Follow the thread: the old draper’s shop that's a new home

Textile designers have run a series of large ribbons through this restored Victorian shop, now converted into a home with clues to its working past

The highly tailored home that Helen and Andrew Magowan have created for themselves is full of stories. This former draper’s shop in a quiet street of Victorian terraced houses in west London offered the Magowans the chance to create a bespoke living space. But, more than this, as the history of the house began to reveal itself, the couple and their architect, Patrick Lewis, decided to embrace it and – quite literally – weave the narratives of its former occupants through the interiors.

The project became a collaboration with a number of textile artists, who created specially designed ribbons that wind their way through the rooms and the levels of the building. One is devoted to a member of the Roberts family, who spent 30 years living here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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