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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Emma Wells

Hackney self-build dream: a chance encounter led one architect to create a brand new home on the derelict plot next door

Daniel Sanderson created nearly everything in the home, including the raw Japanese denim-covered sofas in the living space

(Picture: The Modern House)

Architects and designers often work collaboratively but it’s not often they care equally about the structure of a building and the furniture inside it. For multi-hyphenate architect/designer/developer Daniel Sanderson, however, the interiors of a house are just as important as its structure.

“I have never wanted to simply build a house,” says Sanderson. A modern-day Renaissance man who studied photography before enrolling in architecture at the Royal College of Arts, and now runs design company sandersonstudios.co.uk, he is also adept at garden design and sculpture.

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