New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed designer of the Queens Gallery at Buckingham Palace and one of the worlds leading practitioners of New Classicism.
Inviting, perfect in proportion, exquisite in detailsuch are a few of the ways to describe homes designed by John Simpson. Well known for his work with the British royal family at Buckingham and Kensington palaces and for his buildings at Eton College in the U.K. and at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S., he is perhaps most brilliant at the level of the house and home. Building Beautiful is an invitation to enter the work of this master designer, as one might visit with a treasured friend.
From a dream made real within a Venetian palazzoa former seventeenth-century near-ruin, brought back to glorious, fancifully detailed lifeto an English countryside cottage with a thatched roof, the featured homes are expressions of Simpsons unerring eye and extraordinary sense of beauty. Here we find drama in contrasts of scale and the seductive effects of light, where a cozy reading nook opens to an expansive living room with a double-height ceiling that nevertheless feels not overly large but rather just right. This is Simpsons subtle arta mastery of scale, balance, and a pervading sense of elegance.
