table when designing this space, it completely opens itself up the the garden and welcomes in the summer breeze 🍹 🚬 🌞 🌳 🪵 🥘
@thiss.studio
Photography by @jaewvkim
Built by @sailandsonsconstructivists
Engineered by @fosterstructures
A Travelling Living room at Old Billingsgate
We designed this space to flat pack down and be stored ready to pop up at activations nationwide. We wanted it to be warm, serene, a little bit sexy while still keeping natural materials, re-use and sustainability at its core.
Loved working with @ele.ward@carlhampusvallin on this ❤️🔥
Beautiful floral design by @croco_floral
Pics from 📲
Some highlights from a beautiful first year of Popelo ❣️🏺🧱
1. A trip to Finland 🇫🇮
2. Dreaming up a new restaurant in South London
3. At the bar in our London Pub restoration 🫶
4. Capturing the pub on film (every project process is recorded on film 🎥)
5. Redesigning a beautiful seaside flat in Margate
6. Sunset views from the flat above ⬆️
7. My first business card 🤪
8. Developing ceramic homeware prototypes in foraged London Clay
9. Commissioning bespoke @jesse__butterfield lighting 🫶
10. Stone pillars of the timber barn we are converting into a HQ for an explorer
11. Designing an extension to a house in the country with a Well 🐓
12. Designing a table for Amelia Studios in Soho, loving fabricated by @rory_cariss
13. Shacklewell Studios family ❤️🔥
The Popelo makers mark is a duck captured between flight and water. It’s an homage to the beauty of waterfowl and a nod to ‘ducky’, a Midlands term of endearment 🦆 💚 🏺
Thank you to @jacksondeans who crafted this visual identity 🧡
Hello! I’m so happy to launch my new studio Popelo. I’ve been busy working on some really exciting projects over the past year and I’m so excited to share them with you all. There’s plenty of exciting stuff in the making too 🥰
📸 @alastairnicol 💚
Welcome to Popelo, a design-led studio shaping sensuous, sustainable space.
We craft buildings, interiors and objects rooted in material, place, and feeling.
I’m so excited to have you here and can’t wait to share with you our first built works very soon.
Thank you to the brilliant @jacksondeans who we worked closely with on our visual identity. And to @alastairnicol for your visual genius and 📸.
Super happy to be exhibiting some of my WIP clay research at this years @architecture_ra Summer Exhibition at the @royalacademyarts 🧱 ❤️
I’m exhibiting one of my insulating London Clay bricks. The clay was dug from Smead Dean, hand processed in East London and robotically printed at Here East.
It’s and ongoing project in collaboration with Oliver Wilton with the amazing support of @yao_mjy and Bmade
Published soon 💛
The architecture room is beautifully curated this year by @assembleofficial@kaye.song - go and see it ! Xx
