A Design-Loving Couple Bought a One-Bedroom Apartment in One of London's Most Iconic Buildings — This Is How They Decorated It

View into a modern living space with an olive green sofa and deep red armchair around a wooden coffee table. Another two armchairs are facing the view out of the floor to ceiling windows.

Picture the scenario: your family home is in the country, but you’re a huge fan of the Barbican — the bold, Brutalist apartment and arts center complex in the heart of London. Over time, the kids leave home, and suddenly there’s the chance to snap up a little one-bedroom pied-à-terre in the iconic development.

The design aficionado couple who now own this apartment jumped at the chance, well able to see past its then-green living room and pink-upholstered bedroom walls, and embrace its Brutalist interiors. They drafted in interior designer Olga Alexeeva, of Black & Milk, to reinstate its design credibility.