RH opens its first London gallery in a restored Mayfair mansion
The American furnishings brand RH, formerly Restoration Hardware, has opened RH London, The Gallery in Mayfair, its first outpost in the capital. The space occupies Uxbridge House at 7 Burlington Gardens, a Palladian mansion designed in 1721 by Giacomo Leoni, restored across several levels to hold furniture, interiors and hospitality, including restaurants, a bar and a rooftop terrace.
The opening extends a strategy the brand has run at RH England in Oxfordshire: turning a heritage building into a destination showroom where the setting sells the look as much as the products do. For London designers and clients, it adds a large new reference point for the current appetite for grand, layered rooms.
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Late Afternoon Home debuts the Redonda lights on Pimlico Road
New homewares studio Late Afternoon Home has launched its first collection, a pair of up-and-down lights called Redonda in two chunky shapes, offered in butter yellow and burgundy and handmade in Florence, from £255. The pieces are showing at a pop-up inside the Edward Bulmer Natural Paint townhouse on Pimlico Road, SW1, running until 15 August alongside furniture from Lorfords Contemporary.
Butter yellow has run through much of this year's product design, and the Redonda lights read as a confident, tactile take on it rather than a passing nod. The Pimlico Road setting is a useful reminder that the street remains a working shop window for new British-adjacent design as much as an antiques destination.
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Yinka Ilori launches a 40-piece collection with Dunelm
Designer Yinka Ilori has released a 40-piece collection with the high-street retailer Dunelm, spanning furniture, bedding, lighting, rugs and soft furnishings, with prices from around £9 for a hand towel up to £799 for an ottoman bed. The standout furniture piece is the Half-Log sideboard at £599, a curved oak-finish design on chrome legs inspired by the form of a sliced log.
The launch is pitched squarely at making bold, pattern-led design more affordable, and it marks the start of a three-year partnership that will bring further indoor and outdoor pieces. For anyone weighing a colourful scheme on a real-world budget, it is a genuine widening of what the high street offers.
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