How Architect Sophie Hicks Built Her Ingenious London House

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See how style icon Sophie Hicks turned a small patch of London into a jewel box home:

and has made her a style icon on gender-queer media platforms, consists of a plain white T-shirt beneath a chunkily knitted Holland & Holland navy blue sweater and crisply cut wool pants in the same hue.“I remember being very impressed when Sophie turned up for work atin the 1980s looking fantastically stylish in her pajamas,” says the British fashion designer Paul Smith, who has commissioned her to design several stores, including his London flagship.

The striking glass-and-concrete house she built among the solemn late-19th-century stucco terraces at one of West London’s chicer addresses, Earls Court Square, is a case in point. It all started when Hicks spotted a peculiar patch of land in an auction catalog in 2010. “It was tiny, with three rundown garages and lots of junk dumped on a little bit of a forecourt,” she recounts. “But I went along to the auction, stuck my hand up, and got it.

On the first floor of her more modest new digs, a galley kitchen is tucked unobtrusively into a corner. “It’s made from a solid slab of stainless steel and white Corian,” she explains. “The idea is for the Corian to look like matte white paintwork.

The contrasts continue in the master bedroom, where she has mixed two minimalist artworks, an Ellsworth Kelly drawing and a Richard Serra oil-stick painting, with a tiny late-1920s Man Ray portrait of an ­Egyptian society beauty, Nimet Eloui Bey. Olympia’s bedroom sports more minimalism—another Kelly and a Donald Judd drawing—but also a bed decked out in one of the surreally exotic floral fabrics designed by the Austrian architect Josef Frank.

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