Fabric Magazine, August 2014

What the Victorians did for us is well documented: the massive expansion of our railway system, say, or those enormous scientific gains with the publication of Darwin’s Origin of the Species. Introducing the concept of bank holidays is certainly something we’re indebted to our great-greats for… But when it comes to our beloved Victorian terrace, we can’t help but wonder why our frock-coat-clad architectural ancestors left us with that frustratingly narrow piece of no-man’s-land to the side of our properties – they certainly weren’t thinking of us second gen Elizabethans with our sizable Poggenphol kitchen islands then.