Concept For Living
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CFL packs it’s bags this month and travels to Milan to bring you the best in cutting edge design this year. Available on Wednesday 20th May, featuring:
Milan - Concept For Living’s guide to the best new trends from this year’s furniture fair
Summer Gardens Special – Al fresco dining, expert advice and the North’s best public gardens
Dream Glazing – The hottest modern extensions and glazing for the summer
Too Hot to Handle – Give your home a lift with our pick of door handles and cabinet knobs
Plus: 10 of the best garden lanterns, reader’s homes and our competition give-away where you can win a Caboche chandelier worth over £800
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Pick up your copy of the refreshing April issue as we open up our doors to Spring. Available on Wednesday 18th March featuring:
SPLASH OUT – Concept For Living’s comprehensive guide to bathrooms
OUTDOOR INSPIRATION – Stylish garden furniture, from parasols to garden benches
SUMMER FABRICS – The hottest colours and patterns for the new season
DESIGN CLASSICS – Top designers reveal their favourite classic pieces
SPA BREAKS – A hand-picked selection of Northern spa hotels
Plus: We go dotty with polka patterns, Ten of the Best Egg cups and Readers’ Homes in Your Area
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Rush out and buy the marvellous March issue of Concept For Living available on Wednesday 18th February featuring:
SQUEAKY CLEAN! – Showers, saunas and steam rooms to spice-up your bathroom
LIGHTING IDEAS - Add a flash of inspiration to your home
HOME TECHNOLOGY – Stylish gadgets for the contemporary home
SLEEP IN STYLE - A hand-picked selection of the best beds available to suit all budgets
MAKING A STATEMENT – Off-the-wall design ideas
Plus: Spring Clean your home, Ten of the Best Cake Stands and Readers’ Homes in Your Area
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Rush out and buy the fabulous February issue of Concept For Living available on Wednesday 21st January featuring:
TREAT YOUR FEET – Seven pages of our favourite floor coverings
FAMILY FRIENDLY ROOMS – Create an inviting space for you and your little ones
CONTEMPORARY HEATING – Keep your home toasty and warm without compromising
SPRUCE UP YOUR KITCHEN – A charming collection of contemporary accessories and kitchen gadgets
ORIENTAL BLISS – Perfect products influenced by the Far East
Plus three exciting competitions to enter including:
Your chance to win a rejuvenating spa weekend at New Hall Hotel courtesy of Hand Picked Hotels
20 I’m as Big as height charts available from Snowhome
Five Concept For Living subscriptions up for grabs when you vote for your favourite front cover of 2008
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Leap into 2009 with the fresh and focused January issue of Concept For Living, available to buy on 17th December 2008, featuring:
UPLIFTING UPHOLSTERY – Statement sofas to relax on
LOOKS AND TRENDS FOR 2009 – Advice from the experts
HOT STUFF – Sizzling stoves and fireside accessories
MONOCHROME MAGIC – Furniture fashions in black and white
READERS’ HOMES 2008 – Your chance to pick your favourite
Plus: ten of the best magazine racks, readers’ homes in your area and What’s On – our quarterly review of current Northern art event and exhibitions.
Also three exclusive competitions including your chance to win a Verine ’Marcello’ fire worth £1,499, a Kartell ’Bourgie’ lamp worth £150 or a Grand Designs 3D software package worth up to £199.99!
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Don’t miss the sparkling, seasonal December issue of Concept For Living, on sale from 12th November, featuring:
Deck the Halls – Cool, contemporary Christmas decorations to suit your home, The Concept For Living Christmas Gift Guide – Interior inspired gifts for your family and friends, Chic Curtains and Blinds – Window dressing with style, Perfect Winter Holidays – Whether it’s a cosy long weekend or an exciting adventure in the snow – we track down the best festive getaways and Christmas Cuisine – Renowned chef Roberts Craggs shows us how to create a perfect three-course Christmas dinner, with a contemporary twist. Plus your chance to win a Fontana glass fronted hole-in-the-wall fire from Verine, worth £1,299!
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The November issue of Concept For Living is packed full of fantastic designer ideas. Don’t miss issue 120 of the North’s best selling home & garden magazine featuring:
Lavish Lighting – an array of stylish lighting to brighten up your home this winter, Adornments and Additions – the latest interior accessories for your home, Get Your House in Order – hints, tips and storage solutions to help you de-clutter in style. Plus ten of the best cups and saucers, readers’ homes and gardens in Yorkshire, Manchester and Lancashire and two fabulous competitions.
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Don’t miss the August issue of Concept For Living, the North’s best selling home & garden magazine with a host of fashionable features and a modern French revolution:
Kitchens and Bathrooms – from kitsch kitchens to sleek shower rooms, ten pages of the best new products available, A French Revolution – fine French furniture and accessories, Tempting Tableware – spruce up your dining room with new crockery and glassware. Plus highlights from the Home & Garden Show 2008, ten of the best parasols and two pages of competitions.
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Don’t miss the June issue of Concept For Living featuring:
Milan 2008 – the hottest new looks and trends straight from I Saloni Milan before they hit the high street, Small Scale Style – children’s furniture in the cutest colours and styles, Summer Gardens – 16 pages of garden design advice, readers’ gardens, outdoor dining inspiration and garden lighting. Plus an interview with property guru Phil Spencer, readers’ homes and gardens in North Wales, Lincolnshire and Manchester and your chance to win a £10,000 kitchen courtesy of Kutchenhaus!
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Don’t miss the amazing May issue of Concept For Living! Jam packed with product features, this month you’ll find:
Kitchen Couture – an inspirational ten page guide to kitchen trends, Organised to Perfection – walk-in wardrobes to compact closets, bedroom storage for every home and a free ticket for the Home & Garden Show (worth £10) for every reader! Plus three wonderful readers’ homes from Didsbury, Southport and Cheshire.
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This month’s issue of Concept For Living, the North’s best-selling home & garden magazine, really is a must-see. Featuring:
ten pages of beautiful bathrooms, Fabrication – an inspiring photo shoot featuring luscious, leafy spring fabrics in opulent colours, and Alfresco Indulgence – a collection of the most glamorous garden furniture available. Plus, an extended 48-page View property section to help you find the perfect pad and three stunning readers’ homes from Manchester, York and High Peak.
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If you’re looking for some interior inspiration this month don’t miss the March issue of Concept For Living featuring:
Sleep Easy – a round-up of the best new beds and bedding, Scrub Up in Style – a selection of wet rooms and shower enclosures, Home Work – the ultimate home office solutions, and Unusual Getaways – unique holiday ideas at home and abroad. Plus, three gorgeous readers’ homes from Yorkshire and Lancashire.
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This issue features the rebirth of Concept For Living with a fabulous new-look February issue that includes:
‘Burning Desires’ – a bevy of fabulous fires for every kind of home, ‘Light up your Life’ – a selection of ambient lighting for your living space, ‘Fresh Spring Palettes’ – a stylish photo shoot showcasing the most desirable colours for the year ahead and ‘Family Friendly Rooms’ – dinky design classics and contemporary cots. Plus, three ravishing readers’ homes from Cheshire and Cumbria.
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The February issue features 10 pages of covetable bathrooms, plus our signature mix of international architecture and design. Other highlights of this edition include a selection of everyday indulgences and surprisingly affordable design fixes – perfect for the post-Christmas period. We also introduce Discovery Space: a new regular feature highlighting who and what to watch in the design world. Plus we take a look back over 21 years of the Conran Shop and ferret out the key new furniture trends. Take inspiration from our eclectic mix of homes in the US, the UK, Canada, Tokyo and India and prepare to be seduced by Hip Hideaways, featuring a carefully edited selection of our favourite holiday destinations. Guilt-free indulgence at its best!
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Our January issue is bursting with architecture and design with a big future:
For this edition we have looked beyond the usual annual trend predictions and focused instead on the people and places that we hope will still be lighting up our lives and yours for decades to come. For example, we wouldn’t mind growing old disgracefully in our fantastic future-proof cover home. We’re also rather looking forward to finding out which of today’s design rebels go on to become tomorrow’s old guard. Any guesses?
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For the December issue of Spaces our writers have been hunting high and low for houses hiding away in the unlikeliest of places. Take a peek inside a gargantuan project in the Hollywood hills and the colourful Cornell House in Snake River Canyon. Aside from bringing you the best international houses, this month we’ve also been taking a look at lace-inspired styles cutting out a niche in the design market, talking to a host of rising and thriving designers including our Italian favourite Matteo Alessi, and taking a walk on the wild side in our gothic photo shoot. Other highlights of this issue include a round-up of winter getaways catering for all tastes, the new look for wallpaper, and our Retail Therapy section, casting its golden gaze at all things design. Enjoy.
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The November issue of Spaces is bursting with a selection of the world’s most intriguing homes. Look out for ambitious one-of-a-kind projects such as the Bamboo Forest House in Taiwan or the House on Stilts in Texas. As well as bringing you international houses that you won’t see anywhere else we’ve also been considering the synergy between current catwalk and interiors trends, interviewing a host of rising design stars and looking at the humble bar stool with fresh eyes for our ’Sitting Pretty’ photo shoot. Other highlights of this issue include the world’s most relaxing weekend retreats, lavishly illustrated travel pages and our Retail Therapy section, which is designed to take the leg-work out of window shopping. Enjoy!
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The October issue highlights homes with guts – from the house that thinks it’s a water feature to the pad designed to help you live forever. Or how about the charming McGonigle home with its deceptively simple design and bold but beautiful lines? Although they are all very different every one of these projects flies the flag for modern architecture, showing just what is possible with a little vision and a lot of hard work. Other highlights of this edition include ‘Contemporary Cool’, in which we unveil our hero products from the new collections, ‘Exhibition Quality, our edgy furniture photo-shoot and the ultimate in ‘Rock & Roll Wallpaper’. Plus Dan Roberts spills the beans on his once-in-a-lifetime trip to Sri Lanka and our formerly sceptical writer Noel Montrucchio concedes that an innovative new architectural project just might hold the secret to eternal life!
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The September issue features 60 pages of inspiring international homes including a romantic residence in Finland, a desert oasis in Dubai, a city chic pad in London and the ultimate family home in the US. Other key features include the edited highlights of the new bathroom and kitchen collections, interviews with the designers and architects of tomorrow and ‘A Room With a View’ – our tempting travel roundup. Plus ‘Balancing Act’, our precariously balanced photo-shoot and ‘Britain’s Big Bang’, an intriguing look at one of the fastest rising stars of the UK architecture scene. Regular features include Retail Therapy (eight pages of shopping inspiration), Watch This Space (for the inside track on the events, product launches and books that are providing our design inspiration this month) and End Space, where we take an off-beat look at design and architecture.
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Welcome to the August issue of Spaces, featuring some of our all time favourite houses:
We have travelled far and wide this month to find the very best designed houses from Australia to Chile. We were particularly intrigued by the dream home that thinks it’s a sticker album, featuring huge glass windows adorned with striking transfers in Fergus McShane’s ‘Stuck On You’ feature. They may be a far cry from the stickers we plastered our lunch boxes with in our youth, but we haven’t out grown peel-off design just yet – have you? Other highlights of this issue include ‘Up, Up and Away’, Noel Montrucchio’s take on the rise and rise of the super rise – where will it all end? Also, don’t miss our smouldering 50’s inspired fashion and furniture shoot, tempting travel destinations, fabulous floor lighting and ‘Gloriously Green’, the eco-chic bar with a rather unusual vertical garden.
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Taking inspiration from this year’s Milan Furniture Fair we’ve compiled an insider’s guide to the key pieces from this summer’s new design collections:
A little closer to home we found inspiration for our table top shoot from the comfort of our living room, then got back on the road to bring you unusual and intriguing homes from around the world. Sarah Brownlee managed to secure a rare interview with understated yet influential designer Jonas Lindvall which resulted in her highly entertaining feature, ‘Scandinavian Modest’ while Noel Montrucchio got to grips with the artist they call ‘biro guy’. Take a peek at Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz’s stunning pin-sharp artwork and prepare to look at the humble biro in a whole new light.
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This is our Wander Lust issue, filled with sunshine-dappled homes and chic modern hotels for globetrotters:
Those with vertigo may wish to look away as we take to the tree tops for two thought-provoking features which explain why it’s no longer just children who are retiring to their tree houses at the end of a long day! Other highlights of this issue include ‘Back Stage Pass’, our dramatic fashion and furniture shoot for which we were allowed a rare glimpse at Buxton Opera House’s back stage area and ‘Bright Sparks’, our atmospheric London furniture photo-shoot. We also looked at the impact of Santiago Calatrava – design’s modern Renaissance man – and offered a healthy dose of retail therapy in the form of our popular shopping pages. Regular features included an eclectic mix of modern homes from all four corners of the globe and interviews with the movers and shakers in the design industry.
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Welcome to Spaces delectable desert design issue:
Key features this issue include Arizona’s hottest hideaways – a look at two very different but equally envy-inducing desert homes. Back in the UK we lit up London for our quirky lighting shoot and brought together a selection of our favourite designer miniatures for Small World, a charming and quirky series of photographs. Michel Roset talked trends and gave us a sneak preview of Ligne Roset’s new furniture collection. We also took a look at the work of Zaha Hadid – arguably the most influential woman in architecture – and got up close and personal with all-female design collective, Camp Site. Also, with page after page of stunning international homes Spaces is always the best place to find inspiring houses from around the globe.
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Every month we search the globe to uncover an intriguing mix of mould-breaking homes:
This issue’s highlights include the fabulous Bondi wave house – if all beach houses looked this good no-one would ever make it back to the office on a Monday morning!
The curvaceous Villa Vetro in Finland proves that sometimes it pays to break the mould and follow your own unique vision, even if it means breaking a few design conventions along the way and in ‘No Man’s Land’ architect Linda Pollari explains how she took an apparently uninhabitable corner on a busy highway and made it her home.
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Highlights of issue 20 are the in-depth study on the iconic American organic architect Bart Prince and the world famous photographer Art Shay, whose gritty pictures have captured many key moments in history. There’s also a new take on what to put on your walls this season, an incredible installation in the heart of Brussels, pages of inspired shopping ideas, a close-up of some brilliant designers and a fascinating travelogue of Vienna that all add up to a truly absorbing read. Don’t miss out on Spaces issue 20
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The January 2008 issue of Spaces magazine features our pick of the most interesting modern homes across the globe. Other key features include a revealing interview with design guru Sir Terence Conran and an enchanting photo shoot inspired by fairy tales. This issue marks the re-launch of Spaces magazine, which is now available to buy monthly.